losteric

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901.
by losteric 9y ago
We should tax the companies that profit to fund public education on these issues... If the public is not aware of the risks, they cannot be at fault because they never made a decision.
902.
by losteric 9y ago
A 12 oz can of Coca Cola has twice the sugar content of an apple, without the beneficial fiber or vitamins. How many Americans are obese because they eat too many fruits and vegetables? An overwhelming majority are obese due to fast foods
903.
by losteric 9y ago
The last thing this country needs is more media consolidations... Trump snuck in to office partially because of past conservative-leaning mergers and acquisitions
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by losteric 9y ago
My solution was to switch to a capped data plan... unlimited talk/text (which I've never found to be a problem) and 1GB of 4G data. Having a cap forces me to be mindful about how I interact through my phone. If I use too much Redd
905.
by losteric 9y ago
I believe the need for constant stimulation reflects today's world, while the desire to focus on productive subjects tends to come with maturity (not age). Personally, I think we're over-indexing on knowledge acquisition while und
906.
by losteric 9y ago
I often wonder why they don't air these videos at peak hour, prefixed with a "you're about to see some bullshit - call your representatives" warning. It's better to fight this kind of public enemy on an open field.
907.
by losteric 9y ago
I can't clearly describe this thought yet, but I believe life depends on an environment with many channels for releasing small amounts of entropy (and protection from destructive high energy levels). That's all we are, self-regu
908.
by losteric 9y ago
The known probabilities will go down, but that evidence is very weak with a sample size of < 1 solar system. Personally, I've always assumed less than 100% of life-bearing planets will have intelligent life. Earth would have failed
909.
by losteric 9y ago
It's possible many ad-supported websites deserve to die... as I see it, they are economic parasites. Advertisers accept bad leads as a cost of doing business, but the cost is simply passed on to consumers. Many low-quality news papers,
910.
by losteric 9y ago
Siri promised to be that revolutionary digital assistant. After 7 years of Apple buying startups and spinoffs that make the same promise, Siri is as dumb as ever. Alexa works better because it's "dumber" - a very well trained
911.
by losteric 9y ago
RSS is a protocol, applications could implement Twitter/tumblr's retweeting functionality on top of it... FB conversations would also work. From the end-user's perspective, I don't think anyone is asking for features tha
912.
by losteric 9y ago
AI isn't magic... We can control this because it is no different than a nuke. The secret to keeping a nuke safe is to keep the radioactive material separate and below critical mass. The secret to keeping experimental AI safe is to keep
913.
by losteric 9y ago
What does that have to do with this discussion?
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by losteric 9y ago
It's funny how everyone's dog-piling in response to things I didn't say. I invite you to find any of the topics you bring up in my original post. You won't. Stalin, Trotsky, and Lenin may have hoped for Communism, but th
915.
by losteric 9y ago
And you are mistaken to assume a taxonomic correction suggests support of the USSR or anyone involved.
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by losteric 9y ago
It's almost like propaganda distorts public perception of ideas and the meaning of words...
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by losteric 9y ago
Like I said, I'm a pedant not an apologist. The USSR was a miserable failure, but it was not a totalitarian dictatorship prior to Stalin's rule... "merely" an authoritarian oligarchy. The Bolshevik's ideology did no
918.
by losteric 9y ago
Uh, what about the Arab Spring? Modern communication technology is what enabled those revolutions. In China, policies like the great firewall exist because the internet does challenge the central government. China is stable because 1.) peop
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by losteric 9y ago
Unnaturally concentrated power always opposes coordination outside of state-managed structures - greater consolidation leads to greater oppression. > Soviet Unions brutal authoritarian communism ... is the only practical form of large sc
920.
by losteric 9y ago
Our part of the universe*... The presumption is that neutron stars are the results of gravity overcoming nuclear forces, and black holes are the results of some other force being overcome, and therefore our visible universe is the inside of
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by losteric 9y ago
I think you missed my point too... I'm not talking about Thiel. I addressed him and changed topics. What you're describing is a jungle. Niches with dominant players that share in a diverse resilient economy. Bees and hummingbirds
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by losteric 9y ago
I agree - didn't feel it was worth mentioning considering the original and the criticism I linked to :) I like drawing parallels between economics and ecology... monopolies are farms, massive artificial monocultures that suppress natur
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by losteric 9y ago
* Peter Thiel's WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-... * Criticism: https://medium.com/@petersimsie/why-peter-thiel-is-dead-wron... * Alternate interpret
924.
by losteric 9y ago
I assume they meant direct-to-consumer advertising is everywhere.
925.
by losteric 9y ago
> Mark your calendars for 5-10 years after you first see an actual autonomous vehicle having any type of real world application at all. Which you haven't. What's your criteria here? Because I have the same opinion as you... Exc
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by losteric 9y ago
The software and training data set an extremely high barrier to competition. Once you've solved self-driving taxis, you've also solved a large chunk of self-driving commercial transportation. AI trucks could kill off rail, in addi
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by losteric 9y ago
The developed world will use the first wave of immigration to build the walls that keep out the rest
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by losteric 9y ago
Does LNG have a lower carbon footprint that other fossil fuel energy sources?
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by losteric 9y ago
TODOs are crufty ambiguous notes that often poorly describe the current system and potential future work... and they're so easy to add that the average "todo" is very low-value, dragging down the perceived ROI of fixing any t
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by losteric 9y ago
I had the same problem as you, but my solution was separating "notes" from future actions. My notes track knowledge, they are referenced as-needed so I store everything because there's low/no cost. I've also found t

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