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by imgabe 4y ago
The rule of headlines: if there’s a question, the answer is no.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I wonder if there are perhaps "attractors" (like chaotic attractors) in Spotify's recommendation algorithm. Like some sequence where it plays song A and that recommends song B which recommends song C which recommends song A a
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by imgabe 4y ago
This presumes that all income belongs to the government by default, and not being taxed is some special favor. That’s backwards, all income belongs to the people who earn it by default. We agree to use a portion for the common good to fund
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by imgabe 4y ago
It is essentially a checksum for transactions. You record where money came from and where it went to. All those entries should balance out to zero if you have recorded them correctly. If you haven't, you can detect an error because you
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by imgabe 4y ago
You could ask the same thing about alcohol, or gambling. But people have been doing these things since before there were industries for them, so there’s apparently something besides marketing that causes humans to want those things. The bet
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by imgabe 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what did you use to conduct a nationwide search where you can set price / sf parameters? Is there a tool that can do that, or did you piece together data from multiple sources? I've heard most of the commercial r
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by imgabe 4y ago
I was a sub-consultant on a few projects for Phillip Morris, the tobacco company. The primary consultant was an architect. He ran his own firm and explained that where he worked before he went out on his own, PM was a client and they basica
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by imgabe 4y ago
In cities with a lot of traffic GPS is useful even for routine trips because it will help route you around traffic jams.
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by imgabe 4y ago
That's not what I was talking about. I was responding to the person who implied that self-driving cars need to be completely error-free, which is an unattainable standard, and far beyond what human drivers are capable of. There will st
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by imgabe 4y ago
I’m not the one hallucinating that AI acts with deliberate malicious intent. Maybe you should get that checked out.
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by imgabe 4y ago
So the AI driver knowingly, deliberately decides to murder children?
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by imgabe 4y ago
There are no such things as human rights. You will never get anywhere wagging your finger at people. > I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own f
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by imgabe 4y ago
Different computers, different internet connections, even in completely different parts of the world. Maybe Google just has a vendetta against me.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Honestly, no idea. People keep suggesting Google, so it must work for some people. But every time I try it, different computers, different locations, no matter what, it’s so laggy it’s unusable.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Google Meet has never worked for me. Not once. Across many browsers, OSes whatever. It simply does not work. MS teams I think worked once. Skype is ok. Zoom works every time. Want people to use something else? Make a thing that works. Edit:
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Nub City': Vernon, Florida's Decade-Long Insurance Scam (2015)(mentalfloss.com)
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by imgabe 4y ago
I haven't done a Phd, but I always think of Paul Graham saying "If you think something's supposed to hurt, you won't notice if you're doing it wrong"
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by imgabe 4y ago
Hmm, has there been one single failure of a human driver hitting a child?
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by imgabe 4y ago
With goats and bees you could be living in the land of milk and honey.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Real estate is not the medium of exchange. And the answer there is to build more real estate and have high taxes on any property that isn't a primary residence. There's "rich people" buying houses, which are investment f
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by imgabe 4y ago
It is not stuck. The billionaires are not hoarding all the dollars. They have stock in their companies, which is worth varying amounts of dollars. Them owning stock does not deprive you of any dollars.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I don't think anyone is under the impression that the country of Japan is obligated to do what some random Internet commenter thinks. People are allowed to have opinions that something would be a good course of action or not. That&#x27
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by imgabe 4y ago
Ahh, I see you aren’t married.
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by imgabe 4y ago
It literally doesn't though. Maybe they are in the same direction, but there's a rather large difference in degree. That's like saying getting a paper cut on your finger is just like having your arm chopped off. There's
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by imgabe 4y ago
Man, some people will really go out of their way to take things personally and invent things to feel offended about. Errors should certainly be as helpful and clear as possible, but no the developers are not trying to directly attack you sp
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by imgabe 4y ago
Loans still have to be paid back at some point. It’s true that sometimes banks are happy to let the billionaires have the loans for their whole lives and get paid back out of their estate when they die. But, when you borrow against a securi
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by imgabe 4y ago
For one thing, as another comment mentioned, he didn’t actually get $800M because that was contingent on hitting various price targets that didn’t happen. For another, it’s not like it’s just cash sitting in a checking account. It would be
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by imgabe 4y ago
> higher than average injury rates We really need some kind of standard for how to present statistics in the news so that it’s not misleading. If you take a bunch of numbers and average them together some will be higher than the average
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by imgabe 4y ago
Yes, it would be really nice if every teacher could be Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society or Joe Clark from Lean On Me but that just isn't the case and it isn't ever going to be the case. Work is work and you can choose to e
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by imgabe 4y ago
> create a place where people want to work and work hard towards goals they see as meaningful. If people don't see personal growth and a path to bettering their life or others' through work - what is the purpose of sacrifice a

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