coolaliasbro

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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
IMO legislators should spend most of their time (at least until a reasonable "break even" is achieved") striking old, erroneous, irrelevant laws.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
I recall when my college roommate showed that site to the rest of the apartment. The combination of hilarity and incredulity was intense.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
But how would our species conceive of the idea of emissions and the effects thereof without first creating emissions and observing their effects? I think the issue has more to do with the Cassandra effect and the tendencies of some to not c
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
What do you believe to be the cause of that abject poverty?
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
What it takes is having the means to show up, etc. Most people are not in the financial position to pursue such actions.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Completely agree. Just understanding paradigms and being willing/able to read documentation goes a long way at non-tech companies.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Yeah, had to read it in high school and immediately noticed the "tribe's" name was just "America" spelled backward. I'd already come to the realization that so much of what we do is inane, so it was quite inter
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
I apologise for all the child comments but I find your posts compelling. However, your 3rd paragraph above seems a bit at odds with your idea in an earlier comment to rebuild SROs. In any case, I think the same sorts of housing opportuniti
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
I see your point, but AFAIK, there is ample empty housing to ensure everyone in the United States has a roof over their head, so maybe appropriating dis/misused properties toward this end would also be an option?
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Ditto school debt, health care, and child care. If these costs were not (increasingly) the burden of proles, we could all do a lot more with what we have/where we are currently at economically.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
I think that people want to be productively occupied without all the baggage that "work" entails.
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Why wouldn't people spend their extra time and resources to reclaim/occupy/homestead/etc. open spaces for the benefit of themselves and their communities?
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
"I don't personally believe..." Fair enough, but do a search for "agricultural surplus destruction". As far as I can tell, this isn't a matter of belief. "My dad was also part of a charitable group that he
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Agreed. Part of this, IMO, also has to do with the fact that the capital in the Bay is very concentrated and often excessive. In other words, most of what gets done out there could get done better, for less, elsewhere, but there's a cu
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
"...sold to the residents of Flint at ludicrous prices." FTFY
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
I'm no fan of Facebook or discrimination, and am happy to see this pursued by the federal government, but I personally would gladly be excluded from all ads, ranging from billboards to search results to food packaging. I guess what I&#
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
As a creative process, and in the interest of compassion, I tend to name everything as humanly readable as possible, and provide voluminous documentation in production systems. Even quick-and-dirty things tend to get moved to production if
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Pseudorandomness vs randomness is a funny distinction to me because randomness effectively boils down to either an inadequate dataset or inadequate computational resources for analyzing an adequate dataset, with adequateness being an arbitr
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by coolaliasbro 8y ago
Wrong--it is certainly the case that many insured individuals are left insolvent after necessary but costly medical procedures.
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
That's a fun thought. Assuming it's true, make me wonder: what are the odds that humans would even notice/observe the missed one?
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
True, but minimum wage work typically isn't full-time. That link didn't work for me, but are those numbers inflation-adjusted?
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
> Just because someone—erm, our whole culture—lied to you and you took the bait, doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. That’s how freedom works. This sentence is contradictory: since individuals are told these lies/take this bait when t
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
Agreed--this was a huge source of philosophical dissonance for me when I lived there. The issue is just as persistent in the East Bay (specifically, Oakland/Berkeley) and is worse, IMO, because Berkeley espouses a progressive/comp
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
> I think an AGI will possibly be capable of changing its own core, so a much more reliable safeguard is to make sure that it does not want to change it. Assuming an AGI's consciousness would be anything like a human's, changes
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
> The smartest player possible would still lose poker to someone that can read their hand. And let's not forget those cases where the smartest player is the one that can read your hand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
> (in part because most papers are badly written and need familiarity with the genre to be understood) Considering science is a community/social enterprise, it's surprising that such papers are published at all.
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
Indeed! And the more neophytes that take the plunge and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, the more neophytes there will be to encourage and enable other neophytes to do the same (network effects and whatnot).
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
Completely agree. Science is not a published paper about an experiment. It is a community activity, the results of which only improve with increased participation and experimental replication. Anything enabling a greater number of peopl
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
Complaining draws attention which can lead to interest and eventually actionable conditions for a greater group of individuals than just the affected. Also, when one is scrambling to make ends meet, it's not always so easy to be more p
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by coolaliasbro 9y ago
>...but it won't be with the current infrastructure... slowly phase out driver-only cars with self-driving cars/lanes. Upvoted! I've posted it before and I'll post it again: what advantages does driverless car-based t

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