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   by api 12y ago

   I'm skeptical given the direct physical link between energy and wealth. But it's also true that this link decouples at a certain level of energy consumption. Thankfully so... But it hasn't been shown that this minimum level c
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   by api 12y ago

   There's a deeper and equally sincere and deep-seated belief behind said beliefs: It's objectively true that increasing the cost of energy amounts to something like a regressive tax: it will harm the poor and the middle class consi
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   by api 12y ago

   This post from JWZ's awesomely hoary old web site is relevant: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
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   by api 12y ago

   > Its doubly amazing because I told them I'd be busy that day in a previous email. :) I think this sounds intentional. They were screening you, looking for employees who wanted to work with them so bad they'd drop everything. I
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   by api 12y ago

   Does WebRTC strike anyone as too many things in one package? It's P2P, video, audio, codecs, and a whole slew of other things all bundled up together into the same "standard." The P2P part is really really useful, but I could
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   by api 12y ago

   My first thought on reading the title was "so I should molest my employees' children while I appropriate their finances to offshore numbered bank accounts?" A "cult" is not a good model for anything. Not only does i
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   by api 12y ago

   Hmm.... cutting taxes on the super-wealthy while raising regressive taxes such as sales tax and payroll tax results in a massive income divergence. Big surprise. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f&#x2F
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   by api 12y ago

   JavaScript and C++ have a similar problem. There are so many ways to do so many things, that the result is endless stylistic fragmentation and tons of library bloat. C++ is getting better as C++11 introduces standard ways to do things like
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   by api 12y ago

   I'm not sure I consider myself "left leaning" per se -- I guess it depends on the issue. Before Bush Jr. my nomination for best president of the last hundred years would have been Dwight Eisenhower (R) and my worst would have
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    by api 12y ago

    "The question is whether it is possible to run a significant business in the United States without interacting with the federal government. I don't think that it is." That may be true. It probably is true once you reach the n
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    by api 12y ago

    I didn't drop it completely -- I have colleagues who use it so I still have it installed. But I won't be giving them any money, and I don't recommend it to new users. Instead if anyone ever asks I steer them toward other solu
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    The Compucolor 8001 (1976)(oldcomputers.net)

    36 points by api 12y ago|6 comments
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    by api 12y ago

    I guess my assumption is that increased intelligence should bring with it increased self-awareness. If it doesn't, then... well... like I said elsewhere in the thread... put that on your list of potential depressing answers to the Ferm
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    by api 12y ago

    You're not really following me. If it's no more contemplative than a human, it's probably no more intelligent than a human. If it's no more intelligent than a human then it's not going to take over the world and fil
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    by api 12y ago

    Good. Its not just me. I almost wonder if this was a draft site never intended for release and someone mistakenly or prematurely posted it.
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    by api 12y ago

    This is an example of an actual "first world problem." Other first world problems include: * Decarbonizing energy and achieving a sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure. (Not coincidentally Elon's also doing wor
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    by api 12y ago

    I think paperclip optimizers and such conflict with the definition of intelligence and sentience. A truly intelligent, sentient paperclip optimizer would begin to ponder existential questions like "why am I making paperclips? what&#x27
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    by api 12y ago

    That only works for a subset of things, namely those things that can be effectively crowdsourced at small increments. I'd also argue that Wikipedia is heavily indirectly subsidized by academia and government. Large coherent software pr
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    by api 12y ago

    Agreed. Making things even harder is how deeply entrenched the piracy-is-good mentality still is. Try arguing against it over at Reddit or on any thread about Popcorn Time or Kim.Com (what a douche) and see how far you get. You'll get
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    by api 12y ago

    We should welcome them. To a significant extent, the "American Century" was the product of the U.S. benefiting from brain drain from dictatorships. We gained a lot of really bright Jewish folks during the WWII era for example. We&
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    by api 12y ago

    "It feels like sooner or later, big companies will have all the hardware and software hosted on their side and people will only get access to play it according to companies rules." I agree. The "PC revolution" has gone i
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    by api 12y ago

    I like to check Drudge Report. It answers the "what do the wingnut think tanks want me to think today?" question, which forms a part of my mental picture of the current political state of affairs. I really respect and enjoy Peter&
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    by api 12y ago

    "more fast money could be madeby starting a for-profit version of Wikipedia with the end game being to eventually IPO-it." The whole "Zero to One" campaign by Thiel et. al. seems to be an attempt to thrust a stake throug
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    by api 12y ago

    Bubble is perhaps an overused term. It has a specific meaning: an investment feedback loop driven by herd effects coupled with a hidden underlying reality of diminishing returns. There may be a bit of that, but the thing I hear Andressen an
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    by api 12y ago

    Waitwaitwaitwaitwait someone gave Yo money? Yeah run for cover.
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    by api 12y ago

    29. Absentee management. Set no goals and assign nothing, yet give people the vague sense that they are always behind. Combine slack with a sense of foreboding. 30. Advertise a position as advanced and interesting -- quant work, machine lea
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    by api 12y ago

    Okay, "average" then. If you have a trust fund or live in a very rich enclave, your experience is not representative of the median.
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    by api 12y ago

    "In other words, America’s “middle class” did start largely disappearing in the 1970s, but it was because they were moving up to a higher-income category, not down into a lower-income category." Is this for real? Are you actually
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    by api 12y ago

    I've been staring at a lot of these kinds of graphs for years. Most of them show gains in middle class income in the late 90s, which means that the statement "the middle class hasn't gotten a raise in 15 years" is accura
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    by api 12y ago

    I post because it's true and interesting, but the real trend goes back a lot further: to ~1970. http://thecurrentmoment.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/producti... Among other things, I think this exonerates Sili