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by briga 9y ago
>I think going to Canada is the most rational thing for tech workers and people without papers too. I keep wondering why it hasn't been happening more. Because you can easily double your salary working in the US. That and the fact t
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by briga 9y ago
What? Facebook shapes public opinion, so does this site. Is public opinion not worth worrying about?
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Granted, but I can just picture the people posting this to Facebook citing it as definitive proof that the world is melting.
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by briga 9y ago
What exactly does this change? Now there's some extra paperwork? Presumably this wont be a problem for the companies already willing to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for the H-1B process.
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by briga 9y ago
Using events like this to illustrate that global warming is happening is about as scientifically significant as when Trump used the recent US cold snap to imply that global warming isn't happening. I'm not saying climate change do
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An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology (1993) [pdf](scholar.google.ca)
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If psychedelics didn't radically alter your brain chemistry they wouldn't be psychedelics. Many things can alter your brain's chemistry--like exercise, or pain--and I don't see why this claim should appear to be unusual
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Because they scrambled their brains by taking too many drugs in the name of 'spiritual enlightenment'. I've personally have friends--previously really smart rational people--who've gone off the deep end after taking a f
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by briga 9y ago
Is it wrong that I don't particularly care about supporting the ad-based web? Ads don't interest me, and I don't particularly feel like making space for ads in my daily attention span and thereby degrading the quality of my
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by briga 9y ago
Have any of you people who work as software developers (or similar professionals who spend most of their days looking at a screen) gotten Lasik eye surgery? Have you noticed any regression in vision after the treatment as a result of your s
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by briga 9y ago
There was a segment in Blue Planet II where they showed an infestation of sea urchins devastating a kelp forest. It turned out that because the predators that kept sea urchins in check--the sea otter--was over-hunted. I somehow suspect that
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by briga 9y ago
>I'd love to see a resurgence of that kind of stonework and masonry in elements of future architecture. What has happened to all the basic brick and granite structured ornamentation, and the elaborate tilework in modern buildings? T
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Wouldn't the high oxygen concentration during that period have done something to counteract the carbon-sequestering effect of Carboniferous trees? I imagine the amount of wild-fires burning would have been significantly higher because
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by briga 9y ago
I think in general poor people have better social skills and deeper connections with their peers--being poor necessitates having a strong social network, because having people who can help you out when you're down on your luck is impor
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by briga 9y ago
A few of the best were: What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly. A really profound and interesting look into what technology is. Technology evolves through the same sort of Darwinian process that life evolves. Technology is in some sense alive
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by briga 9y ago
I think the benefit of reading widely if that you start to realize how almost nothing is original. Nearly everything has been done before and done better. Once you realize that you can start carving out a piece of original territory as a wr
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by briga 9y ago
Does anyone know what technique they're using to generate this? I've seen similar things done with LSTMs, but the results generally aren't nearly as clean or comprehensible as the text here.
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That is arguable, considering Trump lost the popular vote.
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I find it hard to believe that the will of the people is adequately represented by five people. Not that it really matters--with the massive split between the Republicans and Democrats basically the party with the most board seats will win.
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Here's my question: why was such a momentous decision decided by a board of five people? A decision that will affect hundreds of millions of people was decided by five people. Isn't that insane? Whatever happened to democracy in A
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by briga 9y ago
This seems like a pretty harmless joke to me. I have difficulty imagining why anyone would be offended by this, unless there's more to the story
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by briga 9y ago
Sure jobs are going to disappear, but with each new generation of technology new jobs are created. My job as a web developer didn't exist 30 years ago, and who knows, it might not exist any more 30 years from now. Labor markets evolve
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by briga 9y ago
This guy is fascinating to listen to. I think the facade of techno-utopianism has really started to crumble in recent years and this sort of critical eye is what the world needs right now. Anyone know which books of his are the best reads?
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by briga 9y ago
McColloch and Pitts and are generally credited with the theoretical foundations of artificial neurons in the 40s, and around that time Hebb was doing some pioneering work on activation potentials, but traces of the idea can be found as far
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by briga 9y ago
If you think that's cool, you might also be interested to know that Marvin Minsky programmed a neural network all the way back in 1951 : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_neural_analog_rei...
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by briga 9y ago
This--and just about everything else about BTC--makes me question the sustainability of this currency. I think a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money when this all comes tumbling down. That said, I also had similar feelings when t
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by briga 9y ago
I haven't had the time to read that many books a year since high school, but I've also realized that I'm better off reading fewer books more slowly. This sort of arbitrary pace of 100 books a year is probably going to prevent
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by briga 9y ago
Silicon Valley is an anomaly when it comes to salary. $90k would be considered an excellent salary for most of the world's software developers. Even in most parts of the US a salary like that is considered quite good for 2 years experi
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by briga 9y ago
Quit my job. Travel the world. Although one thing that's always bothered me about the UBI idea is that if everyone else is getting this basic income, wouldn't it effectively make that 5k worthless? Perhaps someone with a greater u
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by briga 9y ago
Sure, it's just hard to take any of his dates seriously when they're consistently wrong. I love the guy, but he tends to stretch himself a bit thin.

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