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by diskcat 11y ago
>The most prominent example is playing instruments. I think the important lesson for learning an instrument is that you improve by putting in effort. There are gonna be songs that you couldn't play a month ago but now you can and th
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by diskcat 11y ago
b-but I thought the reason facebook grew so fast was because of forced logins
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because its ability to improve its intelligence is based on its intelligence i.e. exponential.
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by diskcat 11y ago
Im actually more confused
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by diskcat 11y ago
Well a bunch of AI researchers are not gonna say AI is gonna kill us is 5 years. If they did, they would lose their jobs. If a self-improving AI could exist, it would be exponential in its self-improvement. So just like a supercritical nucl
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by diskcat 11y ago
>If you hoard currency that is managed by a central authority, then other people can't obtain currency for their productivity, and thus can't consume market goods. This is fixed by removing the central authority monopoly over t
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by diskcat 11y ago
At the start of bitcoin there was a lot of 'technical enthusiasm'. But it was very quickly overtaken by the 'get rich quick' people. Fortunately the free market of ideas has spawned innumerable competitors and many of th
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by diskcat 11y ago
Yeah. The majority of the people are normals. Just as they wouldn't trust a quantum random number generator to replace the spinning ball contraption for lottery drawings, they would not trust a 'branchless bank'. There is som
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A book is also an extension of the mind.
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And of course the fundamental fact that she chose to work here and that a slave did not have a choice, except to not obey his master and be beaten or murdered.
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by diskcat 11y ago
If she was a top-notch performer Yelp would have bent over backwards to keep her around. The fact that they didn't would imply that the trouble of keeping her is less than the cost of firing her, which says a lot about the performance
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by diskcat 11y ago
We all got problems. Why should Yelp be responsible for her problems?
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Firing somebody for not working is clearly sensible. Your opinion of whether Yelp's action is reasonable is irrelevant.
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by diskcat 11y ago
They are not treating employees like replaceable 'trash'. They are treating employees like replaceable workers. And this relationship goes both ways. Employees can treat their employers as replaceable. Although I haven't seen
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by diskcat 11y ago
the moon has more gravitational potential energy in it than all the nukes on earth times one million
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by diskcat 11y ago
I could see the gist of the procedure i.e. representing it as globs which allow you to break up the data into 2 so you can run it in binary tree like steps. But the code was pretty useless. I didn't know that language and within the sh
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by diskcat 11y ago
He probably earned it because his family is in construction and so it was the 'path' for him. This is different from some suburban geeky guy who likes computers and decided to study electrical engineering in university. It reflect
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by diskcat 11y ago
There was that radio emission that was meant to contact aliens or some such. Perhaps the aliens thought that some stupid deaf hunam sent it.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>So one bad law invalidates government? Bad laws prove that government intervention is bad and we ought to limit its power. >They can, but this goes to the "perfect information" theory that you blithely dismissed. I already
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by diskcat 11y ago
You can though. The second poles group might need to be taller and more expensive, but there is no reason to be a monopoly.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>a lack of food safety standards led to terrible things for consumers in the early 20th century. and now we have a situation where a little girl gets raided for selling lemonade without a license. Transfat has been banned in europe but i
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by diskcat 11y ago
>Or you know - have the government own the poles and sell access to anyone who wants to run lines. That's the status quo with the government owning the land upon which poles may be erected instead of poles. So I don't see how m
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by diskcat 11y ago
> because your conclusion suggests further regulation. no it suggests fewer regulations > Regulation (from government intervention) doesn't ruin a market - bad regulation does. This is the same argument as communism has never bee
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by diskcat 11y ago
Another case of the government intervention in the free market hurting the consumers, since large corporations will always be better than consumers at hijacking the legislative/legal system to their benefits. If you have the only poles
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by diskcat 11y ago
voidium
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by diskcat 11y ago
We could never have an 'open' or cheap medical device because of the extreme level of regulations and the tendency to pretend that the laws of economics shall not apply when it comes to human lives and medical devices.
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by diskcat 11y ago
>You are not born with rights This argument is really semantic. The line always devolve to the tautological "the only rules of the universe are physical rules"
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by diskcat 11y ago
Maybe if normals care enough about privacy to make a big deal out of any attempt to breach privacy it would be different. but as it is they just shrug and say "i got nothing to hide" smh
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It doesn't have the grace of an actual human. Its solution to any problem seems to be more stomping.
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by diskcat 11y ago
Well when the cars were invented did people start living in a dystopia where the car moguls owned mobility itself or did people just got around much faster and had better lives in general.

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