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by hodwik 12y ago
I'm thinking that they'll hide the brokerage fees by buying low-cost S&P index funds themselves in "large" chunks then breaking them off for users. The index funds still have brokerage fees tied into the cost of the
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by hodwik 12y ago
Absolutely, technology of some kind will be able to replicate all human domains of intelligence at some distant point in the future, but our own minds will be continually extended (with lower and lower latency, and increasingly reliable int
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by hodwik 12y ago
The human mind, while having less data storage, and being drastically slower for some types of problems, will stay significantly faster than computers at other types of problems. We merely must learn to better teach those brains (matrix upl
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by hodwik 12y ago
If one of the greatest novels by the first Arab to ever win the Nobel Prize for literature doesn't count as an eternal classic then maybe not (Bible and Tao Te Ching not included, of course). Hard to answer when I am left scarcely able
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by hodwik 12y ago
Of course, aren't you?
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by hodwik 12y ago
Yes I do, albeit less often than most people. I think, mostly, because re-listening to a song is not time consuming, so I don't feel particularly guilty for wasting that time. Secondarily, because I am a musician, so I care about the t
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by hodwik 12y ago
I found your line of thinking very interesting -- Perhaps I just don't have the familiarity desire gene at all. In work I actually don't have any drudgery, that's why I picked this job -- I work for a small tech company, and
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by hodwik 12y ago
That stuff is formulaic, absolutely, which is why you don't watch movies for that stuff, right? That stuff just becomes background noise for the contained art: be that art acting, cinematography, art direction, dialogue writing, etc. W
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by hodwik 12y ago
Yes, that's what I am telling you. When I was a kid I would rewatch things hundreds of times; My Neighbor Totoro, Star Wars, Blade Runner, West Side Story but now I don't find any use in it. What are you getting out of There Will
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by hodwik 12y ago
I have, and I always find that by the time I come back to a book a second time around it always feels used up or depleted in some way. It's like trying to re-read an old math textbook after having gone through multiple higher level mat
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I wish I understood the desire to re-read books or re-watch movies. It makes no sense to me at all.
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by hodwik 12y ago
That's only true for lesser authors, of which I am including Hemingway. edit: Lesser does not mean valueless. It means not at the same level. To be lesser than a master doesn't make one worthless, it just means one is not at the h
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Averaging 750, but you can find 600 and less if you know where to look.
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Absolutely. Philadelphia is very walkable/bikeable, and INSANELY cheap. It's an awesome town for art.
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by hodwik 12y ago
New York hasn't been a legitimate art scene for ages. To the down-voters, I'd love to hear you name a significant art movement to specifically come out of NYC in the last 30 years.
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by hodwik 12y ago
This guy would have been better off just saying "Angular 2.0 breaks Angular. The End." They took out {{ }}, $scope, DDO, controllers, jqlite, angular.module, and are moving to ES6 when basically no browsers have even started suppo
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Dear Republican Friends, Don't worry about Obama's community college announcement, it's a great idea. I mean, clearly the education market is far too competitive as is. With average annual tuition rates of $2,700, who can aff