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Ra is the Sun God(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
2 points by acgourley 8y ago|0 comments
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by acgourley 9y ago
I don't think the Vice article did a good job capturing its beauty. It is really marvelous in person.
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by acgourley 9y ago
I was there earlier this year. The story is complex, but my understanding is that the main failure point was the local officials not wanting Arcosanti to exist and putting up regulatory barriers. It's worth noting that Soleri ran the p
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by acgourley 9y ago
As bad as governmental overreach is, destroying ourselves with AI might be worse.
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by acgourley 10y ago
You've brought up Pascal's Wager twice in this thread, as if it really can end an argument by itself. Just because you don't like what high impact / low probability EV calculations do in Theology doesn't mean you ca
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by acgourley 10y ago
Do you disagree with any research looking to prevent existential risk to our species, or do you believe AI cannot become an existential risk?
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by acgourley 10y ago
This puts a lot of logic in your components. This isn't necessarily bad for small apps, but it's hard to test and it's really bad if you have a react-web + react-native app where you'll be writing platform specific compo
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by acgourley 10y ago
I'll grant you it gives you more and different press. I won't grant you that press coverage matters very much when it comes to fundraising and recruiting. It matters some, but the delta created by a founder's gender multiplie
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by acgourley 10y ago
Is the gender bit really useful data?
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by acgourley 10y ago
There is a lot of design and UX and market exploration to do around learning systems. The way that a user will consume the outputs of a learning system are far from well defined right now. Larger companies have an advantage in many ways (li
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by acgourley 10y ago
I'm glad it was informative - as a big fan of IQ2 I believe many internet arguments could be short circuited by links to such debates.
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by acgourley 10y ago
Here is a well produced oxford style debate between qualified debaters on the topic. I found it very enlightening and hope everyone gives it a listen. It's available as a video or podcast. http://www.intelligencesquaredus.or
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by acgourley 10y ago
If there is still one car for one person making each leg of the trip, the on road utilization has not changed. The parking utilization has been reduced, however, which then could open more lanes and increase density.
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by acgourley 10y ago
That's the same video that shows it magically transforming into jelly to make the turn at the 2:00 mark, so I'm not totally sure if I trust it.
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by acgourley 10y ago
I still don't understand how it can turn without hitting all the cars under it.
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by acgourley 10y ago
I think your analysis it on point except for one part: the barrier to entry for becoming a driver is actually non-trivial and perhaps more importantly there is not a large supply of drivers in a given region. The pool of people who are look
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by acgourley 10y ago
That was either edited in or I missed it - but in either case I see it as "The code is law and the participants use a work-based consensus system to decide which code is run"
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by acgourley 10y ago
I am curious - what principal(s) do you or gp think Etherium was founded on that which a hard fork decision will go against? I think you can tell by the way I phrased the question I disagree. I own < $10 in DAO so I don't think I&#x
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by acgourley 10y ago
That's basically the north-of-mainstream thinking in urban planning, right? I certainly agree with you, but I also think it is a wasted opportunity to just build what leading thinkers agree is a good idea.
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by acgourley 10y ago
If it's really as simple as knowing a serial number to get access to a camera then yes I'm sure an engineer conjured this corner cases in their head.
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by acgourley 10y ago
In this specific idealized scenario the driver has something else he would rather do (another production of value - care for children, writing a novel, playing video games) or else he would offer to drive the truck for less money than the a
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by acgourley 10y ago
It's a serious problem, no doubt. I would still probably vote for a meager BI because I feel it's easier to turn the knob up later than it is to get everything done at once.
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by acgourley 10y ago
We are forced us to decide if forward progress alongside our neighbors is a moral right.
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by acgourley 10y ago
The whole point of BI is that it's unrestricted, so I would say you're not actually a BI fan but instead broadly in favor of well run social programs.
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by acgourley 10y ago
You'll find there are two voices for BI, the liberal and the liberatian. The liberal would prefer to keep universal healthcare and food programs and put cash on top, making the total distribution to the poor larger. The liberatian wo
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by acgourley 10y ago
I assume this would be resolved by making BI payments immune from bankruptcy.
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by acgourley 10y ago
If what you are saying is that a large part of happiness is related to your distance to the mean wealth, wouldn't you say a society with a 'normal' wealth distribution is going to be on average happier than a society with a &
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by acgourley 10y ago
There is this new project which is asking, "If we're using flex-box layout for ios/android, why can't we write a compatability layer to put that same code on the web? " https://github.com/necolas&#x2
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by acgourley 10y ago
The "panel" of curators is far more limited than that. Taking from the page: A Curator is a failsafe mechanism that indirectly prevents malicous actors from executing 51% attack. Curators do not add centralization to the DAO: they
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by acgourley 11y ago
The official Redux answer way is to use app state for everything . See libraries like https://github.com/erikras/redux-form which move all the field state into your app state. Personally I break that rule when I know

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