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by observation 9y ago
Ycombinator does have a podcast.
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by observation 9y ago
And yet... The new rulers are far less effective than the Apartheid government. The cost of bad government is so influential it's nearly hard to imagine. I strongly suspect the moral accounting does not favour your position in the long
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by observation 9y ago
Should mass communication be deliberately dampened? Examples: 1. Ban on Televsion News during the weekend. 2. High taxes on mass produced media for general audiences. 3. Internet time limit restrictions for social media. I'm sure I&#x2
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by observation 9y ago
Because universities are mostly about class signaling. Peter Thiel talks about it at length.
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by observation 9y ago
Personally I think NPR is one of the worst offenders. It's not what they say, it's what they leave out. Those soothing dulcet tones are half way to hypnosis. I give you little credit for recognize Fox News propaganda because it&#x
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by observation 9y ago
I can think of improvements in those areas, but what I can't think of is improvements reaped by the average person. I wonder if that is partly information asymmetry. A person who buys a passivhaus knows what they're getting. But n
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by observation 9y ago
There are no machines that make meals, fold laundry for the average person and there won't be in ten years either. I think Ford did the 1999AD video showing this happening in the '70s. There are machines that may assist you in doi
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by observation 9y ago
I know good people in Europe making 14k - 23k per year.
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by observation 9y ago
You should pay for an email account. Fastmail is a good service.
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by observation 9y ago
Great article.
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by observation 9y ago
I see, well I appear to have misinterpreted then. I'd edit my post to mention that but of course we can't.
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by observation 9y ago
I think because the 'state', isn't. Think of the number of times your computer has crashed, had memory wiped, new OS installs, been stolen, replaced. Did your bookmarks from 15 years ago survive? With mobile phones identity w
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by observation 9y ago
It is surely true we have no idea how difficult constructing an AGI is. It could require wholly new forms of hardware e.g. photon computation or parallelism similar to the brain's neuron might be a prerequisite. It is intriguing (I thi
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by observation 9y ago
> Ah, there's the "they're only joking" trope we know and love. It's not like that. I don't want to trivialize the death of the girl in Charlotte either, it's a domestic terror incident. There's a
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by observation 9y ago
> Perhaps not "murder" but certainly "attack and maim". Please don't try excuse this with the "but they're only JOKING" trope - their intent is blatant and clear. If you're looking for people
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by observation 9y ago
In my opinion AGI won't exist for quite a long time. I also think for gigantic disruption in business or the military AGI is not required - the right species of narrow AI coupled with human intervention could be very effective. Organiz
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by observation 9y ago
This gem from HN the other day: > Because it's hard to unanimously and unequivocally identify those who are intolerant as such. Owing to the beguiling nature of language and rhetoric, the intolerant can thrive and propagate by argu
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by observation 9y ago
It'd be a hell of a high school student who competently used uberStudent. Most career programmers don't need the latest and greatest so I'm sure this will be fine. Also it's fast on old machines, saving you money/re
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by observation 9y ago
Question: are neoreactionaries Nazis?
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by observation 9y ago
If you want to ban reactionaries then you are pushing out an entire political category of thought that historically and arguably presently includes a huge portion of the West's intelligentsia. Might as well throw in Socialism or Libera
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by observation 9y ago
I highly recommend UberStudent.
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by observation 9y ago
Maybe he got too close to an Alzabo. Suspect the format puts some people off, I understand it's publisher economics but having 4 volumes paired into 2 books strikes people as complicated as they try to work out how much book they'
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by observation 9y ago
Not in this exact form. The majority of what HN is went under the name 'trade publications', these have a community surrounding them. Fine Homebuilding and Green Building Advisor are examples for tradespeople that I frequent. If t
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by observation 9y ago
One book more than any other: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Why? Darwin opens up the door of Deep Time when he explained his discovery. An appreciation of the immensity of time happens to be linked to explanations of how and why th
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by observation 9y ago
Since you asked: http://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2016/11/08/voxsplaining-vox/
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by observation 9y ago
That's interesting Dale, but I do not understand why you think the Enlightenment ideals are an exception to this: " Every civilization believes it is “the end of history,” the last and best political idea. In this sense, the notio
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by observation 9y ago
They probably have no faith that it isn't voxplaining and everybody's sick of talking about it since the James Damore event of the summer - the well is truly poisoned. By somebody else; > I would cite examples, but it would get
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by observation 9y ago
Don't have Facebook account. I did get a Google account but only used it for the purpose of communicating to somebody on a Youtube Livestream. Now that I'm reminded of that I'm going to delete it... done! I recommend Fastmail
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by observation 9y ago
Agree on Youtube, getting away from it is much harder because the expense of mass data storage causes a natural monopoly to form. I suspect it will ultimately be upended through a deeper change, likely with agent based computation.
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by observation 9y ago
I doubt even a majority of HN has Facebook accounts and Gmail for email. A lot of us use services like Fastmail, Protonmail for email and simply do not use Facebook. Gmail is so bad it's not even usable for me in comparison to how it w

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