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by api 12y ago
While this kind of foistware sucks, I'm also a bit dismayed by the seeming domain-specificity of peoples' privacy concerns. Do a simple tracker on a desktop, and people freak out. But all you have to do is change the form factor
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by api 12y ago
That's the only cogent explanation of how the Trek universe's economy might actually function I've ever heard. So huge goods (e.g. Starship) would be pricey, but everything else except labor feels "free." Definitely
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by api 12y ago
Reminds me of my favorite email spam ever, from many years ago: Subject was: "Dear java.lang.NullPointerException, you have been selected to receive..."
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by api 12y ago
Like I said in another thread: free marketers have adopted the Marxist notion of historical inevitability and automatic progress. I don't think it works that way. We get the future we construct. If we just trust the means to produce th
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by api 12y ago
If we dealt rationally and benevolently with it, 100% unemployment would be an age of abundance... almost a post-scarcity society. I do not expect to see it soon, but I think it's possible. If technology continues to advance at the sam
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by api 12y ago
I don't think there is an overall sector-wide bubble today, but there may very well be isolated pockets and individual companies with bubbly Ponzi-like characteristics. The late 90s was just insane. Basically you had hundreds of compan
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by api 12y ago
"Most of those conflicts are a pretense to funnel trillions of dollars into the economy," This is called military Keynesianism. It's how you can sell Keynesian economics in conservative societies that oppose anything resembli
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by api 12y ago
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/28/claim-russia-fund...
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by api 12y ago
"If feudal hellhole is more efficient eventually only hellholes will remain." Probably true. Evolution is amoral. If suffering has higher fitness, suffering wins. Just look at the ordeal that is human birth and infancy, for both m
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by api 12y ago
I have been doing exactly that. It's not bad, much more suitable for startups than Legalzoom. But honestly I can see the potential for it to replace more than just standard incorporation. It could probably do most or all of an equity r
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by api 12y ago
While I see legitimate reasons to reduce population, that won't solve this problem. In fact it might make it worse. While the future economy will be heavily automated, it will still be an economy. Declining demand will still do ugly th
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by api 12y ago
My thought: there is a niche between Clerky/Legalzoom and a full blown lawyer. That niche is presently unfilled.
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by api 12y ago
I'm fairly convinced that eventually there will be two and only two choices: universal income and a shortened work week, or such extreme wealth divisions that stability demands a totalitarian police state resembling the worst sort of c
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by api 12y ago
It's a continuation of the long-term and broad trend of silo-ization and movement to closed platforms.
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by api 12y ago
A poor man's named data networking and distributed deduplication.
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by api 12y ago
We should think about how to make technological progress work for us in a positive way instead of blundering forward on the assumption that it will automatically turn out that way. That's what I read this essay as advocating. I don&#x2
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by api 12y ago
Goto is the only way to cleanly and concisely implement state-teardown in exceptional conditions in C. The alternative is endless code duplication or to bloat your code with huge numbers of tiny functions with complex cascading call semanti
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by api 12y ago
We've gotten to the point that even admitting the existence of possible negative consequences of current economic trends is "leftist." It's so very ironically Soviet. Collectivized farming is boosting crop yields! Wh
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by api 12y ago
I do think that lack of globalization made it easier for societies to achieve good resolutions to internal labor disputes-- globalization prevents employers from going outside a nation's socioeconomic framework to break the negotiating
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by api 12y ago
One thing I often see repeated is that every new industrial technology initially destroyed some jobs but eventually created a lot of new ones: the cotton gin, the steam engine, the car, etc. That's because these things only did one thi
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by api 12y ago
I think what drives these movements at their fundamental and deepest level is a perversion of one of humanity's greatest traits -- our ability to channel metaphysical discontent into long-ranging visionary ambition. If -- to give one e
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by api 12y ago
In the end you basically end up with a cult of personality around the charismatic leader.
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by api 12y ago
"A strong personality..." I've seen a good number of boondoggles. At the center of each was a personality of such magnetism that people simply fell in line behind them. There are people who have the ability to spout utter non
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by api 12y ago
You don't need QM for paradoxes... they come up in all kinds of classical systems with feedback loops. You also don't need QM to do a number on determinism. Look up the work of Ilya Prigogine.
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The Control Group Is Out of Control(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I've seen far, far worse, and I find this story completely believable. Any area perceived as easy money is going to attract a lot of scumbags and hustlers, plain and simple.
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by api 12y ago
Apple has more than enough money to try 50 experiments like this.
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by api 12y ago
Turn it around: Is there anything that you would lose by open sourcing? If the answer is "nothing" then argue that there's only upside -- which is probably true.
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by api 12y ago
It's interesting that UI/UX scores so poorly. I think part of the reason for this is that UI libraries and coding frameworks are generally horrible to deal with. It sort of amazes me that given the importance of UI so little effor
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by api 12y ago
It's not a "hidden agenda." It's their overt, openly stated business model. They're an advertising company.

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