RobertoG

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by RobertoG 8y ago
and not only that, but buses are almost continually working but most cars spend most of the day parked taking up some public space.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
This is a real quote but, without context, gives an unfair impression about Buffet: he said that while supporting bigger taxation. He also said something in the lines that "he was paying a lower tax rate than his secretary". That
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I suspect it's a little deeper than being against "raising taxes". If we say that way, we are hidden the real meaning. The Koch brothers are, in my opinion, against any kind of redistribution. This is not surprising, I suppos
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Well, my reasoning goes like this: 1. Industrial revolution made obsolete physical work. The physical work that is done today (for instance, blue collar workers, waiters) is about mental capacities, not physical. 2. The brain is a physical
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>" It's not the government's job to provide you a job" Maybe now things are how you say, but it's not a divine mandate. If you see the government as a tool of society, it's the society who should choose
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The state not only protect property rights, it defines them.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Another data point: GDP per capita is around $50.000.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Is this enforceable in the European Union? My understanding was that we (the people) won the battle about software patents.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Wil McCarthy's "The Queendom of Sol", very funny and entertaining series, recommended for whoever interested in that crazy idea (and a lot more): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1361835.The_Colla
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Or better, read some review of the actual literature before investing in a book, to see if it's snake oil. For instance: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191... From the cited tex
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by RobertoG 8y ago
That's only true if the debt is in a foreign currency. Not sure you can call that "sovereign debt".
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by RobertoG 8y ago
From: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=34830 "[..] the central bank (that is, the government) can always set bond yields at whatever level it chooses including zero." A different question is if instit
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Maybe I just dreamed it, but I think the description in GitHub said "Pytorch 4". Not anymore. Well, if it was changed because of my comment, I'm happy to be useful. If it was not changed and I dreamed it, my excuses.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Sure, the organization chart is full of Mr. Miyagis that care about your personal development. "Man who catch mistake in power point with chopstick, accomplish anything"
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It's not for not reason, it's for status, that it's the oldest reason in social primates. The most people you have reporting to you the more status you have in the organization. What do you make all those people do? Statistic
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Pytorch 4? Pytorch 1 is not available yet. I suppose it means Pytorch 0.4. but it doesn't sounds so good. We should leave marketing outside technical explanations. What will happen in the future when there is a Pytorch 4 and somebody f
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by RobertoG 8y ago
"[..] the paper also tells us that Occam’s Razor is wrong [..]" I doubt the paper say that, and I don't think it's true. It seems to me that Occam's Razor is about the quantity of information, not about how many par
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The problem has been always the temporal scales. But if you change that, the odds are not so bad. If all the civilizations started more or less at the same time that us, it's not so weird that we have not found anybody else. If you add
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by RobertoG 8y ago
A main component of the paradox is time, but this paper solve that. Life existed from the beginning, but only now has become complex enough. So, we don't see or hear artificial signs in other galaxies because light is from the times wh
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Here is some data about military spending in the world: https://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.asp I don't get who is this terrible enemy that Europe have to protect against. At least that this article
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It makes an interesting reading but I have problems with a few things. I don't think that "to be good at something", through practice, it's conceptually the same that understanding something new. The article doesn't
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by RobertoG 8y ago
I'm puzzled by your comment: >>" The authoritarian governments in South Korea, Taiwan, and China actually helped these countries get out of poverty because they could enforce policies that otherwise would not be popular, lik
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by RobertoG 8y ago
It seems to me that the problem is that open markets (capitalism is too general for this I think) is sold like the perfect panacea that will solve all the problems, even if the evidence is against it. The path followed for development by th
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Any country that pretend to develop and keep some independence need to prioritize a minimum of food production. That's a strategic need. Europe is a good example of that, where food production is strongly protected. I bet is the same i
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"The beneficiaries of this monopoly need do nothing to get the benefit of this gift." That's unfair. There is nothing for free, specially in politics. It's more probable that, the work, has been already done and
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"If I'm really really honest with myself, I don't actually have the experience of qualia all the time" That's is what you say, but how can we know that you are not a conscious being imitating a p-zombie? ;-)
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by RobertoG 8y ago
>>"I fail to see how this (or any) feature is distinguishing when describing how one should build an ethical framework into an engineered system. " My point is that human ethics is grounded in human values and those are grou
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by RobertoG 8y ago
Apparently, but is that the case? After all, both, the article and the comment, are talking about the dangers of power unrestricted by ethics.
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by RobertoG 8y ago
There are some characteristics, shaped by evolution, that are typically human. For instance, humans are social. That doesn't mean that you can derive a formal system of ethics that is "true", but there are clearly some trends
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by RobertoG 8y ago
The post could be not related to the subject of the article but it's related to the author of the article. It's clearly not ad-hominem because the comment is not rejecting the claims of the article, only expressing his opinion abo

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