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by ewzimm 10y ago
Basically, the article is a strawman fallacy. It paints national health care supporters as people who think, as you said, that health care as a human right would mean that everybody gets treated no matter how expensive. Nobody thinks that.
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I've had the opposite experience. When talking about the problems of the US health care system compared to national health systems, the number one thing I hear is that ours is much more expensive and achieves worse results. One of the
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I agree with most of your saying, but the second rant is by Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js. Often these rants come from people who are very competent and know what they're talking about, but anybody can get burned out by working too muc
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That idea about all pasture-raised, grass-fed beef isn't even possible. Current pasture-rased beef is 9% of global cattle. Grazing, mostly beef, occupies 60% of the world's pastures. So we would only need to move the grazers to 66
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Objectively, he could drop out whenever he wants, but choice isn't always that easy. People get accustomed to their lifestyle, whether it's forced or not, enjoyable or stressful. He's connected to people who have expectations
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The point is "has it good" isn't something that can be distilled into a score, as in Larry Page's 99.999 compared to starving child #42's 1.001. Many people would rather live as a poor child on a relaxed island rath
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by ewzimm 10y ago
There are multiple ways to run phone apps in a VM on Linux. If you just want to try something, the quickest would be to download Android Studio or Eclipse and use the built-in VM meant for development.
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by ewzimm 10y ago
I just looked that up, and I did find some advice that flossing addresses the food issue but not the issue of a bacterial infection not attached to pieces of food, which is probably also obvious. There are suggestions to use a water pick in
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by ewzimm 10y ago
Those are some good points. Maybe there's an argument for using a water pick instead of flossing. But not everyone has access to one of those, and I wouldn't mistrust the entire dental profession because they tell people to clean
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Not everything needs research. Flossing removes decompsosing food from between your teeth. Dentists understand that tooth decay and gum disease result from prolonged exposure to decomposing food. If doctors told me that putting out shirt fi
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I don't think you're missing anything. Having the right apps matters a lot than the OS capabilities.
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What I'm responding to is "if one day Microsoft decides to phase out... right now the only official way..." If they ever decide to phase it out, it won't matter what support UWP had mid-2016, it will matter what support
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by ewzimm 10y ago
If Microsoft ever deprecates Win32, they won't sneak it overnight. Anyone can integrate UWP into their store today if they want, and they would have plenty of time to do it. This is a company that still supports Windows XP from 2001 wi
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by ewzimm 10y ago
You're comparing two very different types of values. The number in your bank account has no informational value to people outside of describing what you are allowed to spend it on. Nobody will gain much value by just looking at it unle
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by ewzimm 10y ago
I think we'll reach that point in 50 years because we already have computers with certain types of intelligence that exceed ours. Translating a human intent into machine language does work with coding, but we have to admit that it&#x27
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Yes, definitely. Too often the application of the idea is taught without understanding the idea itself. Then we get standardized testing and focus not even on the application but in what ways the application of the idea will be stated on a
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But those ideas are a matter of ideology, not logic or reason. Some cultures are individualistic and believe in personal property, others are collectivist and value social contribution, others are all over the spectrum. Nobody can say they
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by ewzimm 10y ago
Let's teach our kids the higher level stuff that doesn't ever get old, thinking clearly, engaging in creativity, solving problems, whether through code or whatever means appeals to them. Let's give them options and opportunit
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Yes, exactly! That's what the article is claiming.
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Drawing rather than writing is just one method. A lot of it will likely be conversational. I could imagine a designer with an AR overlay speaking to a computer which offers several prototypes based on an expressed intent. The designer choos
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My point was not that they wouldn't be able to learn it, only that the tools and methods of design have changed and become much more automated. That process has not stopped, only accelerated. The people in this article are saying that
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Design is always going to be a part of creating something. What this article is arguing is that manual typing of text by humans using traditional programming languages will not be the primary means of implementing those designs in the futur
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by ewzimm 10y ago
The concept of what change is more or less significant can be pretty subjective. I'm not talking about things like fuel efficiency, although those are some really interesting facts. Autopilot in 1947! didn't know that one. Yes, ca
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by ewzimm 10y ago
I was focusing on 50 years into the development of the technology as a rough analogy. By 1966 it was much more mature, but look at how much things have changed. A mechanic from 1966 would find today's cars completely unrecognizable. Th
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I'm talking about human-guided programming without using traditional programming language, creating a design document to lay out what it does and how data flows and allowing the computer to sort out the details based on a stored data s
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by ewzimm 10y ago
Hard, human-level AI would help this a lot, but it isn't necessary. All that's required for traditional programming to become obsolete is for computers to be much better at understanding ambiguity and have a robust model for the f
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Years don't make progress on their own, people working during those years push progress forward. The estimated population of ancient Babylon at its height was 200,000. Let's imagine that 1% of them were working on developing writi
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You can't necessarily judge the future of of a technology by its past. Consider transportation. Imagine it's 1936, automobiles have been around for 50 years, but there are still plenty of people getting around by horse. Some peopl
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The problem with this situation is that not everybody shares this ideology, just like not everybody would share the ideology of the person against using stem cells. You're saying that when a perosn synthesizes information in such a way
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Let's say you come up with a great idea, a universal cure for cancer, but it requires growing human stem cells in a lab and you're against that for religious reasons, so you patent it and make sure nobody ever uses it. There are a

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