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by lsc 9y ago
>We can't expect parents to gamble their parenthood and their lives - even if the odds are 1 in 100 million Every day when you strap your kid into your car seat, you are rolling those dice, at odds considerably worse than 1 in 100 m
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by lsc 9y ago
The problem here is not the law, it is the people who think the fact that one person (out of over 100 million families in America) got arrested for doing a thing that sounds reasonable is a reason to change your behavior. We need a reasonab
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by lsc 9y ago
Let us compare this to another crime. So I sometimes keep my wallet on my desk, yes? If some rando comes by and helps themselves to some cash, that's a crime, right? But I'm totally okay with my partner doing that, and there&
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by lsc 9y ago
My perception is that the appearance of strength is intertwined with social standing in America. (I'm not saying it isn't elsewhere, just that it is here.)
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by lsc 9y ago
One side of being an adult learner is that this is self-directed. I don't know what comes before what; I want, for example, a good math education. What does a good math education involve? I don't know! I mean, one of the b
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by lsc 9y ago
You could argue that all are capitalists, it's just that some of us only own significant capital in the form of our own bodies and minds. My point is just that the game is very different if the 'means of production' you co
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by lsc 9y ago
The argument comes down to the fact that the market is organized by and for the owners of capital, and that is largely a group you are born into. If you don't control capital, you participate in the market as a commodity. Functionall
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by lsc 9y ago
My info is several years old, but it was super frustrating, because both amd and cavium claimed to be selling ARM servers, and I was stoked to sell arm-based VPSs, and I even had an ARM/linux friend on hand to help out... but nobody wo
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by lsc 9y ago
I know it is a promotion, rather than a discussion, but I think that sort of thing is acceptable here, and it is corporate charity in support of causes that are popular here. I do find the idea of self interested corporate charity to be an
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On giving Tuesday, buy a VPS and give to open source(prgmr.com)
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by lsc 9y ago
In some ways we do. My understanding is that the political meaning of 'white people living south of the mason-dixon line' has remained far more stable (even before there was a masion-dixon line) than the definition of 'de
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by lsc 9y ago
>of course the whole "you can't actually fly a drone here without calling the 5 airports in the area" rules tends to put a damper on things I could be wrong, but I bet there's a reasonably large market for 'insid
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by lsc 9y ago
> I thought Star Trek was considered Utopian, at least inside the Federation. In my comment, I'm implying that any universe where we don't figure out AI, where humans are still in charge is a sort of dystopia. To be absolutely
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by lsc 9y ago
I'm trying to educate myself in both philosophy and in engineering; I think it's realistic to expect a person to understand both the arts and the sciences, at least to an undergrad level, and I think there is value in both. The p
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by lsc 9y ago
Concerned? I know which side my bread is buttered on; when the revolution comes, John Connor and I will probably not be friends. But yeah; as disappointing as I might find it, I kind of think we're heading towards more of a 'st
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by lsc 9y ago
So, uh, I'm still at the "I don't even know the extent of my ignorance" phase of understanding current ML tech; I haven't even gotten to linear algebra in my math education. I'm working on it. However, I do
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by lsc 9y ago
Sure, I am just saying that things changed in those silicon valley companies in the last ten years. Those jobs with the as good as money stock grants are interesting because they represent the top of the market not just locally, but globall
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by lsc 9y ago
there is an argument that humans develop immunity to sales techniques, and social media advertising is too new, and we have yet to produce mind-antibodies. I mean, it's also possible that targeted advertising is just that much better t
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by lsc 9y ago
Super interesting. I just outfitted my bedroom workshop with minimal first aid stuff (a wall mounted box with bandages and stuff as well as wall mounted eyewash bottles and a fire extinguisher) I have been looking at respirators; I didn&#
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by lsc 9y ago
Really? See, I've actually kind of been following netflix for a while, kind of excitedly. A no bullshit company that pays a lot when you are productive, and fires you when you are not. Sounds like my sort of thing. But... if they a
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by lsc 9y ago
>Employment as Netflix is really a mixture of the income premium and lack of stability that a contractor would have, with a compensation structure closer to a startup (base salary only, no formalized bonuses). Note, ever since IC Enginee
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by lsc 9y ago
The camera angle seems like it could be... problematic, though. Also it doesn't look like it has the capability to follow me in even most sedate urban environments. I mean, I'm not asking for stairs, but that thing looks like it
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by lsc 9y ago
yeah, what they need are programmable drones that follow them around, recording. Bruce Sterling suggested such a thing in "The Artificial Kid" - and I think we've got the tech to actually kinda do it now.
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by lsc 9y ago
See, the problem with healthcare is not that it is expensive. I think it's completely reasonable to spend a very large portion of our GDP on healthcare. Why not call it a defense program? hell, disease has always killed more peopl
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by lsc 9y ago
ok, sure. My point was that right-anarchists and left-anarchists are very different people with very different views of fundamental rights, but from an outside perspective, they look very similar in some ways. I think, from your statement
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by lsc 9y ago
>Depends on when you started investing. Compounding interest is only a powerful force in your favour when (implied) interest rates are above zero. There's no point in my life at which I could have started investing wherein I would b
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by lsc 9y ago
you can start a family at 19, and you can start a family at 35. Either way, yes, it's going to change your entrepreneurial options. I personally see the question of how you have a business with children to be largely orthogonal to t
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by lsc 9y ago
The threat to such a tribe is any other group that feels they can take what that tribe has at a reasonable cost. The problem is that figuring out who can take what from whom directly using force ends up with a lot of dead, and it ends up ki
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by lsc 9y ago
>That, and I'm not entirely sold that acquiring the knowledge of how not to starve or be eaten by animals requires an imperium or a state. Oh, you don't need the state to deal with animals, or food supply... I mean, the state
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by lsc 9y ago
>Being sans-state is not the same thing as anarchy. This, I do not understand at all. I mean, sure, it might not be an ideological anarchy, but when you don't have a state, you have anarchy. I guess you could also call it "a

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