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by cconroy 8y ago
You're right when I used the word I was referring to "Audit the Fed" slogan à la Bernie Sanders & Ron Paul. The bill in question that was striked down is here [0]. The bill's purpose > ...If enacted, the bill woul
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by cconroy 8y ago
@JumpCrisscross how independent are they really? The fact that they will not entertain a thorough audit is in itself instructive. Perhaps central banking is too "centralized" and susceptible to corruption even in a well-run system
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by cconroy 8y ago
I also think prolog has the most advanced sense of this concept with equalities and unification operators.
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by cconroy 8y ago
Alan Kay had a good answer on quora for this. Let me confess that I’ve not read every answer. But the ones that I did read were all very concerned with “squaring” etc. The simplest answer — and I think the reason many people have difficult
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by cconroy 9y ago
Slow. This will span many years for me. Check out [0]. Applying slow to reading, thinking, eating, etc. invariable leads to good results. It is also a great heuristic. Also things inimical to slow are usually bad: social media (esp twitter)
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by cconroy 9y ago
Devil's advocate: but what is wrong with a homogenuous country? edited: punctuation
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by cconroy 9y ago
To meet this quantity you will by definition have to read mediocre / non-new (i.e. new in the Alan Kay sense) stuff. Books that are mind-augmenting require time commitments that make getting to 100 impossible in a year. Any decent ma
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This Time Is Different Part I: What Bitcoin Isn’t(medium.com)
2 points by cconroy 9y ago|1 comments
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by cconroy 9y ago
I think more and more people will start to realize this is the 'local' currency of the web. I plan on trying to exit fiat (USD) completely in the next decade. Exciting times!!
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by cconroy 10y ago
You cannot have a turing award and be a `peripheral figure` in the history of CS. And of the turing award recipients he cares most about the field reminiscent of physicists, mathematicians, geologists, etc. (Last sentence is my opinion.)
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by cconroy 10y ago
Does anyone else see Bernie as a Gracchian[0] type hero of our republic? I just hope our republic does not suffer a similar fate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus
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The Housing Bubble: Is It Back? [pdf](cepr.net)
2 points by cconroy 10y ago|0 comments
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by cconroy 10y ago
I don't have numbers but people borrow for associate degrees and some college or to go to Trump U. I would guess most millennials have educational debt and don't have >= bachelor degree.
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by cconroy 10y ago
I agree with you except I am not sure about two conspiring forces at work here: Technology eating into professional jobs like xray techs, lawyers, etc., and colleges giving the degree in name only (nominally) were graduates more and more ar
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by cconroy 10y ago
I dont know why your getting downvoted. This is a serious problem. Also copyrights and patents. Think drugs that people need. This is more about protectionism than free trade from what I've been reading "ISDS would allow foreign c
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by cconroy 10y ago
Ok, I could not find that tweet anymore. Perhaps that is a sign of him not supporting DT. I put a question mark next to him. In fact the lack of thoughtful people supporting him is damning in itself.
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by cconroy 10y ago
I agree it isn't useful and you could argue dangerous but I am very curious!
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by cconroy 10y ago
He also said he doesn't want to live in a society were all of its citizens are not covered for healthcare and praised ACA for including more people (~20 mil). And his analysis of Trump seems better than most who claim he is dumb and&#x
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by cconroy 10y ago
It would be interesting to get a list of thoughtful people supporting Trump. So far I have: - Peter Thiel - Scott Adams - Nassim Taleb?? Who else? Most thoughtful people I follow pick against Trump and more or less believe he is a threat to
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by cconroy 10y ago
He personally endorsed the opposing candidate. What more can he do? Any more would send the wrong signal and establish a odious norm in our free society.
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by cconroy 10y ago
Thank you. This perception is exactly why we keep telling Sam Altman and Paul Graham that they need to reconsider their stance on Peter Thiel. You do concede that people (including Thiel) can be decent and support Trump? I know plenty of
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by cconroy 10y ago
To get intuition and the right foundation read Society of Mind. For me the book is more about thinking in terms of computation which is what (IMO) ML is about instead of statistics (of which is important to know too!). Now practical: I thin
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by cconroy 10y ago
I just read a few paragraphs and gave up when it said Rome was left out of the civilized world (referring to the middle east blocking china). I guess he forgot the greeks and hellenization. Oh but the greeks were barbarians too. The tone al
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by cconroy 10y ago
Doing with Images Makes Symbols, Alan Kay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY The title says it all. It's really a summary of several software systems with good ideas abound. I believe all the software is 80s
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by cconroy 10y ago
Can you guys block any domains associated with this site or related sites (i.e. infowars, etc...)?
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by cconroy 10y ago
Buy yourself a copy of The Little Schemer. It is the best book on recursion I have ever seen. Also mbrock's statement is key.
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by cconroy 10y ago
An example from the set of making the world better would be Bill Gates' foundation which is helping eradicate polio [0]. If that is not a good thing I give up. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080414095646/
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by cconroy 10y ago
You are giving them too much credit, we live in a system of rules (loosely speaking) and it is these rules which have the power. In fact "elites" are probably more frustrated by them than the average citizen because they stumble o
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by cconroy 10y ago
David Hume came to this conclusion in OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT (in the 1st paragraph). people of the United States are heavily controlled by the elite is too simplistic and some "elites" make the world better.
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by cconroy 10y ago
Fructose is bad for you in isolation, but so is almost anything, but packaged in the fruit is a different story. Do you think eating 5 oranges is any different than drinking the juice of those 5 oranges? "Eating fruits is not best&quot

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