StandardFuture

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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> inability of governments to fulfill their responsibilities So, governments don't have trillions in tax dollars a year to provide necessary services for citizens? Billions more should radically change everything for the better, rig
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> that consolidation isn't happening. Learn to read. I never argued that. I clearly attributed consolidation outcomes in the economy to collusion between Washington and Wall Street. This is proven. Anti-competitive regulation i.e. r
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Taxes are then paid back out by government spending (which exceeds taxes, btw, so inflation is doubly-inevitable). So, you did not actually negate the point of the comment you are replying to.
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Yes, because in this "machine automated society" your supply chain is also coming from "automated" production and thus you have equivalent access to the same-priced goods as any competitor. And before you scream about th
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> if you want to live in/near a smallish town/city that isn't on the outskirts of a large city, you may find ones with colleges often better than those without. Right the tradeoff is how much value your adult personality d
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> fighting exploitation > fighting irrelevance This is a false dichotomy generated by corporate propaganda. The system is designed to make you feel this way. Trust me, I was saying these say things online in 2012, and jobs have only i
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Yes, Boston is far too large of a city to be classified as a "College Town". And the GP commenter asked a completely valid question. The answer is clearly that most families with remote working parents and most mature couples
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Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60B Is Lost to Tax Loopholes (2010)(bloomberg.com)
29 points by StandardFuture 5y ago|7 comments
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Blockchain was invented to be a financial application. I see no reason to believe it could/should be anything more. And a singular application technology is perfectly fine. Everyone is upset with cryptocurrencies being an overvalued
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Yes, and one day we will have biological "cars" that can behave autonomously, avoid collisions, climb hills, cross shallow rivers, pull storage carts behind them, operate on simple grass consumption, be used in battle, and generat
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> requires significant external manipulation to do anything useful It seems like artificial metabolic pathways research needs to be an area where boundaries are pushed. It would be fairly useful because it would generalize energy researc
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Would there be enough people willing to go into Medical School debt without a high salary on the other end? The entire point of game theory is to align incentives. It is not to simply paint pictures of ideals and deny that humans are human.
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> But I don't think there's any unemployment danger among CS PhD's to worry about This is why my comment specifically addressed top positions and tenured positions i.e., a position with a specific world-renown resear
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End the Fud(endthefud.org)
2 points by StandardFuture 5y ago|3 comments
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
So, in other words, there really is not any "publish or perish" in academia. It's simply that to outcompete your fellow graduate students in getting a top job in industry (or a tenured position in academia) you need to have
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> I think it's probably harder for outsiders to understand the nuance. No, it's simple. It's called game theory. So, who benefits from the publish or perish system that drives this profoundly fraudulent behavior and outcom
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> everyone knows it and we complain about it over some beers all the time. Then why not speak out publicly against it? Obviously because you know that there are still a significant number of individuals that want the system to work thi
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
"Novel papers" with "great results".
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Effort to stem online extremism accidentally pushed people toward an anarchist(latimes.com)
1 points by StandardFuture 5y ago|0 comments
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
It is strange isn't it ...
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YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators(youtube.com)
173 points by StandardFuture 5y ago|196 comments
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
The leak is from the unclosed channel. In the particular example in the article, the leaked goroutine is attempting to write to the unclosed channel which is a good example for using the `context` package. [0] But, if the leaked goroutine w
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> In fact, the operating systems that run on "old computers" are surprisingly sophisticated and complex. Are they? Or are we just slowly forgetting that everything in modern software is composed of concepts invented pre-1980 (a
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
This seems to inherently assume a strong correlation between "talented" and "risk-averse". A startup is potentially far more valuable than working at a FAANG, especially so if you are a founder. So, why ever work for any
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
100% The theme of an entire thread is discussing building and selling businesses like it's just something you can choose to do easily in your free time or not ... Oh, just build that random idea you had and sell it for 10K in a couple
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Where does someone in their early 20s get the capital to just up and start multiple ice cream shop locations, and simultaneously find the time to work on an array of random software "projects/ideas"? This whole thread seems r
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Thank you for supplying this plethora of information with corresponding cited sources. This is not a normally upvoted topic on HN and seems rather strange that it popped to the top page so quickly after being submitted (less than an hour).
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Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco(youtube.com)
3 points by StandardFuture 5y ago|0 comments
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
> Gold mining uses something like 140 terawatt-hours of energy annually, and produces enormous pollution and environmental destruction in addition to that. The most apropos commentary in this entire thread yet.
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by StandardFuture 5y ago
Or is that you refuse to address the complexity of "Regulations"? The easy seduction of oversimplification runs high with those whose argumentation is primarily a fallacious appeal to emotion. Maybe it's time to grow up and r

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