TelmoMenezes

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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Ever heard of win win relationship? How could I not? It's one of the most repeated clichés in the history of clichés. In any case, I am not denying mutual benefit or trying to forbid anyone from anything. I am just saying that if
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
He should get fired for saying "concurrency story".
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Replace statistics, hypotheses and figures with bread, donuts and cake and you have described a bakery. Hmmm cake... How can you not like cake?
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Being pro-trade and pro-competition very often means not actually being for a free market. "Free" in this context is an ambiguous word. The libertarian argument is that no regulations make a market free to access for everybod
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> Terribly ungrateful of you, but okay, it's not a crime. Companies are not people. It is nonsensical to say that someone is being grateful or ungrateful to some abstract legal construct. If the executives of some company decide to
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
Earth's resources are not infinite, nor its ability to tolerate pollution. Less importantly, my computer's resources are also not infinite. Yes, maybe your Electron app does something I want, but guess what, there are numerous oth
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> For sure there are Lamborghinis out there bought with people's retirement money. Oh yes, but sociopaths and foolish greed are not bitcoin-specific. Bitcoin seems to annoy people at some fundamental level that I do not understand.
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
yes but (takes only (a (of bit practice)))
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
The current price of bitcoin was considered a pipe dream by almost everyone just a few years ago. What bust?
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
The majority of the people in the world that can benefit from writing computer programs for the most various purposes are not professionals, nor desire to be. Computation is a powerful tool wide incredibly wide applications, and Python make
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that the executive that decided to break Firefox had that covered. They looked into the future, and realized that the extra money in their bank account would make their long term more pleasant, more than enough to offse
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by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> It's a coordination thing - coordinating a large group of people is so challenging only simple messages like 'make a profit' get through on average. Simple things with clear metrics. No, it's a self-interest thing.
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
Thanks you for your reply. I will think more deeply about what you say, but unfortunately I have to work :) A quick reaction follows. > Materialism vs. idealism is not the same disagreement as realism vs. non-realism. True, but they are
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> Can you list these arguments, please? I can give you mine... Realism argues that we (as minds, let's say) exist within a reality that keeps existing when we are not looking, i.e. that is independent of our own existence. These are
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> non-realism is an extraneous assumption Realism is as much an assumption as non-realism. It doesn't feel that way, because realism fits the common sense of some evolved monkeys. Common sense sometimes is correct, sometimes is not.
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> If international treaty obligations block sovereignty, then the UK isn't sovereign within the UK either (!) Yup. International treaties are an exchange of sovereignty for something else. The general public imagine that XIX-century
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> A social network at the end of the day is literally just that: a graph of people (nodes) with relationships (edges) between them. Doesn't sound like a very useful definition. There are infinite meaningless graphs of people that fi
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> Before we proceed, recall that Facebook is now a "morally bankrupt liars" because it "enabled genocide", "facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions", "allow the live streaming of suici
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
Thanks for your answer, I had a laugh with the Hitler thing. I clicked your link. I don't mean to be argumentative for the sake of it, but let me point out something that goes to the core of where we might disagree (or more, where I mi
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
Everyone loves creating things. It's part of or human nature. It's one of the things that makes life magic again. Not "being productive". "Being productive" is code for doing shit you would rather not do. If yo
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
culturally
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
I also get a lot of joy from all of the things you describe. The fact that the pleasure you get from sex or exercise feels artificial in comparison to writing a piece of code might be something worth thinking about. Is this really how you f
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
I am the OP and I am a fellow researcher. I also love my job (most of the time). One of the reasons I love it so much is that it affords me freedom to think deeply about things that I care about without being in a straight jacket of constan
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> The whole point of an ad-blocker is to allow a user to consume a service in a manner that the entity running and paying for the service didn't intend. We could at least acknowledge that. It's kind of funny that that was, orig
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> And there it is. The internet turns into cable TV. Unless (gasp) we don't use the walled gardens?
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> Could humans be considered to be a Gödel machine? At least parts of our brain, for sure. It is clear that we can improve some of our own learning algorithms. Everything that is innate, no (or not yet). For example, a liver cannot optim
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
You say "no move", but you made a good one. I concede the point. Thanks for being a good sport.
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
I'm surprised that nobody noticed that you demonstrate the technique in your own article! "1. Find an argument that is disagreeable." Somebody does not agree that people should expect others to remember their preferred pronou
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
As a non-American, what I find mostly surprising are these two things: 1) that a society that mostly believes that a system of private businesses competing in a free market is the be all and end all of optimal resource allocation end up hav
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by TelmoMenezes 8y ago
> Those are good points. However, I do think we will look back at the large amount of postmodern literature inspired by Foucault and deidre as obfuscatory to knowledge seeking. Postmodernism, at its core, is precisely a criticism of conv

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