lcargill99

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by lcargill99 14y ago
"Emperor" is a problematic work at best. He's skyhooking.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
While that's biographically interesting, you really don't get off the hook from understanding that he used basically the same approach of Cantor's diagonalization.
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by lcargill99 14y ago
We have not dealt with the social effects of advertising-driven television, much less the Internet. Empirically, change DID slow down a great deal with the advent of the Internet. If you listen to the hope buried in the regret of Pink Flo
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by lcargill99 14y ago
I have two Gen Y daughters. My general impression is that Gen Y is not analyze-eable as the Baby Boom was. I attribute this to the end of monoculture, but that's probably a bias. I have no idea why anybody who is not in finance would care t
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Once you have spent the billion, you no longer have the resources to see if it works or not. Outrage away, it won't change the basic limitations of human cognition.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Chances are very good they're really not hiring, but wish to continue to have a Kabuki theater appearance of hiring.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins...
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Tom Friedman's Lake Woebegone bias is showing. Again.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Event driven is very likely more reliable. It's also less intuitive, up to a point. But event driven systems can be very nearly deterministic. It's nice to see preemptive multitasking given yet another black eye. If you really are intereste
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by lcargill99 15y ago
I really think you are mixing up your units, so to speak. Smith spoke of men wanting to be loved and to be lovely. The reducibility of society to the individual is a feature of liberalism - indeed, it's probably the defining characteristi
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by lcargill99 15y ago
iZ Corporation's RADAR runs on BeOS. It's a DAW system of exceedingly high quality. We can only guess how well it'd scale, but Be looks to me not to be the sort of software that helps sell hardware.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
During the original oil shock, consumption dropped by as much as half. Was there a corresponding drop in quality of life? I would say no. There is massive shadow-marginal inefficiency in transport, and the signals are always masked for po
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Overturning induction is a pretty tall order.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
You can do this yourself. Just leave space. Others will see you do this and leave space, too. While making this a science project sounds like fun, that seems unnecessary. If the traffic pattern is so saturated that people rush into the spac
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Free time is not equivalent to passion. Basing relationships on the internal emotional state of other people is pretty risky The passionately wrong are usually harder to deal with. It's hit or miss, but a Great Deal of Robin Hanson's blog
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by lcargill99 15y ago
For some goods, it is much greater. For government, education, health care and land rent ( may go to housing cost in expensive areas ) it is not. And actually, fixed baskets of health care, housing, etc ( based on applicable standards at
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Housing is furiously repricing. SFAIK, there's no bottom to it, and it depends on where you are. If you live in a high land rent region like San Fran or NYC, it's stable. In Florida or Las Vegas, there is no bottom. In Texas, it's stuck at
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Not so much, no. Lump of Labor fallacy, m'lord. Wages have fallen because of something fuzzy and abstract ( and indefinable ) called "liquidity preference". If you take to the "fear vs. greed" cycle theory of economics, that means fear is w
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by lcargill99 15y ago
They have revised GDP figures since 2007 or so. So in the interim/short term, productivity is actually much closer to hours worked than previously thought. The longer term trend is also questionable starting around 1973, ala Tyler Cowan. Ah
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Cost of living. Texas is too big to be homogenous. Austin's pretty "blue". It's also dreary and worn looking.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
I am not sure that the accusation of unreadability is valid. The advantage of a state machine is that you can enforce invariants - if you're in state X, then you know categorically that preconditions { X0,X1... Xn} have been met.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Threads tend to be event driven anyway. If one used, say ObjecTime back in the Olden Days, one could actually configure which FSMs had their own O/S thread and which were shared on a single thread. This being said, event-driven as a design
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by lcargill99 15y ago
So who really cares about status? Really? In your heart of hearts... it does afford the opportunity to "make a difference", but at a price. I've seen good men go bad that way. It's really dark in Plato's Republic, and the Massive Sorting
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by lcargill99 15y ago
High school kid works for the NSA his HS senior year? Really? And you never know, folks - mediocre works for lots of people, especially in technology. It's something to keep your mind open about. There's more money in Big IT, and Big IT is
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by lcargill99 15y ago
I have a significant bias from reading "Overcoming Bias" by Robin Hanson. His "math" is to attribute to status-seeking anything where there's a ... demand curve that doesn't make sense. It's all relative. So "cheap social status" might be s
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Energy hasn't been increasing in cost ( not even gasoline in the US, really - although it's a messy dataset ). Raw materials and food are "marginally free" - it almost costs more to figure out how much more you need than to produce it, so l
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by lcargill99 15y ago
It would be completely and totally awesome if all status were relegated to the Web. I would estimate the probability of that at at around 0.1%. People who were denied status on the Web would try to find some other means.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
It's better when lawyers know both sides of the game well. I would think a lawyer who starts out on the VC side, makes a pile, then goes to work for the startup side would be better.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Hiring a programmer? $50,000.00 . Getting rid of one that doesn't work for cultural reasons? Priceless.
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by lcargill99 15y ago
Bingo. We have a winner, folks. Once an organization is forced into, or drifts into that line of work, it's like a dog that's tasted human blood....

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