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by anon7725 1y ago
> in the industrial revolution there was a migration from hard physical labor to cushy information work. The industrial revolution started in the early 1800's. It was a migration from hard physical labor outdoors, around the home an
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Our moral and political development severely lags our technological development. I have very little confidence that it will ever catch up. Looking back over the post-WW2 era, we have seen improvements (civil rights, recognition of past inju
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Are average hours worked decreasing because we have more abundance and less need to work, or are they decreasing because the distribution of work is changing? I find it hard to accept your claim because at the start of the industrial revolu
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Also, presumably if you have AGI you can have it address a physical problem at a higher level of abstraction. "Design a device to make any water heater installable by a single person in 20 minutes" would result in a complex system
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Setting aside time, is money not downstream from quality of life? Meaning, in a better world one might not need to care as much about money? I believe that time and quality of life are congruent - good quality of life means control over one
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The Luddite analogy is apt, however its sense is opposite to the way that it’s usually presented. The Luddites were skilled artisans in the textile industry. They often worked from home, owning spinning and weaving equipment and acting as w
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Maxim
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then don't answer your phone when you're not on the clock
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Assuming that you belong to something akin to traditional religion, do you not feel that you’re participating in bad faith (pun mostly not intended)? Others who attend church presumably assume that you share the stated beliefs?
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Seems like the point is what’s not happening there
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I’m going to be nowhere near as productive on the toilet at work as I am on the toilet at home.
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MVC came from desktop applications. It was later repurposed to client-server apps when the web arrived, but it was always an impedance mismatch. In desktop GUI apps, the delineation is much crisper: the model is the data that the applicatio
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Travelling thousands of miles overland, in constant fear of ambush from a fearsome plains tribe war party, alternating between intense constipation and explosive diarrhea - bet they didn't put all that on the brochure when they were si
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Triple redundancy works because you know that under nominal conditions each computer would produce the correct result independently. If 2 out of 3 computers agree, you have high confidence that they are correct and the 3rd one isn’t. With L
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Ironically, Facebook Marketplace is as or more useful than back-in-the-day Craigslist.
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> The appearance of progress without the substance. This is highly rewarded in many (most?) corporate environments, so that’s not surprising. When’s the last time you heard “when will it be done?” When’s the last time you heard “can you
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Not “like everyone else”. In comparison to an employee, a business owner has a vast array of tools available to them to limit taxes.
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God has a summer home on Tau Ceti f
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How’s the registration cost? Where do you store them? How much does it cost/how much time do you spend keeping up with all of the regular maintenance?
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> Despite China having a vast coastline, they do not have access to the open seas. I didn’t realize that Okinawa is halfway between the Japanese mainland and Taiwan, and the Japanese territorial waters extend right up to the Taiwanese EE
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I think Americans have the most variety of names for roads - kind of like the Inuit have many ways to talk about snow. Parkway, Freeway, Highway, Tollway, Expressway, Interstate, Byway, etc
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I rewatched WarGames recently. It holds up and is worth watching again. In particular with our current concerns over AI it feels ahead of its time.
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And on that day their first priority is securing a good open source object Pascal compiler.
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> When the economic prospects for you look bleak This is the richest nation on earth with a roughly 4% unemployment rate we’re talking about here.
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“Tonight's story on the Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morni
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There’s probably no safe limit of driving a car or using a step ladder. Alcohol has been with us since the beginning and will probably be with us until the end. The point of these studies should be to make people aware of the risks and moti
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> the only way to do it is outright fraud and lying on the import forms. It seems like the incentive to do this has just gone up immensely. There are also more creative ways to get around country of origin labeling, as I understand it. F
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A question asked in such bad faith that it deserves explicit acknowledgment. And here is the answer: many of these countries lack the resources to start and sustain programs such as the ones mentioned in the article. The resources needed in
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There is a trivial defeat for nearly all grocery store sales tactics: make a shopping list. Engaging with certain salespeople is an altogether different proposition. In order to buy a car, you are forced to interact with multiple odious peo

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