ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
> B is typically viewed as both preferable and less equal to A. Your examples involved totals of 325k and 740k, so yeah, of course the one with more than twice the wealth (and divided among one fewer person) is considered more deisreable
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by ergothus 9y ago
Perhaps I'm not following your intention. I saw: Person A: voting helps You: How do they know why you're voting on this? Person B: You have to tell them You: But others spend more money and thus count for more Me: That's an
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by ergothus 9y ago
(Regarding a generic "you":) If you've called your representatives, you gain my sympathy and concern. If you've assumed ten minutes a month isn't worth it, these arguments are not persuasive.
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by ergothus 9y ago
A more paranoid person might conclude humans are easy to be distracted by short-term entertainment/profit and handle long-term threats very poorly. It's not like climate change, mass extinctions, and environmental damage are unh
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by ergothus 9y ago
I'm pretty sure he was serious, but I can't be 100% sure. Another time he bought a used car from a woman and one day he had the hood up and was shaking his head. "Can tell was owned by woman. Very dirty." Note he wa
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by ergothus 9y ago
It may be more accurate to say "it seems likely the intended purpose of this is planned obsolescence" After all, this doesn't prevent people from NOT upgrading, it just prevents them from un-upgrading. It adds the ability fo
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by ergothus 9y ago
Look up battlefront 2 for a good explanation. Generally a loot box may be "dropped" as a reward during play, just as games have long given gear or in-game currency. But in this case the loot boxes (which contain gear, in-game cu
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by ergothus 9y ago
While in college I lived with a Russian rocket scientist visiting the university. (Apparently Russia is kickass at rocket science, they've just struggled to build them as well as they design) He was a hoot, embodying several russian s
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by ergothus 9y ago
I'm not sure where you get food and movie for a family of four at $50. Just tickets, drinks, and one snack for my wife and I is almost $40. But to answer your rhetorical question, it isnt hard to get a few hours of entertainment and f
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by ergothus 9y ago
So your claim of equality is that a black man in a white neighborhood is assumed to be stealing from good (white) people, while a white man in a black neighborhood is assumed to be visiting drug dealers? This still seems like a problem to m
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by ergothus 9y ago
I really hate the use of "elites" in this context (you're using a common usage, I just don't like it). To be elite is something to aspire to, to admire. To be truly elite includes concepts like benevolence, compassion,
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by ergothus 9y ago
I don't necessarily disagree - I was trying to establish what position the above poster had. (i.e. where they saying the decisions are being made by the officials in office or by the lobbyists or by the people hiring the lobbyists).
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by ergothus 9y ago
There is the question of incentives though. The non-gpu companies want perfectly aligned performance that they can both built for and designate in advance. The gpu companies want to make said companies buy and rebuy as much as they can. A
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by ergothus 9y ago
While I agree prisons are overused, making it a purely economical matter means it's just another investment. Benefit if you get away with it vs risk of getting caught. You have to be pretty draconian to make no one take that risk. Ba
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by ergothus 9y ago
For clarity: you saying the source of the laws are wealthy "elites" that aren't in office? Meaning sone lobbyists and their patrons? Otherwise I'm confused as one can both be a selfish rich person AND a (american-style
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by ergothus 9y ago
Most humans don't do cognition nor learning from experiences well either. It is certainly DONE, but we tend to not pay attention to how often we fail. If you check the actual text of an average conversation, people are speaking past
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by ergothus 9y ago
I grew up hearing "we will eventually get computers that can play chess, but go is exponentially more complicated." People wee talking a century. I don't know that cars will happen soon(5-10 years), but I wouldn't want
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by ergothus 9y ago
But if the cost is passed on to employees, that cost does not impact the employers. If said cost applies to only some of the employees, the employer won't have much in the way of even indirect incentives.
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by ergothus 9y ago
> It is self-evident that making something more expensive to do reduces the incentive to do it (weighed against the potential profit). No argument - but you didn't answer my questions at all other than to say "FDA is fallible!&
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by ergothus 9y ago
> Writing comments explaining your motivation This. Comments saying what you are doing is a code smell - not always wrong, but always worth a second look as to why the code wasn't clear by itself. Comments saying WHY code just did
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by ergothus 9y ago
I'm interested in UBI, though I won't claim enough actual understanding to say wonderful or terrifying. Instead, I think the big deal is that the problem UBI is being discussed to solve is not otherwise being taken seriously. Low
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by ergothus 9y ago
Honest question: consumers are notoriously ill-informed, companies are good at propaganda and fake "clinical" evidence, and finding out if medicines ate effective AND safe is really complex. How do you imagine abolishing the FDA w
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by ergothus 9y ago
That is an incentive to insurers only if they are paying the price or if the lower costs to a specific group of consumers increases their market share. Since most costs are passed on to the consumers and most consumers don't get to pi
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by ergothus 9y ago
> In general, companies tend to be much more efficient at spending their money than governments. True, though one has to remember three things: more efficient is not necessarily very efficient; a companies goal is profit, not the best p
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by ergothus 9y ago
To be honest, someone saying "I would make a better salary as a programmer in the US, but I won't go because of X" is topical to HN (Even if X is a false statement, heck, even if 'I won't go because' is a false
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by ergothus 9y ago
I wish this sentiment were expressed more often but also expressed less judgmentally and given more depth than sometimes occurs.. To say it is religion isn't to say "your preference is dumb". In my own code preferences I try
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by ergothus 9y ago
I hadn't known that historical perspective, thanks. I was glad when the term started to become popular because the US post-Reagan era had made "liberal" into a term used to insult and degrade without considering the actual i
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by ergothus 9y ago
While modern society does have both a litigious issue and a cowboy mentality issue, I think the consistent focus on accountability-by-lawsuit is mainly denial. I'm selling that short, it is more involved. But take the average person o
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by ergothus 9y ago
> progression has been amazing, but we're still a long ways away from the primary capabilities of even a house cat I'm in complete agreement with your point about how amazing things we consider "basic" are. But (usi
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by ergothus 9y ago
I think the article is overly broad, or at least poorly titled. I've wanted to "just code" in two scenarios: 1 - as the article describes, I've been shown an environment that is hostile or apathetic to any of my ideas.

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