everdev

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by everdev 8y ago
It's hard to argue the world wouldn't be a better place, but I think it's hard to know where to draw the line. It's all fine until you're in the minority, then I can't imagine you'd want people killing som
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by everdev 8y ago
And if the government were a business with actual competition, no one would do business with them. It's a great example of how monopolies reduce quality and increase waste.
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by everdev 8y ago
Totally agree, I just don't know how we get to "best, honest and good faith arguments" or if that really exists. News seems so dominated by posturing and pandering to a target audience.
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by everdev 8y ago
No. For the victim it's still a 100% loss.
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by everdev 8y ago
Very fair point. I think most media (and consumers) would agree with you as they've found success with opinion-based programming and editorials. I usually get frustrated with opinion-based content though because it seems to me that it&
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by everdev 8y ago
"Impartial" is an admirable aim, but ultimately unreachable and undefinable. We all bring our unique upbringing and view of the world to our creative efforts. I think most media outlets like Slate gave up chasing this goal. Unfort
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by everdev 8y ago
I've hired dozens of people in tech and building something that works and is related to the job you want is so important it's hard to overstate. IMO, it's far more important than what school you went to and maybe even your em
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by everdev 8y ago
Yes, or even the fear of dropping a status or income level can be enough motivation for some.
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by everdev 8y ago
Many therapists and spiritual guides will say that trauma is physically stored in the body. Things like movement, dance, yoga, sounds, etc. help to loosen the body and therefore loosen the grip of these traumatic experiences. While I'v
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by everdev 8y ago
> No bills are needed only a change in values. I think there are exceptions to this rule like slavery, segregation, climate change, etc. Sometimes the damage from certain ideas and behaviors is so severe that waiting for culture to chang
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by everdev 8y ago
> The single most crucial aspect of the Green New Deal is its proposed job guarantee, a controversial policy that says that every American can have a job with the government if they want one. One of the pros/cons of capitalism is th
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by everdev 8y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words, but also a thousand questions. It's amazing how we can craft an entire narrative for an event from a split second of light exposure.
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by everdev 8y ago
Unfortunately, stereotypes have utility. No one likes being caught up as a false positive in a stereotype, but when you look at mass market politics / advertising / marketing they cater to charactures of their intended audience be
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by everdev 8y ago
You also can't determine which 5% you're buying on the open market. You might just be buying shares sold by index funds.
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by everdev 8y ago
Or, it's easier to pass things with a shareholder vote because the index funds won't vote.
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by everdev 8y ago
I agree that the message is beautiful. I do have reservations however about gurus, in that the ones I'm aware of tend to live in isolated places where they are worshiped. I feel like it's easy to love and support others when you h
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by everdev 8y ago
About to? > It could happen at any time in the... next few hundred thousand years. I understand this is imminent on a cosmological timescale, but the title is click-baity.
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by everdev 8y ago
The point is more about even countries with a minimal nuclear arsenal being in relatively equal military footing as the countries with large arsenals because no country seems willing to risk losing one of their major cities to nuclear attac
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by everdev 8y ago
It was an example to show how a country with a chance of landing even 1 nuclear missle successfully is on equal military footing with a country that can land hundreds assuming the stronger country does not see losing any of their cities as
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by everdev 8y ago
A counterpoint would be examining each country's idea of "acceptable losses". If losing 1 major city to nuclear weapons is considered unacceptable, then the major nuclear power are essentially on equal footing. Nuclear deterr
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by everdev 8y ago
Maybe if you're looking at non-syntax indicators like pace of speech, posture adjustments, facial expressions, etc. But NLP is still a major unsolved problem. AI simply isn't strong enough at understanding meaning especially in br
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by everdev 8y ago
Another take is that if you speak in general enough terms, people will fill in the blanks with what they want to hear. You see this in politics a lot too.
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by everdev 8y ago
These predictions can also be self-reenforcing. If enough money believes the model is accurate, it will create it's own market conditions. In a distopian AI stock prediction world the best model will be the one with the widest publicit
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by everdev 8y ago
It'll be interesting to see if familiarity with the digital space correlates to comfort in the physical space.
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by everdev 8y ago
Are individual lives ruined by having to move? I understand the pros and cons of rent control and there are valid arguments on both sides, but it doesn't sound like people's lives are being ruined. IMO, a lot of political and cult
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by everdev 8y ago
Yeah, I think the point is we can certainly simulate what it would be like to live without a master, but it's hard to achieve it in it's true form. Your master may be passive and have broad boundaries, but if you cross a boundary,
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by everdev 8y ago
This sounds cool and adventurous! If you need a job though, your bosses would be your "master", especially if you need that income to survive. And it certainly sounds like a lot more freedom than most, but the country your van is
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by everdev 8y ago
Our current understanding of pain is chemical not procedural. We can simulate things in a computer without producing them. Just like SimCity is a simulation of a city not an actual city.
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by everdev 8y ago
> Today's social networks are broken. Hate and harassment are too common. Fake news spreads unchecked. How will micro.blog be different? Apps start small and friendly, but if you invite everyone in you'll have the same issues u
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by everdev 8y ago
Calling the opposition "fake" is an old political practice used as both valid criticism and deception. Unfortunately, the claim sounds the same even if the facts are not. Unfortunately, I think politicians know that most people do

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