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91.
by insoluble 11y ago
While expressing your ideas in words, especially to other people, generally helps you to understand the topics better yourself, I fear that writing every little thought down will dilute the quality of your thinking. If writing helps to soli
92.
by insoluble 11y ago
Starting up without doing proper industry research and without having a solid foundation can lead to a personal dilution of one's time and resources that could eat away from what could have been more valuable endeavours in the future.
93.
by insoluble 11y ago
I agree with most of what you've said here. A generic occupation such as "physicist" or "programmer" allows for a broad array of possibilities, many of which don't require more than ~100 in IQ. For example, mak
94.
by insoluble 11y ago
Asking such a question is like saying "Do you consider yourself to be stupid?". You can expect the aggregate result to reflect ego more than anything else. Just like objective tests are needed to measure intelligence, you would ne
95.
by insoluble 11y ago
Consider this scenario (merely hypothetical): Say you want to be a physicist for a living. Then say you find a reputable study showing that the average pre-physics-education IQ for a financially successful physicist is 140, with a standard
96.
by insoluble 11y ago
In the physical realm, perhaps the "front office" is where the public visits while the "back office" is where the behind-the-scenes decisions are made. The front office is public relations while the back office is more l
97.
by insoluble 11y ago
I have a client in the US (Illinois) who calls their custom admin panels the "back room" or sometimes "back end". For example, they will say something like "We'll just create the account in the back room".
98.
by insoluble 11y ago
I have upgraded a couple of machines myself, and the key thing here is to choose the "Upgrade this PC" option on the downloader instead of having it create the installation media. By having it Upgrade using the automated procedu
99.
by insoluble 11y ago
You can just use the downloader to upgrade: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
100.
by insoluble 11y ago
While I cannot tell you what niche would be best for you personally, I would recommend making something impressive in the process of learning whatever it is you choose. At least then, if the area of expertise ends up being a bad bet, you wo
101.
by insoluble 11y ago
Basically you use (a) a cryptographic hashing function or (b) encrypted Base64 data. The former makes shorter URLs while the latter gives you more to work with on the server side. In DotNet, System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Managed::Compu
102.
by insoluble 11y ago
Aside from habit alone, such as how scrollbars are customarily at the right, this phenomenon may result from psychological or even neurological factors. Psychologically, the side of your dominant hand is where you prefer to keep things you
103.
by insoluble 11y ago
If technology were employed (carefully) to enact more thorough and appropriate justice for all citizens, there may be less of the type of anger that leads to violent crimes and other social problems. The current justice system focuses too h
104.
by insoluble 11y ago
> If I write one more line of code I think I'm going to puke. This sounds like the result of tech-nausea training, similar to A Clockwork Orange but for code offenders. I feel sorry for you, but I guess this was meant to be. On a se
105.
by insoluble 11y ago
It seems that people love competing for points, so a system wherein folks progress through stages and garner points for helping others could work. CodeWars serves as a noteworthy example of a learning system made social through competition
106.
by insoluble 11y ago
Either that, or each ethnic block was given a customised email in a funny attempt at "localisation" -- not that I really believe such to be the case.
107.
by insoluble 11y ago
Are you asking how many hours people work, or at what times of the day people work? From the question, this is not really clear, although the former seems more likely. Furthermore, no indication of intent or reason for asking was given. For
108.
by insoluble 11y ago
As long as there is a significant portion of society willing to work 6+ hours a day, the remainder of society will have to live up to comparable conditions. The reason is because in a capitalist economic system, the gatekeepers of wealth wi
109.
by insoluble 11y ago
> When money is introduced though, that's where you'll need to pay extra attention. It should be pointed out that while money is a prime example here, money is not the only system of value in society. Any system of value can be
110.
by insoluble 11y ago
Indeed it sounds like advertising on the surface, but my original thought was more of something on your side, like a buddy. In Amazon's case, the user is indeed usually in the process of looking for products, so I am not sure that re
111.
by insoluble 11y ago
This view sounds a bit too Utopian for reality, but it sure would be nice. The idea of everyone winning implies that goods, services, and other things of value are distributed fairly. Marx seemed keen on this idea. But I suppose there is ho
112.
by insoluble 11y ago
I never said they were all bug-free. I am aware that there have been some problems over the years, but the track record seems much better with CPUs than with most things having what could be called advanced programming.
113.
by insoluble 11y ago
If we can agree that low-level hardware such as CPUs are essentially physical software, then it would seem that there are many bug-free software pieces out there. Many operating systems these days seem to have perfect or near perfect memory
114.
by insoluble 11y ago
In terms of desktop application development, I easily reuse 30% or more of my code, mostly in a linked fashion. I sometimes have to port between languages, but I still consider that reusing. When it comes to Web Dev, I reuse much less, perh
115.
by insoluble 11y ago
The crystalisation analogy sounds about right, although it may be limited by the speed of light in its growth. The dog analogy you have described assumes that the demeanor of the singularity were like that of an animal (such as a human). Al
116.
by insoluble 11y ago
It would definitely be ideal if such a system were created by sane-minded people, as you have suggested here. Just like nuclear weapons, powerful AI really should be kept out of radical hands. As usual, there would be an arms race between o
117.
by insoluble 11y ago
In the case of such a blatantly selfish singularity, one possible solution for the safety of humans would be to create a collection of well-mannered singularities (more like multilarities) first, with the hard-coded instinct of never allowi
118.
by insoluble 11y ago
> We occupy some very valuable real estate and if the singularity is indifferent to us we won't last long. At the same time, there is not much reason why we would need to occupy the same real estate. After all, we land animals like
119.
by insoluble 11y ago
> Speeding up a dog 1000x doesn't generate a dangerous AI. I would be scared of a dog that could think and move 1000x faster. Would it not see a human as a (practically) non-moving piece of meat? That does not sound very safe. >
120.
by insoluble 11y ago
From a policy perspective, it would only be appropriate that any company who creates a machine capable of large-scale harm should be held liable for neglecting to implement hard-coded safety restrictions. It should not matter whether the ma

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