jonkho

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by jonkho 7y ago
Then don’t monetize. No one is coercing anyone to do anything they themselves don’t wish to. Those creators that don’t want to monetize their own labor...can still choose to not monetize. There is no coercion here.
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by jonkho 8y ago
Leverage still outperforms fixed interest payments. Rising home prices compound on previous years’ appreciation. Your leverage rides on the back of this compounding. In contrast, your interest payments are fixed on the value of the dollars
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by jonkho 10y ago
The easy answer is this: these tests exist. Since no computer put to the turing test has passed, simply look up the test and observe how humans have induced the computer to fail. In practice, a good class of tests to use is a test that must
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by jonkho 10y ago
Exactly. The computer will fail such a test where such tests can only be passed if and only if the agent under test experiences subjective states. Since humans can always craft this class of tests, and the computer cannot pass it, it will
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by jonkho 10y ago
This means that the semantics of the language is rooted in subjective states. Restated, this means humans "understand" language because of humans' emotions. Computers may "understand" language too, but it surely wi
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by jonkho 10y ago
I second this. To further illustrate that semantics is far more than syntax and that emotions are an inseparable part of understanding language, do the following experiment: take any word or concept and look up its definition in a dictiona
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by jonkho 11y ago
Two decades of exporting the US dollar for low-cost Chinese goods. Now the Chinese has fistfuls of US 'paper coupons' and have to redeem them somewhere (US real estate). US home prices go up for everyone. It's tit for tat.
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by jonkho 12y ago
I also think Marionette is awesome and enforces modularity. The author mentions, "View A handling events from View B and vice-versa" which makes me think that he's may not be following the adage of "signal up/invok
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by jonkho 12y ago
This is a legit. The concept comes down to if you know the diff of your models/collections, do you really need to do all the work that React does with diff-ing the virtual DOM to know what to render? If you know the diffs of the mode
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by jonkho 15y ago
The flaw in your argument is that currency is subjected to demand pressures as well. How so? When demand for housing, food, electronics is high, then it automatically implies demand for currency is low. That is another way of saying peopl