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   by api 13y ago

   This gets really philosophically deep if you keep going... :) Like... how do you bootstrap epistemology? Given what you say above, how is it that a completely naive learner learns anything? If you immerse a naive learning entity in random n
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   by api 13y ago

   Politics is often about finding bad solutions to worse problems.
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   by api 13y ago

   Don't repeating patterns increase the likelihood that the pattern is non-random with each repetition? If you saw a graph of coin flips that showed a clear sinusoidal pattern and that pattern continued over many cycles, wouldn't it
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   by api 13y ago

   I am not particularly a gold bug or even a fan of this site, but I have found this chart interesting for a long time: http://pricedingold.com/charts/DJIA-1900.pdf The pattern is fairly well established at this point. I
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   by api 13y ago

   "The trouble with computer science today is an obsessive concern with form instead of content." Interestingly, literature has the same problem.
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   by api 13y ago

   This illustrates an important point: Information costs nothing to replicate, but it's attention that is the great scarce commodity of the information age. I expect to see extreme escalation in the sophistication of methods for gettin
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   by api 13y ago

   > It's a system in which you climb a hierarchy by scoring well in some externally defined "unbiased" evaluation process. Getting deeply into evolutionary theory and learning theory destroyed my belief in naive meritocracy,
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   by api 13y ago

   I am not surprised at all: a crippled, jailed, feudalized device that is too large to be carried in your pocket like a phone but far too limited to replace a laptop. I don't think they'll go away. They're an acceptable "
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   by api 13y ago

   http://redecentralize.org/
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    by api 13y ago

    That's exactly what I mean... energetically profitable oil.
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    by api 13y ago

    A similar scenario is likely with fossil fuels re: declining EROEI. There is always more oil, but as we use up the easy oil the harder oil takes more and more energy to get. This is hidden though, as the process will just scale and scale an
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    by api 13y ago

    Yeah, and it bashes them for not having big-money VCs and having to bootstrap and thus having to be more frugal and charge more. In my mind that makes 37signals more "independent" than companies with big-money VC backers.
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    by api 13y ago

    If you cut the power to NSA facilities they will just install local generation, even trucking in their own fuel. Not sure about water and such but I'm sure they could do the same there.
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    by api 13y ago

    Such positive and negative... SpaceX and fucking Palantir...
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    by api 13y ago

    Interestingly, living forever is not a common desire among humans. As we age, our desire for longevity generally diminishes. Having children also seems to satiate some kind of internal biological self-preservation instinct, reducing the fea
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    BananaSlug: escape search engine bubbles through randomization(bananaslug.com)

    1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    That seems to be a common thing globally. All sides of most political conflicts are corrupt.
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    by api 13y ago

    Can you let me know what browser you're using? I've tried it on Windows IE, Chrome on Windows and Mac, Safari, Chrome on Linux, and even old iOS browsers and it works fine.
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    by api 13y ago

    Yes: https://www.zerotier.com/ As I've been developing it I started using it to sync stuff, access machines remotely, etc.
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    by api 13y ago

    Hollywood better step it up! Silicon Valley is now officially weirder.
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    by api 13y ago

    "Cryptography is dead" is a weird hypey framing. The problem isn't with crypto but with the underlying system... crypto is only as secure as the place it's performed.
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    by api 13y ago

    This is exactly what paranoid conspiracy loons were saying way back in the 90s was going to happen: panopticon, total surveillance, militarization of police, massive concentration of wealth and power, detention of authors and critics, etc.
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    by api 13y ago

    Yeah, real activism vs. hard targets is hard so let's bash the nerds. Slacktivists.
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    by api 13y ago

    Interesting that techies and not real estate developers or zoning boards have become the scapegoats for high rents and housing prices.
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    by api 13y ago

    Freeman Dyson did the math, and I am not a physicist. I am assuming some sort of mass/energy trade-off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi... He figured 133 years to Alpha Centauri but wi
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    by api 13y ago

    I'll toss another one in: What if net-positive-EROEI controlled fusion is impossible? We have only succeeded in producing nuclear fusion in two ways: atomic bomb primers and net- negative -EROEI reactors. Atomic bombs are technically u
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    by api 13y ago

    Given that there are many stars that are far older than the Sun with Earth-like planets, this is not that far-fetched. We have already started setting aside regions of our own planet as nature preserves, so it's not hard to imagine s
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    by api 13y ago

    There's a depressing non-wolf Great Filter argument. What if this sort of scenario is unavoidable for fundamental reasons... possibly involving a combination of thermodynamics, evolutionary dynamics, and game theory. http:/&#x2
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    by api 13y ago

    "Some of America's most productive cities for medium- and low-income families—Boston, Honolulu, San Jose, New York—are also the most expensive. This is often due to (or at least, exacerbated by) exclusionary zoning and housing reg
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    Expensive cities are killing creativity(m.aljazeera.com)

    8 points by api 13y ago|0 comments