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by chroem- 11y ago
Excellent questions! Engineeing services have 167 billion dollars of annual revenue in the US, and 773 billion globally. Because this software augments engineers' productivity while simultaneously improving the quality of their work,
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Apply HN: Mechanical Mind – AI Assisted Engineering as a Service
36 points by chroem- 11y ago|24 comments
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by chroem- 11y ago
The article is about how different countries and demographics have fared over the last few decades of globalization. Countries like Brazil and China have experienced massive relative increases in wealth while other wealthier countries (who
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by chroem- 11y ago
That's a complete and blatant misrepresentation of what I am saying. Empirically, countries that have not put all of their eggs in the proverbial free trade basket have been much more prosperous than those that have. You can't d
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by chroem- 11y ago
Or alternatively they would simply channel their wealth back into their own economy and make their own people more wealthy. That's what's happening in the real world right now, not some bizarre 19th century imperial conquest. Cap
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by chroem- 11y ago
The benefits of protectionism don't come from creating an export economy; they're the result of allowing local industry to develop and become globally competitive without getting smashed before it can even form. If you look at Bra
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by chroem- 11y ago
It's funny, because all of the countries which have done extremely well (China, Brazil) have protectionist economies while the countries that have stagnated or suffered (US, EU) have fervently implemented free trade policies. Hell, th
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by chroem- 11y ago
I find this pretty disgusting. So the expectation for everyone else is to behave as though you're in a safe space and speak no ill of another person, but if you have enough money you can just throw all common courtesy out the window?
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by chroem- 11y ago
Internet companies are the new media companies. They're in the business of communicating information, so they're extremely good at communicating how awesome they are to the general public. Eventually it creates a self-worth feed
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by chroem- 11y ago
Would you say an average person who works an average job has a reasonable shot at getting into elected office in the United States Congress? If no, then that by definition is a form of oligarchy. Though random samples and a large enough sa
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by chroem- 11y ago
This is precisely why we should change our sampling process for selecting representatives, from corruptible elections, to completely random selection. For more info, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by chroem- 11y ago
It's a volunteer supercomputer network made from commodity PC's.
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by chroem- 11y ago
Currently working on Uber for supercomputers. Would appreciate someone who is also college-aged in the Seattle/ north Puget Sound area. I've got a website and a working prototype. If interested, email chroem@uw.edu .
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by chroem- 11y ago
Two entire years, though? It's like they're trying to release them just slowly enough so that public outrage never quite reaches critical mass. They can still trickle all they want, but I would appreciate it if they released thes
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Rand Paul filibusters against Patriot Act renewal(c-span.org)
8 points by chroem- 11y ago|0 comments
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“VENOM” FUD Attack – Like “Heartbleed” FUD Attack – Linked to Microsoft(techrights.org)
6 points by chroem- 11y ago|0 comments
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by chroem- 12y ago
Good. All of this stealing of personal information as a business model is pretty ethically questionable. It's time that these companies come up with a revenue model that doesn't involve facilitating the profiling and persecution
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by chroem- 12y ago
Would banning the creation of conscious AI really be all that different from the current moratorium on human cloning? We already have the technology to make human clones, but we choose not to because of the ethical implications.
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by chroem- 12y ago
>Which is better: a bright graduate working on making a large web company's advertising algorithms slightly more efficient or the same person working for an investment bank on a bond deal that helps a biotech company raise more mone
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by chroem- 12y ago
Procter and Gamble produces a whole lot more than toilet paper. They're one of the three or so megacorps that makes almost all of the consumer household goods sold in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
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by chroem- 12y ago
For context, that's a fleet of five space shuttles when adjusted for inflation. Somehow I have some doubts that a photosharing application with no revenue is actually worth five space shuttles. Sure, they may have a lot of users, but
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by chroem- 12y ago
GC in Nim is highly configurable: you can pause GC or even delay it indefinitely. Plus there's lots of tweaks you can make to how GC treats your code using Nim's pragma system. And no, the standard library does not rely on GC li
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by chroem- 12y ago
What if I read WebMD a lot and have the same skills without paying extortionate amounts of money for medical school? "Engineer" is a protected title much like "Medical Doctor," and for good reason. Outside of web develo
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The Internet is Shit (2003)(internetisshit.org)
140 points by chroem- 12y ago|82 comments
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by chroem- 12y ago
If "real world competition" smells like harassment of journalists and generally questionable business practices, then it sure smells awful.
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by chroem- 12y ago
>The global flow of goods is good, but the flow of labor is bad? But that's just it: this is an attempt to slow the flow and distribution of capital (wages) by importing cheap labor. It allows even more economic power and resources
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by chroem- 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! >At the same time, I can pretend to be many, many small nodes, which I'll program to side with my arbiters if someone challenges them as being corrupt. I was already thinking about weighting each node's
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by chroem- 12y ago
So, I'm purposefully posting this way down in the comment chain because it's not ready and I don't want it to get too much attention, but I've recently written a whitepaper for a potential distributed application platfor
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by chroem- 12y ago
But for the case of deploying Java applications, it seems particularly redundant. The JVM already has a very extensive security manager framework, and since it's Java it's already write once run everywhere. You can even easily b
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by chroem- 12y ago
>Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating system–level virtualization on Linux.

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