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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
Dammit -- free markets and new technology do it again! Not the best written piece in the world, nor the most tightly argued, but the underlying facts do certainly get at a certain truth: that things get better. For everybody. Bread, for exa
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
( .) ( .) >... "The Pakistani equivalent of a McMansion in Falls Church"
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
mention it to him next time you see him in person and see what happens. be prepared @balladeer, -- he might deny it!
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
posted. 'the curious case of aq khan'.
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How A. Q. Khan made Pakistan a nuclear power (2005)(theatlantic.com)
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
also -- and completely orthogonal -- while we're on the subject of strange pakistan doings, check out the curious tale of abdul qadir khan, the father of the pakistani nuclear bomb. i'll pull the old atlantic story and post in a f
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The Silk Road investigative team all moved to this secretive company(dailydot.com)
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
there's a long history of a sort of multi-faced foreign policy pursued by the disparate factions that exist amongst pakistani leadership. from the ISI to the military to the various political parties, there's just many folks who e
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
Pretty neat spreadsheet. Thanks for posting! Are there any that particularly interested you?
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
Those interested in reading a more narrative-style recounting of Mr. Shannon's efforts ought pick up a copy of "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" by James Gleick. It is one of the most fantastic books I have ever
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Wait, life begins in a flash of light?(telegraph.co.uk)
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
Morozov would say, "I told you so".
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by SocksCanClose 10y ago
Not to state the obvious, but surge pricing is simply the most efficient way to motivate people on the platform (read: drivers) to flow into an underserved area (read: where the customers are). The macro take-away on this is that we should
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Peppers: A Culinary History from Columbus to Mao(m.nautil.us)
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Does Facebook have a moral responsibility to shut down Trump?(thehill.com)
3 points by SocksCanClose 10y ago|2 comments
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
@davemel37 I like where you're going with this, and I agree that this is a very good problem to address. I wonder if you could design some sort of system similar to Uber pricing algo where you give an estimate ("[Startupname] beli
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
> Most of the country uses paper ballots that are counted by machine. This machine then is the target, no?
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
isn't this what happens when you make something free? people use it to the maximum extent. this is the beauty of pricing. it allows supply to meet demand. imagine if "zero" turned into some reasonable multiple (say, the equiv
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
+1
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
which it to say: don't these type of pieces usually come out as part of a structured public relations campaign that culminates in an announcement that the company is for sale?
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
wait is google trying to sell off nest?
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Who is responsible for explosions at a bruxelles airport and train station?(businessinsider.com)
1 points by SocksCanClose 11y ago|0 comments
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
and to emphasize, socialism is in fact quite well defined -- especially national socialism (e.g. the Nazi Party of Germany). Here's a good overview of what socialism is, broadly speaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
and i agree and tell my friends who ask "so, AI this year?" that in fact we're a long way away. in fact, potentially infinitely long, if you think that while we may create simulacra of consciousness, without understanding wha
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
yes of course -- and i don't mean this facetiously, but "that's why they call it science fiction". as for your second point -- i'm not sure it's not happening right now.
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
Let us now pause, and write in praise of POI. Not for any political reason (Snowden, et. al.), but because the writers have created genuine science fiction. I can't recall who said it -- perhaps one of the greats (ACC, PKD) -- but good
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
Does he mean you can't have an absolutist view of the 4th Amendment?
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
What about fetishizing the 4th amendment?
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by SocksCanClose 11y ago
Great article, and the best is Musk's response. Just one more example of how, ala Allison and Zeilkow's "Essence of Decision," so much of what happens in industrial organizations ("industrial" in the philosophi

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