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by padobson 10y ago
>On the third hand... Sounds these biases on exoplanets hit a little too close to home.
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by padobson 10y ago
Revenue at Airbnb increased more than 80 percent during 2016, said one of the people close to the company, even as cities like San Francisco and New York passed laws that would enforce limits on the number of nights hosts can list their pr
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by padobson 10y ago
I was hoping there would be something in the article about emergent behavior in colonies of insects. If you think of the bees as a big group of automata, the complexity isn't so much in the individual bee's brain, but in the colle
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by padobson 10y ago
I was thinking about this the other day, and I sat down and designed an office space for a company built around paired programming. The design is focused around four-office bullpens like so: Two programmers share a 225 sqft office. Offices
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by padobson 10y ago
For the uninitiated[0][1]: And ready to know what the people know / Ask 'em my questions / And get some answers / What's a fire and why does it / What's the word? burn? [0] https://play.google
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by padobson 10y ago
I'm curious how it would work at the hospital level, or even at the hospital network level. Pay the network a monthly fee, and then when you get sick, all of your care is already paid for. I suppose this is the idea behind HMOs, but th
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by padobson 10y ago
>a computer no one actually built but just fluctuated into existence It's reasonable to argue that all computers are these kinds of computers.
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by padobson 10y ago
>The data/code/simulation can't suddenly escape the sandbox and materialize into whatever the "reality" is made of. For that reason, it is trivial if we are in a simulation. 3D Printer owners would disagree with
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by padobson 10y ago
This. I posed identical posts on Tumblr and Medium for a few months, and the Medium traffic was always higher. The more people read it, the more traffic it got. If you put quality content on Medium, it's far more likely to be read.
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by padobson 10y ago
I am largely uninformed on this topic, so maybe you can answer a dumb question: If ivory is in such demand to the point that it has a large black market, why aren't there more attempts to domesticate and breed elephants for ivory? It s
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by padobson 10y ago
>Coroner is an elected position where you live? Sure is. I heard an anecdote through a common friend that a past coroner, who wasn't personally political, was running for office. My friend, a Republican, asked why the coroner was ru
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by padobson 10y ago
I'm no expert, but this feels more cyclical than "end of an era", unless you consider an era to be only 5-10 years. If you look at the Dow (I know I know, small sample) over the last 10 years[0], it doesn't take a genius
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by padobson 10y ago
I got my list and was pleased to see things like Auditor and Coroner, but why no state senator or state representative? There's also no judicial branch to be found, which may not matter much for the Federal Supreme Court, because they&
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by padobson 10y ago
> Severely immaculate You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by padobson 10y ago
I think everyone is overthinking my comment, which I was surprised to find was the most controversial thing I posted here in weeks. I like your take, because it questions where the line should be, and my answer is, how generous do you want
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by padobson 10y ago
As I understand it, George Lucas prohibited Fisher from wearing a bra as part of her costuming for Leia, because it would be too dangerous to wear in space. In her book Wishful Drinking she retorted with a request for her obituary: "
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by padobson 10y ago
Tipping is essential. It's the most common generosity exercise in everyday life. It gives us a chance to flex a muscle we don't flex often enough. We should be doing it more, not less. We should tip the cashier at the grocery stor
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by padobson 10y ago
Ha! Have an upvote. But seriously, if you can't make friends with a bucket of clams, you're just not trying.
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by padobson 10y ago
The true dilemmas of life, ethical or otherwise, can't be expressed as inductive or deductive arguments. At best, you can put together an abductive argument that ends up looking like a pros and cons list - and even still it's a ju
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by padobson 10y ago
I agree, I'm just not sure we'll be able to convince everyone with the capability of making sentient robots that they shouldn't make sentient robots before they make sentient robots. Human labor has solved a lot of problems.
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by padobson 10y ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure Marx understood that capitalism would have such a potential for wealth distribution. Today, you can buy a 3D printer for 1/20th of the median US salary. You can buy a super computer that fits in your pocket
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by padobson 10y ago
Everything old is new again. It's going to be some damn thing when everyone in the South takes your idea and they build up their civilization around free robotic labor, and then when we hit AI sentience and start ensuring the civil rig
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by padobson 10y ago
It really depends on what you want to do. If programming is programming and programming is just a job, then you can do that anywhere there are programming jobs, and with so many companies offering remote work, that could be anywhere. But if
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by padobson 10y ago
I think the problem with crowdfunding (and early adopters in general) is that product hype can be a product unto itself. That's part of the value that Kickstarter provides, but it disappears when a product hits the wider market, and al
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by padobson 10y ago
One of the best measures of quality of a company is how well it does after its founder dies/leaves. If your company can't run without you, you weren't building a company, you were building a job.
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by padobson 10y ago
Michael Crichton, who wrote and directed the original Westworld (also of Jurassic Park fame), describes the same idea in his novel Prey [0], which is about emergent AI from swarms of self-replicating nano-bots. 0. https://www.am
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by padobson 10y ago
Detox week may be a good time to focus on non-political positions and views to problems like mass-job displacement. Are there solutions to these problems that don't fit neatly into a political ideology? Are there solutions that don&#x2
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by padobson 10y ago
Seeing a growth number like 26.3% is like seeing a sprinter run the 100m in 9.43s. At first you're impressed, and then you immediately wonder what PEDs they're taking.
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by padobson 10y ago
>oh and playing Zelda, Mario, hell even a real pokemon game, on a touchscreen sounds awful I completely agree with this. But it's easily solvable - just make a controller. You buy the app on the platform, play a limited selection of
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by padobson 10y ago
I don't think it's their hardware, but their platform that they've been clinging to. Owning the platform gives gives them a lot of control over the gameplay experience. I don't think they need to give up their platform-o

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