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by gnaritas 9y ago
False, my views are in line with the evidence. Beyond that, is the belief that something is impossible that is nearly always religious, not the one backed by evidence that says no, those things are already happening.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No one is oblivious, you simply fail to understand the nature of automation. Yes, humans will be making those robots better, but it'll only be a handful of humans, not the millions displaced by the robots. Everyone displaced by a rob
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That makes no logical sense. UBI is a minimum wage, there's no need for another.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
They're wrong, those problem can be solved simply by paying out the UBI more often in smaller amounts like a paycheck. Means testing leads to expensive bureaucracies and wasted money. UBI is meant to end that, not supplement it.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
UBI that isn't enough to live on isn't UBI; the point of UBI is to remove the "need" to work at all by providing a minimum level of income that's enough to survive on.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
And yet Lisp, the language that can abstract anything, still has design patterns because there's no such thing as a language without patterns that are useful to solve common problems.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Functional languages have a different set of patterns.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Implementation-recipe design patterns only need to exist (or, rather, only need to be part of the active, day-to-day awareness of more than a small number of programmers per language) when the target language does not support implement
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That is true, some of "those" particular patterns work around language deficiencies, however OP misunderstand and think that means all patterns do that, they don't.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Every time you pass a "naked" lambda somewhere, you're potentially missing the opportunity to have a macro there do that for you. True but equally sad that you must use Lisp to hide ugly Lisp because naked lambda's
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yegge critiquing OO for verbosity, that's a hoot; talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
He's talking about the original design patterns book which is a book of OO patterns, it's hardly surprising that many OO patterns are either invisible or simpler in a functional language, functional languages have different design
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Are Design Patterns really so out of fashion with the youth of today that nobody here mentions Design Patterns as their answer? Apparently so; sad.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Design patterns exist because common solutions to problems exist, not because OO has serious problems. I understand both paradigms and Lisp is hardly free of design patterns. Every time you pass a lambda to a higher order function you&#x2
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck. Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Design Patterns by the Gang of Four. Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
See, you get it. Yes, there will always be some human jobs, but not remotely enough to have a wage labor based economy built on. We call them starving artists already, there's no demand for a hundred million more artists. Robots wil
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by gnaritas 9y ago
That's the point of UBI in most people's minds, it's a better way to redistribute wealth and once in place should be the only way needed. Of what purpose is a food stamp program when we can simply make sure the UBI is enough
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Virtually everything you said "only a human can" is a religious belief. Robots will be able to write novels and make movies and craft plays and solve medical crisis (all of these are being done already in simplistic forms). Bitco
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by gnaritas 9y ago
You're right about medical, but the whole point of UBI is to provide a floor upon which anyone can live without the expensive bureaucracy of qualifying them. It's supposed to replace the welfare state with something more efficient
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by gnaritas 9y ago
The past is not prologue, thinking machines have never happened before in the past, so it's rather irrelevant that past automation for simple manual labor type things just shifted humans to new jobs. You're really not thinking cle
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by gnaritas 9y ago
The whole industry is based on investors not understanding survivor bias and quite often traders not understanding hindsight bias.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Boo, he basically got lucky twice, once on Brexit and once on Trump's election; he'll raise a bunch of money for his fund, lose much of it and be out of business in a few years when his model fails because luck isn't a strate
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, murder is a rare human behavior practiced by a tiny tiny minority of people and is considered quite abnormal. Normal human behavior is to not murder others. Normal is a synonym for typical, does the typical person you know go around com
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> and Statists Your bias is strong, it's far more likely you're the one with misunderstandings than the OP. The unbiased don't go around calling people statists; nation states are the norm in the world, they're proper
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Just get out of startups and into more established companies, 9-5 not only exists, it's the norm. It's not a dirty little secret, you're just in a self imposed workaholic bubble. If you're consistently working 12 hour
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Star Trek doesn't so much predict as it does inspire. We keep getting Trekky things in the real world because people want to make Trekky things; there's much work going on right now on tricorders, more directly inspired Trek tech
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by gnaritas 9y ago
You're asking all the wrong questions. HFT is just trading really fast, we live in a free country, some people want to trade really fast because they've found it profitable to take on the risk of doing so, it doesn't matter
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Market efficiency means everyone gets cheaper trades with less slippage and less money going to middle men. All of society benefits from market efficiency. If you have a 401k or any stocks of any kind, you benefit from a more efficient mar
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Cameras won't add more data as they'll simply discourage people from admitting anything or even going to a doctor. I would not allow my doctor to film me, nor would I imagine most sensible and normal people who have an ordinary s
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> once per second, for instance. That won't change anything, he who trades first still wins, HFT will still exist.

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