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by devoply 8y ago
> If you look at truly historical documents, such as Lewis and Clark's expedition, you'd learn that Native Americans killed Buffalo to an incredible degree. And the Europeans built railroads and paid people to shoot them dead f
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by devoply 8y ago
Fact is might makes right and then you make up bullshit to justify it. See human rights. It's not like any of this is over, it's just convenient to talk about stuff that we've already done than talk about the stuff that we&#x
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by devoply 8y ago
It fast. That most important thing.
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by devoply 8y ago
No this is about killing content blocking, while not saying so explicitly... > the 30,000 limit is not sufficient to enforce the famous EasyList alone).
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by devoply 8y ago
Sounds like a good job.
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by devoply 8y ago
All it takes for AI to do bad things is for it to have a single bad idea and think that it's true and act on it. A single thought is all that it would take. There are many thoughts that humans know to be true, yet for various reasons p
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by devoply 8y ago
Planes don't fly like birds. We have ornithopter which are crude imitations of bird flight. Very crude. Similarly our AI are a very crude imitations of the real thing and I believe will continue to be for some significant time. At leas
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by devoply 8y ago
> Privatizing profits and socializing losses refers to the practice of treating firms' earnings as the rightful property of their shareholders, while treating losses as a responsibility that society as a whole must shoulder, for exa
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by devoply 8y ago
> I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving fromm immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing
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by devoply 8y ago
No they should quit and find another company.
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by devoply 8y ago
As I said good programmers are underpaid. They should figure out how much they are making their companies and ask for more. The market can often afford to pay more, if you just negotiate better. You can also unionize to get your employers c
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by devoply 8y ago
If anything good programmers are underpaid. If you are making your company a mil, you should be getting 1/2.
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by devoply 8y ago
Usually candidates that don't support the status quo are labelled loony bin candidates. US is and probably always has been to the extent allowed by tech a technologically-enabled police state. It's just that it usually leaves most
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by devoply 8y ago
> school is not a recent invention https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/freedom-learn/200808... In relation to the biological history of our species, schools are very recent institutions. For hundreds o
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by devoply 8y ago
Schools just sort of happened at the behest of industrialists. There isn't actually that much thought put into the concept of schools much less all that follows from them. They are simply taken as granted despite the fact that they are
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by devoply 8y ago
I live in neither country. It's obvious that it's better to be a US citizen rather than a Chinese citizen. However, China has little ability to affect lives of citizens of other countries... whereas the US has much more power to d
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by devoply 8y ago
The human rights records is a p/r gambit which is mostly bullshit. The US violates human rights of all sorts of people all over the world all of the time. They just treat their own citizens with a certain amount of courtesy. > there
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by devoply 8y ago
You can't trust American companies to not spy on you. You can't trust Chinese companies not to spy on you. They are both arms of the government and conduct continuous espionage. Maybe we should get Samsung in this game as a non-s
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by devoply 8y ago
> Why is this closed source? Because free shit don't make money, yo.
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by devoply 8y ago
It's possible. Let's ban them in a few cities and see what happens. All technology creates a certain order, change or eliminate the technology and all of reality changes... Whether that change is overall positive or negative is di
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by devoply 8y ago
Obesity is a disease of improper nutrition and nothing else. Physical activity can not fix the problem with food. A country like China could easily control obesity by banning all the companies producing obesity by selling obesity causing fo
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by devoply 8y ago
You lose nothing by learning other people's language or way of thinking. Knowledge as they say is power... even if those giving it to you don't have your best interests at heart.
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by devoply 8y ago
They can exist as long as there is exploitable cheap labor willing to work for peanuts with no job protection or benefits. As soon as there are real jobs everyone would leave such companies in droves... and their business model would collap
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by devoply 8y ago
if we can make these devices and they can store 360 tb then a high priority for something like nasa should be to put all the digitized books we have currently available in outer space on maybe 100 or 1000 such devices.
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by devoply 8y ago
1 employee per 10,000 echos doesn't seem like much.
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by devoply 8y ago
> The invention of the pill was one of the most significant advancements in the fight for reproductive agency; it allowed us, as a society, to dramatically reconceptualize sexuality and gender relations. Taken a step further the inventio
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by devoply 8y ago
the 90s are back, baby! the demo page and the animations casually remind me of animated gifs back in the day. just a bit more updated.
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by devoply 8y ago
The prosecution represents the executive branch, they can drop the case at any time. He can tell them to drop the case. He has the power to do so and no one can stop him from doing that. They all in the end answer to him. The judges are ind
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by devoply 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/04/us/politics/t...
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by devoply 8y ago
Yes and statements by President Trump as noted above throw that whole notion out of the window. There are plenty of other cases out there as well. The US justice system is often used as a tool by corporate interests to bully people and make

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