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by chillacy 7y ago
I’m not sure the whataboutism comparison helps if it’s still unclear if any superpower has been able to attain economic dominance without committing some IP theft. Japan, the UK, America, Germany, etc. If there ever was a country which pla
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by chillacy 7y ago
I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time a city in China has was burned to the ground over a trade war. (Opium war, summer palace)
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by chillacy 7y ago
In the Toyota factory museum in Japan they aren’t exactly ashamed of the fact that they bought, disassembled, and reverse engineered a Chrysler for their first few cars.
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by chillacy 7y ago
CA already has some of the highest taxes in the nation but the roads and public transportation aren't leaps and bounds better than the cheaper states. I'm not convinced raising taxes would help without fixing the accountability is
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by chillacy 7y ago
The stuff about not eating shellfish or pork is a pretty straightforward example of this: avoiding certain foods would probably increase your group's lifespan, and so gives an edge over other groups.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Hasn’t Time Parity been shown to be violated? There are a number of quantum effects which behave differently when going forwards vs backwards in time.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Isn’t this the same thing people who like whiteboard interviews say? “We know Leetcode is a hoop and the most motivated will grind 200 leetcode problems”
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by chillacy 7y ago
Perhaps a humorous example of this: a robot that always wins at rock paper scissors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxjjztQKtY There's a fun parlor trick which takes advantage of human reaction time too: place a hund
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by chillacy 7y ago
Chinese characters can be typed on non Latin keyboards like zhuyin. And maybe only somewhat relatedly, the fastest texters of Japanese I’ve seen don’t use a Latin keyboard but some crazy 9 button input grid.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Hmm are soldiers using LiPo batteries? Given that they’re flammable when damaged, and don’t work well in extreme temperatures.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Feature toggles are a solution this. That lets you do feature releases independent of code deployment. Doesn’t work 100% of the time but I can’t imagine doing a large monolith without feature toggles.
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by chillacy 7y ago
> a market solution where we greatly lower the costs for things at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid. With the exception of housing and healthcare, which are supply side restricted, aren't most consumer goods already pretty fierce mark
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by chillacy 7y ago
> What happens if I have four plates and put one cookie on each? >> I have four plates and put one cookie on each. The total number of cookies is [24, 5 as a topping and 2 as the filling] After playing around with AI dungeon for a
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by chillacy 7y ago
Before IMAP, people stored their own mailboxes locally. I imagine you'd just build local search indexes like Thunderbird back in the day.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Just want to point out that this is true today in the USA and most developed nations, but there was definitely a time when corporations had armies and navies (e.g. Dutch East India Company times). Corporations, not government, were also the
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by chillacy 7y ago
Probably made the biggest material difference in how I feel day to day, and finally convinced me to keep a regular schedule.
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by chillacy 7y ago
A classic for sure! Now I always look for asymmetric payoffs, like meeting a new person or doing the hard things. Like some other commenters mentioned, Taleb does spend a lot of time bashing his critics though, could be a better book withou
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by chillacy 7y ago
I wish more people understood the limitations of markets (just as I wish more people understood the power of markets). Markets only work well with with price/quality transparency, enough competition, substitutability... everything that
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by chillacy 7y ago
I think one thing you're getting at is this idea that all players can make locally optimal choices which result in a globally non-optimal solution. I.e. uber drivers could individually want to drive uber rather than work a 9/5 ret
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by chillacy 7y ago
More than subsidizing humans, it actually pumps money directly into automation. Currently the value prop of an automated solution to companies is the total cost of human labor it replaces. If humans get more expensive, the machines/sof
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by chillacy 7y ago
A NIT and UBI can be designed to be equivalent: http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unco... A UBI of course has a lot of other benefits (being distributed monthly or more often, going to people who are u
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by chillacy 7y ago
Are you talking about a Negative Income Tax? It is one of the most effective ways to rebalance the economy (Milton Friedman famously supported one), and can be designed to work like a Universal Basic Income. The other common option is the E
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by chillacy 7y ago
Mat companies have security teams and security review through, as well as web accessibility and the like. It seems to help since without those teams most product groups pay very little attention to either.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Zuckerberg said he supported UBI because he recognized that he was only able to start a business because he grew up well-off enough to know that he wouldn't starve if the business failed. But... I always like to think of the Taleb quot
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by chillacy 7y ago
This seems to be everything that commenters on HN claim to want, but the $20 a year thing seems to be fundamentally incompatible with how social networks grow.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Is the claim that Gates is sharing what he believes is most important and Zuckerberg is listing what he thinks will actually be important?
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by chillacy 7y ago
I remember him a year ago saying stuff that wasn't particularly mainstream, like warning about fast food cashiers being replaced by kiosks, malls closing due to competition with Amazon, call center workers being automated, etc. These a
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by chillacy 7y ago
It might be competitive in the other direction: too many engineers, not enough opportunities. Then it becomes a bidding war to see who will accept the least pay.
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by chillacy 7y ago
That’s a known (unfortunate) side effect of the electoral college, but both players went in knowing these rules, why didn’t Clinton campaign more in the Midwest? Obama did fine there.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Sure there are police in every society but even in cities some neighborhoods have bars on their first floor windows while others don’t. And if you go out of the country, you could leave a wallet on the street or bicycle unlocked in cities i

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