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by guylhem 14y ago
Let's see why : - "curing cancer" has been announced many times, and until now every proposed therapy has had at best limited success - likewise, "creating ai" has been in the news time to time. We seem to be always on the verge of true ai
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's funny we have quite similar experiences but you picked up dvorak instead of qwerty - Whatever floats your boat they say :-) I did briefly consider Dvorak but I wanted a full support and it wasn't there (ex: bios, bootloader ; for gener
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by guylhem 14y ago
Hardware is the problem is you want the figures on your keys to match what they do. (I love such "tiny" details). In the past I did try various kind of stickers, since it was hard to find my preferred qwerty layout (canadien normalise), but
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by guylhem 14y ago
Based on my personal experience, that's very true. A PhD is a highly valuable credential - it proves you can create knowledge. It's more a way to look at things that a certification.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Just what we need - yet another standard! Maybe it will be marginally better (like all the others attemps before - gogole around to see the approaches and results) - but still not enough to fully replace good old qwerty. Dvorak, with a larg
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by guylhem 14y ago
The question is incomplete ("contributing something positive or at least not actively doing harm"). Please define "good". To me, good is where you find something interesting and worth doing. Financial speculation makes the market more liqui
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by guylhem 14y ago
Yes, and an obvious limit to the original article is that earth is only worth preserving for the human race until we have found interesting alternatives. If there are habitable other worlds within reach or ways to terraform planets, why b
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by guylhem 14y ago
Making sure that nothing bad happens under your watch may not be such a bad thing in the military. Most of the critiques in this tread sound like this comment by Davidson about the french change of leadership in Vietnam: On arrival, Navarr
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by guylhem 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but after reading the article apparently it's all fine and dandy if you have a cracked PS3, but if you have a useless PS3 with the latest official firmware and want to put it to a better use (XMBC, linux, whatever)
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's a sad thing - but it seems that you're right :-( Even a textbook extract from Krugman saying the very same thing (!!) can't help if the leftist had already decided which facts he will deign considering.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Did you actually read the PDF before posting this comment ? Even Krugman can't deny reality. The medallion scheme of NYC is a bad thing for everyone - except the few happy medallion holders.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Back then, it made sense. With the current technology, information goods don't. When we invent say the matter duplicator, things will change again. The core statement remains.
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm sorry to say that, but I think you totally misunderstood the message. You can not fix the most important idea of the book, coming with a lenghty tirade, if you cut half of it. You think about and describe bullying. The ideas in the book
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by guylhem 14y ago
Not that naive- I am totally willing to believe a small minority of the laws indeed do that, which is why I quickly edited my initial reply to mention that : - some of the laws were on the books so that politicians can get reelected. - and
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by guylhem 14y ago
The ideology can be summed up to refusing to live at someone else expanse, and refusing that people life at your expanse. It goes both ways, and I need no one to back me up. I am happy with my ideology, and I won't be coerced into anything
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by guylhem 14y ago
You should read Atlas Shrugged instead of bashing it. Who knows, you may learn one thing or two - like the basic principle of refusing to live at the expanse of someone - and to let no one live at one's expanse in return. > Laws don’t
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by guylhem 14y ago
Tell that to the guy who invented bitcoin, etc. Programming gives you an almost infinite leverage. Now if you attack a problem that doesn't interest you, maybe the problem is not in programming but in the topic you chose.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Yes. And 60. And 70. And any other number. [EDIT to clarify] Just think about the new languages or paradigm we may have. I dream of the google glasses - what will we have then? So, my answer is yes - for both type A and B. And if you don't
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by guylhem 14y ago
Maybe he loves the place he lives in, he's quite happy doing the kind of work he does, and thus want to stay instead of moving to another place. The rat race is not for everyone.
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by guylhem 14y ago
That's not exactly the idea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect Maybe a full society is getting used to the tests, or maybe the tests are biased. Even with you example (considering repetitive test at the same time on 2 person f
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by guylhem 14y ago
Think about different subsystem working together. They might operate better if they are of similar proportions.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Serendipity - just the other day I was replying to a comment about education and IQ and explained I didn't believed in ethnic differences of IQ, but also in IQ altogether - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4680279 At least looking for
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by guylhem 14y ago
[temporary monopolies exist to preserve innovation - but let's leave that issue aside] It might be possible that the overhead will vanish if universal healthcare is implemented. It seems unlikely to me, but a good part of the argument for u
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by guylhem 14y ago
You are quite coherent and this is IMHO the only case where healthcare could be considered an investment - so that it doesn't prevent people from starting a business. Not sure it is enough by itself to support a universal healthcare ideal,
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'd call that 'maintenance cost'. It is not an investment - in the sense of bringing more money in the future.
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by guylhem 14y ago
The government can not "compete" with the free market - because it foots the bill with tax money. One or more non-profits OTOH? For sure I would agree - and if they can get leverage and get preferential rates, good for them.
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm not australian so I can't say for sure what's happening down there, but the situation seems very much like France. In Europe, and especially in France, many people share the belief that immigration is causing problems to the healthcare
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by guylhem 14y ago
End result : the method may not have been "nice", but achieved measurable results (GDP per capita, etc).
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by guylhem 14y ago
You seem biased. He offered a valid argument.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Alternative suggestion : name it after anything you have the matching .com domain as long it is not offensive.

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