drabiega

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by drabiega 10y ago
These goods are not even zero-sum, they're negative sum! This is one of the reasons large inequality is inefficient: larger and larger amounts of our production go to competition over these scarce goods without actually increasing the
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't know that land mass has all that much to do with it. Even in-state mail usually seems to take at least 3 business days if you're not paying extra for the rush.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Visual editors work great when the thing will always look the way you've designed it. But that's not how the web works. Especially now that mobile web browsing is a common thing, your site will be viewed on all sorts of devices wi
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by drabiega 10y ago
There is a distance between thinking oneself abnormal and the act being considered abnormal that is critical here. One can break the law without considering oneself a criminal, for instance.
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by drabiega 10y ago
As a general rule, no probably not. In my experience most claims to the hypocrisy in groups are due to the mental categories in which people group each other, not actually hypocrisy of any individual people.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I suspect that instead of shipping work overseas, you'd simply see a relaxation of attitudes on remote work. The US already has a large base of engineering talent that is willing to work for less but either won't or can't rel
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't think this is going to be possible until the basic arguments over what information sources are factual is resolved. Over the past decade I've seen the social structures that I grew up bifurcate because discussion between t
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by drabiega 10y ago
It actually uses less characters, since you've eliminated all the repeated uses of 'this.'. As a general rule I'm in favor of a turning a one liner into a two liner if it improves readability, especially when it reduces
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by drabiega 10y ago
What I would expect you to do is to not call people close-minded because they are not willing to expend that time investment, especially when there are unaddressed problems with his methodology and results.
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by drabiega 10y ago
You know that you are linking to an hour and a half video, right? Would you spend an hour and a half of your day which purportedly proves that the earth is torus shaped? I'm not sure about others, but I would rate the probability that
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by drabiega 10y ago
The communication barrier is enough to ensure that the nature of the relationship is not necessarily agreed upon by both parties. It's like that trope in movies where someone visits another (generally less developed) culture, spends so
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by drabiega 10y ago
It's probably the 'last few years' part that is what gets someone accused of racism. Pushing the boundaries of presidential power is not unique to Obama and indeed has no party affiliation.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Lowering maintenance costs is one of the things you can spend money on when building infrastructure, but not the only thing, so it depends on how you spend the money. > Not magic - innovation. Innovation is great, but in most cases requi
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by drabiega 10y ago
The changes you describe are very different than something like introducing BI and I would expect them to do pretty much what you describe. Prices are very sensitive to the distribution of income, so while external capital investment may in
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by drabiega 10y ago
You recognize that you are no longer supporting the premise that BI will cause inflation, yes? You seem to now be making the argument that altering the distribution in this way is unfair, but the whole point of BI from the point of view of
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by drabiega 10y ago
You seem to be assuming that supply won't grow to accommodate expected demand, could you elaborate on why?
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by drabiega 10y ago
It almost doesn't matter how smart the AGI is on it's own, if it can't participate in our social conversation and get it's information from the same sources humans do it's going to be stone dumb in practice. An indi
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by drabiega 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't get to AGI in the first place without it being to develop it's own goals. Even if you want a straight question answering machine, it's going to have to be able to form it's own sub-goals in
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by drabiega 10y ago
How does the fact that he mocked a disabled person inaccurately absolve him? You've simultaneously said that he did it (and that he does it commonly) and that it's implausible that he did so?
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by drabiega 10y ago
Worse than doing nothing? I simply don't believe we'll get enough people to change their lifestyle, so nothing or Geoengineering are the only options.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Personally I think it'd be better if we all adjusted our lifestyles to reduce our affect on the planet, but I just don't expect that to happen. Geo-engineering seems like a worse solution which is far more feasible to actually get
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by drabiega 10y ago
I think part of the reason that utilities can get away with this is the fact that the maximum bill you are likely to run up is generally 2x-3x your normal bill. This doesn't well for Amazon because your actual bill can be orders of mag
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by drabiega 10y ago
People always want more. I've met plenty of people who had enough inheritance / other random windfall to just get by who still went to college and careers. If those who get it by random chance or family act as such, why should we
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't exactly follow what people would call the mainstream media closely, but what I was exposed to mentioned all of these things (or at least the fact that she was accused of them), while their coverage of Trump that I saw consisted
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by drabiega 10y ago
> One thing that most people don't realise is that Japanese electronics are expensive compared to the rest of the world. If you have high end purchases (like a computer), you can fly to Korea and the money you save will pay for the
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by drabiega 10y ago
The other piece of the puzzle is infrastructure spending. There's plenty of mostly empty land left in the world. Despite the old adage, building transport networks really is like creating new real estate.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I think a lot of the time we do have a good idea why a certain neural network is better or worse at various tasks. The core problem is that the ability of the network to work is is a function of the nature of the domain as much if not more
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by drabiega 10y ago
This assumes that biological evolution is the only systematic effect on population growth rate. I would argue that the fact that we have decreased infant mortality at the same time as decreased population growth is evidence that there are o
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by drabiega 10y ago
I think this makes sense from a government revenue perspective, but I'm not sure why it would matter from a small business survival perspective since corporate taxes are taxes on profit, not revenue. Especially given my experience: mos
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by drabiega 10y ago
Yeah, and we don't like it when it happens there either.

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