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by gmadsen 4y ago
music production. 3d modeling, gaming. a lot of commercial software just doesn't have support for linux. for regular use and a lot of my personal programming, I use linux, but it just isn't feasible to be 100% depending what you n
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by gmadsen 4y ago
ah so the ruling class with be armed, while the rest are not. sounds great
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by gmadsen 4y ago
how independent is it really if they are printing money to buy treasury bonds?
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by gmadsen 4y ago
I'm not so sure its impossible. the 40 year semantic map project Douglas Lenat: Cyc is truly astounding. I think in the next decade we will see really interesting integration of state of the art deep learning with something like Cyc
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by gmadsen 4y ago
It is not a false equivalence. Doctors are not scalable. Is the physicality of it increase the value? The inventor of antibiotics has saved more lives than any single doctor. I might agree that a lot of developers are working on trivial thi
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by gmadsen 4y ago
what a weird statement. Would doctors be as valuable without modern tech or medicine? I don't view any group as some sort of elite class, gracing the rest of us with their existence.
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by gmadsen 4y ago
what? I'm sorry you had such a crappy college experience.
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by gmadsen 4y ago
because its not a technical problem. its a political problem
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by gmadsen 4y ago
that only looks at physical health metrics. Things like social enhancement and stress relief are not captured in that study and are obviously benefits of moderate alcohol consumption
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by gmadsen 4y ago
nicotine is a well studied noortropic. It enhances neuroplasticity and focus
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by gmadsen 5y ago
the latter. monopoly on force and all that
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by gmadsen 5y ago
ive used them for a 12 month 0% interest. why not let them eat inflation for me, and I can put my money elsewhere
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by gmadsen 5y ago
meaning can be as simple as loving the people around you. It doesn't need to be a divine master plan
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by gmadsen 5y ago
interesting, I think almost the complete opposite. I am happy where I'm at, but I most certainly would have preferred doing a math/cs double major rather than all the BS busy work of an engineering degree I went through. I wouldn
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I think that is the implied meaning of "quite telling". Many institutions hastily removed SAT scores due to social pressure that standardized tests weren't effective or equitable, while the data shows the opposite
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I think people usually mean there is no competitive advantage with cosmetics.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I mean do what makes you happy. But I attribute nearly all of my promotions and success to doing work I am explicitly not paid for.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
purely anecdotally to my own experience, but I firmly believe that not only social media, but the screen size of phones themselves incentivize fast context switching shallow low quality reading, which has detrimental effects on cognition. S
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by gmadsen 5y ago
not only "geniuses", I'm sure the widespread reduction in reading in the general population has had significant affects across all aspects of society
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by gmadsen 5y ago
for one, the marine general Mattis said he was against torture. Not because of moral issues, but simply because it was ineffective. People will say whatever they think you want to hear to stop being tortured, which then leads to a lot of re
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Do you live in the US? This would be part of circumstantial evidence in conjunction with a response of why the statement was removed. by itself there is nothing to debunk, it is a fact, the statement existed before, now it is down. That cle
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Meru is a lot better and interesting documentary in my opinion. Not Hannold, but same circle of people and ice climbing
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by gmadsen 5y ago
if you are not working on a space shuttle, 99% of controls and state estimation is tuning things until it works.
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by gmadsen 5y ago
Personally, I'd much rather rather have a strong understanding of Algo/DS than deploy K8s clusters. To me, not only is that an annoying external cognitive load, but one that will probably be irrelevant within the decade. I use my
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I am ignorant on nearly all compiler related issues, but there was an article on here not too long ago that was arguing that nearly all os development required old C because choices of the committee would break use cases required under the
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by gmadsen 5y ago
I really think studies like that should be taken with a grain of salt. Polling people's current rate of life satisfaction while they are sleep deprived and changing diapers is very different than being 90 years old in a nursing home wi
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by gmadsen 5y ago
so you agree with the comment then? you are both criticizing the government
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by gmadsen 5y ago
fyi, 23andme decodes less than 1% of your genome. Full decoding is getting cheaper every year. New genetic papers come out every week. Even if you think it isn't that big of a deal at the moment, who knows what will be able to be infer
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by gmadsen 5y ago
drug test? how about dna markers that say you are likely to have a drug problem?
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by gmadsen 5y ago
at 90+, i really don't think its ethical to make someone suffer a miserable slow covid death against their will. The US has a weird relationship with people ending their lives on their own terms.

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