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He explored in detail his theory of five different kinds of bullshit jobs and supplied some very memorable anecdotes. He had some analysis of economic trends coinciding. For example, 40% of the workforce in the 1940s was in farming, now it
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Do you want to live in a land of garbage? If no one wanted to pick up garbage at the current wage being paid, there are options: a) offer more for the wages b) reorganize trash collection, such as neighborhood dumpsters or taking the trash
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There is a world of difference between taking away benefits from someone convicted of a crime and saying that "such and such people qualify for assistance if they fill out forms x,y,z and do a,b,c." It would be analogous to saying
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If you trace the history of that capital to a violent past, such as slave owners or government eviction of natives or violent suppression of people's rights or unfair distribution of wealth by the government or redlining, ... is it sti
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People already remove the universal right to vote for felons so what would the difference be here? One can always talk about universal and then not actually do it.
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Universal Dividend, the idea being that we all are investors in the world around us, particularly in the act of creating the next generation and staying alive to be the workers, consumers, etc. So everyone gets a cut of the general profits.
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Let's assume the Maths is all we care about. One way to clear it up is to decide what we would need to give to a computer to figure out the results. Let's assume the computer can solve any equation we give it. Bohmian Mechanics: G
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That is what Bell's work showed is not possible. The inequality he derived assumes the values already exist and then proves that a certain inequality for the predictions must be satisfied. This is without specifying the actual theory,
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It sounded like they cut out a lot of the BS from the job and these are presumably jobs that are productive. I would be curious how this could possibly play out in jobs that are mostly BS as described by David Graeber's recent book. I
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The standard stuff of the Copenhagen interpretation is derivable from Bohmian mechanics, to the extent that the collapse in Copenhagen is sufficiently well-specified. This obviously prevents finding experimental disagreements. One thing tha
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From the book "real computing made real" by Acton, the suggestion is to first view (not always!) the quadratic as x^2 + 2bx + c, so its roots are -b +/- sqrt(b^2 - c). The product of the roots is c and therefore we can compu
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It would be nice to have a panic code that one could type in, making it look unlocked, hiding apps a user could mark as secret, and optionally sending a security/tracking alert. This could also thwart a cracking device by making it loo
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Recommend Guesstimation by Weinstein and Adams as the first topic to master. Getting comfortable with numbers and their sizes will make everything else easier. Also, getting in the habit of doing rough explorations is an essential skill in
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That's correct (a later edition than the pdf given the date). It is a beautiful book that blends the practical and abstract together to really give a solid foundation in both linear algebra and multivariable calculus topics. If someone
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The example with the message could just be msg('hello everyone').to( list).except('John').send().then... where send() returns a promise. That is, the message creates an object that is getting modified until it hits the s
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I added the floor loop to the code and made a console based webpage for it: http://jostylr.com/cleverdumb.html Kind of hackish, but you can open it up in a browser and look at the console for the run times. Basically, the c
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Just looking at the abstract, does anyone know what the typical values for that questionnaire of GSRS-IBS would be? Is it a mean of near 0? I would want to see a control group, different notion than a placebo, which has no self-reported pro
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Take as an example the standard null hypothesis of the means of two groups being the same. This is a very concrete condition that is amenable to having predictions made from it. But now let's say that you assume they are different. Wel
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> The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true. No, the p-value is the probability that the given data generated is as far away or farther by random chance given the null hypothesis is true. That is to say, we assume t
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Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams Humorous, comprehensive, and, sadly, still as needed today as it was 20 years ago.
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The author also has a series of different ideas on how to pay for it without raising income taxes. I found that more interesting than this, but I already fully support and believe in the capacity for amazing stuff from people who are set fr
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Here is a composting attempt for dealing with the dead (grain of salt needed: TED talk ahead) https://www.ted.com/talks/katrina_spade_when_i_die_recompose...
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There are two distinct paths to a rebuttal here. 1. Let's assume the unitary dynamics is completely sufficient for constructing a theory. In such a theory the outcomes that our life tells us happens does not happen in the same sense th
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Using just the wave function alone is similar to saying that in specifying the computation sin(x) where x = 3, you do not need to say x=3 because the value of sin(3) is part of sin(x) so why do we need to talk about sin(3) by itself? Of co
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As a proponent of de Broglie-Bohm theory, or pilot wave theory, (particles have definite positions and are being guided by the wave function of QM), I am pleased to hear of the book and enjoyed the review. The reviewer was actually on my th
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Amazon should do a sampling of inventory and check whether they pass or not. And it may happen to be that blocking the visual with the counterfeits also blocks the invisible wavelengths. Or it may not. There should be some statistical evide
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I like scrutiny: http://peacockmedia.software/mac/scrutiny/ It is a mac desktop app It will do the most generic checking (dead links, spelling, site maps, ...) leaving the more nuanced for either a person or a cus
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Yes, you can pre-order it. I have. They will charge you right away and then you will probably wait months, maybe years, until they are ready to release it. Given how amazing it seems, it was worth it to me to take this gamble for $100. Unli
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You can take a look at some forum posts to get a sense of where they are at: https://forum.waytools.com/t/tech-update-la-la-state-drill-d... They keep tweaking and iterating and keep saying another couple of months.
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Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but

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