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9421.
by api 7y ago
> It really comes down to educating consumers about your product. Most advertising is more about triggering emotions and using other cognitive dark patterns than educating anyone.
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by api 7y ago
It's quite sane if you bought property in the 60s-90s and are riding property appreciation to fortune.
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by api 7y ago
You joke but this is sort of what Marx actually argued. Revolutionary state dictated communism was mostly Lenin. Marx thought capitalism would evolve into communism.
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by api 7y ago
The same thing could be said of every tech product back to the sharpened rock.
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by api 7y ago
Right now it seems we are heading for the CHOAM company. (Fictional company in the Dune 'verse that does everything.) I've joked that Amazon is CHOAM and SpaceX is Weyland-Yutani (from Alien). There do seem to be consolidation &#x
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by api 7y ago
I sort of got this but I found this article full of clunky analogies including the "Darwinism" tag itself.
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by api 7y ago
This is all true, but I think encryption backdoors are more possible than people think. The target here is not nerds able to pull code from GitHub or run open source or enterprise software. The target here is consumer stuff by companies lik
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by api 7y ago
Being a cop (at any level) does very much bias your view of things. Nobody calls the cops (or the FBI, DOJ, CIA, etc.) when things are great. Police tend to only see the absolute worst of human nature and the worst things that people do and
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by api 7y ago
The majority of terrorist attacks in America in the last ten years were carried out by lone wolf attackers who were mentally ill or motivated by extreme political ideologies. They didn't use encryption because they weren't talking
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by api 7y ago
Your first is really fascinating. I've seldom heard anyone talk about potential negatives from Moore's Law. It seems like you're suggesting that the rapid improvement of computer tech over the time since 1970 sucked all the a
9431.
by api 7y ago
Thiel's IMHO bizarre politics aside, I really agree with him on this particular subject. I have believed for quite some time that we entered a kind of minor dark age around the early-mid 1970s. Virtually everything we're doing now
9432.
by api 7y ago
I fall into this category. I have no CS degree. I'm the author of numerous things with the best known probably being the ZeroTier network virtualization engine. I got my first programming exposure when I was 5 or 6 on a Commodore VIC-2
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by api 7y ago
We have yet to duplicate anything even near human intelligence or introspective abilities with computation. We therefore have no existence proof that human mind is purely computational in nature. I think we can safely say that computation i
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by api 7y ago
A reference to back this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent At this point I fully support the "nuclear option" against NIMBYs: the state needs to step in and override local zoning. Local zoning boa
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by api 7y ago
Flagged for being an obvious sock puppet site.
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by api 7y ago
Coming from the west, but not released here.
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by api 7y ago
If this deflates real estate I dont see a big problem here.
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by api 7y ago
It should not be enforced through the civil court, or at least not at first. This is actually a case where a new bureaucracy may be needed to handle reports of non compliance in a standardized way. The civil courts should pretty much never
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by api 7y ago
This doesn't even touch Chinese coal emissions. The latter are easily visible from space, and unlike ours are recently deployed and continue being built.
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by api 7y ago
Media really distorts risk perception. People are afraid of random child predators, terrorists, and mass shootings when none of these things even compare to car accidents, standard issue child abuse by someone the kid knows, cancer, heart d
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by api 7y ago
Every time I ride a cab I think never again. For some reason I decide to give them a chance again and regret it. My last experience consisted of a driver who seemed jacked on coke or speed or maybe just nuts driving very badly and then (as
9442.
by api 7y ago
A lot of this goes back to 80s and 90s daytime TV and its sensationalization of a small number of kidnapping cases. An example would be the Johnny Gosch case which almost single handedly ended the job of paper boy. (There is a crime podcast
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by api 7y ago
Voting won't help in China, and most democratic countries have scrubbers on coal plants and tend to be phasing out coal.
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by api 7y ago
Oh yes, this. The Great Firewall is absolutely a trade barrier and I've long suspect that this rather than censorship is its main purpose. It's a way of implementing extremely strong trade barriers (protectionism) while still clai
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by api 7y ago
We're using a lot of sensory data to compensate for the fact that the "AI" driving the car is really dumb. It lacks any meta-level understanding of the problem domain and is essentially a stimulus-response system similar to a
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by api 7y ago
"Never" is kind of equally absurd. It's just a brutally hard problem.
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by api 7y ago
Do any of those generate web apps that are accessible and browser-friendly? I am quite aware of the fact that you can run desktop apps in a web window. Will have to investigate Blazer and Qt.
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by api 7y ago
With what? I look periodically and I never find anything.
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by api 7y ago
We are approaching the glorious day when we'll be able to write web frontends for web-based apps in real programming languages. Not there yet though. What I really want is something like an "old school" UI library and the abi
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by api 7y ago
The general contention among all the manufacturing people I've talked to or read is that Tesla went way too crazy with automation and wasted a lot of money. They vastly overestimated the capabilities of current manufacturing automation

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