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by hugh4 11y ago
It seems to be the shared assumption of the Internet age that somewhere out there is a powerful "them" controlling everything. All the worlds problems are due to "them" acting in their own interests, and everything would
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by hugh4 11y ago
Seems a long way from "the ultimate drone" to me.
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by hugh4 11y ago
You could also see it as a refreshingly honest take. Most people who spend time in the wilderness feel the need to write about how great it was and how much wisdom they think they acquired in the process, because let's face it, if you
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by hugh4 11y ago
True. But if your car can be self-driving then you don't need to park it, and if everyone's car is self driving then traffic becomes less of an issue. Eventually I think public transport becomes obsolete, or else an incredibly exp
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by hugh4 11y ago
The glare of the sun reflected on a building is often more bothersome than the sun itself. I'm not sure whether this plaza will be pleasant or just blinding. Still, worth a try.
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by hugh4 11y ago
But the other rankings are modest side projects for entities whose main business is elsewhere -- eg the Times Higher Education Supplement which probably has the best ranking. It also has the nice point of covering the world instead of just
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by hugh4 11y ago
I guess there's a fifth possibility: that people in the future learn enough about brain function to figure out that it's literally impossible to reboot a dead brain. I'm no neurologist but wouldn't be surprised if there&
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by hugh4 11y ago
Honestly, yes. It does enough to sweep away my romanticised image and replace it with one containing a realistic share of insects and boredom.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't know if there's too much calculus, but there's definitely too much of the wrong type of calculus. Congratulations, you have just learned to integrate. Let us now spend the next three years running through several thou
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by hugh4 11y ago
Like, I'm sure, many other people, I occasionally think about going off to live in a cabin in the wilderness for a while. It's nice that other people are doing it and writing about it, so I don't have to.
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by hugh4 11y ago
It's just weird to think that we drove them all to extinction so quickly and so effectively in a relatively short space of time. Long before we had agriculture or non stick-and-rock technology. How did we do it? A few Homo sapiens wand
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by hugh4 11y ago
I don't think anyone would be surprised that a bank can't necessarily let you withdraw arbitrarily large amounts of cash from any given branch at any time. On the other hand, 1500 pounds doesn't seem like much. The largest am
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by hugh4 11y ago
Okay, let me rephrase. Does this new service provide any value which isn't already being provided by a large number of private organisations?
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by hugh4 11y ago
So let me get this straight. The whole of Eurasia was already inhabited by human-like creatures as early as 650,000 years ago, but homo sapiens didn't leave Africa until about 100,000 years ago?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sounds like typical government modus operandi. Provide a service which is already provided by about eighteen private organisations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_ranking... ) and do it worse.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The nonprofit can also collapse, though. Is it likely to happen? Honestly I have a very hard time imagining the probabilities. Financial collapse versus deliberate destruction versus horrible accident versus actually getting revived? They a
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by hugh4 11y ago
How do you know I didn't get smart?
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is true, but on the other hand the US does have a much higher standard of care. In my experiences with the US hospital system I've been shocked by the way every single town seems to have all the fanciest, newest equipment. A scan
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by hugh4 11y ago
>Many countries have socialized medicine, some of which have single payer, and I've never met a person who experienced a single payer system who didn't think it was the right way to go. Really? You haven't met many people.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well yes, I do buy thousands of dollars at a time, you're right, it doesn't make sense to buy small amounts at a time. By "a few" I mean more like a dozen.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I just buy a few companies I like, hold forever, collect the dividends, avoid paying any management fees except for the fifteen-odd-bucks that I pay for every purchase. Will I make more or less than I would under your strategy? I don't
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by hugh4 11y ago
And yet they're similar in several important ways (e.g. the legal framework around them, the fact that they should both be avoided for similar reasons), hence the fact that we have a word for them. I don't really care what the sub
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well, we've been "mining" the ocean floor for decades, for oil. This, of course, has the advantage of being liquid so it's pretty easy to extract. For other stuff, I have no idea whether it's economical yet and it p
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by hugh4 11y ago
>Lewis-Kraus makes the (sadly still common) mistake of assuming that the reader has an identical understanding of what a "drug" is, and that the category of "drugs" is well-defined and discrete. Are LSD and heroin in
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by hugh4 11y ago
The other problem is that it didn't seem to have anything in particular to say about Jesus or America. (Gotta appeal to the international audience, after all...) So the allegory is pointless.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Public transport will always be inferior to cars in the sense that it goes from somewhere that isn't exactly where you are to somrwhere that isn't exactly where you want to be, at a time that isn't exactly now, in the company
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by hugh4 11y ago
This is a terrible study. Firstly, it relies on two different sources of information about people's hobbies: detailed biographies for Nobel laureates and something called the Sigma Xi society for the general scientific population. I&#x
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well, I'm not sure if you're going to make any money doing it, but it sounds like more fun than slinging JavaScript, so good luck, I guess. I'd be very wary about wading into such a legally fraught area without talking to a l
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's one view of the role of government, I'm not so sure it's the right one. I at least think it should be up for debate.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Sure, it's desirable for them. In the same way that it's desirable to own a Ferrari. However, more broadly speaking, it is neither necessary or desirable for everyone to own a Ferrari. Given that a place in SF costs many times mor

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