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by avz 12y ago
See "A Quick Summary" on page 8/vi.
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by avz 12y ago
Wealth is not a bulk of copper. It's the ability to command a productive force. Resources are only one necessary component and definitely not a sufficient one. Humans have had all the resources of this planet for hundreds of thousands
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by avz 12y ago
I'm claiming that with some elbow grease people can increase the fraction of the population which can do the research. I'm not sure what the upper bound on the fraction would be, but so far historical record shows it steadily incr
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by avz 12y ago
This hinges on the assumption that the upper classes have a dependency on the lower classes, e.g. for labor. Once technology and automation invalidate this assumption, Elysium flies off to another star system and the rich live happily ever
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by avz 12y ago
A person on benefits could try out different things until they found something that works for them. This would allow them to explore a set of disciplines and problems far larger than what people are able to explore today. If they embrace fa
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by avz 12y ago
Intellectual capability is not a fixed parameter for every person. If there is anything we're better at than the current automation, it is the ability to adapt.
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by avz 12y ago
Preferably HN, but I'm open to suggestions ;-)
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by avz 12y ago
I think the role of automation is misunderstood. The issue here is not that human work is becoming less and less necessary. That would be true if automation solved the challenges humans can solve, but the truth is there are a lot of very ha
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by avz 12y ago
The issue with political and religious beliefs is that they're generally irrelevant to your work but may be basis for discrimination. The chemical composition of your blood and other tissues may be relevant to your work but is generall
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by avz 12y ago
By elimination it must then be one of those secretions they wouldn't name in an ad ;-)
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by avz 12y ago
I think more and more people realize this. The four original value statements from the Agile Manifesto are mentioned far too infrequently compared to all the processes and tools peddled by various agile salespeople. A friend of mine recentl
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by avz 12y ago
Maybe it's because we've received the secret developers-eyes-only memo: True Agile: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contra
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by avz 13y ago
You're correct under the definition in WP. Note that often (e.g. when comparing bus factor of projects of different sizes) it makes sense to normalize by dividing by the size of the team in which case the answer to asogi's questio
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by avz 13y ago
I was expecting an article like this to showcase some real advantages of Go over python, but the cornerstone of the argument is a reference to authority and a claim that it is faster. This is very disappointing, especially given the focus o
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by avz 13y ago
Each asset has ownership costs and risks associated with it. The uncertainty of the future cost of ownership is a risk you take on when you buy the asset. It seems fair to me that the risk of the future variability of the cost of ownership
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by avz 13y ago
(the post above has been largely copy-pasted from http://dmarc.org/faq.html#s_3 ) Interesting point for the discussion on whether MLMs are allowed to modify the from header is in the section 3.6.2 of rfc 2822: http:/&#
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by avz 13y ago
The tradeoff isn't that bad: it's possible to make mailing lists work with DMARC, see for example their suggestions in the FAQ: http://dmarc.org/faq.html#s_3 . It can be argued that the required changes are very bu
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by avz 13y ago
Pure curiosity: why the downvote? Did I forget an important downside or have I incorrectly included something that is an upside? Note that I'm not arguing any political point here, just answered a simple question.
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by avz 13y ago
Example downsides of regulation: - compliance costs and higher barrier to entry which skew the game away from small startups and freelancers and towards large companies with sizable legal departments, - higher incentives for lobbying since
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by avz 13y ago
Relational databases are not the right choice for large-scale data stores serving large number of users because: - they provide unnecessary features at high cost (e.g. database-wide transactions), - they don't provide features that are
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by avz 13y ago
> ...but us poor biological saps will continue to die just like we did before. I plan on hating my copy out of incredible envy. By the same reasoning we should stop all work on improving the world out of envy of the people who come after
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by avz 13y ago
> Spike Jonze creates an AI that's actually alive, deep, and something it's okay to fall in love with--I couldn't accept that. If falling in love with AI is not acceptable to you, then what about falling in love with a mam
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by avz 13y ago
> Computer Chess programs appear immensely intelligent, and we subscribe forethought and intentions to them, but in reality they are just algorithms. What do you mean by "just algorithms"? For anything that does anything, what