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8y ago
I live in Toronto, and many people are racist here too. But the point was about Trump - yes New York and California might turn xenophobic, and then Canada might too, but it's not likely (too many minorities/immigrants are friends
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8y ago
I'm sorry, but that doesn't compute for me. Canada is USA lite, can hardly notice a difference. I've lived in both europe (UK) and canada, and hands down Canada beats any european country in standard of living. It has less so
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8y ago
Canada does not have "a far less valuable citizenship compared to other western countries". It's standard of living is (size of house, consumer spending power) is better than any large country except the USA. And the weather
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8y ago
Persuade the Bill Gates, Warren Buffets, Mark Zuckerburgs to become the anti-Koch brothers by supporting left-wing politicians. Support the land value tax (Georgism). Much of rich people's wealth is tied up in the land value of big cit
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8y ago
elon musk said that he plans for higher capacity by building multiple tunnels. There can be up to 30 tunnels stacked on top of each other, a few feet apart in depth, or more likely stacked around both vertically and horizontally.
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8y ago
Burger King stops advertising on Tv and loses even more market share to McDonalds. McDonalds then spends less on advertising because it realizes it doesn't need to because Burger Kind gave up. You're left with a "monopoly&quo
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8y ago
The adverts on TV are a clear indicator that bullshit jobs exist, they are simply not necessary. Further, much of modern society is not necessary. Fast food is stuff you could make at home, but you're too busy at your advertising job.
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8y ago
If the advertising competition you mention didn't exist, for example competitors closing shop and not playing the zero sum game, then you'd have a monopoly company, which would also be bad. So in that case, it's good to play
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8y ago
Well, i can see that you are a expert in this field, but i still have to say the method they demonstrate, domain randomization is a big deal because that can then be applied to anything else like picking up stuff. Domain randomization is a
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8y ago
Dextrous manipulation is a big deal though. Typical stuff we've seen like generating synthetic faces using GANs is not commercially useful, but eye-hand coordination is 90% of commercial activity worldwide.
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8y ago
Is there some comprehensive source of information on these. Downloadable dataset of research, like the patent database that is downloadable.