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by lsd5you 8y ago
Is this really surprising? We cannot have meritocracy and a system where some people will go missing for a year at a time (and perhaps come back with completely different motivations). There is a fundamental mismatch, and as much as some pe
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Where do you get this certainty from? What about population pressures? What about religous disagreements, what about nationalism? Old grudges? Why can't fundamental belief systems be part of the substrate of this equation that results
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by lsd5you 8y ago
> which used to be just as bad as Islamic fundamentalism This is unsubstantiated even in mediaeval times. For example the crusades were minor skirmishes compared to what is the invasion of spain and the balkans - not to mention all the o
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Yes, in ArrayLists ... etc., but if you want compact values on the stack, or compact value data structures you don't need this. I feel like 80% of the solution (and one which is likely future compatible) is going begging whilst they wo
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Presumably I'm missing something, but are they trying to do something more than just Boxing value types? (Specialization?) I cannot see how legacy classes would be impacted if Boxing was used, nor quite why it is going to be so difficu
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by lsd5you 8y ago
I would disagree. The problem is the unnatural, ever expanding range of concern for the entire human population as it increases and as things globalise. We in general get no additional happiness from remote billions of people and only added
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by lsd5you 8y ago
It is of course more akin to anti-semitism. Which is in essence a resentment against a more successful and influential class of people. To be sure in all of these divides there is some substance to both sides (otherwise there wouldn't
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by lsd5you 9y ago
This is just wishful thinking. There is evidence that base intelligence is decreasing. It is just improvements to education (and possibly fudged statistics) can mask the effect, for a while at least.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Unfortunately this amounts to unreciprocated virtue. Ultimately I believe all the demographic optimism will be confounded as we are effectively selecting for women who are broodier (and similar for men). Having met women who 'just love
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Except measures (and measurements) and all of this stuff just don't seem to work. In the abstract they sound good, but in implementation they always look incredibly lacking and seem to just further perversify incentives. It's not
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I just think 'academic stuff' has a danger of being too broad and nebulous a goal. Just don't do things for the wrong reasons, and recognize that the end of undergraduate studies is a big life change regardless of what you do
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Yeah, UK (Or should that be not sure). Seems to be the same result by a different mechanism? I'm not entirely sure what the alternative view is of how this situation has come about. Why are students willingly entering into this deal. I
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by lsd5you 9y ago
So many problems, and probably too much good press for the post-graduate qualifications and the system as a whole. My somewhat anecdotal recollection (from a good university) was that most PhD students stayed on by default as a way to conti
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Perhaps it is part of the point, but the stigmatized narrative is no more correct according to the 4Q model than the sanctioned one. That is it appears to map 'troglodytes' as morally virtuous. That is surely the correct narrative
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Except china had the one child policy which clearly had long term goals in mind. Singapore also implemented eugenics policies and still has them to some degree. Realistically population one of the few things you can take a long term view on
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by lsd5you 9y ago
If we want to live in a pluralist society we have no choice, but to embrace narratives that bind us together through morality and ideology Does this not seem coercive and borderline orwellian to you? We have to embrace narratives sounds a
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by lsd5you 9y ago
This is a great point. Probably someone will argue properly configured apache will not have access to data ... etc. I think the practical reality is in many setups it already does, and what these hardware bugs mean is that the lazy imperfec
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Ok, sure, but we have to consider whether that is worth it, and if they can run unpriveleged code, there is a good chance there is a software privelege escalation available anyway. Of course on shared servers this is going to be a nightmare
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Not entirely sure why we need to update/protect most servers, since generally they won't be running untrusted code, right?
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by lsd5you 9y ago
This is going to be a bit like the gambling debate, since if you do just use it responsibly then yeah, it's probably going to be a net benefit by most value systems. The issue is is the creaping, insidious havoc it is wreaking it peopl
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Socialising?
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Surely it's just at the behest of the host governments? i.e. The ones who can threaten to block Facebook from their entire countries? That is to say it is a business decision. At this point I think we can be entirely cynical about thei
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Yes, but bitcoin is not scarce in any meaningful sense in the long run. Using the same software alternative versions of the coin can be created. Or worse better versions ... Gold will cease to be meaningfully scarce if we ever mine an aster
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by lsd5you 9y ago
People are calling for a frank discussion of the facts. Intelligent people should be allowed to make critically minded judgements on what is the best way forwards for their countries. So much has been banned from the potential discussion by
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I have been somewhat taken aback about the lack of preparedness to tackle thoughtfully put - if contraversial positions on this site. Let people see the data, see the arguments and decide for themselves. The case in point about the narrativ
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by lsd5you 9y ago
There is a perception in right wing circles that this is also related to trumpism, after all this crash is happening with the stock market at an all time high. A lot of these publications are at the 'progressive' end of the spectr
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by lsd5you 9y ago
The cynic in me sees that Kurzweil's predictions align with his unassisted life expectancy. So in some sense it's not surprising that he's being over optimistic. I'm not generally a fan, but we have to give some credit t
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Ok, but what is even more amazing is he didn't realise that IDEs have that feature. What did he think they did, just syntax highlighting?
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Without defending the war in Iraq (afterall what good has it done?) this really is a false equivalence and we probably don't realise how good we have it, and how much worse it could be - namely if some one like UBL was the ruler of the
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Yes but we don't have to industrialise the asteroid belt to dump equivalent quantities of crypto-currency into the market ...

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