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by crusso 9y ago
It was put in place because Qualcomm owned the most important piece of the package and leveraged their strength to get a percentage of the whole phone's value. Everyone got locked into the uniform Qualcomm licensing agreement and despi
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by crusso 9y ago
I think they were trying to show something meaningful with the orientation by having their "Trend Line" be the one horizontal metric. I didn't really understand how they came up with that as a trend line. I agree that they ma
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by crusso 9y ago
I played a MUD called "DUM" back around 1990. My GPA would have been a heck of a lot better without it... and Nethack.
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by crusso 9y ago
I tend to focus on intellectual integrity in argumentation. But when I talk to most people about "intellectual integrity" or "intellectual honesty", I think that they tune me out. Those terms don't really register
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by crusso 9y ago
A quick Google turned up some refutation of your statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9907147 Looking further, it appears that Sweden has decreased the amount of transparency by requiring that people make specifi
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by crusso 9y ago
I'm not interested in a society devoid of compassion That's a straw man, right? That's not what the poster to whom you were responding said.
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by crusso 9y ago
Yep. In a world of such pervasive intellectual dishonesty, what's the best course of action? While I admire the people and arguments that have the most intellectual integrity, it seems that demagoguery just works better when it comes
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by crusso 9y ago
Compensating support-role positions is hardly a new problem for businesses. They slice and dice budgets in many different ways to ensure that the overall business can maximize profits/productivity.
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by crusso 9y ago
It would be an interesting experiment. Has it been done before? That could lead to some unpleasant things: * A lot of unavoidable angst as people of less worth to the business are proven to be paid less in no uncertain terms. *
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by crusso 9y ago
The PROBLEM is that corrupt politicians in the 90s And how did those corrupt politicians get into office and stay in office?
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by crusso 9y ago
I think that things like herd immunity just aren't intuitively understood or respected by the people who think that just because they haven't had a health emergency in the modern world they haven't benefitted from their exist
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by crusso 9y ago
I would not want to swap positions with the 14th century peasant I'd go further than that. I would not want to swap positions with a 14th century monarch.
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by crusso 9y ago
The USSR achieved some narrow technical/space/military successes by focusing themselves on those few things and utterly subjugating and impoverishing the rest of their society. And in the end, they couldn't even keep that up
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by crusso 9y ago
Kind of an interesting approach to it, I guess. I wonder how far you could take such a thing. * Could you initial every page but remove any pages you didn't like from a single contract? * Could you insert your own subtly edite
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by crusso 9y ago
tax cuts and the occasional vastly expensive defence Then again, maybe tax cuts allowed private companies to get us further than where we would have been if we had spent ever-more money on government. Maybe defense spending is what kept
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by crusso 9y ago
As you point out, the future is a strange beast to pin down. It's amazing how people are ready to throw capitalism and scientific advancement out of the window because of where advancement might be headed at some distant point in the f
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by crusso 9y ago
Have they solved the issues around navigating through the drive-thru lane at a restaurant?
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by crusso 9y ago
I've been using Elm on and off for projects for the last couple of years. I find that most of the complaints are just discomfort at how Elm isn't developed the way that many other projects are. It gets in people's heads tha
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by crusso 9y ago
One doesn't move to Delaware simply to register a company there.
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by crusso 9y ago
"to be among a handful of feudal lords" Is it helpful in a discussion like this to use exaggerated rhetoric? Wealthy people aren't in any meaningful way feudal lords. "everyone else suffers tenuous and desperation"
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by crusso 9y ago
I don't see where the authors are advocating that stochastic computers would wholesale replace general purpose digital computers. It looks more like they've found specific cases where stochastic computing could be a big benefit a
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by crusso 9y ago
Technically true, but I'm kind of sick of seeing it. The more time I spend online, the more nauseated I feel when I read people writing serious documents who can't even be civil. If either of the criticism articles that I saw lin
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by crusso 9y ago
I can only read so much snark before I give up and wonder at when the actual reasoned review of the book will begin.
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by crusso 9y ago
I started following a couple of OS-from-scratch guides a while back. There are a few that are very similar and will get you through the basics. I got things working up to the point of having a little OS that would boot up and take keyboar
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by crusso 9y ago
First, I think that the scientific literature peer review process becoming more like Amazon's reviews would be a disaster for science. I didn't see where they're looking to have something exactly like Amazon. To be charita
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by crusso 9y ago
What I see is a tougher job market, justifiably Yeah, as this kind of software progresses, fewer people will be required to do one of the main jobs that lawyers do well - reading through tons of legal documents. Additionally, even mediocr
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by crusso 9y ago
I'd be happy if as a first pass the AIs went through and cleaned up our mess of legal frameworks so they made logical sense to a being of any intelligence.
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by crusso 9y ago
You would assume that the test/answer creation involved a lot more eyes and time to double-check everything. Hell, they might even have used an AI to make sure that they didn't miss anything.
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by crusso 9y ago
I understand all that; but in terms of liability, safety is a binary issue. There will be tolerances for safety that can't be lessened because there's a tire in the road that wasn't mapped yet. "It wasn't mapped y
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by crusso 9y ago
On any given day, there could be a half dozen autonomous cars mapping the same street corner in Silicon Valley. It seems kind of tautological that they're using autonomous vehicles to create maps because they need maps for autonomous

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