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by allthenews 8y ago
You put too much faith into the average person's desire for education. Most people don't know and/or don't care.
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Safer is arguable. We actually don't know how unsafe psychedelics are in a controlled, professional setting, but people get hurt exercising all the time. If you think the two are anywhere near each other in terms of instantaneous effec
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You don't need to capture anywhere near the total amount emitted into in the atmosphere. Just enough to offset warming.
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The fact that elderly homeless people exist does not imply that current social security policy does nothing. Presumably, if we did away with SS, there would be more on the streets.
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>how the western tech community idolizes China Could you elaborate? Most of the people I know in tech are actually on the paranoid side.
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Perhaps you should be more open minded. The article makes no mention of a bailout, it only reports on a plausible global financial event.
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If I wanted to slander a city, I, too, would visit and write an exposé about the local landfill.
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What are the criteria used to rank journalistic freedom?
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Do you think menial jobs will just magically disappear when people are educated? Will we just pay everyone equally for their time?
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Do any of these studies even acknowledge the possibility that poverty may also select for individuals with low IQ? How can we take these studies seriously when there is such a taboo on asking uncomfortable questions?
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>Zuckerberg, as so often seems to be the case with Facebook, comes across as a somewhat more fervent and definitely more creepy version of Google At this point I think the difference between what FB and Google are doing is superficial ma
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In my experience, computer scientists tend toward self optimization. To this end, stimulant use in my circles is quite common. I wouldn't say any of us need them, but they are useful tools, both for work and occasional recreation.
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Don't be so sure. The rate of advance of new technology slows over time. Look at processing power. We are still a ways away from the convenience of chemical fuel because of energy density and refueling time. But the future is indeed br
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I worry that many of these well meaning deregulations may not scale indefinitely, both as the company grows and the working population evolves. I understand the premise, but many of the processes and red tape, while admittedly frustrating,
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Every time! Even in landscape! On a tech central website! What gives? Is there some kind of weird technical limitation?
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by allthenews 9y ago
Trump.
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The "marginal" costs come from gathering and refining the raw resources that the machines operate on, and maintenance. We already have machines that produce food. Why do you think they are still manned by an entire workforce? Out
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So how do the "rest of us" profit from these IPOs?
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>I don’t buy that that is any longer a significant contributing factor. Unadulterated societies should graduate from barbarism as they move up Maslow's hierarchy. That is a very idealistic view. The truth is that the majority of the
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>One of the most successful con jobs was conceptually linking war and manliness, so that 'pacifist' became a derisive label Please. You're ignoring biology if you think the association between manliness and war is an engin
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by allthenews 9y ago
Nonsense. I have a mortgage, student debt, and do not know anyone particularly well off, I quit a very stable job, and am in the middle of launching a tech startup. People get so hung up on privilege these days that they lose sight of the p
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Operators in mathematics are overloaded in a very similar way to operators in computer science (in languages that permit overloading). I think the author hints toward a good point: there is no use arguing over the meaning of "=" i
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Well, I imagine the crystals can only perceive single vector values of the magnetic field at the position of the eye. Imagine each censor returning a vector defining the magnetic field at a point on the eye. There probably wouldn't be
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by allthenews 9y ago
While I do not deny that memorization of APIs makes for more efficient programming, I would argue that, long term, readability, maintainability, and extensibility are far more useful time savers overall. Architecting a codebase which meets
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by allthenews 9y ago
>That is, we do not come to know the world through only our external senses - we see the world differently when we feel pleasant or unpleasant. So, what they're saying is that pessimists have been right all along! In seriousness, th
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I don't think programming ability is measured by the number of APIs/libraries one has committed to memory.
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>empiricism >I think all I'm asking is that, yes, you do fight against the root cause When your body of data is so large, it is easy to mistake cherry picking and associated fallacies for empiricism. >if rural folks are dispro
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The advantage of fossil fuels in this case is energy storage density, and potentially longer engine life than that afforded by modern batteries.
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How much of that relates to the average body size? I imagine smaller people eat less.
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>overwhelming proof that that doesn't work. Like billions of dollars and probably billions of man hours worth of gaming in an industry that is only growing? Have you considered further that some degree of so called toxicity is inher

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