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by castle-bravo 10y ago
I only made it half way through that book. I kept waiting for his "new kind of science", but there wasn't any science at all. It was just (paraphrasing): "hey! look at this cool automaton! ... and this one! this one too!
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
>What if peaceful organizations for revolution have a few violent members? It doesn't matter if they have no violent members. The secret police will provide enough to disrupt the movement. The secret police exist to protect the inte
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
That's a nice bit rhetorical judo. Disarming and ensuring that the bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy is met -> communism! The originator of that quote was anything but a communist. I think you ought to think a little harder ab
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Is this an anti-union strategy?
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Are you aware that we hunted the passenger pigeon to extinction?
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
All you can do is learn. In the immortal words of Rush: "Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme."
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
facebook's business is advertising, and the more time people spend on facebook, the more valuable facebook's ad space is. If depressed people spend more time on facebook instead of getting out, then it's in facebook's in
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
I don't know about you, but I find it easier to be pleasant when I've just eaten a banana or two.
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
A wise man once told me: "no politics at work". As time goes on, the value of that advice becomes more and more certain. There's no reason that libreboot needs to be a political project. There are enough reasons to want our f
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Jared Diamond devotes a whole chapter of his book Collapse to this question. The one cause that struck me the most (Diamond only mentions it in passing) is that they apparently didn't eat the fish.
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Canada does allow a limited number of refugees to enter, but for the most part our immigration system isn't altruistic. We don't allow people to enter and stay on the basis of their need to live here, but on our need for their ski
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
How are consciousness and free will implied by incompleteness of formal systems?
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Where's typogenetics? :D
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
When I read "ads" I had to do a double-take. I find it really surprising that people are willing to tolerate an OS with built-in "malware". Is it because people simply aren't aware that there are alternatives?
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Universities are charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, paying adjunct professors a pittance to teach classes, and researchers are dependent on grant funding for their research. Where is the money going?
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Not possible if I'm stopped at the border because of my bedroom activities.
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
PC culture has been in the headlines a lot recently, so instead of addressing the progressive thought police, I was hoping that the author might say something about the other ways in which the universities are eating themselves alive. What
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
I see a couple things at work here. One is the idea that the nuclear family is a kind of holdover from the past, and that the state ought to subsidize people choosing to live in novel family structures. Across society, the introduction of n
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
I think it could also be described as a bait-and-switch. > You think MZ's vision of replacing democratic institutions with facebook is a bad idea? Me too! becomes > Let me point out to you all the ways that MZ's intentions a
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
With heavy mathematical topics (ML, category theory, quadratic programming, graph grammars), I find that it takes me multiple attempts spaced over months before I can say that I understand the basic math. Math is a really broad, really deep
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
I'd like some perspective on this. Are "data nerds" (i.e. scientists) marginalized in finance because of cultural differences with the incumbent traders, because expectations are unreasonably high, or because most quants&#x27
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Low-effort clickbait.
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Does this mean that it'll be harder to accidentally end up on Medium? If so, great.
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Most human beings have been working in the service of some 'other' since the agrarian revolution got into full swing 6000 years ago. First it was the raiders, slavers, and tyrants of city states. The priesthoods of hydraulic empir
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
This is a very kind and gentle way of describing the current state of ideology in media. I have to commend you for your ability to communicate a critical message in such a friendly manner.
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by castle-bravo 10y ago
Yes. Learning Emacs is 100% worth it. I feel like everything else is a joke by comparison (no offense). Emacs, IMO isn't like any other editor. You can't just install it and have it work for you out of the box. Another poster sugg