beaconstudios

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by beaconstudios 10y ago
I think that depends, and the issue is more complicated than you make out. To play devil's advocate, consider the conflict between freedom of association (or religious freedom) and anti-discrimination laws. You could argue that valuing
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by beaconstudios 10y ago
that company is called Rocket Internet, for anyone who wants to look into this story.
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by beaconstudios 10y ago
that depends entirely on whether you view a global job market as intrinsic to libertarianism. For nationalist libertarians, Trump's economic focus would presumably be a good thing. as far as I've seen, a global job market has resu
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by beaconstudios 10y ago
I'm not sure that's so true any more. See: calls to sever ties with Peter Thiel on every political thread on HN right now.
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well, it's been reported on quite heavily that we're constantly being bombarded with fake news. Some just don't recognise that it's an issue across the political spectrum.
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I would have thought that "plain-English contracts" would suffer from some of the same issues of trying to simplify programming - in order to write a spec accurate enough to turn into a program, you end up writing a program. Legal
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if nothing else, at the fundamental level there aren't any ribosomes that would parse the new base pairs. Engineering a new ribosome to produce something useful given an "alien" base pair would be the trigger that could make
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actually, the proof for the halting problem is rather esoteric in its demonstration. The claim isn't that you can't predict when most programs will end, but that it's possible to construct a scenario where the program goes ou