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by danmaz74 8y ago
Not just that, also the amount of sugar in those portions is astounding. Luckily, when I visited the USA for 3 weeks, I didn't have time to get accustomed to that, and I actually didn't enjoy to eat that kind of food. Unluckily, n
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I really wouldn't compare learning a very specific technology with college. The idea with college level education is that you get the foundations of what you study and a learning method, so that you can adapt to changes (eg new technol
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It's a long but worthwhile reading; a TL;DR for those who don't have the time: excessive optimism and excessive pessimism are both bad for us; we need to go back to building narratives that include complex solutions for complex gl
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The problem I had in mind is if it's possible, for a human, to decide what to do in each situation based only on rationality. I wouldn't know how to define if the universe itself is rational, in an absolute/abstract sense.
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To get one aircraft carrier you need a lot of science. To get the next ones, not so much.
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That's exactly the point - no, it wouldn't matter. So, why spend so much for something that wouldn't matter? For the asymmetric conflicts that are actually being fought, you don't need so many carriers.
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That would make sense... If this provision included additional funding for the additional burden of providing this service.
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Compared to snapchat, they have a much more compelling value proposition, and a much more robust monetisation strategy. I don't know what their valuation should be, but I can't see any comparison with snap.
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If you want to make completely rational decisions, then you should compute those probabilities to know they actually are below threshold before discarding them. Considering that the number of possible (albeit improbable) events to consider
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Of course we can't prove anything about possible future non-human brains, but try to think about it this way. Is there a limit to the number of consequences that a single action can have? If you think about all possible future conseq
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My opinion is that we could think about an infinite amount of factors to consider if we had to do a completely rational analysis for each choice we make. In practice, we can't, and I think nobody could.
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Thanks, "belief systems" is one way to describe those partial theories which work on a practical level. Thing is, you need many, and they're contradictory. I see them as similar to linearisation of complex functions: they wor
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> I think the reason for this is that our brains just generally don't operate on a rational basis because it's not practical for humans. We have to rely on preformed perspectives when it comes to certain broad perspectives. I t
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I wanted to answer with the same theme - don't wait to have billing perfected on all edge cases, focus on covering the normal cases and release. You can always go back and fix those edge cases later, if they even ever happen to you. Mo
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It used to be a real thing until a few years ago. Now, it's debatable.
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That's possible, depending on how much fuel will the operation consume when in space - and where it will come from. At the moment, I think we would need to send the fuel to move all cargo from Earth. Being able to create it directly in
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Just for the sake of discussion, I'll say that sending anything into space also creates a lot of pollution on Earth (just think about all the energy necessary to build and power our rockets). Mining asteroids would still have an ecolog
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Why do you think it's a false promise?
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Web technologies created immense practical usage value right from the start. The fact that cryptocurrencies will do the same is very, very debatable. For now, the only valuable use case I know of is for illegal activities (ransomware, tax e
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Uber and similar companies are nothing about decentralisation - on the contrary, they are centralising. One mega company which serves tens of countries where before you had hundreds of small taxi operators. Their value lies mostly in this c
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Even with a SaaS product, unless it's really really cheap, many customer will want to talk with you on the phone or in a video call. It happened to me a lot.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I remember the trope about "tiger moms" which was about Asian mothers. I wonder if it's still a thing.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I jot down very basic ideas on the most convenient medium I have at the time - often, it's gmail on my phone (write to myself). I later organise them using mural.co (originally it was called mural.ly) which is a web whiteboard which I
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by danmaz74 8y ago
I love those... Except when those stations start working badly and it's impossible to disable them (a month going where I live in London)
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Inflation does count all those sectors. Which, by the way, would mostly be untouched by changes in minimum wages.
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by danmaz74 8y ago
Fascism didn't win by arguing alone, but arguing was a very important part of their strategy - please notice that the creator of fascism, Mussolini, became famous as a (vitriolic) journalist. Also see https://en.wikipedia.or
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The only one I met who really stood out was 34 at the time. He was a very hands on cto at a small company.
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As an Italian living in London, with very light skin and blue eyes, I still get this question asked often enough - just because of my accent. Mostly, it's a way to start a conversation. Personally, I also ask the same questions to most
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My point is that, of those orders of magnitude, some came out of innumerable penny savings accumulated over 200 years.
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Saving a few pennies per unit, times millions of units, makes a very big impact - and is integral to how industrialised civilisations became so rich compared to previous ones. Ignoring this kind of math isn't going to help teachers or

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