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by drb91 8y ago
> But in this world there are more products and services around than people wanting to buy them, so people have to be convinced Or, the products could shut down, or lower their prices. If there’s no demand, why put energy into making dem
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by drb91 8y ago
I’m having difficulty understanding you. Is this a scenario where you’re arguing for or against MBAs? It either sounds like you’re arguing a) MBA teaches you grade school reasoning or b) an MBA teaches you to maximize your revenue stream by
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by drb91 8y ago
> You will have to sell your product and some of the MBA's are really great at that. I'd bet that this is true of any degree. Not saying MBA providers don't teach useful stuff, but the degree is a terrible signal of qualit
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by drb91 8y ago
> the banks are actually pretty good at deciding who is too risky to lend money to This seems like a pretty shitty premise given the US mortgage meltdown of 2007. In any case, peer-to-peer lending also has viability in microloans. The tr
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by drb91 8y ago
Because society is really bad at determining what is acceptable parenting. Look how popular the tiger mom bullshit is. Our foster system is also incredibly bad. It's easier to trust society in aggregate than it is to trust an individua
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by drb91 8y ago
...which rather defeats the point of having any systemic ethical statement. People are gonna follow their own ethics anyway, google just now pretends to have a say when actually just not considering ethics at all.
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by drb91 8y ago
You’ve made an argument that it’s easier to automate cars rather than trucks, not that there’s an economic advantage. Among other things, I’m guessing most americans who own a car don’t do it because they’ve crunched the numbers compared to
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by drb91 8y ago
Building a browser sometimes feels like building a language where the only guarantee is the worst features will be used and maintained. I mean this not as a slight on the ecmascript creators/maintainers but rather as an observation of
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by drb91 8y ago
Not believing in realty is semantically suspect. Delusion still provides a (false) reality in which to live. Hell if anything it’s evidence of active questioning to perceive anything.
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by drb91 8y ago
One might have emotional attachment to an explainable universe; in such a scenario you might find the concept of an ultimate unanswerable question chilling. Or alternatively if you’re a skeptic, you might find it lovely.
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by drb91 8y ago
I think the commenter is referring to the process of declaring an order for executing a compute graph. With CSP languages this is established by the order in which the statements appear and reference each other, and computation is explicit:
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by drb91 8y ago
> I could see a Harvard grad suing the school for admitting Z-List students because it waters down the prestige of their degree. In my experience the social access of the Z-list is the primary draw of an “ivy-league” education.
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by drb91 8y ago
Sure, I can accept that. I think plenty of thoughts are non-linguistic.
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> Thoughts that 'bubble up' all the way to linguistic representation in the mind are definitely conscious, while it's also possible to make some sense out of brain activity that doesn't quite find words. For example,
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by drb91 8y ago
Modern games (say, since the playstation 2 generation) tend to rely on clocks to compute animations. This is most obvious today when consoles often get several different clockspeeds across their release lifetime--my current xbox one is fast
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by drb91 8y ago
Oh, I didn’t know that! I’ll have to check it out.
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by drb91 8y ago
Ehh, Apple Music with the match paid addon stores all of my music and syncs it across my devices, including many pieces unavailable from the platform itself. Aside from that, all these platforms offer more or less the same commodity music s
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by drb91 8y ago
Being a charity is, from my perspective, the only way to organize an organization for collective good. Yes it doesn't imply anything about how your ethics are organized, but if you want to give money to be managed in a way that aligns
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by drb91 8y ago
What's the alternative--people stop developing Istanbul, Rome, etc entirely? I can't say I'm entirely unsympathetic to a population that wants development over marginally better understanding of places that already experience
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by drb91 8y ago
Yes, exactly what we need charities to optimize for: short term returns.
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by drb91 8y ago
My interpretation of devops/noops is that it marks the lack of major distinction in hiring because both ops and development are seen as part of the same process, as opposed to simply pretending you don’t have infrastructure. This is ce
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by drb91 8y ago
> don’t forget to get your shots, bring your monthly supply of soylent and fill your instagram with the experience to your hearts content. ...talk about projecting!
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....not on linux there aren’t.
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by drb91 8y ago
...a fearful worldview, and a lack of imagination.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, I see this as a fearful worldview. Imagine instead a world without working in an office, or a world without living in a city. It takes a little, but not much, imagination to understand how that might be attractive to someone. Or perha
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, that might cause less confusion than “fruits and veggies”, especially when juices come with “x servings of fruit” on the label.
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by drb91 8y ago
A long life does not imply a quality life. A short life does not imply a lesser life.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, there is Monsanto working for selling roundup and GMO monocultures with questionable cherry picking of evidence.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, if you’re already getting your vitamins elsewhere, eating a grape might not be terribly different from eating sugar. It is very odd fruits and veggies are mixed together like this when they have such a different nutritional profile.
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This is an illusion; “his” is a Germanic word but “history” is derived from the Greek word “historia”.

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