getgoingnow

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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason." - John Harington Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said this is illegal. Well, if the military wins, then it will be called 'f
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
The hilarity is in how this perpetuates the reasons for excluding a class of individuals from participating in the software creation process. You are excluded from companies using computer science if you are bad at math. Blacks are
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Yes, it's an indicator of competency in mathematics, which in turn makes a good computer scientist. What else would be a better indicator of math competency than math tests?
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Take a look at this [1]: *SAT-Mathematics White - 534 Black - 429 Asian - 598 Even if Blacks get CS/Engineering degrees, they can still be less competent than Asians/Whites. Tech companies attract the most talented people (e.g. Go
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Just look at this [1] list of the biggest tech/internet companies. They are all from USA and China. The only 2 reasons not all big companies are from USA is (1) Chinese versions are much better (Alibaba vs. Amazon/eBay; Uber vs. D
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Peter Thiel is a weird guy. For many years he said there is going to be a major economic crisis. - He wrote a paper on the fall of the Roman Empire [1] and thinks something similar could happen to the US. - His fund 'Clarium Capital&#x
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
EU bureaucrats are jealous of US internet companies. The only big internet companies come from USA and China [1]. They have very high taxes, it's very difficult to fire people and there are tons of other regulations. So, they are losin
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Great point. Nordic countries and other rich European countries owe large part of their success to colonization in the past. For example, Belgium performed mass genocide in Congo, enslaved the people and stole the natural resources in the c
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
very few economists agree that raising the minimum wage by X dollars will result in prices rising by X dollars so that the effect is non-existent You are looking for obvious increase in prices, but raising prices is unpopular with c
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
some will be writing novels, or starting bands, or making community gardens, or teaching, or whatever. And slaves in 3rd world countries will make all the things (cameras, phones, clothing, furniture, raw materials etc.). Are those
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Why is UBI so popular on this site? This is a site for hackers, programmers and engineers. Could it be the result of a decade long propaganda by VCs targeting Zuckerberg wannabes - those who want to have UBI, so they can work on the newest
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Could you offer an abstract definition of "life" and "intelligence" (or maybe even 'thinking' or 'consciousness') ? For example, if you're trying to figure out whether something is 'moving&#
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
I dropped out of college (computer science) few months ago. Ahhh, the sense of freedom and gaining my sanity back. I don't even know why I enrolled; plus I hated teachers and most students. When I was there, I rarely attended lectures
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Robots have the potential to give us what we've always wanted but could never ethically achieve: slaves. We want capable beings to do our bidding. To serve us, to build for us, to obey us. If we follow some nonsensical robotic soc
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
No actual intelligence required, IMO. This is a trick. What does 'actual intelligence' mean? Term 'intelligence' is already vague, so adding 'actual' creates even more confusion. Sentience, to me, g
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
So, sentient means 'having the ability to learn new things' ? Kinda like humans, who are born with certain instincts, but are then able to learn new things or 're-program' themselves. Well, there is a filed called '
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
This is an interesting idea. Robots don't need to have human rights. They can have 'robot rights'. In Bolivia, for example, there are rights of nature (applies to living and non-living things) [1]. There is also a strong advo
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Why is being 'sentient' (a vague term) a requirement for something to have rights?
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
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San Francisco Is Preparing for Life After This Tech Boom(bloomberg.com)
140 points by getgoingnow 10y ago|134 comments
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by getgoingnow 10y ago
Why is Paul Graham defining a word that's already well defined and understood? Go to Google and type in "define startup" and you will see that: startup = a newly established business I think the reason he wants to rede