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by _rpd 10y ago
> We also know that consciousness does not require your entire brain. You can lose 80 percent of your neurons. You can lose the little brain at the back of your brain called the cerebellum. There was recently a 24-year-old Chinese woman
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Interesting. I wonder if they maintain two different editorial teams.
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> Platforms rely on algorithms to sort and target content. They have not wanted to invest in human editing, to avoid both cost and the perception that humans would be biased. However, the nuances of journalism require editorial judgment,
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by _rpd 10y ago
Just the threat of a ban or tax on automation - much less the reality - will cause manufacturers to plan new facilities outside the US. This sort of scaremongering ... > 'Why Are We Doing This to Ourselves?’ Readers Respond to the
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by _rpd 10y ago
Or rather, humankind's quest to not die quite so very quickly.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Sea transport is about 3% of global CO2 emissions, while road transport is about 17%, so it is unlikely that "the 15 largest cargo ships pollute as much as all the cars in the world."
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Isn't the conversion efficiency basically irrelevant except for specialized applications like spaceflight where every gram counts? 8% thin film solar cells will be the market winner if their marketplace ROI is superior - $ per Watt an
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by _rpd 10y ago
16-17% more people said an article was "trustworthy" and "got the facts right" if it was recommended by someone that they trusted. 49-50% of people were still skeptical even then. This doesn't seem to be a dire so
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by _rpd 10y ago
My wife wanted one for bedtime reading, but decided she didn't like it. Now she uses it to display web-based recipes and knitting patterns. I think my son uses it more to listen to audio books and play games - entertainment for car t
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by _rpd 10y ago
> “It’s not always clear what is fake and what isn’t,” [Zuckerberg] continued. “A lot of what people are calling fake news are just opinions that people disagree with.” > This is just the latest in a long string of recent responses to
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by _rpd 10y ago
Net rental income will remain steady, since landlords will raise the rent to pass along the tax. They may even list it on the lease: "Rent $1000 + UBI tax $400." Everyone will have more money and be able to pay the higher total.
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by _rpd 10y ago
> topic modelling What are you considering using to measure topic similarity?
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... or free at last.
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I think it is saying that: if it is true that more precise measurements of time require more energy, then there is a limit to how precisely we can measure time, even in theory.
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> No. Landlords will not just raise their rents. They are already charging the maximum the market will bear. However the result of LVT would increase the disposable incomes of those that rent, from which they will apportion some of on pu
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by _rpd 10y ago
There are a couple of issues. The first is that the means testing ensures that a small minority of the population receives welfare. If you dissolve the entire apparatus, and distribute the proceeds to all working adults then, in the US, it
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by _rpd 10y ago
Landlords will just raise the rent to compensate for the tax. It guarantees the post-UBI rent increase, because landlords will feel justified. If the tax is somehow indexed to rent, once again you are engineering an inflationary spiral. W
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by _rpd 10y ago
The version of basic income advocated by some conservatives abolishes all other welfare programs to fund basic income, the idea being to eliminate expenditure on means testing overhead.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Your argument that rent won't rise to absorb most of any additional income relies on low-income people moving out of high demand areas to super-affordable "Google Homes" in remote ex-burbs and formerly rural towns. I think y
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by _rpd 10y ago
Yes, here are the complaints from the referenced report ... 1) We do not know––and have no power to find out––what Google and DeepMind are really doing with NHS patient data, nor the extent of Royal Free’s meaningful control over what Googl
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by _rpd 10y ago
I think the concern is that the first AGIs will research how to build better AGIs, and will do so in time-accelerated virtual environments, performing years of research in days, then hours, then minutes, etc. Yes, they'll need a plan
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by _rpd 10y ago
Originally it came from considering the rate of change of technology. The rate of change of technology is generally considered to be increasing. Since the rate of change of technology seems to be increased by new technology, it is perhaps
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by _rpd 10y ago
I think this goes to the heart of the matter. > In-house tests are a legal minefield Does it need to be though? What about 3rd parties providing tests and knowledge verification? There's been some developments on that front.
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> Make it illegal for employers to ask for candidates educational background and degrees. Would you really want hospitals hiring doctors without medical degrees?
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by _rpd 10y ago
> This is completely uncontroversial I think it is still intuitively surprising that some infinite sets somehow have more elements than other infinite sets. The powerset operator is very special because it can create this difference.
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Can every real number be represented by a (possibly infinite) decimal? ... http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/409658/can-every-rea...
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From a previous HN thread for this article ... > I grinded some mirror. Nice experience but at end monotonous and boring. Also grinding powder is lethal, I had my appendix removed since I eat some :-( https://news.ycombinator.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Here's the paper cited by the article ... http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1040 Abstract: We describe complete design of a synthetic eukaryotic genome, Sc2.0, a highly modified Saccharomyce
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I agree, this is crucial information for assessing the incident. Autodrive crashes are going to be greater than zero, the important question is are they going to be less than manual driving?
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tl;dr: it's like juggling, apparently. Also, this is actually a promotion piece for his new book.

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