forthefuture

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by forthefuture 9y ago
Well the idea of a stay at home parent is that child care is work. You can either pay someone or do it yourself, in which case you're doing the job you would have paid someone else to do.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
> lets drop all the non-tech Sounds good.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Like Theranos, the mistake is ever having positive coverage, not only now having negative coverage.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Life is a human construct. The rest of the universe just exists. We only place value in water based reproduction because it's what we are.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
> How is AI any different from other technology improvement such as electricity, automation, personal computers, steam engines, or the cotton gin? The same way Anti-biotics are different than Leeches. Just because there is any connection
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Depends on how good you're talking. Chrome supports the SpeechRecognition API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Title is just wrong. Netflix has 2x the downstream traffic. Youtube isn't even on the subscribers chart because they have more than an order of magnitude more.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Yeah sorry I can't edit it again now. I editted because the reason I used "evil / unreal" was because those are typically the traits given to a God to illustrate contradiction. And as religion is intrinsically overflowin
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Thinking that framing God as a contradiction will convince people not to believe in it is naive. People have been saying the same things for 2,000 years. The only development is that we can say it's been longer now.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Harm is again an unnecessarily negative judgement. We are the same matter and energy (nature) as the Earth, the Moon, the Sun. What we do when our matter and energy moves around is not any more purposeful or harmful than what the Sun does.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Is free will not understood? I haven't seen a human make a decision in 25 years that wasn't based exactly on their prime motivations.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
> slow down progress enough to save humanity The future is the same no matter how long it takes. Advancing slowly doesn't prevent the results of advancement. It just increases the likelihood that something else is advancing faster t
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by forthefuture 10y ago
More people have chrome than greasemonkey / stylish.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
I don't know if it's a bubble, because nothing depends on the valuation of Airbnb / Uber. It's more like a Ponzi Scheme where investors put money in to establish value, then make the company well known enough to pawn it
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by forthefuture 10y ago
While most Americans know what Twitter is, less than a quarter use it. Facebook would be a better bet for reach.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
What does the back button do that you didn't expect? When I click on a different page it takes me to that page, when I click back I go back. From what I understand, breaking the back button would mean only the URL changes when you move
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by forthefuture 10y ago
I agree with this sentiment, but would add that I'd rather people want to be nice to each other than be forced to be nice to each other. It's a lot more compelling to have reasons why being nice is good than to just tell people to
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Google it like everyone has googled everything for the past 15 years.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
It's more that it only affects poor people, regardless of age, and they really don't care about poor people. Young rich people are doing just fine.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
That's kind of the problem with politics.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
> academics I've talked with think the computers of the distant future will have no limitations. This could mean a lot of liberal arts students. Academics aren't in any advantageous position to understand the progress of techno
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by forthefuture 10y ago
I keep in contact with everyone I want to and don't need facebook to do so. It's a bubble, albeit a billion+ user bubble. The reality is that every second you spend on facebook you are dying and the faster you realize that the fur
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Maybe post this again when the answer is yes.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
I mean Trump currently does have the majority of votes.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Thread from 6 Hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875092
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Clicking this link takes me to a login page with no ability to access the content in any way. I screen shotted it because I've actually never seen something like this before: http://i.imgur.com/1YBFuiU.png Also, doing
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by forthefuture 10y ago
I've found this to be my experience as well. Going to Target or King Soopers takes like an hour because it's an absolute Zoo, so I just stop at 7/11 or Wawa pretty much once a day.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
> Your perspective would probably change drastically in your third century or millenia. I'd rather have that opportunity than not.
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by forthefuture 10y ago
It might be unthinkable to someone in the future that we could experience the universe meaningfully in 100 years. I tend to see human-lifespan rationalizations as simple fatalism. It's okay to think you'd get bored after a million
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by forthefuture 10y ago
Well 3DTVs looked really good, they just also hurt your eyes and you had to wear glasses, so people weren't willing to make that tradeoff. Those concerns are pretty consistent with VR's current iteration.

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