Verdex

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by Verdex 8y ago
This is actually a good point. If you're sufficiently rich, you can create your own corporation that exists to buy really nice boats and then sail you around as a business plan. The corporation will be able to avoid paying any taxes
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by Verdex 8y ago
Sure, but not paying any taxes isn't obviously a horrible thing. The government says, through its tax laws, that it wants amazon to not pay taxes (probably because they had a loss). The logic behind this is that because amazon provide
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by Verdex 8y ago
Personally, I think it's bad when powerful entities (whether people or organizations) externalize their failures such that they have to be paid by weak entities (whether people or organizations). However, I'm not convinced that th
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by Verdex 8y ago
| You shouldn’t rely on your tools protecting you because they won’t. Strong agree. It's like when your toilet overflows and instead of using a plunger (because sometimes this causes a splash that will get on your shoes) you just reac
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by Verdex 8y ago
The problem with eating pizza is nearly every restaurant with pizza also has some kind of ice cream. You'll just wind up with a bunch of people eating ice cream and pizza all over the place. Like, type inference is pretty widely regar
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Autonomous Self-Learning Robot (Q-Learning)(youtube.com)
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For a long time I have had the opinion that science classes are really history classes and not conducive to actually performing science, unless the students are really paying attention AND highly motivated. Here is a thing someone discovere
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by Verdex 8y ago
I actually came here to say the same thing (only I was going to be much more verbose). The fact of the matter is that people buy even sillier things for much more than $6. If you're happy with your $6 asparagus water, then I don'
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by Verdex 8y ago
Not sure. I have a hard time spelling any word where I don't have a good grasp on the etymology involved. Also there are some words that I can't spell AND pronounce, but if I have a hard time with one I can do the other (they ch
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by Verdex 8y ago
Type theory and lambda calculus? It's like, here's some neat math concepts. Oh look we can use it to prove statements about addition and stuff. Psyke, now you know haskell.
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Personally, I find his talks fantastic. However, to be fair I also normally have problems determining what his actual points are and what is a joke and I rarely see what his main point is (sometimes I'm pretty sure it's just a bu
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by Verdex 8y ago
Sarcasm? I only ask because you're saying this on a website. A website focused on funding technology startups. Hosted on the internet. Build by darpa grants. Like, this doesn't seem like your sort of place if you're serio
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by Verdex 8y ago
> I mind them not trying Seems fair to me.
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(psst, this series of responses are kind of a joke)
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I mean, I see what you're saying. I really do. But it feels a bit cynical to me. Personally, I think everyone should try giving 20% (or more, haven't you ever received some freshly cooked chicken nuggets and just knew that
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by Verdex 8y ago
True. But lets be clear. I'm tipping everyone in the supply chain. They also get paid by their employer. ... You know now that I'm talking about it. I don't think I tip stockholders of C-Corps. I did consider S-Corp st
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by Verdex 8y ago
Normally, I don't like it when people correct silly mistakes like this. Maybe this kind of feedback is useful when publishing a book or sending an important email, but we all knew what word they had in mind. I didn't even notice
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by Verdex 8y ago
Yep, personally, when I go to mcdonalds, I like to pay the guy at the register, the people cooking, the manager, and the unfortunate individual on trash duty all separately. Additionally, I refuse (on basic principle) to eat at any restaura
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by Verdex 8y ago
Fully agree. I think that now is the time for not only new system level programming languages, but now is also the time for new OS implementations using said programming languages. That being said, "now" actually refers to a
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by Verdex 8y ago
> From your description, that sounds like a database with proximity relations No that's not what I had in mind. > Are you imagining a database of pairs of images of all possibles objects the AI might encounter and in every possi
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by Verdex 8y ago
Apparently, I was too vague. I'm not convinced that what I have in mind is this ambitious. 1) Database with objects likely to be found together and statistical weights next to them. 2) Image recognition that can link to the database
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by Verdex 8y ago
They would have to prove that you actually do. Also it might be the lesser charge regardless, so it's worth it to take the chance. For example, if there's an email with Holmes talking about how she's about to lie by saying &
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by Verdex 8y ago
Hear hear. This is exactly the type of message that I want to be sent to entrepreneurs. If you ruin people's lives and externalize your failures in order to perpetuate fraud, then you'll go to jail. Additionally, someplace out t
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by Verdex 8y ago
I'm not so sure. We have the entire industry of magicians devoted to making some pretty ridiculous illusions. Everyone knows it's fake on a conscious level. But the fact that everyone applauds this thing they know is fake is a
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by Verdex 8y ago
> Most people will want to do something useful to supplement their basic income Most people will want to do something to supplement their basic income. It doesn't have to be useful. In fact it could be to scam other people out o
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by Verdex 8y ago
You can always name and shame later. However, once the name gets out, you can't take it back. Erring on the side of caution is the right move.
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Maybe, but it does open up the door to a lawsuit. What if the overweight guy was actually working for a recruiter who had a scam going on to get unqualified people hired. The skinny guy might not know that someone else took an interview f
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by Verdex 8y ago
With respect to 1,2,3. People make some pretty bad decisions. And people like to trick other people into making bad decision. I didn't think this was controversial. Why is this relevant to UBI? One of the benefits of UBI is that it
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If people don't work on anything once they get UBI this isn't really a problem. Currently, there are many many people who already don't do anything. They only do a little as possible to avoid getting fired OR they do period
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by Verdex 8y ago
I'm not sure what your actual position is, but this feels like a better attitude. Let's not worry about making UBI work, but instead let's worry about making sure that everyone has food and shelter. I think using money as a

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