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by davidivadavid 10y ago
Sorry, missed your answer. The scare quotes around "cost" are just to underline the negative connotations in the term. If it turns out their are large overall gains from their activity, I feel it would be a bit disingenuous to ta
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by davidivadavid 10y ago
Please explain how that works. So you've got a completely independent "fully automated" economy of robots creating "goods" (as defined by humans) and exchanging them with one another while humans starve to death wat
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by davidivadavid 10y ago
> it may create a very little value by increasing market efficiency a bit, but mostly it's playing a zero-sum game. How would you go about quantifying that? May it not be the case that gains from market efficiency increases far outw
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
But Zuckerberg doesn't decide "which social good gets funded and which one does not." Things will or will not get funded independently of Zuckerberg's decision to fund or not fund additional things. He decides where to s
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
Doesn't Segment.io address such issues?
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
So, notifications, and the AR (or is it MR?) equivalent of a data puke dashboard. The technology does seem cool, but the killer app isn't quite there yet, is it? Kind of screams retrofuturism.
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
That still leaves a little bit of an issue: taxpayers financing campaigns for parties they will never vote for. As a French citizen, I can't figure out a good reason why I have to give a cent to some nutjobs just because they woke up o
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
Or in 'plat', or in the conjugation of 'haïr', or... yup, he pretty much got that one the wrong way around. Indeed, much like English, which is possibly worse, French is known precisely for the fact that it sounds so dif
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
There is a correlation, but effort is a vector more than a magnitude. Lots of effort in the wrong direction gets you nowhere. Meanwhile small effort surfing on a trend can work quite well.
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
Sure, I'll buy that in principle. But wouldn't you agree that it mostly matters if someone is recommending some shady financial product or otherwise high-ticket item? What's the worse that could happen when someone makes (tex
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
I'm curious why people care about articles with referral links. It's not like you're paying more if you end up buying something, is it?
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
That seems a little arbitrary to me. You have to switch how you hold the brush to go left/right (unless your brush is double-sided). For example, I can't imagine his first move, from upper left outside, to upper right outside, to
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
The square is the cartesian product upper/lower X left/right (upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right). I was only counting moves from left to right or top to bottom (along the sides of the square), so I suppose those are
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
Let me see. I may not have been very clearheaded and have miscounted. Left upper outside to right upper outside is 1 side of the square (distance between left and right). Right upper outside to right upper inside is 0 (I was assuming no dis
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by davidivadavid 11y ago
That makes sense in terms of bit flipping, but does it make sense in terms of distance? Assuming your mouth is a unit square, where you have to hit the four "corners", with no distance between inside and outside, with Knuth's