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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, I'm certainly against eating all animals alive . Not a complicated issue.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's human motivations which are not necessarily "well attached" to human motivations, to the extent that one human wants to benefit at the expense of another (which indeed works increasingly badly over time - people clubbing
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I got that "force multiplier" had to do with productivity, but I didn't get how compensation is supposed to be set as a function of productivity (as opposed to supply and demand, and/or arbitrary rules), or even why it s
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... How many people are fed by a combine harvester driver? How many babies and mothers are saved by the staff of a modern hospital, who drastically lower child mortality? If 10 future programmers are delivered by a single nurse, should s
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by _yosefk 11y ago
We're lucky that those evil businessmen line up to fill the pockets of the various nice politicians with tens of millions of dollars of, ahem, speaking fees and what-not - the politicians surely deserve it, with their "tough job&q
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Displacing CPUs is not the issue (the CPU occupies less than half the area of a modern application processor chip for instance), the problem is displacing CMOS. I don't know much about the alternatives, but I trust Colwell's skept
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... Not necessarily. The only way to travel quickly between 2 cities is a direct flight, but there isn't a direct flight between any 2 cities, because the cost of having such a flight didn't yet drop to the point where it'
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by _yosefk 11y ago
There's a limit to what you can do without "simple" scaling, meaning, without making cheaper, faster, smaller individual gates. That is, an architecture optimized for a given problem domain will give you maybe 1000x efficienc
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dunno, I'm Jewish and I wouldn't mind this particular remark, and a sister comment claimed it seemed typically Chinese just as much and claimed to be Chinese themselves. One point here is that it's seemingly OK if it's
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I've already seen such an article, but I still can't imagine hordes of protesters fighting for the privilege to invest in unicorns, especially now that much of the bubble has popped.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You could buy shares in GS or any other public company investing in private companies and/or underwriting IPOs, so there's that. That said, the idea that public capital markets are widely considered to be a way to increase equali
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Regarding the PC ecosystem vs the ARM and MIPS ecosystem - I'm not sure what happened back when MIPS and ARM made chips, just that most of their volume came when they were IPs, and at that point chip makers were keeping things rather c
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I, for one, have downloaded and tried Brave, but I am not going to use its payment system until I can pay with a credit card or PayPal. I happen to have a bitcoin (1 BTC), printed on a piece of paper (it was a wedding gift), but I'm no
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's different in that I can accept a cash payment from you without having to worry that your cash will somehow harm me. Not so with a request coming from an IP address from which malicious requests are known to originate. So with cash
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Delayed sleep phase is defined in the article as going to sleep at 2-3am and getting up at noon. It said that most people wake up at around 7am but ~40% wake up noticeably earlier or later than that. So I wouldn't say it's irrelev
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by _yosefk 11y ago
From that piece: " Levy an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. (If the result is a trade war, treat it like other wars—fight to win.)" I don't claim to have good/better ideas on this issue, but starting a trade
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, they didn't stop at concepts as contracts to be checked, instead they let you have a different oveload called depending on what concepts your argument types implement. Hence the problem with having to sift through potential overl
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Concepts have been widely expected to produce better error messages than are currently produced when template instantiation fails. ... Unfortunately, it turns out not to be so simple and use of concepts sometimes results in worse
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by _yosefk 11y ago
True in the sense of what one is offended with in their day to day life. Not true in that it's really easy to invent countless new offenses if you need to in order to bypass a filter. Good luck to MS...
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"Far as I knew, it dominated desktop due to backward compatibility and other strategies. It wasn't open in many ways." - we're agreeing here, I said "it was less open than competitors at the time , which was perh
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, currently shipped SPARC's volumes are relatively low AFAIK, and ARM and MIPS (now IMG) are in fact monopolies, they just happen to license the ISA & the implementation because they choose to do this. Intel does not choose to
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Everyone else (ARM etc.) has a monopoly on the ISA or they don't even publish it (NVIDIA etc.) Intel actually makes perhaps the most open commercially significant platform.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think I can totally make that impression now. I totally couldn't when I was younger - and when I would have provided you much more value for the money (meaning, I'd work my ass off for peanuts.) I would have failed on numerous g
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think in such a case, say with humans with a 1000-year lifespan, we would have learned a lot of things that aren't so and stayed that way. "Progress in science happens through the old guard dying" and all that, and it'
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by _yosefk 11y ago
When you say that "we" (you?) don't need most of the people living today, or their offspring, ever, isn't it the perfect example of inability to care about people?
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Also, it's fairly easy to replicate the Go-playing machine while good human Go players are very rare (and how about counting the resources needed to produce an environment where such a player can develop? Then again we could count the
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by _yosefk 11y ago
For what definition of "species" is this true? (The definition I know is, a male A and a female B belong to the same species if B can give birth to A's children who can then themselves reproduce. By this definition, all human
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I understand the upcast (which is certainly legal but it forces the casting code to know the depth of the inheritance hierarchy - as in &derived->base1.base2), but what's the argument making the downcast back to Derived legal C?
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dunno, neural nets don't do that well on chess, for instance, at least not the chess engine that was recently published (it reached an IM level which is really bad compared to top-notch chess-engines.) That convolutional neural nets
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You're basically saying that there's no task (including passing the Turing test, programming web apps, etc.) which requires intelligence and is best tackled with either something else than a neural network or with NN combined with

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