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by afthonos 7y ago
Of all the possible defenses of that scene (Deckard is a villain; Deckard literally does not consider her a person at this point in the story; Deckard is trying to break her association with being the rich niece of the inventor of replicant
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by afthonos 7y ago
Perhaps there are other incentives besides the threat of the destruction of livelihood that might work?
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by afthonos 7y ago
And it hurts people who have high expenses. We have found ways around that. (I have no strong opinion on this subject.)
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by afthonos 7y ago
Fair enough. I would say another likely issue is that of the highway problem: you make wider aisles—and now people think they can definitely take their stuff.
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by afthonos 7y ago
The surface area increases with the square of linear dimensions. So increasing aisle space meaningfully would make planes significantly heavier—unless you’re suggesting making seats narrower to compensate.
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by afthonos 7y ago
> The point of Right to Work is to prevent predatory unions from doing things like forcing people to pay dues to them or negotiating preferential treatment only to people who choose to pay dues. I am puzzled about how you can find both o
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by afthonos 7y ago
You’re taking a known-bad word (“torture”) and attaching it to something you disagree with, getting free mileage for your position. So, without using “torture”, what is the position of yours you’re challenging us to change?
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by afthonos 8y ago
Given that eyewitness testimony is consistently unreliable, biased, and internally inconsistent, no, they shouldn’t. Human judgement is the best we can do so far, but it is hardly a worthwhile goal, especially with systems that take us from
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by afthonos 8y ago
Because that’s pretty much the definition of nation-state: control over a territory and what happens inside it. If you meant to ask why they should belong to the nation states, well, if they belonged to “humanity” someone would still be c
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by afthonos 8y ago
This is more about knowing what the right question to ask is, which is trickier than expected. In the classic example, the people who brought the lawsuit asked “what are the odds of getting into Berkeley if you are a woman?” However, if peo
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by afthonos 8y ago
Even more confidence-inspiring: before the election, they had discussed what a path to victory for Trump would look like, and their most likely path is what ended up happening: the midwest went for Trump, in a correlated manner, which is ex
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by afthonos 8y ago
In this case, there is provably no solution. A brilliant mind can’t fight that, any more than it can prove that 2+2=5. :-) (Yes, using the traditional definitions of all those symbols.)
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by afthonos 8y ago
Logically, they will show you whatever is most likely to generate revenue (possibly amortized over time). As long as the probability of you reordering is higher than that if you buying a random item out of millions (and those odds are tiny
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by afthonos 8y ago
You’re describing exactly what Google is doing with Gmail and Inbox. Disclosure: I work at Google, but my projects are only tangentially related.
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by afthonos 8y ago
That’s assuming those are the alternatives. If the alternative is instead to show you something you’ve already ordered or nothing, the odds of you ordering again if you see the thing you’ve ordered already are small, but nonzero.
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by afthonos 8y ago
Swift for Tensorflow adds language-level support for Tensorflow to Swift. It does start in the fork, but the ultimate goal is for all changes to be merged upstream. Some aspects, like dynamicLookup[0], which allows dot syntax for methods re
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by afthonos 8y ago
I like this analysis. I’d say the root problem is that it feels like there should be no trade-offs in doing “good”, when in reality there are always trade-offs. In other words, there is no way to solve the undesirable gender disparity issue
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by afthonos 8y ago
Saudi Aramco is somewhere in the 1.2-2T area: https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-04-13/saudi-a...
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by afthonos 8y ago
That is indeed a potential problem. But I think “let everyone alive now and forevermore die” is a poor solution.
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by afthonos 8y ago
I read it cover to cover out of a sense of obligation but came away very disappointed. The Achilles-Turtle-Random Other Creature allegories got very tiresome, and the content took a very long time to get to the point. For anyone interested
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by afthonos 8y ago
It feels like you’re arguing definitions. If you had to restate “abuse != love” without using either word, how would you state it? I suspect you might find more people agree than this thread indicates.
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by afthonos 8y ago
Because there are tangible legal and social benefits to doing so, including hospital visitation rights, insurance, etc, as well the ability to live in harmony with people you love whose social expectations are that you get married. This is
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by afthonos 8y ago
Sure, but GP is saying that constant planning is the deal. You constantly plan, reassess, and most importantly communicate . And you are always aware of the current conditions of the deal, the opportunity cost, etc. Are you in a bad marria
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by afthonos 9y ago
The x-axis is the planet (+aborted planet) count. You’d be shifting all later planets over by one.
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by afthonos 9y ago
There are definite immunities at play; the comment I responded to seemed to imply that there was a blanket speech immunity, and the reasoning it provided would have made it a complete blanket immunity. That’s what I was saying wasn’t the ca
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by afthonos 9y ago
Yes, the ex post facto clause should provide immunity from prosecution in such cases (IANAL). But that’s not what I was trying to say. I was saying that the President could conceivably break an existing law, not prosecute himself, and the
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by afthonos 9y ago
I see that sort of feeling a lot. The president is not constitutionally incapable of committing crimes; that would be absurd. He is only able to stop enforcing laws in specific cases, arguably including his own. That’s a big difference. A
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by afthonos 9y ago
A very interesting opinion combo: 1. Of course we should be prepared for the existential threats of AGI and ASI. 2. BUT the threat isn't imminent, so we should prepare later. The article (and I, mostly following its lead) is trying to
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by afthonos 9y ago
You’re engaging in the time-honored tradition of dismissing progress with the term “just”. In the spirit of the article, I recommend you list and publish specific things that are too hard to achieve in the next five years. And then commit t
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by afthonos 9y ago
Two things that come to mind are speed and energy. I can imagine perfect-but-slow, perfect-but-expensive, or perfect-but-exhausting healing being selected against and good-enough-for-reproductive-business-and-fast-and-restful being selected

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