Unseelie

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by Unseelie 16y ago
That only matters to the people on the rim.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
So that no-one will seriously misread it as such, I'll explain that I meant threatening a family, rather than...family like perks.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
I'd argue, as a 22 year old economist just entering the workforce, that the fact that people just entering their retirement hold the most wealth is quite a social problem. For instance, the ability of the older wealth to influence politics.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
And we could threaten someone's family to show the counterpoint to that point. Money's a great motivator until you're near your threshold earnings, and then other things start slipping in, like, for instance, the ability to make a point. Th
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by Unseelie 16y ago
there's something off about suggesting tenure is about teaching, or that universities are about students. Tenure is about, more than teaching style, research, and primarily, actual teaching is left to grad students and teacher's aides.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Things smarter than humans do already exist, in most every specific feild. Whether the 'hard problem' of AI can be solved remains to be seen, and the current political/economic feedback in industrialized countries leads t a different distop
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by Unseelie 16y ago
At a recent family gathering, my father's generation (boomers) joked about how the social debt was my problem. My problem is a hundred and ten trillion dollars of social debt, or three hundred fifty thousand per person( http://www.usdebtcl
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Even not knowing what an OS is, a user is incredibly frustrated by crashes, lag, and sms errors. There may not be an 'android phone' but there is 'the alternative to the IPhone' which isn't, outside of the business market, the blackberry. U
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by Unseelie 16y ago
A slightly less positive tagline would be appropriate... This, at first sight, sounded like a brilliant thing
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by Unseelie 16y ago
The article actually outright states that people know less about their own religion. For instance, most protestants didn't know who Martin Luther was.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
The long term problem with such efficiencies is that there aren't enough jobs, and that causes a great monster of a social issue.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
There's an interesting reversal in that statement. Historically, we host our letterbox or our phone terminal, and we buy equipment and such to do it with. (mailbox and phone). The post and phone networks provided connectivity, but not the
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by Unseelie 16y ago
You are right. But you're also condoning behavior which you're implicitly against(or at least I interpret as you implicitly against) because that's the way things are, and at least some people are effected by others tossing in and claiming
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Or one could espouse an ideal on real world behavior closer to that of kindergarten, wherein one claims things such as 'be nice to one another', and the world could...be nicer? While your realism is realistic, its also chilling.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
College students are an amazing representation of our culture of conspicuous consumption. People move off campus because (at my school) its much cheaper...and then eat out every night. Why? Because no one ever taught them that wealth isn't
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Excited to read that!
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by Unseelie 16y ago
are all the ways equally bad, though?
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by Unseelie 16y ago
His point on notice was that waiting enough time to give notice was damaging. When you decide you need to amputate, you don't let the problem get any worse. An announcement that there may be layoffs would be good, but he stresses that layof
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by Unseelie 16y ago
And when you're laying off staff from a reasonably large company because its bankrupt, would you consider the expense of extending health care coverage, keeping them on as contractors or part time, supporting their future job search, or oth
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Most families cannot afford to pay...education is income redistribution.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
It can't be. Until they make it available. Hence the verb usage of Open-sourced, an action they intend to do to the project. That is, they intend to change it from closed, and very private, to open.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Blow a seeding dandelion, and you get diaspora. Which is why the dandelion is their logo, and the asterisk is a very close approximation of that form
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by Unseelie 16y ago
That's because you're assuming the wrong frame of reference on your singularity. http://www.kmeme.com/2010/07/singularity-is-always-steep.htm... If you were to drop back to 1970 and estimate the next 20 years by the 2010 scale, things ar
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by Unseelie 16y ago
We're still safe to assume your parents are around 20 years older than you.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
NYC is expensive because its more expensive to build skyscrapers than houses. Its not cheaper because of mass production, there's just enough incentive to spend more money than it takes to build houses because of the local population densit
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Unless they made it better.
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by Unseelie 16y ago
Such a declaration is worrying because I come here and generally trust the upvoted things, and as such, I've incentive to toss your declaration out as the biass and the spin. So, as though you were talking to someone who doesn't know enoug
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by Unseelie 16y ago
I want to stress that we have the math to do that...and on regular chipsets, its just rather slow..which is inherent to the key to kurzwiel's points, that we're building faster and faster computers, and that brains (and likely the universe)
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by Unseelie 16y ago
At our universe's speeds, but how fast can you simulate it?
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by Unseelie 16y ago
People keep saying this about any project to build a synthetic brain, and it has a huge level of merit...but its putting the buggy before the horse. You have to be able to build a brain before differences in its experience start to matter,

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