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by drabiega 10y ago
This seems contrary to my experience, could you provide some examples? Obviously each of us only sees a portion of the internet, but from what I've seen it seems like most of the stuff you are describing has been aimed at people descri
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by drabiega 10y ago
It seems that any discussion about artificial intelligence eventually devolves into arguments essentially about whether human brains are magical or deterministic.
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by drabiega 10y ago
While your point is true, I'm not sure it is relevant to measuring intelligence. The human has two advantages in this situation: First off, all humans have agency: they can take action to do things. If you want the comparison to be rem
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by drabiega 11y ago
As for #1 it's just a matter of logistics. It would actually be a little easier to do from space because you don't have to worry about the effects of the atmosphere, but it would be a pretty massive piece of infrastructure and it&
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by drabiega 11y ago
I've been on terrible buses and I've been on great buses. I'm not even talking about the local/long distance divide, although the long distance buses have usually been great. At the time I rode them, DC's Circulator
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by drabiega 11y ago
It's interesting that you say that. In an earlier conversation on density and walk-able neighborhoods, I seem to recall a number of people from Europe saying that noise wasn't as much of a problem as in dense parts of the US becau
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by drabiega 11y ago
The problem is that UBI only works if it's redistributive. If you don't change the income distribution, the distribution of goods and services doesn't change. It seems to me like cost of living UBI + regressive taxation would
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by drabiega 11y ago
With markets. As the distribution of income changes so does the distribution of goods and services produced.
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by drabiega 11y ago
Because markets still exist. The change in the distribution of income will necessarily incur a change in the distribution of production of goods and services. You would probably expect the price of some necessities to increase a little, esp
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by drabiega 11y ago
VAT is a great alternative to a US style sales tax, but it is still regressive and UBI + regressive taxation seems like a pretty terrible combination.
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by drabiega 11y ago
Consider that BI has been agreed to be a good idea by a variety of well regarded intelligent people on both sides of the political spectrum. If anything, offhand dismissal is the lazy attitude here. > After feedback, BI will just raise r
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by drabiega 11y ago
Saying there is no difference between a tax and raising the minimum wage might be going a bit far. Depending on what you're taxing the incentives and results of a tax and a minimum wage increase can be very different. For instance, a t
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by drabiega 11y ago
It looks like this is a teaching exercise more than anything, but it should be noted that the implementations are not great. For instance, the set uses an array based implementation instead of hash based. In JavaScript the hash based implem
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by drabiega 11y ago
Tech is unusual in this regard. Most of the jobs that don't require a degree are either terrible or require luck/connections to get into. Skilled trades are often put forward as an exception, but the people I've known in thos
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by drabiega 11y ago
Like most words, it depends on what your purpose is. Knowledge behaves like capital in many senses. You can pay to acquire it or hire someone who has it, and doing so can help you or your organization to be more productive. Thus in at least
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by drabiega 11y ago
Presumably progressive tax increases would accompany a guaranteed income such that some percentage of the population would get no net benefit, at the least. The point is that it's much cheaper to administer than traditional safety net
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by drabiega 11y ago
It's still quite a lot of money, but I think the basic assumption with a guaranteed income is that it would be accompanied by a tax increase such that net income is neutral for some percentage of the population. Taking the extreme exam
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by drabiega 11y ago
While true, this is irrelevant. Things like affirmative action do not exist as revenge or compensation for some past act, they are there to undo some of the still present damage from those acts.
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by drabiega 11y ago
Most gun legislation dies pretty quickly in congress. I don't think the threat of violence from gun owners has particularly affected that process.
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by drabiega 11y ago
If you include names, the word list becomes pretty immense. Most of the words any one given person knows are names. If you include at least one name, you're pass phrase is pretty secure.
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by drabiega 11y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by drabiega 11y ago
Well, you can't just execute those people. You either execute no one or you execute some innocent people along with the 'deserving'. You think it is more just to kill the innocent than simple imprison the 'deserving&#x27
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by drabiega 11y ago
I believe this is what the author is referring to at the end: >Unfortunately, the lack of discriminated unions and pattern matching makes the F#’s approach mostly unbearable to implement in C#. It’s possible in some simple cases but stil
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by drabiega 11y ago
That's Sputnik Planum. Supposedly it's a water/methane glacier? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_Planum
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by drabiega 11y ago
I suspect, and the evidence seems to support, that things have pretty much always seemed like this. Because advancement is accelerating, it seems to an observer at any given point that things have been advancing much more rapidly that they
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by drabiega 11y ago
I have such a background and I can't think of any metric in which the US is closer to socialism than capitalism.
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by drabiega 11y ago
The problem isn't power, it's the behavior generated by rules of the system. Because agents only receive output proportional to the capital they possess, they are incentivized to accumulate capital and the system ends up optimizin
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by drabiega 11y ago
You might think so at first glance, but the telling question is whether you're holding those things to generate money to hold onto or whether you just want that money to buy other things?
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by drabiega 11y ago
While that may be true in some sense there is a very important caveat. Capitalism maximizes giving people they want in proportion to the capital they have. The fact that the distribution is skewed by capital ownership and that agents other
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by drabiega 11y ago
I've yet to find anywhere else with the combination of cheapness and convenience that Hulu offers for the content they've got. I'll happily pay a few extra dollars a month to get rid of the ads.

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