ciphol

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by ciphol 4y ago
Heads I win / tails you lose is the phrase I believe :)
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by ciphol 4y ago
Most of the cost of a taxi is the driver. In the long term driverless taxis will be much cheaper. Access to affordable taxis will greatly improve mobility for the young, old, poor, disabled, etc. It will also enable many people who currentl
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by ciphol 4y ago
Higher insurance rates seem likely, and significantly better research seems unlikely.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Vermont (a tiny state) would suffer much more from that than would California.
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by ciphol 4y ago
That's the possible upside. The possible downside is "if you ever search for a disease in Chrome, or on your Android device, or at google.com, we will notify your insurance company who will raise your rates".
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by ciphol 4y ago
If one Linux distribution had 90% of Linux users, that might be a good comparison.
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by ciphol 4y ago
I have the same problem. Time and practice have certainly helped. But sometimes I just write whatever I want in my native language and then put it in Google Translate and then manually fix the errors in Google Translate's result.
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by ciphol 4y ago
HS2 will give poorer regions access to London and vice versa. Sounds like a good thing for the poorer regions
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by ciphol 4y ago
I think the issue in Donetsk/Luhansk is actually the Russian army forcing them into Russia, against the wishes of most of the inhabitants [1]. BTW it's interesting you use the the Russian pronunciation "Lugansk" rather t
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by ciphol 4y ago
Working in one place for life is very economically inefficient for any intellectual work. Eventually there will be a company that would get more value out of you, and therefore is willing to pay you more, but you won't be able to take
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by ciphol 4y ago
All the good jobs are in 6-8 cities because large cities have agglomeration effects that make them inherently more productive. The homelessness is simply a result of high housing prices [1] which in turn are the result of restrictive zoning
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by ciphol 4y ago
It is inherently impossible for most people to walk/bike to an office job, that is not due to a choice of urban design. The point of office jobs, and cities in general, is that agglomerating huge numbers of people lets you choose work
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by ciphol 4y ago
If you got the price of widgets down from $100 to $10, that's because directly or indirectly you figured out how to make them with less labor/materials. That labor and materials can be redirected to other purposes, aka economic gr
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by ciphol 4y ago
I think the issue is that Asimov uses "hyperspace" as a get-out-of-jail-free card for anything that seems to contradict physics. Faster than light travel? Possible through hyperspace. Infinitely powerful computers? Can exist in hy
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by ciphol 4y ago
It's a good argument against murder, but not a good argument against theft.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Dozens of open source volunteers who are interested in volunteering their free time to do software development using the format. In addition to the innumerable developers in Facebook, Apple, and other corporations who are paid to do the dat
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by ciphol 4y ago
I think every civilization's elite venerated art.
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by ciphol 4y ago
You're the exception. Your government chose to join NATO, and 15 different European countries have chosen to host US army bases, including every large NATO country except France. Many of those countries participate in US overseas opera
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by ciphol 4y ago
Good thing then that we have atheist countries like China who never use violence against anyone...
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by ciphol 4y ago
Nobody argues that attacks on the US or Israel justify the US or Israel putting their Muslim population into camps like China does.
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by ciphol 4y ago
Anyone who achieves on his level possesses not just raw innate brainpower but also other skills, for example organizational skills.
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by ciphol 4y ago
By "the balkans" I presume you mean Serbia? The country that twice committed ethnic cleansing and genocide against its neighbors until the Clinton administration made them stop?
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by ciphol 4y ago
Maybe the next nation to attack the World Trade Center
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by ciphol 4y ago
It used to be that the political Supreme Court justices were confirmed with bipartisan approval. This meant that the court's decisions generally fell within the national consensus and the judges received national respect. Now, we have
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by ciphol 4y ago
We evolved to survive breathing in soil.
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by ciphol 4y ago
I agree. I would add than in my opinion, Inkscape specifically has a remarkably easy learning curve and great documentation. So little learning allowed me to accomplish so much. Admittedly, I don't use polar arrangements.
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by ciphol 4y ago
While the idea that "bullshit jobs" are common may itself be bullshit [1], one can imagine that at companies like Google whose major task is preserving their current market position rather than innovating to enter new markets, and
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by ciphol 4y ago
Sounds like high frequency trading...
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by ciphol 4y ago
It goes to treating crises (expensive) rather than preventing them (cheap)

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