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by etherael 14y ago
Any field where math is the final arbiter and emotion is just a distraction. Cryptography qualifies in my book. But to take it as a subset of the larger field of technology implementation in general works just as well, too.
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by etherael 14y ago
Sure, I've disliked the way people have treated me, on occasion I've disliked it even when they had a good cause, at the end of the day though the way I was treated wasn't at issue, the cause was. And yes, I throw away my immediate emotiona
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by etherael 14y ago
Worst case; in a field where logic is paramount, emotion trumping it on a political correctness card starts to creep into the culture, poisoning everything it touches and slowly bleeding it into just another mostly political, messy, emotion
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by etherael 14y ago
How can you be so certain that her interpretation, or your interpretation, of what is happening is actually in line with reality? One cannot simply observe something and immediately react emotionally and simultaneously imagine that they've
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by etherael 14y ago
The graph shows a dip on the rightmost side below the leftmost side before going right up to indistinguishable from reality, that's the basic premise of the old uncanny valley hypothesis, that things which are just short of indistinguishabl
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by etherael 14y ago
Property protection is amusingly tenuous when you expand the playing field to the entire globe. In my opinion; live minimalist and have insurance for what you have. Has worked for me through Vietnam and Thailand and I am about to try Cambod
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by etherael 14y ago
I travel the world country hopping every month or so and stay almost exclusively in places sourced off airbnb or wikitravel. Works fine, I don't know if I'd qualify as an outlaw wanderer? Perhaps not. Or you could buy an RV and travel whate
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by etherael 14y ago
Ruler sounds a little too majestic, how about dictators? with or without the prefix "tin pot" depending on desire for brevity vs accuracy.
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by etherael 14y ago
It's very much not as cut and dried as you imply here whether OS X is better than linux. Anyone I know who knows enough to actually make an informed decision about both, thinks linux is better. Almost to the extent that I'd make the exact r
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by etherael 14y ago
I think there should be a rule against people knee deep in big, lumbering entrenched monolithic industries making light of the threats they face from smaller, more nimble competition that they don't understand. It's a pattern so frequently
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by etherael 14y ago
I think the incentives need to be re-aligned. https://www.sofee.com.au/ is new and maybe a step in the right direction, though only for Australia at the moment. Does anyone know of anything similar internationally?
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by etherael 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
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Rezrov.net from zork?(verify1st.com)
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by etherael 14y ago
It does to the extent that criminals are demonstrably perfectly able to acquire firearms despite firearms regulations. You could of course claim it would be even worse in the absence of strong firearms laws, but there are plenty of cases wh
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by etherael 14y ago
Originally Australian here; our gun laws are stupid and largely ineffective, there is currently a war between various outlaw biker gangs going on, they mostly use guns. The Port Arthur massacre actually used weapons that were already illega
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by etherael 14y ago
Thanks for sharing that, I'll put it on my to-read list, your description of your personal experience is certainly enough to make me think how it relates to my own.
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by etherael 14y ago
I believe emotion is useless because it is largely a distraction. By this I mean that if there are reasons other than emotional to take a course of action, the positive enforcement of emotion to push you in that direction is unnecessary. Ho
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by etherael 14y ago
You think you can't have a utility function without emotional justification, I assume?
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by etherael 14y ago
> That is frightening, because there is no hope of reasoning or bargaining with someone who is truly detached from emotion. This position is strange, you think the only position from which you can reason or bargain with another person i
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by etherael 14y ago
That thought had certainly crossed my mind, but I thought it was just paranoia, the continued disparity between /r/programming and here though does lend credence to the the theory.
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by etherael 14y ago
For 20 hours?
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by etherael 14y ago
Yeah, that's actually where I saw it, very strange.
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by etherael 14y ago
0 comments and 23 points? What's up with this? This seems like very compelling content to me.
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by etherael 14y ago
Asus' rate of laptop defects is well below apple. Does that mean they're objectively better designed? This is just more apple fanboyism masquerading as an appeal to rationality, rebuke was perfectly justified.
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by etherael 14y ago
Software patents are intrinsically a mutually assured destruction scenario. The button has been pushed, it's too late to complain about the unfairness of overly brutal retaliation. This farce should never have been started, now that it has,
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by etherael 14y ago
Consider this begging for a rundown on how you're pulling this off, 10k a year is about the floor in my experience and I've ranged far and worldwide. Have no problem living in the middle of nowhere.
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by etherael 14y ago
Inconsistent with the mean collective human perception of reality, or inconsistent with an accurate perception of reality? If there's anything that ought to be clear from the article I would think that it's that these two are not the same t
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by etherael 14y ago
Wait, what? it's a sign that it's fundamentally unfair and easily gamed that the market is responding to the incentives implicit in the design? Miners don't just suck away all the value in the system, they are the value in the system; no
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by etherael 14y ago
This is a very interesting observation, while I don't doubt the observation about typical elite university students is true, I wonder if the inverse observation about the "general population" is enormously less true. This would be necessary
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by etherael 14y ago
I agree, I am just saying it's abundantly clear that it's option 2. Look at the guy's website if nothing else.

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