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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I think disappointment is ok here. They just spent 24 Billion and 30 years to discover nothing . So next time they go to the governments of the world and say 'hey give us 24 Billion for the greatest experiment ever' ... what&#x27
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"But what would you propose instead of mathematics?" It's not that we shouldn't use math, but I suggest that when using Math we are predisposed to want clean, simple equations that explain everything.
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Imagine if you spent your whole life supporting some complex idea that is likely now to be BS. And you spread it. I'm interested in the psychological aspects of identity. I suggest a lot of them have not choice but to continue on belie
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"Perhaps but it's far easier to imagine it's the result of knee jerk over classification which is well understood to be a terrible problem through the organs of the body politic." It's the NSA. It's espionage.
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An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed. Executing Brevik is not 'revenge', it is justice. He deserves to be executed. I'm not generally
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Sure ... but I would argue that 'what BLM is' is largely defined by what kind of press create, and what they do, not what they think of themselves. BLM in Toronto, given special status at the Pride parade - blocked the parade and
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It's amazing and shocking that this exists in a modern country. We're distracted by issues like 'Black Lives Matter' - which have some merit but are also potentially divisive ... When it seems there are some pretty low h
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'Progressive Europeans' have Anders Brevik, who mass murdered 90 children, sitting in a hotel room with great food, internet access, video games, porn, girlfriends etc.. And will he eventually be out after is 'non life senten
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Europeans have put a man who mass murdered 90 teenagers in cold blood, in a hotel. He has great meals, internet access, healthcare, video games, internet, porn, he can marry. A music room. Scandinavian justice is a failure. I was at a dinne
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To be fair, nepotism in tech tends to be of the academic type, and most kids who get into Ivy League have worked pretty hard to get there. So, in some ways, it's not that bad a kind of nepotism. Most startups are not hiring actual fami
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Yes - but my point is, you're 'having to re-write' that function is not an existential problem for the product or company. It's just a shitty piece of work. Any individually poorly written but well encapsulated piece o
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"Do the proper research, the nuclear option is much less promising as the proponents claim" I agree that Nuclear Tech today has problems, but we haven't made real investments in 50 years. Do you realize how far airline, rail,
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This comment should not be downvoted. It's a hard realpolitik of web programming.
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I tend to agree. Too many classes can create obfuscation and confusion. I generally don't mind some overlapping function so long as my instinct tells me it makes sense. I used to make classes for everything. Often ahead of time. Now I
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Man we need more articles like this. So nice and clear. I've been working with images for 12 years and I was never sure exactly what 'sharpen' actually did ...
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"More hours worked, more stress, more environmental destruction." We have been working fewer hours for about 30 years. You're stressed because your too busy doing to much stuff.
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" It took nature some hundreds of millions of years to accumulate so much easily usable energy" You're thinking in terms of an epoch.. namely our current one. Energy sources change over time. Oil is just the latest incarnatio
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To be more precise: at the dawn of the industrial revolution, almost 95% of people were doing 'laborious' jobs. 95% of jobs at that time were 'at risk' of being replaced. Most of them were. Not only did we move forward,
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"As someone else pointed out "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell"." Not really. Cancer cells are destructive. Growth in and of itself is not. In some ways - i.e. 'deforestation' - ye
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Heyzeus. On one hand, I guess it's good we have creative, unbounded thinking. Sadly - I'm starting to think that most Engineers have never opened a book outside of Engineering, certainly not any history, ethics, politics or econom
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+ Buying a ticket to ride the bus is 'consumption'. + The gas is 'consumption'. + Buying medical devices, medical equipment, paying for doctors - is all 'consumption'. + Food, clothing, internet, your mobile -
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'Growth' can continue every year from now until infinity. The capacity for human innovation is unlimited.
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"The idea is that people don't need to go work, because robots do all the work, and thus any economic value attached to labor, either real or nominal, converges to zero. " This is entirely theoretical and will never happen. M
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"The US has greater inflation-adjusted GDP growth than most of the world," A) If you normalize for immigration, it's not that good. US imports bodies to grow it's GDP B) It's maybe 'better than most' - but
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"Growth is not a very beneficial situation to be in." Again this is false. There are so many financially illiterate people here on Hackernews. Growth is a great situation to be in. When there is growth - there is money for proje
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"Growth as a result of consumption is destructive. " I'm sorry, but this is completely ridiculous. 'Consumption' is the primary driver of economic growth, and it will always be thus. Without 'consumption'
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I didn't complain about the economy, I complained about illegal immigrants, which create a systematic problem. Also - the greatest wave of automation happened long ago, in the industrial revolution. We managed to find jobs for people t
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UK is mostly similar to the US, but without a gun-rights, anti-abortion or evangelical vote. Old left = unions, basic social services, getting women into education in the workplace - but still ok with religion. New left = environmentalism,
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"The leadership of left-wing parties around the world is utterly disconnected from their voters," I should say 'some of their voters'. There are large swaths of younger, urban voters who are supportive of 'new left&
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"competing with the illegal immigrants doing jobs that "Americans just won't do"." So your answer is to work on farms for $5 an hour with no benefits, no worker protections? Is that satire? You do realize that Ameri

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