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by asdflkj 19y ago
It just so happens that the origins of human civilization as we know it are "eurocentric".
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Opinions are computationally cheap and good-enough approximations of facts. If you had "all the time in the world", you wouldn't need to approximate.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Actually, the dean didn't lie. He never said that the number of those rights and privileges is more than zero.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Yeah, let's make internet more like high school! Actually, this might be a good thing. It will separate the "hate" crowd from the rest, and the rest will be better for it.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Most people would do just about anything to avoid the kind of stress and responsibility that comes with starting a business. This is in part due to upbringing, and your system would presumably attempt to remedy that, but to what extent will
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Why is it depressing? It would be nice if SV was a give-guys-millions-to-make-cool-free-stuff industry, but that's not much of an industry. Revenue has to come from somewhere. Apparently, people are more willing to see ads than pay to use t
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Just what exactly is an "ancestor simulation"? To simulate human minds, you have to simulate the universe, since that's where human minds get input. And you can't simulate a universe within a universe that's just like it. Not in 50 years, n
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by asdflkj 19y ago
That's probably not a very good thing to pursue. People who feel important on account of their shoes do so out of stupidity. Capitalizing on people's stupidity is generally unfulfilling, and the success is hard to predict, because you can't
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by asdflkj 19y ago
>Too me it looks like analytical people are scared by complexity of stuff, while intuitive people like it. It seems more likely that analytical people are aware of complexity of stuff, while non-analytical people are not.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Isn't it more fair to compare microprocessors to server-based applications, and not just to HTML with javascript, which is only one way to do it? In practice, it is the only way right now, if one wants users, but considering how painful and
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by asdflkj 19y ago
Foreign reporting, incidentally, is where traditional media sucks the most. Judging by your name, you can probably appreciate this yourself, by reading a few articles about Russia in English or American papers (as long as we don't count exi
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by asdflkj 19y ago
The only interesting part was that PG, a quintessential rational man, is apparently a vegetarian. My brain exploded.
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by asdflkj 19y ago
What about the other half of his argument, that you shouldn't pay more than market rate?