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by neffy 8y ago
string c++ The human mind is far greater than the sum of the algorithms - when we allow it to be.
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by neffy 8y ago
No, actually, I as an adult human being, am quite capable of using search, to find what I want. Now, I agree, search is also governed by algorithms - but I'm also quite capable of sitting there for a few minutes, paging through until I
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by neffy 8y ago
I think we're definitely looking at, at the minimum, another day off the working week - similar to the shift from the early 20th century from 6 to 5 days, as combine harvesters triggered a movement of something like 90% of agricultural
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by neffy 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting down voted, deliberately exploiting corporate status by defaulting on loans in various contexts is or certainly should be, a well known exploit of the financial system. There´s several papers written in the
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by neffy 8y ago
That´s not actually the case for the United States, if you look at government spending carefully, it´s actually shrinking as a percentage of the total money supply. People who like to claim that it´s growing, invariably fail to factor infla
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by neffy 8y ago
There used to be a Nortel Division up there that had an electro scanning microscope for this sort of thing - I imagine they´re still there under a different name.
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by neffy 8y ago
It´s fairly well known that people from impoverished backgrounds get lower grades for several reasons - not ever having practiced similar questions and vocabulary issues: there have been some quite notorious questions, especially over in En
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by neffy 8y ago
I think it´s fairly well accepted that Feynman deliberately blew off his IQ test.
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by neffy 8y ago
Exactly. It's a huge problem. A promising researcher can go from managing precisely 1 person, to have to handle a team of TA's to run a course, manage Masters and Ph.d. students, effectively working as a manager, with none of the
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by neffy 8y ago
Churchill was a complex man, but it was his party that got defeated in the 1945 election not Churchill. (Churchill it should be said, was a Liberal, not a Conservative before the war, and joined the party to prevent conflict in the immediat
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by neffy 8y ago
Exactly. The other gotcha with US unemployment is that you need to add about 2% to compensate for the incredibly large number of people stuck in prisons, compared to other countries. Approximately 0.7% of the population is behind bars, and
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by neffy 8y ago
You may or may not be fully cognisant of how your field is actually practised, which the original commentator obviously is. I have lost count of the times that senior people in your field, have happily admitted how their research is targete
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by neffy 8y ago
No, I would gently submit that they are provoking Western media to give them lots, and lots, of free publicity. Western countries are not going to give Russia any kind of hell that Russia´s rulers will really care about. Russia is a major g
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by neffy 8y ago
That is one of the interesting things about all this - but there are also much easier ways to do false flag operations. The evidence of this and previous assassination attempts is either there´s some idiot at the top of Soviet intelligence
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by neffy 8y ago
Original comment was from Britain, so yes. But let´s face it, if the Americans realized just how often the British are being conversationally sarcastic at their expense, it wouldn´t be Russian invaders that we´d have to worry about. Fortuna
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by neffy 8y ago
Personally I´m convinced there´s a "taxonomise everything" gene. Just look at biology. And while it may ultimately be doomed to partial failure, it´s still a beautiful thing to watch.
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by neffy 8y ago
Think of it as a form of positive income.
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by neffy 8y ago
And in practice, we also don´t have completely free markets, and even if we did, it´s highly unlikely that they would function the way current economic theory believes that they would.
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by neffy 8y ago
It's slower than any of us like. But "merely letting women get paid jobs" - there is nothing mere about the independence that that slowly brings with it - at all levels of society.
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by neffy 8y ago
There speaks the healthy... ... when you or your family are on death´s door because of an accident/cancer/heart attack/stroke/bug/immune disorder etc., you may find comparison shopping isn´t the first thing that com
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by neffy 8y ago
No, the Russians got him elected to start.
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by neffy 8y ago
It´s also possible that then as now, the idea of spending summer away from parental control was an excellent motivator for the younger members of the tribe to find new digs.
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by neffy 8y ago
Let's just hope articles are still being written in the 2050's
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by neffy 8y ago
Cui bono. Regulations can legitimately protect the public, or they can originate from well organised companies and other groups wanting anti-competitive practices to protect their own position. So somewhat problematically arguments against
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by neffy 8y ago
Banks are limited in the total amount they can by regulatory controls to prevent uncontrolled expansion of the money supply.
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by neffy 8y ago
It's essentially related to how the banking system works, and how it's regulated. QE money is asset money, it sits on the left hand side of the bank's balances. The money that everybody actually uses is bank deposit - liabili
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by neffy 8y ago
Fisher consensus problem :)
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by neffy 8y ago
I would really beg to differ on that, based on the sheer number of ads I´ve seen over the years on reddit for people to write blogs praising bitcoin, to say nothing of the blatant pump and dump schemes you can find on the dark net. At least
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by neffy 8y ago
Er, no. 25 years ago we had Wall Street championing computer backed loan securitization, and repackaging of the those instruments into CDO's etc. That led over time to the subprime loans - as by creating the means of providing more deb
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by neffy 8y ago
That's not actually the case. If you look at the money supply for the US it has a pretty constant growth rate over the last 8 decades - while the Federal Reserve claims to be messing around with the interest rate to control the economy

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