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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I think it's partly an ingrained cognitive issue. There are some stable patterns to friendships and age, which this article is speculating around. Women tend to have more than men over 30, and it is true that the number of new one&#x27
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
And no one is worrying about the debt loads of the United States, UK, and Italy? Unlike the US, the demographics of their population are a big problem, as their working age population peaked in 2016 and is now in decline. Maintaining a grow
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
China also needs the capability to build the machines that build the machines, if automation is to be their savior as their population ages. High precision heavy industry. They have no equivalent to a company like Bosch in Germany.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
China's Debt to GDP ratio is 3 to 1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/sizing-up...
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Like many aspects of culture, we may have to rely on pirate outfits to archive and preserve things, until the original parties are no longer interested in fighting about it either way, or a long enough time passes that the archived history
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Wouldn't all the heroin harden the junkie to the effects of heroin? ;)
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I don't think it's a super-rare case, but more towards the norm. Here's Jack Black opining about how his son racked up a $3k bill on in app purchases in a game clearly targeted at kids. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
The entire mobile app store economy needs major regulation. The platform operators have shown they are willing to allow hugely profitable apps whose business models prey on gambling tendencies in children and they will look the other way, w
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Average hours worked has gone down steadily over the last two centuries: > 1830 69.1 hours per week > 1880 60.7 > 1929 50.6 > 1988 42.4 > As the twentieth century ended there was nothing resembling a shorter hours “move
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
medicaid also applies to the working poor, and it has been recently expanded to cover a larger demographic in many states.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Tired of seeing this kind of meme: are we talking about the 19th century working conditions of an Upton Sinclair novel, or the 21st century developed nation, when it is often likely for a blue collar worker to struggle to get enough hours
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
You don't even need to automate the whole job. Just automating a significant percentage of the tasks recquired to fulfill that job lowers the overall number of people needed in the workforce to complete those tasks.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
They can afford prescription painkillers through medicaire and medicaid. If you set aside your personal anecdote and look at the actual data, it is a real thing that is happening in the US: https://www.propublica.org/article
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
> Handing out money may not be an incentive to work harder, but it can let those people look for different ways of achieving satisfaction other than just getting high. The problem is we already do this in the US, and we've seen the
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
but the social incentives are the problem. my understanding is that a lot of the oxycontin epidemic stems from the lack of purpose many people have in their lives without the identity of a job as a role in society. people collecting disabil
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
when robotic physical labor and the cognitive tasks capable by automated software eliminates the ability for the bottom 50, 60, 80% of the population to compete economically, what's going to happen? simply handing out money might have
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
how confident of them to use YouTube for this announcement rather than flickr's own video hosting service.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
> Ergo is a really big deal at Apple. Apparentlhy not, if you've ever used their new keyboards and touch bars on the premium laptops, or their awful, awful magic mouse.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Except that the gigantic multibillion dollar new space ring was explicitly designed around big open office units, long tables with bench seating , and the 'privacy pods' are exposed clear glass on all sides..
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
How would elimination of advertising fix online communication platforms. It isn't the ads that is causing the groupthink and polarization, but the abundance of choice in things to follow and voices to listen to. Do you suggest restrict
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
The problem, besides the condescending tone towards everyone around him, is that he doesn't present an understanding of the actual state of the field of AI and deep learning, and what's worse, he cites bad science essays that will
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
If you don't even understand the basics of what's possible in a field and what's not, you can't make a convincing refutation of that field by just calling certain people names and citing bad science essays that you also
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
> Some people think that because they are solved within the physical universe then they must be computable but that implies that the physical universe can be simulated If you believe the brain exists in the physical universe, that means
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
If you want to rise to an 'empereor has no clothes' caliber piece, it would help to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the fields you're criticizing, and not arrogantly cite bad science essays, and not ignore the ac
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
He doesn't present an honest understanding of his own field, or the field of neuroscience, or the ongoing developments in the technology surrounding his own business, or its implications. Even without extrapolating from the pattern rec
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I found the author to be slightly irritating on several occasions, dropping veiled references to Valleywag-style anti Silicon Valley memes, and then I got to the part where he regurgitates that idiotic article about the brain not processing
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
aka private group chats
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Google has as much data collected if not more. Every search you've ever typed, from where, and when. Every internet video you've watched and liked. When you're awake, when you're asleep, etc.
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
If you consider being born into a well-connected Han family with close ties to the CCP 'a meritocracy' China's problem with bribing officials like police officers and doctors just to get nominal service is so bad that Xi is m
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
Is it ok to not have them and allow an adversary who does develop them to overwhelm your nation's outdated defenses and less efficient tactics, as Germany did with its tank blitzkriegs and diversion around the Maginot line?

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