idanoeman

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by idanoeman 10y ago
If you have to ask this question, I'd say you're either not paying attention or being willfully ignorant of the tightrope-walking act men have to perform these days to not get lynched by internet mobs.
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by idanoeman 10y ago
Prove what point? Take off your retrospective determinism glasses for a second and note that for any alien species, there's probably going to be a few religions which have double-digits of the population. These religions started from
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by idanoeman 10y ago
Basic income reduces the supply of labor because it reduces the employee's need for income. Basic income increases the velocity of money, increasing the demand for labor. In a competitive market this should cause labor prices to rise
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by idanoeman 10y ago
Fine - let them give the US cheap shit. They're subsidizing American consumers. By the way, the sentence you quoted was rhetorical - I don't actually believe that doing all manufacturing in America is actually productive, profit
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by idanoeman 10y ago
IIRC the company can prove ahead of time that IQ is related to job performance, and then they are allowed to use IQ as a way to select candidates.
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by idanoeman 10y ago
But people don't only care about rank in wealth. I think you're focusing too much on that one aspect. A rising tide lifting all boats has a lot more impact to how nice it is to live in the world than a short-term shuffling of
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by idanoeman 10y ago
Not if that set of humanity's interests extend to the rest of humanity. A politician elected by a country consisting of purely rational altruists should be very interested in global trade, because it serves the interests of his consti
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by idanoeman 10y ago
If exporting jobs is inefficient, let people try to do it and fail - of course they will get outcompeted by the people who aren't exporting jobs, right? Your comment gives an extremely weak argument in favor of regulation - paraphrased
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by idanoeman 10y ago
Yep. And both of those correlations have plausible causations in both directions. * Higher income -> less likelihood of lead poisoning -> higher intelligence * Higher intelligence -> more success in job market -> higher income
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Absolutely. In "The Awkward Squad," SPJ says "Haskell is the finest imperative programming language in the world," not entirely tongue-in-cheek. :)
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Fair enough, although that has the unintended side-effect of very slightly enriching people without your scruples. Slight tangent - this is a variant of the Trolley Problem. I think it is sometimes morally good to do something slightly mor
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Agreed, except that the marginal value of money is exponentially higher for the poorest people in the world. For example, the Against Malaria foundation can save a life for approximately $2838 [1] pre-tax dollars. The people closest to you
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Logarithmic growth would literally be sub-linear growth. Historically countries growth looks something like a piecewise-linear growth in a log-log graph.
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Sure, but a piecewise-linear function on a log-log graph is still qualitatively "exponential growth", with a rate which changes over time.
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Why would growth be "logarithmic"? Growth is exponential, with rates that yes, probably decrease over time. It's not logarithmic.
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Yes, which makes sense physically. If the earth's rotation slowed by a constant velocity, in order to damp that motion the mirrors would have to displace themselves in the opposite velocity. Of course, there's no room for them t
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by idanoeman 11y ago
*Polynomially more objects. The volume of a constant-thickness spherical shell is O(r^2).
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by idanoeman 11y ago
It's only unsustainable if the underlying assets don't allow for 7% return in the long run. It's possible capital is scarce relative to the opportunities for investment such that 7% real returns are the norm. In that case,
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Project Euler / TopCoder help far more with the interviews than Hackathons. Hackathons are 100% useless for training for $BIGCORP interviews.
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by idanoeman 11y ago
Intelligence is selected for in humans. Therefore any individual gene that significantly boosts intelligence should be expected to have already spread through the population, or has a trade-off that reduces reproductive fitness . The same
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by idanoeman 11y ago
ADP = Reinforcement Learning. This got some attention lately when some people at google wrote a neural-network based RL system to play Atari games. https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf