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by cs137 4y ago
"The year is 2029, the machines will convince us that they are conscious, that they have their own agenda worthy of our respect. They will embody human qualities and claim to be human, and we'll believe them." -- Ray Kurzweil
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At the same time, I can't help but think higher interest rates are fundamentally good. If World A has me paying 6% interest to get a personal loan while some rich guy with corrupt connections pays 1%; and world B has me paying 20% whil
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I really miss the physical sciences though. Is the problem that anticipated returns on investment are so far in the future that investors don’t think they would see any benefit in their lifetime? Or is it that we’ve already obtained all th
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I don't think that's the issue with agents and producers. It's more complicated than that. It's probably different in Hollywood in publishing, but the reasons agents are such a weak link in traditional publishing (to the
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by cs137 4y ago
No, 'flax is right, and wage slave is the right way to put it. Those Google and Facebook workers are one bad boss from their lives going to shit. And, whether you like to believe it's the case or not, bad references do happen some
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by cs137 4y ago
If an engineer wants to extract every cent of value they create then they need to also take the burden of all the risk. This is, of course, the argument that capitalists use to justify their disproportionate take, but it doesn't hold
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Thanks to this, I'm going spend literally an hour trying to figure out the rarest of these I've actually used. I'll be shocked if I don't score at least one single-digit. I have a couple guesses as to what it would be, b
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by cs137 4y ago
Fuckfuck is a brainfuck-inspired esolang. I don't know what shitshit is, although Y Combinator probably funded it if the founders were young enough and seemed to know how to talk to rich people.
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Eastern Europeans have some of the best insults, too. Hungarian has "A horse's dick in your ass." (Lófasz a seggedbe.) I believe it is the Serbs who use "May the Pope fuck your 18th-great-grandmother." (How the Pope
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Wankbasket is pretty solid. It has internal vowel harmony.
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What you're saying about management is true, but there's another reason why ultra-productive engineers aren't paid accordingly. It's context-dependent which engineers get to go into that state; put a "10x" engi
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It doesn't require we kill them, or anyone. We have to destroy the ruling elite's ability to function as a class. Whether that requires no violence or a significant amount, I can't predict; but, either way, we have to do it.
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Yes. Agricultural collapse, rather than heatstroke, is what'll start killing people if we see WBTs in the low 30s. The tropics don't usually get as hot as the worst days in the midlatitude zones; what defines the tropical zone is
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by cs137 4y ago
The 35 wet-bulb figure assumes ideal conditions otherwise: shade, access to hydration, and complete physical inactivity. People will get sick, and some will die, sitting on their couches. It's the level at which death or severe illness
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by cs137 4y ago
The cure? Figure out what actually matters to you, and learn to treat everything that's not that as a means to that end and no more. In a state of severe motivational crisis (true burnout, not the yuppie-flu decline-of-interest that
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by cs137 4y ago
Public pensions are pretty much gone these days, for better or worse. I don't think an inverted pyramid is as bad as it sounds. It's a check against ageism and falling wages (there's no longer a horde of hungry young people w
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by cs137 4y ago
Cities have always been population reducers: below replacement fertility, with migrants from the countryside increasing the population. This was true 2000 years ago and it's true now. It's hard to say for sure why this is, but I&#
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I like, "I would extract this to a separate function." Unless you're asking a question, posing it as a question comes off as passive-aggressive, even if it's not what you intended. A simple declarative statement of, &quo
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by cs137 4y ago
I lived in Chicago and, when I was there, there were a lot of good people but the overall technical culture was mediocre--probably not worse than anywhere else, but not befitting what was once (and could be) among the greatest cities in the
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by cs137 4y ago
The system is designed that way. Will power is a finite resource, and people get pummeled so hard at work, their need to execute what tiny bit of freedom they can scrape off the world results in their eating a tasty but unhealthy lunch at a
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by cs137 4y ago
Great job of completely missing the fucking point. Also, while lattes may be a luxury from your standpoint--personally, I prefer black coffee--expensive purchases, for white collar workers, are not. You have to play those "status games
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by cs137 4y ago
If you're not buying lattes to compete for the same pool of available houses (and other people are doing that), you are absolutely ruin your economy by starving it for cash I wish it were that easy to grind this economy to a halt, bu
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by cs137 4y ago
Amen. Personal responsibility is the economic analogue of "thoughts and prayers" whenever a shooting occurs. (Note: conservatives don't actually even pray for anyone, because they're the Elect, and since they're alr
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^ Post that was flagged by cappies and neoliberals who don't get satire. Have an upvote, good sir.
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The author seems to be focused on low-quality reading, both in terms of the material itself and in terms of habits formed while giving the material the (scant) attention it deserves. He says we encounter almost half a million words daily. N
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Pretty much everything that was dull and bland in my youth now has a rich fan culture. Kids today don’t know how good they’ve got it. If only they had the gumption to time travel and get cushy BoomerJobs instead of gig-economy nightmare l
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This is Hacker News. It is not a place for intricate theological debate. God is bad, money is good, the systemic failures of capitalism can be ignored as long as we get to the Singularity, and we're all going to freeze our heads and be
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by cs137 4y ago
This makes a lot of sense, and thanks for the insight. I was at Google very briefly, but I bet if I mentioned my real name, it would ring a bell. It'll be interesting to see the evolution of all these companies that've invested in
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I regularly watch economically prosperous content on youtube that would have had zero chance of distribution 10 years ago. The game is different and it's too early to tell if things are better now than before. We're seeing a lot
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Fifteen years ago, Google was "the web company". They weren't about walled gardens; they were about the future, which was the web. It turns out they only liked it so much because, back then, Microsoft was bad at it, giving th

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