nevinera

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by nevinera 11y ago
>So I am assuming you are claiming to be part of the ecosystem? In general, I am part of many systems (eco- and otherwise), but no; that section of reply was an argument against the idea that being able to 'predict' the future
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by nevinera 11y ago
>If I can show that a capitalist system makes predictions, then I will have proven that it is intelligent. Your example applies perfectly well to a localized ecosystem. I can for example show that a surge in the population of rabbits on
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by nevinera 11y ago
It's only perceived power - people are rarely able to consider sunk costs rationally.
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by nevinera 11y ago
Our disagreement may be definitional - your original response was succinct and clear, but did not make an argument, merely an assertion. A) I see no reason that 'being made up of units which are intelligent' ought to classify a sy
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by nevinera 11y ago
You can call an ecosystem 'intelligent' if you want to, I suppose, but there's not really any way to discuss it as a 'maximizer' when it has no goals and no intentional behavior. You could as easily describe water a
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by nevinera 11y ago
Corporations can be usefully described as 'profit-maximizers', but capitalism itself doesn't have a coherent behavior - you can't describe it as any kind of AI.
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by nevinera 11y ago
This is silly. The 'tablet market' is not in need of saving, it's just reaching market saturation - these things are markedly tougher and longer-serving than laptops, and most people that want a tablet now have one. Netflix a
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by nevinera 11y ago
Moto E or G - wide base, good support, replacement parts easily available and installable. My kids keep breaking my screen, and I can replace the screen assembly for 30 bucks (takes about 20 minutes).
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by nevinera 11y ago
The point is that there are always differences - each recession is a snowflake, with distinct causes and circumstances. That doesn't impact the fact that they all behave pretty much the same way at the large scale, and it shouldn&#x2
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by nevinera 11y ago
It is, and eventually, we will probably run into a real game-changer.. but I'm mostly concerned for all the people that are saving money in index funds. Every recession, the news and the discourse are about how this one is special, and
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by nevinera 11y ago
Every recession in history has generated this same category of article - every generation feels that their recession is special because "things have changed now!" Maybe this one is different - that's a possibility. But I woul
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by nevinera 11y ago
We can estimate a metric of intelligence by observing people performing tasks that require thought and problem solving? O.O
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by nevinera 11y ago
Largely untrue on one count or the other. You are being vague about the word 'can'. Someone with a low IQ 'can' learn almost all of the same things as someone with a high IQ, it just takes more effort and time. We are hi
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by nevinera 11y ago
That direction of thought has produced quite a few useful insights, and continues to drive significant research. I'd never call it a 'fundamental truth' though - it's a question, and a type of question which allows for m
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by nevinera 11y ago
It was obvious hyperbole, directed at the poster I was responding to, a fairly typical speech pattern. Did you actually get the impression I was trying to suggest that literally every thin person in the country thinks in the same way? But y
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by nevinera 11y ago
It's made worse by the fact that when people give up on losing weight (and most people that fail to do so eventually will give up), they tend to give up by giving in to their own stereotype - eating buckets of fried chicken and guzzlin
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by nevinera 11y ago
People who have never struggled with their weight typically talk about obesity as if it is an uncomplicated phenomenon, an equation to follow, and pretend that cause and effect are obvious and easily discernible. If he is consuming ridiculo
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by nevinera 11y ago
Like flying cars?
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by nevinera 11y ago
Would be, if copyright were implemented that way. But it's not - you signed over the right to control the stuff you put on Facebook as soon as you wrote it.
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by nevinera 11y ago
This whole concept is ludicrous. I can understand why it appeals to people - their sense of unfairness is triggered, and that is a useful heuristic for finding unjust behavior.. but the actual implementations discussed amount to "mak
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by nevinera 11y ago
It looks like inline performs better on firefox and not on chrome - I just made a bunch of attempts both ways, and I'm seeing cached sideband as significantly better on Chrome, and only roughly equal on firefox. I was not expecting to
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by nevinera 11y ago
In chrome, I'm getting extremely similar times for the two approaches without caching (I am in-network, so my roundtrips are ~1ms). With the style.css fully cached, I'm getting ~15ms faster on the sideband approach than with inl
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by nevinera 11y ago
How much of that win was only on the first time a page from your site is requested? I'd expect in-lining the css to be a slight net loss once the data is cached - my strategy would be a `style-<md5sum>.css` with a long max-age.
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by nevinera 11y ago
Nothing magical about it, but yes it will. Or rather, vim doesn't need to change its color scheme in order to be displayed in a completely different set of colors, which is what he's talking about. If you change the color mappin
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by nevinera 11y ago
In the relatively near-term future it will be literally impossible to employ more than half of the population in nearly full-time positions that produce a net gain for their being filled. At that point there are essentially two choices - le
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by nevinera 11y ago
Yes. But the presence of a large group with a consistent fixed income would incentivize the building of large-scale low cost apartments - those don't exist currently outside of major cities (where 'low cost' is substantially
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by nevinera 11y ago
2700 per month is 32.4k per year - that's awfully high for a basic income. I'm not surprised it's "too expensive".
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by nevinera 11y ago
>“If you just put a swirl blur on somebody’s face, it’s not very difficult to unswirl that blur, and then all of a sudden it’s un-redacted,” Shaw said. Then use a REAL BLUR.
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by nevinera 12y ago
Right, because I claimed that there are no nice people working on rails at some point..? We were talking about the overall culture of the rails community. Nor did I intend to imply the DHH was evil, just abrasive. "nice" != "
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by nevinera 12y ago
Unfortunately, the rails community are the visible minority, and they follow DHH's example more than Matz's.

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