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by moxious 10y ago
Granted it will be felt unevenly by why do you seem so gleeful to put all of this on the rich? Mass production and globalize trade makes medicines for poor people and makes all goods more affordable for low incomes. Also, what's with
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While I agree society needs to change, this vision of how it should change -- fewer globalized goods, no mass production, and so on -- well if that's my only option I'll take the climate change thanks. It's going to be dange
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I have no problem with speculation and wondering, just as long as it's identified as this...it's just that this is a really different activity than making statements about reality. When those activities get confused the audience
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It could be the case that we are being simulated by a far superior alien species. It could also be that invisible pink unicorns in the 15th dimension control all of our thoughts and only want us to believe this. Without being tongue in che
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This reads like a thousand other articles over decades, like moral panic. There's always some new drug that's coming along, whether meth, this, bath salts, whatever. When will culture come to its senses and realize that humans li
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Yes, this has always been the case: defenders put a foot of armor plating on all of the doors and windows, and attackers look for the key hidden in the fake rock outside, and simply come in the front door.
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Cheap passive funds are good advice if you want to maximize your return in the most frequent outcomes, but it ignores some powerful psychological stuff that's real and in play. An index fund is like a bus: everyone is going to the same
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An MBA doesn't teach you to be a dreamer. Neither does an engineering degree. But consider what personality types are drawn to different businesses...and I think you'll find a larger (but still small) percentage of the dreamer t
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Yes, you would expect it, but it's still rather atypical; most people become CEOs because of their business and political acumen, whether or not they understand the technical bits is maybe 10th priority. They say about companies that y
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Balancing quality assurance and safety against speed and convenience
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Why would this damage their brand? They tried an experiment, if didn't work out, they're moving on. What's wrong with that?
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This is illuminati thinking, pre-supposing that someone is in charge and that there's some big plan. That isn't the case. Plenty of organizations have a plan but the media is a gigantic melee of different ideas, no one is pulling
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There's a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman that talks about systematic bias in human heuristic thinking. > The more easily people can call a scenario to mind, the more probable they find it. This is
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Each president that expands the president's power manages to forget that he gives those powers to the next person. Which is how Trump now has quite the surveillance apparatus.
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Smart is a hard thing to talk about. Like the concept of "quality". There are hundreds of different kinds, and I can't really describe it, but you and I both know it when we see it. I can forgive them for being overly broad
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I understand that modern techniques are different than older approaches and I'm enthusiastic about their potential. But going from saying that these approaches will improve things to claiming that they'll destroy the middle class
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> Some people sound like they're planning how to invent enough bullshit jobs to provide everyone a regular 9-5 schedule and a supervisor even after machines are doing all the strictly necessary labor. I think that's mistaken on
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The market is already incentivized; if the performance of your site is lousy, people won't like it. I think fiddling with SEO incentives is too big of a hammer to swing at what is basically a very narrow technical problem, overall JS
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Not having charge backs doesn't make bitcoin less expensive, it just shifts costs. Good for retailers, bad for customers who can't dispute, or who had their money taken by fraud. Bitcoin has been around for a number of years now,
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> The true power of the blockchain is its ability to bring trust to places where it's currently inaccessible. Where is that? Because trust seems accessible to me everywhere there is a reasonably open democracy and rule of law. And
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What's the rate of growth on the size of the block chain? How big would it be for example after 5 years if 1/100th of economic activity was in BTC?
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Block chain has always seemed technically excellent but of limited practical value to me. It clearly excels in a world where the participants are anonymous and can't trust each other. The trouble is that doesn't describe most bus
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In the early days of the wide public internet it began with walled gardens like AOL. They're bad for users, but they're great for the gardener. Looks to me like Facebook is a new way of making a closed ecosystem of posts, account
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All research is international, it's just a community of scientists. It's always disappointing to see science described as if it's a sportsball game between nations. Whoever develops the tech first, we all win. You know, as l
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I hadn't considered that. Commuting by bike there's not a whole lot of unit testing going on for me
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Do many people do "pro" workloads on a battery? I always have a charger with mine and frequently lots of peripherals; USB keyboard, mouse, monitor, external HD, etc. and if I'm running 4 docker containers and a full stack o
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Guaranteed to be secure? Are you joking? Aside from the fact that nothing is guaranteed to be anything in the security world, if you go read the documents put out by Snowden there just no way you'd say that. More like it is that ther
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Pretty sure those other companies declared an intention to make a profit. Saying the opposite is indeed news. And sure, the company might turn the corner. But seriously why would investors pay $3 billion with a pitch like this? I guess t
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Insane is right. They lose that much money, and don't have a plan for profitability. If you lose money on each customer and scale the business...well, uh, losses scale too. I guess I'm just old fashioned, here I thought the point
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This is the reason to believe they'll stagnate: "We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability." Sooner or later, you run out of

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