batz

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by batz 10y ago
Train horses, perhaps at a reclaimed monastery that runs silent and teaching retreats for guests who study math, classical philosophy, and martial arts. Maybe start a barbell gym.
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by batz 10y ago
Their best hope is to get their assets acquired by a big defense contractor like MOT, BAE, etc, to supply the niche of north american public sector mobile devices. Like a Canadian hockey team Blackberry insists they invented the game, but
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by batz 10y ago
Komolgorov, Hofstadter, Autechre, and LISP. This talk made my life. Thank you.
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by batz 10y ago
If you want to see staff withdraw, check out, or blow up at random, remove the consistency they use to self-assess their performance. A lot of tech companies are too young to understand that a meritocracy is more about leadership than trivi
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by batz 11y ago
Surveillance only works when people believe their communications are private and secure. The 3rd party was probably NSA and they did not intervene up until because it would reveal the existence of a cracking technique. What changed is that
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by batz 11y ago
Let's look at what someone would believe to also believe that sharing their salary is a good idea. 1. that if enough people share their salaries, it will cause salaries to revert to the mean, increasing the equality of outcome, indepen
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by batz 11y ago
So he's saying that decades of poor public education based on creating docile worker drones is creating an underclass that is increasingly separate from the people who had access to better, rebelled against, or beat it. People are poor
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by batz 11y ago
Main argument according to reviews is the gap between aspiration and achievement that occurs when engineers' expectations of success are not met is what drives many of us, apparently, to join extremist groups. The explanatory and predi
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Engineers of Jihad: Connection between Violent Extremism and Education(press.princeton.edu)
78 points by batz 11y ago|77 comments
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by batz 11y ago
So an AI can learn to generate music that compels people to become more receptive to suggestion, in particular the suggestion that they should act as proxies for the will of an AI. Well played.
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by batz 11y ago
Intelligence is disruptive to the way people organize. Any trait that is disproportionately out of balance is in effect, a deformity. We used to say about gifted special education classes, "we're not retards, we're more like
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by batz 11y ago
The point of a preposterous myth is that it is a wedge issue that allows the majority to identify "enemies" and dangerous dissidents, because intelligent people just can't help themselves. It creates a target rich environment
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by batz 11y ago
Inflammatory, by that do you mean, problematic , citizen? It's not my social math, it's from the book I mentioned in the original post. There is a political calculus to power, and there are some good game theory models of it. It
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by batz 11y ago
To a point. Startups aren't about wielding totalitarian power. The crappy ones are more about the short con of trading lottery tickets (options) for labor, and using the myth of magical genius to sell stakes to bookies and rubes. There
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by batz 11y ago
Actually, I make an effort to be sufficiently even handed that only a committed partisan could take offense.
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by batz 11y ago
The essence of any totalitarian strategy is to seize some resources, invent a necessarily preposterous myth, then in exchange for demonstrating belief in the myth, re-distribute the resources arbitrarily among a minority of people who are e
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by batz 11y ago
Banksy reference. he tagged, "If graffiti changed anything it would be illegal."
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by batz 11y ago
Mocks Populi There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was.
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by batz 11y ago
It's not just about tech. The real issue is that government is running up against scaling limits. Arguably, a government can only rule over how people relate within boundaries it can defend and control. Previously the boundaries were p
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by batz 11y ago
The blog has some good points for resisting the question, and got the first one right (e.g. courtesy to my current employer, don't give it out b/c salaries are considered competitive info.) It is sad that people go into high-value
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by batz 11y ago
Security apparatus position in a nutshell: "If you give up your freedoms, we'll protect you next time." Great, thanks. Pricks.
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by batz 11y ago
Because web development in brainfuck was already written?