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by _rpd 10y ago
I think he is just saying that machine learning is the next big thing (for real this time).
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by _rpd 10y ago
Why, groups of like minded people could collectivize their efforts and manage their kolkhoz according to the principles of self-management, democracy, and openness, with active participation of the members in decisions concerning all aspect
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by _rpd 10y ago
> Not just tie it to inflation, but to location as well. If it happens, I hope they do both, since the location adjustments will be even more rapid than the generic inflation adjustments, and it is possible that hyperinflation would just
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by _rpd 10y ago
All the proposals that I have seen are flat rate, with people being positively encouraged to relocate to areas that are currently less expensive.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Detroit is cheaper right now, but people aren't moving there. Post-BI, Detroit landlords will raise rent to capture any additional disposable income, so everywhere will still be in the same relative position.
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by _rpd 10y ago
Supposing the BI funding proposal doesn't include printing money (which is not at all clear), the price of inelastic goods (in particular housing) will rise to absorb the universal increase in income. There will then be calls to index
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by _rpd 10y ago
No. Communism requires abolition of private ownership. However, the hyperinflationary spiral resulting from BI could assist a transition to communism.
578.
by _rpd 10y ago
Yes. And then the BI payments will be CPI adjusted, engineering an inflationary spiral, or price controls will be introduced, engineering chronic commodity shortages.
579.
by _rpd 10y ago
In the US, they could do that by reducing the payroll tax.
580.
by _rpd 10y ago
Isn't the whole point to eliminate administrative overhead?
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by _rpd 10y ago
The article should be titled "The traditional music distribution industry wants its revenue back."
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by _rpd 10y ago
> Is this theory not correct? Yes, UBI in most of its incarnations is a deliberately engineered inflationary spiral - a one way ticket to Venezuela. Everyone simply ignores the issue.
583.
by _rpd 11y ago
The ruling was that Indian government subsidies must be paid to foreign firms as well as Indian firms.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> there really was a social contract in place that said something along the lines of "Finish third level and you'll walk into a job thats better than flipping burgers" Was this ever true for a Masters in Creative Writing?
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by _rpd 11y ago
According to her linkedin ... Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Creative Writing, from California Institute of the Arts B.A., English from Temple University
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by _rpd 11y ago
Google has already complied in France - google.fr has been censored. The issue is whether a French court can require global censorship of the information.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> "We disagree with the CNIL’s assertion that it has the authority to control the content that people can access outside France” Absolutely, and kudos to Google for fighting this ruling. This is an important dispute over jurisdicti
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by _rpd 11y ago
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but Wiles had to first prove the Modularity theorem for a certain subset of elliptic curves, which lay the ground work for proving the Modularity theorem in general. This is one of the majo
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by _rpd 11y ago
I'll suggest learning a real-time operating system like VxWorks, and then writing code for embedded systems. Lots of challenge, interesting projects (robotics, etc), often safety implications that require a mature attitude towards qua
590.
by _rpd 11y ago
Similar experience - interviewing for a DBA position, one candidate couldn't answer the most basic questions, started getting angry and not at himself. The interview is clearly a waste of time so soon I'm saying "thank you f
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by _rpd 11y ago
Please assess Polywell Fusion. Here is a recent status update: http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/01/jaeyoung-park-confirms-publ... It includes a link to a 2015 Physics Review paper, a published patent application, and
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by _rpd 11y ago
I'll hazard a guess that the complaints mainly come from people in graduate programs for which the most realistic "good job" that actually uses the course subject matter is a tenured teaching position. I mean, the high compet
593.
by _rpd 11y ago
The main complaint I've seen is that the low chance of success (eg, a tenure track position) is not adequately disclosed.
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by _rpd 11y ago
People are mentioning Walmart as a competitor, but not Amazon. Is Amazon not competitive in Canada?
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by _rpd 11y ago
feedly is fine once you configure it a little.
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by _rpd 11y ago
Alternatively, they are informing the market of their perceived value of the company.
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by _rpd 11y ago
I guess I'm wondering if there is something clever we can do to get good information about the key questions - get closer to actually studying "ice" - but perhaps it isn't possible.
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by _rpd 11y ago
The basics are that the price of inelastic goods (housing, food) will rise to absorb any disposable portion of basic income, resulting in calls for increased basic income (using "living wage" rhetoric) and a positive feedback loop
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by _rpd 11y ago
My suggestion is that they are different sets of curves. We're interested in the properties of ice, and they are going to study the properties of tap water that has been put in the refrigerator for half an hour. You and I will have
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by _rpd 11y ago
Wikipedia and open source software are often used as examples.

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