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by kmicklas 10y ago
It sounds like you're implying that you shouldn't have to pay to help those people.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> It seems to me that your proposal would be an extremely efficient way for a small group of people to rapidly consolidate wealth. Sounds like capitalism.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This seems like an argument for a character based rather than word based network. It just so happens that English and Chinese, the two languages which have the most machine learning research, are relatively analytic, with a low morpheme per
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by kmicklas 10y ago
If this were more compact and didn't rotate text I think it would work much better.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
OP actually has some sound reasoning in reply to parent comment. I'm not sure how convinced I am without evidence. Also stopping gerrymandering is way more politically feasible than mandatory voting.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Yes. It's absurd. Dogmatic isn't a great word to describe it but how can you live in 2016 and not read it as lazy?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
That's just not true, there are not tradeoffs that aren't solved multiple decades ago. Go implementors are lazy and dogmatic.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Where is this HDI data from? A bunch of countries look misplaced. There is no way Taiwan is low HDI for example.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> The US didn't plunder their wealth. It extinguished / concentrated the previous civilizations and created a new civilization in it's place. It did plunder their underlying wealth in natural resources. That's not to
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> The inequality thing is far from unavoidable. In a democracy, at least, a society perceived as more fair for the majority should be attainable. This is a nice thought in theory, but not really true as long as campaigns themselves are f
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Yup, I burn karma on this almost daily.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> It hasn't built its prosperity on invading other nations to annex them and plunder their national wealth, which is traditionally how empires temporarily sustain themselves. That is exactly how it has built its wealth, what?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Advances in mathematically verified software could help here - although mechanisms for verifying the manufacturing of chips all the way down the supply chain might be farther out.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This is the one fact that keeps me relatively optimistic about the future of civilization.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
It might go up faster if nuclear power made it suddenly very cheap.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
That's basically my point. The level of tech diversity is set by some kind of equilibrium between the cost of writing new code and the value of doing so.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> However, software engineering will change into a much more regulated environment. Writing software for the web will eventually become like writing software for the space shuttle: slow, rigorous and very expensive. I wouldn't be to
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by kmicklas 10y ago
It's a catch 22 because diversity reduces the potential for class breaks but also increases the probability that any given system is insecure in the first place. (Less resources can be devoted to securing each unique system.)
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Spot on, C++ has always been the best systems language for real world projects until Rust came along.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Yeah but unlike, say, Haskell, Rust seems to have good enough momentum from the right crowds.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
These piles of money don't seem to be amounting to much because rust is still an objectively far superior language. Google is not a language company and doesn't hire good language people so I don't see this changing. Disclaim
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Sadly these Nazis are the majority of readers here.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Don't you know you'll get downvoted for pointing out racism on hacker news?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Thinly veiled racism is thinly veiled.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This is blatant racism. The OP was at least thinly veiled.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This kind of nuanced thinking will get you downvoted on hacker news, don't you know?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
If you think owning property is more important than the metrics in the article, I think something is objectively wrong with your belief.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Winning at Go is, theoretically, such an easy problem that I wouldn't extrapolate anything from it; the algorithm doesn't need to be really good at Go against arbitrary opponents; it just needs to beat other humans, which is
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I don't think so, the spec writing is still the "creative" part.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Yeah, programming doesn't get magically easier but it could well increase programmer productivity by 10-100x.

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