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by jpttsn 8y ago
Sinking the world into chaos might not be palatable to enough people. If it were, would they be the kind of people you want changing the world?
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Fundamental like how objects fall at 9.8ms -2. Rarely true in the real world.
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Could be a hard wired mammalian thing expressing as policy.
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It’s rarely you ; taxes transfer wealth.
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Good being, a smaller number of happier lives? Huh. Anyway, Optimizing for the whole is different than optimizing for the parts. What seems redundant on a high level can be critical on a lower level. To each antilope eating grass is purpose
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by jpttsn 8y ago
The external point of view is dubiously helpful. Lions eat antelope; when they die their bodies become grass; the antelope eat the grass. Suppose they all agreed not to do this.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Irked by phrasing like: “When computers look at an image, they can’t actually tell where one object in the image stops”. “When children read French, they actually don’t know what the foreign words mean.” Just means: Todo: teach them to.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
I believe the opposite: the easy thought/magical solution is “Huge concerted efforts across the world and changing the habits of millions”.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Abstaining from the general case truth frees up time for figuring out some interesting special cases . I don’t know the best diet for the general population. I know roughly what works for me. I don’t know how microwaves work. I know how
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Aren't you answering your own question? He popularized it. Therefore, everyone is adopting it.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
I doubt they’ve been monitoring and archiving this from day one.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Is it just me or is the font aligned to justify and the margins set to zero? Is this an operating system for people who don’t care to make a good first impression?
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Cats, birds, and pigs are in turn happy to eat humans when convenient.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Computer owners don’t use their computers for app development as much as for playing games. If I want to develop apps, should I get a computer?
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What do people use for self defense? Karate alone?
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Have other countries solved the problem? Which ones?
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What was the latest price of source code you inspected?
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Children communicate like that?
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Is there really no good “just the events” app or site? Personally I hear about the things I want to attend anyway, but I have the same feeling of not knowing nonetheless.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Thanks for Standard; it really adds a missing piece to the landscape.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Sure, though as your quoted indicate, diet is an inexact science at best. I’d recommend trying interesting diets for yourself, to validate the claimed short run effects.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
Would even a single counterfeiter be enough to destroy a new fiat currency, or is your thesis specific to crypto?
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As does Westworld .
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The captialists had a very rational (if self-interested) reason to dislike the luddites. They just viewed straw men as an effective tactic.
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It’s like, how is it not better if my fridge can play music? Obviously I’d rather have music and cold food than just cold food. I’m listening to Beethoven through my other fridge as I type this on my first fridge.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
I think the argument is that if the guitar tuner is a native app, there’s one less reason for the user to keep JavaScript enabled in their browser.
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by jpttsn 8y ago
I agree; OP is one of those articles, that start to make a reasonable point only to frame it with a highly debatable specific example.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
This is more or less a rewrite of Krebs’ post.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Get it right the first time. If you can’t, don’t pretend to.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Might make it more expensive to hire, favoring insiders who are employed at the expense of outsiders. Also makes it harder to switch jobs if you’re unhappy/deserve better.

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