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721.
by khafra 15y ago
How is that relevant? If it's out of a total of 11 professions, that's even worse than if it were out of every single job out there.
722.
by khafra 15y ago
Garbage collector death rate: 47/100,000 per year Roofer death rate: 35/100,000 per year Lumberjack death rate: 92/100,000 per year Police death rate: 13/100,000 per year None of these jobs requires a college degree. The average roofer sala
723.
by khafra 15y ago
Of course, spending significant amounts of time and brainpower preparing for the nexus collapse instead of optimizing for a continually functional nexus greatly lowers your income as long as the nexus continues to function.
724.
by khafra 15y ago
> the solution isn't trying to impose an infrastructure on a system which has a natural resistance thereto, and will require enormous costs with little payback, the solution is to recognize "this is a bad place to exist in" and get out.
725.
by khafra 15y ago
I don't know of any impact on academic philosophy from that essay in particular. But in general, the Quinean school is much more friendly to empirical considerations than historical philosophy. For example, Daniel Dennett has said "AI make
726.
by khafra 15y ago
Is there an analogue here to long-form advertising copy? Perhaps enterprise buyers are as vulnerable to infomercials as insomniac housewives.
727.
by khafra 15y ago
Do you mean, if you're looking at it from 1990 and guessing? Or from today? Because I'd think all the standard factors for locating a new business apply, today.
728.
by khafra 15y ago
What about the rumors that Monsanto bought its way into a near-monopoly there, with the consequent small farmers committing suicide in droves as they lose everything?
729.
by khafra 15y ago
Any salesman or producer who shoots his rivals should go to jail; it doesn't matter what he sells or produces.
730.
by khafra 15y ago
I'm employed, but taking a job with a company that just throws away resumes from the currently unemployed would leave a bad taste in my mouth. I would find such a list valuable.
731.
by khafra 15y ago
Pak called generator users dismissive, not baloney. "Steps users can take to mitigate the effects of a website's security failure" is arguably off-topic in a discussion about that website's security hole. It can be interpreted as minimizing
732.
by khafra 15y ago
Not because it cannot be quantified, but because you failed to quantify it. A sense of aesthetics is not an irreducible "thing," it's a set of algorithms and heuristics. If you could explain exactly why you find DaVinci's creativity so ap
733.
by khafra 15y ago
Really? The music example seems clear enough to me--everybody wants to be able to play well, fewer people want to spend an hour a day playing boring stuff that doesn't sound good. But let's go for a few more examples: Imagine yourself in t
734.
by khafra 15y ago
I showed the Square reader to my hippie friend who sells hand-made jewelry in an outdoor booth at a beach resort. He thought it looked pretty cool, and was seriously considering buying an iPhone and service plan just to use it. At his usu
735.
by khafra 15y ago
You hope the iPhone or iPad doing the payment processing with the Square device is connected via network cable? I'm afraid I have some disturbing news for you.
736.
by khafra 15y ago
Explain to me exactly what it is about creating the Mona Lisa that cannot be done by a machine, and I will write a program which does it (with apologies to Von Neumann). In other words, this sounds like an "irrationalism of the gaps" theory
737.
by khafra 15y ago
It's not that strange. He's just pointing out that there's a difference between wanting to be good at doing something and liking doing something; and that the former is nigh-impossible to reach without the latter.
738.
by khafra 15y ago
There is a difference: Microsoft Windows has nothing to do with panes of glass in walls; Time Magazine is not about clocks or watches. You're not supposed to be able to trademark a pre-existing industry term within its own industry; Lowe's
739.
by khafra 15y ago
GP must have assumed that people who've procreated have enough social awareness to know that if they really want their daughter to date nerds, they have to forbid her from even hanging out with that kind of guy--you never know when they're
740.
by khafra 15y ago
He definitely has an axe to grind, and the first Google result casts some doubt on the 90% figure: http://journal.webscience.org/138/ But his larger point remains intact: Freedom of the press/Internet is only an axiomatic good in educated
741.
by khafra 15y ago
Yup; if judges presiding over anti-trust suits had read Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflict, there would be many more broken-up oligopolies than there are now.
742.
by khafra 15y ago
A supermajority of the population cares more about the suffering of cute animals than the suffering of adult humans.
743.
by khafra 15y ago
The NSA's STIGs are a useful resource. If you want the higher-level policies they come from, NIST[0] is one candidate. If you want documents around the same level of specificity as the STIGs, you'll probably need a non-governmental source.
744.
by khafra 15y ago
It's not that obscurity is useless, it's that it often inconveniences the legitimate user as much as the attacker. "Often," in this case, scales with the size of the organization. Changing the ssh port on your home server might not be ove
745.
by khafra 15y ago
Perhaps this will be rolled out in Europe and Asia before the US.
746.
by khafra 15y ago
The short version, without references or argumentation: Science can't prove that there aren't any supernatural requirements for a sentient mind. However, Science has proven that most of our intuitions about our own cognition are wrong. Sinc
747.
by khafra 15y ago
In Kirkland, a rich suburb near Redmond, a Microsoft millionaire has had a pay-what-you-want coffee shop for a while. I don't think it would work outside areas with significant social pressure on most patrons in the direction of not appeari
748.
by khafra 15y ago
> The reason I haven't bothered to apply? I don't know how good I really am. That sounds like a reason to apply, not a reason to avoid applying. Don't you want some new third-party evidence about how good you really are?
749.
by khafra 15y ago
If we drop the concerns over legality, what about starting rumors that there's a secret offshore blind trust, contributed to by both deep-pocketed victims of patent trolls and open-source developers. A trust which exists to take the other
750.
by khafra 15y ago
It is trivially true that you're not lying if you believe what you're saying. However, in context, his message is closer to "it's not lying if you lie convincingly to yourself first," which is one of the more pernicious flaws in our culture

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