jpapon

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by jpapon 9y ago
> As far as SS goes, I'd be happy to see it fail I wouldn't. If SS fails, there will be riots, if not armed uprisings in the streets.
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by jpapon 9y ago
>> Nobody can assess the entire game tree, so the fact that it is theoretically knowable isn't actually relevant in a game. That's not the point though. The point is that you only need to consider current state when consider
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by jpapon 9y ago
It's not that there is unburnt fuel in your exhaust - unburnt fuel, while a pollutant, is not the problem. The issue is that higher temperature combustion, while more efficient, produces much more NOx. So you get more energy per unit f
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by jpapon 10y ago
Yes, and think how unfair it is to students at universities in other countries that they don't get .edu addresses. Why should the US have this monopoly?
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by jpapon 11y ago
It's kind of a tricky legal situation. If they're European citizens, can you really stop them from coming back from Syria? What if they claim they didn't do anything illegal there? People don't lose their rights just bec
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by jpapon 11y ago
Germany also has very generous vacation, 12 months of paternity/maternity leave, etc... and their economy is doing just fine. I guarantee if you asked Americans if they would trade their 2.5% (or whatever) economic growth for Germany&#
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by jpapon 11y ago
This is obviously not true for the majority of jobs. You can't work harder to make up for your vacation when the job requires your presence (eg waiter, policeman, etc...). Even for people who could work harder to make up for lost tim
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by jpapon 11y ago
That's just ridiculous. Inner city kids don't lack the proper incentives to succeed (they're poor, after all), they lack the resources needed to succeed.
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by jpapon 11y ago
> Since REM is the part of the cycle where your body rests the most, I feel that if I fall into the cycle sooner rather than later, I can safely shave a few hours off my sleeping time. That's a pretty big leap to make. If the natura
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by jpapon 11y ago
If you accept that computation is universal, then yes, you could definitely achieve human-like understanding through means that are completely different from the actual human wet-ware. It might not be very efficient... but it's certain