andrewjl

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Judging from the CN prefix, that is all Objective-C. Thank you global namespacing! Swift doesn't have this issue due to compiler-support for mangling.
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Our environment functions as an extension of our brains and this is especially the case with memory. Your overall activity level will also affect your memory over time, though that relationship differs for everybody. You might have a health
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It's probably a good idea to have at least a rough physical definition of "qualia" and empirically validate it, without that one can't judge if a simulation is accurate or not.
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Wouldn't any definition or requirement we come up with for intelligence be an example of anthropocentrism?
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There are many steps needed in order to "create those new things." Not all of them can be automated in the short-term or the medium-term for that matter. That's where most though not all of the job growth will concentrate. La
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Both Amazon and Microsoft recently increased pay. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/amazon-boosts-max-base-pay-f... https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/16/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-...
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> When we have around a billion 'surplus to requirements' people in the world, what is our plan? See, the labor market isn't going to cut it when labor has become moot to industry. Can you give an estimate for when you thi
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The point is that most of these technologies have already reaped the cheap and easy, and, indeed, almost all of the hard and expensive improvements that are ever going to be made. In this respect, we are entering a period similar to the e
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Swift has placeholder types as of 5.6, more about them here: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals... I mainly use Swift these days but I haven't had a need for them yet so wa
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You're begging the question here. Currently we need land for these but that can change.
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What does gradual typing provide that good type inference and ability to use placeholder types doesn't?
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You can't eat sunlight or the wind either yet both seem pretty useful.
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This is a very impressive data set. I'm curious about the statistical techniques the scientists used to normalize the measurements across different imaging machines. Worth digging into for the stats-inclined.
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We can't safely assume that universally due to selection effects the data for these kinds of studies has.
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There's always going to be a need to adapt generic managed services to fit into a particular business domain or organization. I think asserting these jobs will disappear is susceptible to the lump of labor fallacy. ( https://
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by andrewjl 5y ago
> First enhance on-earth supply chain efficiency. Then worry about space. These are not mutually exclusive. Moving heavy industry to automated facilities in orbit is not unrealistic in the coming decades. It does require massive investme
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> Confiscating someone's land should also be illegal Genuine question, why?
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That's not a strong argument because investment alternatives to real estate for many in China are limited and that isn't the case here.
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Teachers salaries are set by government policy. Market forces play less of a role than politics do. Not sure what economic theories are lost here.
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This is a common pattern in social science discourse. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is–ought_problem
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> “you’re an adult once you realise you’re it; you can fail; and it’s nobody else’s job to make sure you don’t” There's an embedded ambiguity in your sentence in that there are two kinds of failure. One is a failure of endeavor wher
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> Double the number of large quality state universities. As far I can tell there aren't capacity issues to get accredited education at the undergrad level. The prices are driven by student loan availability and the need for investme
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> But AFAIK the main market distortion in the farming industry is the opposite: subsidies that make farming more attractive than it would be, which would tend to increase farm workers' equilibrium wages. That might be true for marke
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> But since we have ample time left to change our lifestyles and societies to be more eco-friendly, there's no harm in ignoring one half of the causes, right? What exactly is being ignored?
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> We have chosen to do nothing about declining birth rates among the native population and have instead chosen to supplement the population with immigration from developing nations, or whatever term you wish to use for those countries wh
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> ecosystems are at their limits. This is true due to resource intensity of consumption.
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> He can otherwise shut up about compulsive kindgarten at 3 rather than 6, because that is subversion of parental authority. How does replacing one form of authoritarianism with another, perhaps preferable to some, form of authoritariani
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Who's making money directly from those figures?
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In principle, sending your data in a way that's decipherable to the backend isn't in principle required. WhatsApp encrypts (or at least used to, not sure about now) messages. And no doubt it's not compatible with their curren
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The simple answer is that oil isn't fully fungible. Sweet vs sour crude, different grades, serve different needs. Different extraction methods are also viable at different price levels, many domestic sources only become profitable at h

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