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10861.
by api 9y ago
I spoke to several people during the election who expressed this sentiment. One said they hoped he would do "as much damage as possible." It was definitely a FU vote to many people. Unfortunately the establishment has not gotten t
10862.
by api 9y ago
Why is WASM so weird? Why not just thinly model modern CPUs so it can be almost transliterated?
10863.
by api 9y ago
As with Canada it's best illustrated by the ability to make sculptures out of pee.
10864.
by api 9y ago
The naivete ultimately comes from the failure to define "talent." The talent that yields advancement (in nearly any large scale society, not just capitalism) is often deception and primate dominance gestures. An aristocracy of tal
10865.
by api 9y ago
I never read Rand as advocating a dictatorship of anyone. Of course you could argue that this is naive and that power vacuums invite someone to seize power. I sometimes compare Rand to Marx. Both were very astute critics -- Marx of capitali
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by api 9y ago
As skeptical as I am of some of the cryptocurrency craziness, I can't help but see this as "head of entrenched monopoly calls for crackdown to defend his monopoly." Cryptocurrency has suddenly transformed bankers into humanis
10867.
by api 9y ago
> Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy... A lot of the rhetoric in the past went the other way: freedom is good because capitalism requires it. As a former and still some
10868.
by api 9y ago
China's GDP is doing great, and GDP growth is the only thing that matters to quite a few people.
10869.
by api 9y ago
My favorite speculation is that it's the jet wash from someone's interstellar antimatter rocket. Unlikely, but fun. :)
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by api 9y ago
> there is simply no way for anyone to send $99 to try to get at that randomness. Sure there is: black bag your house and bug your laptop, or remotely compromise it. If the original article's argument is basically correct then it me
10871.
by api 9y ago
I'm not completely sure. I just know how modern economies work. If I don't use it, the economy optimizes so that someone else will.
10872.
by api 9y ago
If you save that money instead it goes into a pool that is invested in things that then go and spend it elsewhere.
10873.
by api 9y ago
> a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery Wow. How little things change.
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by api 9y ago
This is why I always disable such things. Other vendors are mostly worse.
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by api 9y ago
The escalating offensiveness of media due to the fact that offensive speech gets attention and therefore makes money?
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by api 9y ago
> utterly devastated the individual dignity of man I smell survivorship bias. Have the masses of humanity ever had dignity? In the distant past the peasantry were largely illiterate, so nothing of them survives. What we get are a lot of
10877.
by api 9y ago
It's really too bad the alt-right has adopted him. I'm not sure the affinity is mutual but it's tarred everything he's said with a toxic association with fascism. Asking why the fascists like Peterson yields a great deal
10878.
by api 9y ago
> But it hasn't been replaced with anything. Can it be? Maybe the universe is so information-rich that it yields a vast and ever multiplying array of fundamentally undecidable questions. Everyone knows the big ones: god/gods, l
10879.
by api 9y ago
TL;DR: like almost everything else in human psychology "it's complicated" and there are "many factors" yayaya...
10880.
by api 9y ago
Reading this I thought: Welcome to the cryptocurrency trough of disillusionment.
10881.
by api 9y ago
Good. Kill it.
10882.
by api 9y ago
If I had to peg a date on it I'd use the date of the first atomic detonation at Trinity testing ground. That would leave a radioactive trace band around the world and definitely marks the emergence of hominids as a geological force.
10883.
by api 9y ago
JS should have syntactic sugar for this: foo.?bar.?baz or something.
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by api 9y ago
Cost/benefit AFIAK-- higher clock speeds require advanced cooling, use more power, etc., and it's been possible to get more speed by increasing transistor count instead at lower cost.
10885.
by api 9y ago
But marketing wants this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and ...
10886.
by api 9y ago
Yes. I also tend to be suspicious of anti-GMO stuff which could just be shilling for organic food.
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by api 9y ago
> There was a time when 'peer reviewed research' was a badge of merit that would lead to general unquestioned acceptance. But when this was noticed and subsequently weaponized... Everything is weaponized: science, religion, p
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by api 9y ago
I wish people understood that public debt is not really debt as ordinarily understood. It's really just an accounting artifact and tends to reflect and mirror net private savings. That is unless your country does not issue it's ow
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by api 9y ago
Testing in production doesn't get enough attention. While in theory it is always possible to simulate, sometimes the practical difficulty of doing so means some amount of testing in production has to be done.
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by api 9y ago
I agree with your last statement. The methods of the modern left are not effective and in some cases are as unjust and biased as the things they attempt to counter. I also don't totally reject the notion that biology can explain differ

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