michaelscott

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by michaelscott 4y ago
At what point does abstraction and reasoning turn into "sentient understanding"? How do you express that as the thing doing the abstracting? Even humans struggle at that kind of task because there's a metaphysical assumption
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by michaelscott 4y ago
...for those that own it, certainly. What about everyone else?
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This is a separate (but important) issue. The development and effect that tech like this will have on the place of the artist or designer in the future is going to be a similarly seismic shift for the industry, just as the camera and printi
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Art has been seen as an outcome of context, rather than simply a combination of aesthetics and composition, for a long time already. The movements of Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and, maybe most famously, Cubism have all alre
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by michaelscott 4y ago
You're right, I think this was probably a major factor in why he was voted in (I wasn't alive at the time so this would just be a guess from my side). I think the big problem with Carter is that he was what you could call a "
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I'm not really making a comment about his morality, only his skill. If you have an issue with his methods and what they mean morally, I'd suggest you not look too deeply at any of the people who've sat in the Oval Office. E
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I think this a great summary. Carter is someone who, when looking back, seems very ahead of his time in his views. It's just that presidents are not assessed in a vacuum, and unfortunately he was not perceived as the president America
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Reagan played the political game far better than both Carter and Nixon (Watergate notwithstanding). He was a master at couching effective foreign policy tactics, which often relied on detente (eg negotiating with Iran), within the augur of
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I'm not sure how citizens using crypto to buy bread and milk helps prop up bad governments? To be clear, in the kinds of governments I'm talking about here the people at the top are entirely and completely insulated from the day-t
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Apologies for saying it this way but this is a very naive take. How long did it take for the Vietnam to resolve in the 50s - 70s? How long did the Berlin Wall take to come down, or the Soviet Union to collapse? What about apartheid in South
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Very much this. It makes the process of salary negotiation completely tied to perception rather than reality, which isn't necessarily bad for the employee. It just means that the justifications for a higher salary need to change from &
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I would say it's more congruent with evolution, which is to say it aligns with the idea that mutations or other advantages can put an organism far ahead of its competitors and improves the species through genetic preservation (or histo
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Western cultures, as originating from the Greeks, prioritise the individual in society and usually attempt to improve through the conflict and collaboration of such individuals. Eastern cultures, as originating from Confucianism, prioritise
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Prior generations were more likely to remain in a specific geographical area (eg. central or western Europe) and so taking the time to learn these specific languages made sense. Learning other European languages as a European is also not th
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by michaelscott 4y ago
The second statement gives me the impression they're analysing and debugging... encrypted data? I can't really make sense of it
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by michaelscott 4y ago
The lack of any affordance whatsoever on buttons, switches and appliances in Switzerland drives me absolutely insane
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Personal experience attempting to open an account with them while living in a developing country. Granted, this was about 5 years ago so the situation may have changed since then.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Uptake in Zimbabwe, Nigeria and a number of other African countries has been climbing
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Although I agree that the expression that OP made maybe wasn't the best, they do have a point. > Your first approach should be a Wise multi-currency account. Excellent example; Wise is not available for account setup in the vast m
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by michaelscott 4y ago
> The fact that Apple is entering the arena is quite a disruption as other brands will be forced to either compete on price or really raise the bar on innovation to justify their current levels. This is the part I don't really under
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I'm not sure how you got less cautious from my comment. In fact I was saying the opposite, that they viewed gambling as a pastime or entertainment, not as a legitimate way to make money. It's when a person considers it a means o
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by michaelscott 4y ago
Well our grandparents lived in a world (if they were in a first world country) where working a normal job with a stay-at-home mom was enough for a comfortable retirement. This made gambling, at best, the entertainment it was viewed as. In a
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by michaelscott 4y ago
A bizarre choice if they were middle management; the running of a kingdom in the Prince is only really directly applicable to highest levels of C-suite management.
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by michaelscott 4y ago
> San Francisco, which is struggling with a troubling homelessness and public-defecation crisis, needs more public toilets. The irony in this statement, given the reasons why this toilet costs so much, is absolutely unreal. I had to ch
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by michaelscott 4y ago
It definitely makes a lot of assumptions that I don't think hold true in practice. As you say, many world leaders would even want to have one another killed (as individuals with both motive and a lot of power to make it happen) and yet
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by michaelscott 4y ago
I worked on a little side project for classification on tabular data, but a really challenging use case where the data was prone to a lot of noise and some randomness in the dependent variable. Tree models couldn't get a high enough ac
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I find these sorts of things fascinating ito the economics. If there is a large section of the population that creates companies but is underserved in funding by VCs (which I think is the case), then you've essentially got a market ine
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by michaelscott 4y ago
> In 2019, the Colorado State House of Representatives used quadratic voting as a way to determine which appropriations bills to prioritize funding first. I think this is the best use case for this voting structure: given a set of opti
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by michaelscott 4y ago
This is such a good point, my mind has recently been opened to how much happens in the Spanish, French and Russian speaking parts of the world that I had no idea about because it just isn't in English. Does anyone know of resources tha
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by michaelscott 4y ago
It's about the underlying structure of the legal system, not one particular law or political leaning you don't agree with. The checks and balances system in the US is definitely far more resilient than any of the commonwealth coun

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