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by bourgoin 8y ago
I wonder if your proposed rough scale still applies in 2018. It was much more of an undertaking for 'some idiot' to tell the enemy themselves before social media. Today, I'm sure pictures of the D-Day boats in staging would b
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by bourgoin 9y ago
The term Orwellian is usually used in allusion to the book 1984, in which the official terms for institutions are direct opposites of what they actually are - e.g., the Ministry of Plenty oversees rationing, the Ministry of Truth oversees p
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by bourgoin 9y ago
Have you built capability for nested sub-models? It doesn't look like it's structured that way, but I can imagine that being a desired feature as a model grows in complexity.
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by bourgoin 9y ago
If the incentive systems are designed correctly, maybe the dancing and box-checking can result in a near-optimal state. I think most of us here share the notion that hardening systems up-front is the most cost-effective way in the long run,
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by bourgoin 9y ago
One thing to like about it is that the poster had the ability to exercise speech without being censored because somebody found their speech distasteful. Of course, opinions on the value of censorship vary. One could argue that Facebook has
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by bourgoin 9y ago
Parents should not be earning money off their kids. The balance of power simply isn't right for that to work in many cases. For thousands of years parents did intend to benefit from their childrens' labor - this notion together
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by bourgoin 11y ago
"If your only explanation for an auditory hallucination is that you must be going crazy and you have to fight it, you’re going to develop a very different relationship to your illness" This is really the key idea. It reminds me of