mmirate

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by mmirate 9y ago
Then why give a taste of "programming" and not, say, electronics? That would support the (superior) bottom-up direction of CS pedagogy far better.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Just off the top of my head, there's the 5-year gap between age 6 and age 11, during which this journey does not progress and the memories from age 6 can degrade.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> Messing around with a super abstracted language will give [the 6 year olds] the only thing they should get out of the lesson: you tell a computer what to do and it does it. What is the point of that lesson at that age, then? As far as
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by mmirate 9y ago
6 years old? This confuses me. Formal operations typically develop at around age 11 (cf. Piaget); this mental capability is necessary to (among many other things) comprehend abstraction, isomorphism, algebra, recursion, and most of the othe
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by mmirate 9y ago
If the SEC performs a particular action, Bitcoin can be deep-sixed, at least domestically, and since the US likes to export its laws (cf. copyright), probably worldwide in time. Self-driving vehicles' practicality as a mass product, ii
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by mmirate 9y ago
Renewables aren't as reliable or powerful as fossil fuels or nuclear reactors; one simply cannot power a grid with only renewables. And the one exception, hydroelectric dams, are geography-dependent and can cause massive floods during
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by mmirate 9y ago
> mixed public private medical systems etc. As best I understand, having a single system with aspects of both extremes, has not brought out the advantages of either. We'd be better served by having a public system and a market that
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by mmirate 9y ago
Thiel is correct. Any centralized system wherein multiple cultures must fight for a majority with which to impose their culture on everyone else, does not respect the freedom of slightly under half its citizens. ("Red Tribe" and &
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by mmirate 9y ago
Obviously, anyone who made anything popular and permissively-licensed has undergone such regret when corporations scooped it up and used it gratis without contributing anything back. Lesson: if you use a permissive license, you are acknowle
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by mmirate 9y ago
Well, there aren't any more unsolved problems that aren't touched by politics (n.b. this wasn't the case back when CS was a new field and better algorithms were being discovered left and right), and it's no easier to get
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by mmirate 9y ago
> they're more protected now because of social media I'm sorry, I don't understand. The techniques, or BuzzFeed? And how does social media protect them?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Wrong. I'm a BSCS student with no work experience.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Underestimated? These "underestimations" seem very accurate to me, and without a 300-million-person hive-mind, I can't imagine anything different. Any single person who isn't a politician, intelligence agent, etc., is m
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by mmirate 9y ago
> insult added to the injury That should be the other way around, no? The financial damage is injurious whereas the stalking (like an insult) has mere psychological impact.
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by mmirate 9y ago
So I suppose it's not the empathy itself that's the problem; rather, it's that we are so emotionally sensitive to the data we gain from our empathy.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Wait a sec. If this dystopic future you cite is able to genetically engineer embryos, then wouldn't everyone be able to reproduce? (Less-fit people would obviously pass on less of their genes.) And while your complaint about skin color
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by mmirate 9y ago
In addition to the factors mentioned in the sibling comment, empathy can often lead one to make the wrong decision. (Where by "wrong" I mean any decision other than the one best supported by one's rational analysis.)
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by mmirate 9y ago
Hmm. Including myself, anyone with an IQ less than 2.5 sigmas above average, or with strong enough emotions to make bad decisions that contradict correct analyses, or with not enough ambition to want to attempt anything useful with their hi
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by mmirate 9y ago
Well this is exciting, but hopefully it will advance beyond "genetic disease". Or maybe in the future we will be able to expand our definition of that term, to include all genetic predispositions to suboptimal traits? (e.g. slow o
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by mmirate 9y ago
> [classical liberalization] of markets That sounds like an awesome goal! Why the negative tone? (by the way, "anti-Left" isn't a complete description of classical liberalism, since the Right is tainted by authoritarianism
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by mmirate 9y ago
Oh, that's the beauty of it all. There is no end. No end to the war, and thus no end to the profitability of the U.S.'s contracted armament/defense manufacturers. And no end to the citizens' willingness to trade away the
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by mmirate 9y ago
Such a thing is only logical for them, yes.
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by mmirate 9y ago
So you would rather have people who lack any skills that are worth minimum wage, starve instead of being able to work for less than minimum wage?
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by mmirate 9y ago
From a modern viewpoint, I fail to comprehend how Order/Chaos is not merely a special case of Good/Evil. Biological life/intelligence, and the Earth it inhabits, is Order, an unusual low-entropy arrangement of matter; where
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by mmirate 9y ago
But this points to not a specific misunderstanding of accidental death, but to a general inability to comprehend/apply statistics, which includes things such as cost/benefit analyses.
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by mmirate 9y ago
"Do better"? Us, and what army? With the possible exception of Sam Altman, none of us has any non-negligible agency in the political realm of any nation, let alone our own. And it's not just an issue of quantity: we aren&#x27
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by mmirate 9y ago
Perhaps, but you'd be surprised at the number of issues that would be solved by every market being "free enough". Of course, by "every market" I must also include the market on aggression, wherein government is, by
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by mmirate 9y ago
> No, none of this actually influences how normal people think and act. Well that's bloody stupid and innumerate of them. Surely, enabling such vices can't be good in the long-term. ... and how, again, are these people able to
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by mmirate 9y ago
> The free market is an abstract concept, a model. It explains some markets better than others. It is also an ideal; a status to be strived-for.
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by mmirate 9y ago
That was the one! Clearly I didn't remember the details of the wording well enough to use the right search term.

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