haltingthoughts

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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The point is that things are connected. By physically accessing one machine you bring down not just one machine but the entire network. The importance of physical security just went up by a factor of the number of machines on the network. A
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Fair enough on the passthrough to consumers.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
How is that a terrible definition? What do you propose? What metric do you want? Infant mortality? Life expectancy? Subjective happiness? Unrest? Hunger? Global inequality? All of them are drastically down globally. Within country inequity?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The receiver of the surplus (Walmart vs consumers) is kinda important...
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Why on corporations? Most of the burden is passed on to consumers in the form of more expensive goods.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
You sure that globalism has contributed nothing to the development of poor countries? The number of people in poverty has decreased drastically over the past half century. Do you have any other candidates other than trade liberalization? h
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
You can abstract out how things are setup. If you have an inversion of control framework that creates all your objects and makes sure services get started in the correct order then you don't really care about the exact details.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
OP was expressing frustration at having to deal with explaining third rail topics and the lack of awareness of the asker of how annoying it can be. It doesn't need to be in bad faith to be annoying. To illustrate the problem, I had a v
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Great, now we can sue them. Oh wait, there's that whole sovereign immunity and standing problem
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
That is for a recent tournament. Now computers are just better. But for up to 5-10 years centaurs were better. Eventually human Go players won't be able to improve on computer evaluations, but that is may not be for another few years.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The space of playing go is rather large and humans only need to be better at a small portion of it to improve upon AlphaGo. Humans+Computer was better than just Computer for chess (at long time controls) for nearly 10 years after BigBlue be
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Blow up Sovereign Immunity ffs. If someone gets detained they have no recourse or compensation to mitigate it being used as a threat.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
It's basically not possible to do that without making those things cheaper somehow. Convert the entire US federal budget to UBI and it is around 10k per person. Healthcare alone per person is already 9k. Housing is maybe another 5k. An
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Exactly, there are many laws that result in those being very supply limited.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Housing, Education, Healthcare are supply limited and pretty important to the poor and UBI doesn't fix that.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Tech nearly always reached the rich first. "Computers are type writers for rich snobs who can't type."
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Marginal decisions are still probablistic. A doctor with that success rate is terrible because value of success is lower than the cost of failure. A VC with low hit rate is good when value of success is 100x the cost of failure. VCs are go
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
Why do we not consider code generation/editing APIs/tools as an expected feature of a language instead of an editor?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
I sure hope not.
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
The alternative is not homelessness, starvation, or joblessness. The alternative is the next best option. In most cases the alternative is perfectly fine. Making trade more free makes the alternative better. If it is as trivially costly to
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
How do these apply to what we are considering here?
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by haltingthoughts 9y ago
If an average is unusually high/low it will tend to go back to the mean after time. In the stock market this means that looking over a short timespan one will see large variance in the returns but over a long timespan (30+ years) the r