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by gmadsen 5y ago
doing nothing is also a choice, with consequences(which are observably harmful) should be considered against the possible benefits/consequences of trying. To me it is seems worth the attempt, but I'm also not an expert in educati
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that's part of living in a society. I agree the current state of education could use a major overhaul, but even what's in your pocket doesn't have inherent value. It is entirely dependent on the strength of the Country issui
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as an example, I think I saw a few days of material on logical fallacy in 10th grade. It should be a basic competency that is made a priority throughout middle school and high school at every year.
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invest in education, and give people the ability to spend 30 extra seconds critically thinking about the information they see and where it came from
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well the last 20 years didn't have a mass forced remote work event
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the difference is the mass forced remote work has made companies do the necessary work to effectively do this
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by gmadsen 5y ago
wait till the even wider proliferation of offshoring of remote technical roles. The wealth will be even more concentrated, except only the executives, while the workers will have even less
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by gmadsen 5y ago
then Western countries subsidizing developing countries sustainable energy should be on the table. If it is purely to stop climate change, and western countries have unfairly exploited the world for centuries, then they should share a large
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I do that plenty, I used that example because it seemed most appropriate for this forum. It was probably because they had a support system, so they felt there lives would be ok even if they did average in school, where I felt I would litera
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by gmadsen 5y ago
It is most certainly not, when your economic survival is dependent on these services. It is a false choice. I challenge anyone to try and live a normal life completely disconnected from the servers of Amazon, google, Facebook, and Apple. It
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by gmadsen 5y ago
in my personal experience, laziness is absolutely a thing. As an example, many friends in college would go party or hang out far more often than I did. Its not that I didn't like hanging out, its that I valued the long term payout of g
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by gmadsen 5y ago
the psychology was just described to you above. Not sure what foundation you have to "disagree" with. Human actions and thought patterns are not some libertarian utopia of perfect rational behavior based on an economics equation
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take a look at the seers catalog houses of the 30s
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I think the intuition only comes from understanding the arguments intuitively. so basically an entire algebra class, you need to understand field extensions and PIDs.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I've done the same, I'm a roboticist by training, but I've successfully self studied abstract algebra, topology, and complex analysis. It certainly helped that I took proof based real analysis and linear algebra in school. Wr
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I feel like you are intentionally making the numbers not work. Who in their right mind spends 37 million a year on assets with no value? That does not happen, he would not be leading a company for 12 years if he was doing that.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
possibly, I know in some industries you can't use macros due to security audits
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by gmadsen 5y ago
shitty law schools has become a huge problem in the last couple decades. similar to ITT tech or phoenix online. They drastically lower the lsats needed to get in, then almost no one becomes an actual lawyer from that school, but they do get
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by gmadsen 5y ago
The isnt entirely true. clothing companies mimic what was on the runway a season before and mass produce it for consumer consumption
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by gmadsen 5y ago
is this related to Foucault? in an old debate with Chomsky, Foucault spends a lot of time on a concept similar to what you are talking about
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why? we don't understand the architecture, but the brain certainly uses electrical signals in an algorithmic way
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thinking about it, I'm probably really biased. I do robotics, so live analysis of sensors, processed data output running on a real platform as well as involved simulations is part of my process. I need to be able to glance at data and
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I never understand the ability to work on a laptop. For me it would be a significant blow to my productivity. How do people do it? I have 3 full monitors, one for running 10 or so processes that I can glance at stdout, then the other two mo
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I think you are taking it personally, tech debt usually isn't the fault of individual engineers. It is leadership who chooses to value initial short term speed over extensibility, maintainability, etc. sometimes it is obvious to the en
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by gmadsen 5y ago
not all "technical debt" is wanting chess when we built checkers. it can just be building a minimal chess quickly using methods/frameworks that are not easily extensible to future requirements related to chess. the vast major
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by gmadsen 5y ago
why would you assume fossil fuels are a requirement for space travel? liquid hydrogen doesn't require fossil fuels to make, it is just a lot cheaper to do it that way. we could also use nuclear propulsion, which the russians have been
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because those problems involve messy parts of the human experience. math/physics, basic science can be pretty divorced from human sociology/psychology/etc. you don't need to think of the 2nd/3rd/4th order effec
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I really don't think he referring to some physiological limit of individuals. It is the aggregate of society, which includes the prevalence of distracted driving.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
that is quite the hopeful view. The High Speed CA rail is now projected as a 100$ billion project. With nothing to show for it. We will never get massive public transport, no matter how much money is spent. That is the harsh reality
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by gmadsen 5y ago
for the downvoting and I want to make clear that I am not in any way agreeing, im just stating a pretty clear observation. social pressure has a strong effect. As an example, quite a number of lawmakers have been caught with homosexual pros

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