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by mmirate 8y ago
> disabled or chronically ill a priori , I consider both of those fates worse than death. Support network or no.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> (parents, school system) Being younger than the Web, I utilized neither of those things to learn how to set up a budget. > On one hand we're all adults and ought to keep trying to learn whatever will benefit us best (ie "F
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by mmirate 8y ago
> housing costs were not 50-75% of their salary 75% is far above what any reasonable person would recommend to be the maximum portion of salary that should be spent on housing. Personally, my housing is around 25% of my posttax income,
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by mmirate 8y ago
If someone is unproductive and can't/won't work, then people shouldn't be obligated to give him/her the fruits of their labor.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> We need better politicians. Have you ever considered that this might be the inherent nature of politicians, and that we might be better to go without them and their local-monopoly called "government"?
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by mmirate 8y ago
Without teeth, the ACM Code of Ethics is just a bunch of lofty-sounding words on a website. In this situation, ethics is management's job, and value-creation and loss-avoidance (with appropriate documentation to list-out during pay-rev
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by mmirate 8y ago
It is, and it's still very much a fluff class. Such is its proper place, unless and until CS becomes a profession.
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by mmirate 8y ago
With SSDs, don't the critical determiners of latency and bandwidth become the data transfer buses, rather than the storage media themselves? (especially if one uses an external USB SATA controller, in the vain hope of having storage th
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by mmirate 8y ago
> the lack of credit to the original author (Dean) The linked GitHub repo's description reads "Jeff Dean's latency numbers plotted over time".
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by mmirate 8y ago
Not knowing everything means there could easily be some unknown element that renders our knowledge moot.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> you didn't see the comment Aside: occurrences like this are what amaze me at (a) HN's lack of a built-in system of notifying users when others reply to them, or at least a linear view of all replies; and (b) the resulting rel
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by mmirate 8y ago
In such a dystopia, a clear blue sky might not be visible from the ground on a regular basis.
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by mmirate 8y ago
At the moment, Tempo Automation[1] is probably the closest thing to the goal you describe. [1]: https://www.tempoautomation.com
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by mmirate 8y ago
As usual, we never seem to be able to learn from the past, except by accidentally reinventing it under a different name. I wonder why the software industry is so uniquely stricken by such monumental hubris?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Wages set by the free market can be below what is necessary to survive ... and this conveys the fact that the work to be done, isn't considered valuable enough to support a human life. Making these kinds of jobs illegal just puts
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by mmirate 8y ago
The essential question, then, is how to not-care enough to avoid procrastination while caring enough to produce sufficiently high-quality work to avoid career stagnation...
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by mmirate 8y ago
(when writing new code)
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by mmirate 8y ago
> A person becomes weak if he always enjoys what's going on around. For any person not retired or similar, this is a true statement , not a mere sample of "internal motivations and fears".
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by mmirate 8y ago
Sorry, I got that quote backwards, it should have read "People are always ends not means.".
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by mmirate 8y ago
> I can't tell if you're being sarcastic? I didn't put a "/s" because doing so would convey an inaccuracy. > Without additional protections, such as a bill of rights, "democracy" is stupid. But
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by mmirate 8y ago
> Instead, it is because their behavior and nervous systems strongly suggest that they experience pain in the way that we understand it. "People are always means not ends.", albeit a very false sentence, is a good-enough approx
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by mmirate 8y ago
> If the majority of the country holds a philosophy that favors the majority of the country, that doesn't automatically make it ethical. Congratulations, you've discovered why democracy is stupid.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Actually, specifically singling out Islam is only logical because it is the largest group of people with whom these issues are associated.
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by mmirate 8y ago
> intelligent Not enough to matter, if at all, because they still can only qualify as ... > animals ... and therefore are not due even vaguely similar rights/considerations as people .
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by mmirate 8y ago
Yes, I did restate a particular subset of Economics 101 which your comment seemed to have left out-of-sight and out-of-mind.
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by mmirate 8y ago
If any given thing is "too expensive", then an important fact is being conveyed: that thing takes too many resources to produce, relative to the value it is providing. Trying to hide or subsidize the price only prevents people fro
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by mmirate 8y ago
Because nuclear - with exception of neutron bombs - destroys buildings, resources and materiel as well as people; chemical and biological attacks mostly don't.
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by mmirate 8y ago
Err, what? How does an interceptor, with a conventional warhead, come even anywhere close to the cost of a nuclear warhead alone?
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by mmirate 8y ago
> for some definition of unethical Definitions are numerous and mutually-disagreeable enough that if there is your X then there will also be a corresponding person Y who will value early access to X at a maximally irrationally high price
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by mmirate 8y ago
Autonomous or not, submarines still need propellers and power sources to go anywhere - both of which make noise.

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