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by johngalt 10y ago
The only thing we got wrong. We expected the machines that knew everything about us to be ours. Not someone elses.
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by johngalt 10y ago
You vastly underestimate the technology differences between 500 b.c. and 1600ad. The printing press for example. Windmills/waterwheels for another. Did the automation of grain mills result in mass unemployability? > office and servi
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by johngalt 10y ago
Various forms of next generation nuclear would meet that requirement right? People are certainly writing papers on building better nuclear power plants. Doesn't even have to be something exotic like fusion.
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by johngalt 10y ago
How many programmers were put out of work when compilers became common?
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by johngalt 10y ago
> some people repeat as if it is as inevitable as a law of nature. It's just happened every other time something like this has happened. For tens of thousands of years. > wasteland/slums in the next 50 years or so Standar
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by johngalt 10y ago
Koei has had no problem making games set in the three kingdoms period. Romance of the three kingdoms is a great series. So is Dynasty warriors.
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by johngalt 10y ago
If this were some ancient 20+ year old proprietary system that no one wanted to touch, I might buy it. But a system built in 2012 can't provide a report on total cash seized? Honestly?
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by johngalt 10y ago
Someone could also disagree with me because they are correct and I am in error. They may have knowledge or perspective that I lack. My first step is to try and find something they know that I don't before crafting persuasive arguments.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Never buy the first batch of anything.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Flat orgs are an overreaction to the traditional top heavy big corp structures. Where each staff member is reporting to multiple unsynchronized management chains. Nothing is more frustrating that having to be caught in the middle of three m
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by johngalt 10y ago
"Inventing new things" usually is a series of incremental changes. The Wrights didn't just sit down and build an aircraft. They built large kites, then unmanned gliders, then manned gliders, then added power.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Of course. Something like that would be a compatibility and testing nightmare. Users aren't going to be content dealing with PC style driver issues with a mobile device. And to gain what? The ability to upgrade or customize a phone? Wh
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by johngalt 10y ago
Transportation is the big one. The biggest wasters you'll find in most peoples budgets are cars. The author put everything into a van. Go the opposite direction. Pull every dollar you can away from your car. Have no car if you can get
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by johngalt 10y ago
I guess what I don't understand is why not use one of the ready made builds already out there? Something like a class B RV, or truck camper?
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by johngalt 10y ago
Mechanically a drivetrain has no means of differentiating between a tire that is slipping vs a tire at that's on the outside of a turn. A 4wd car with three open differentials will absolutely send all of the engine power to one slippin
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by johngalt 10y ago
Everyone makes that mistake once. It is an understated problem in building fault tolerant storage arrays. We buy a batch of 20 drives all at the same time, and they are all the same manufacturer, model, size etc... Possibly even from the sa
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by johngalt 10y ago
I want to say that there were fish traps that followed similar designs. Curving walls that led the fish into tidal pools that they couldn't escape when the tide went out.
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by johngalt 10y ago
When you have a NHS you are agreeing on a single standard of care as a nation. The problem that the author illustrates is that it is difficult to have an honest dollars and cents conversation about what that standard of care should be. It c
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by johngalt 10y ago
You don't stay sharp across the entire discipline, that's the trade off. Inherently a generalist will always be behind a specialist. As someone in a similar spot. I've found that two practices keep me effective. 1. Stay on
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by johngalt 10y ago
You're conflating technology that is available today with challenges which occur only after we have AGI. When those are different problems with different time horizons. Post AGI. Obviously robots do everything. Post AGI it is the techn
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by johngalt 10y ago
It is true that in some cases there are short term negatives for a small group of people within a specific trade. In exchange there are large benefits to society as a whole. Large enough to outweigh even the small groups inconvenience. I.E.
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by johngalt 10y ago
The video is a well articulated argument, but there are two large gaps in reasoning that are common with this line of thought. Grey ignores the idea that technology also allows for normal people to do jobs that used to require highly skille
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by johngalt 10y ago
Technology has been reducing the need for human labor since the invention of the plow. And yet we aren't all unemployed hunter-gatherers. You could argue that 'this time it's different', but you have to at least acknowle
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by johngalt 10y ago
I don't agree with the premise. But if you do believe that the future of programming will be commoditized workers making peanuts, then you would want to position yourself ahead of that curve. Be the guy who is putting together teams of
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by johngalt 10y ago
This seems like the urban version of road hierarchy. With the local roads being more like a large shared driveway. Similar to how cul-de-sacs are used in suburban settings. The place to spend the money on improvements would be the roads out
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by johngalt 10y ago
Hang gliders are piloted in a similar fashion.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Reminded me of "How to Quit Smoking". Interesting take on willpower. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/13
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by johngalt 10y ago
The thing about self driving cars is that every accident will have a wealth of information in regards to how it occurred and the decision making that went into it. Once we understand and correct the problem every subsequent car will be safe
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by johngalt 10y ago
This is a good example of why you should treat interviews as a two way street. Don't just worry about convincing them that you are the right candidate. You should also try to determine if they are the right employer.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Interchanges have a beauty of their own. Maybe just to an engineerish person. Tons of steel reinforced concrete arching through the air in smooth curves. Grade separated to allow the constant flow of traffic zipping through without stopping

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