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by petra 7y ago
People in daycares are punished, severely, if they harm a child. And they deeply care about the children. But at most corporations, there are no large punishments, people are very far, psychologically from the results of their actions, they
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by petra 7y ago
As for the good stuff, who says it's bad for it to be hard to find? Or maybe it's the opposite, the fact that information is so easy to find, and everybody knows it, had devalued it. But the hard stuff ? Because it's hard to
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by petra 7y ago
>> Of course the Dutch come up with a very fair and reasonable compromise. Why ? what's different about dutch culture?
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A step closer to self-aware machines–a robot that can imagine itself(techxplore.com)
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by petra 7y ago
Many patents areuseless. But without patents, and with today's reverse engineering, most things would be reduced to cheap chinese clones. Yet it's not the case, in many fields.
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by petra 7y ago
It's a fascinating subject. And not easy to find good reading material about. So thanks for the book recommendations ! I wonder: in most of these stories someone who loves solitude goes and lives his life. But is there any reading mate
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by petra 7y ago
>> We will not see any real self driving in our generation, I agree. But we'll be driven a large percent of trips, in the near future. There's on-demand shared(few people in a vehicle) riding - which can be quite cheap AND f
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by petra 7y ago
>> What measuring profit does, which many people hate, is reveal what people actually value. IDK. there are non-profits helping women and children who suffered domestic violence, and some of those activities are state supported. Peopl
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by petra 7y ago
>>Amazon revenue in 2018 grew 30% over 2017, but headcount grew only 15% Amazon outsources a ton of work,for ex. To it's 3rd party merchants. So it's a bit harder to measure productivity.
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by petra 7y ago
There are more important values than profit. But in reality, profit makes things happen. So it's good to know about it.
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by petra 7y ago
It costs about $1 to transport an oil barrel 1000 miles. 35 billion oil barrels are transported each year. So transporting that olivine rock will cost an order of $250B. This will compensate for the yearly co2 emissions , ~38B tons. With ca
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by petra 7y ago
Being bored is great. You're forced to be with your thoughts. You have the opportunity to work on them. Be it via meditation. Or cognitive behavioral therapy. or whatever. And if you succeed, you earn a happier mind.
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by petra 7y ago
Sophisticated cooperation at the scale of the tribe. On the other hand, the market system is a system of massive economic cooperation, and very sucsesful in many important ways. But it's not a great fit for human psychology.
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by petra 7y ago
Interesting answer. The people aiming for a certain position or role mostly care about similar things though. So don't they play a zero sum game ?
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by petra 7y ago
I wonder why aren't modern nomadic tribes more popular. They're not easy to create, for sure. But they should be possible.
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by petra 7y ago
It's not that clear that the rich in general don't play a zero sum game. But anyways, that's not how people build their model of fairness. They look at their boss, making much money,often of their good work, while giving them
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by petra 7y ago
Modern Life is so complex. And in many situations , telling whether they're zero sum, is uncertain, and hard. Look at the debates here for example. So people default to what they already generally know. They know that society is very c
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by petra 7y ago
Reasoning locally, means maintenance on FP software should be easy. So beginners could solve simple bugs and add simple features to FP applications. Yet it's not a common thing. Why ?
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by petra 7y ago
For DIY, micvac.com is safe and may fit to the meal-prep community very well. The basic idea is a single-use valve based plastic package that lets you cook the food in a microwave in a closed container with an open valve(for steam release),
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by petra 7y ago
What about microwave assisted sterlization, or similarly , micvac.com(a in package cooking where a valve released all air, and than created negative pressure to make the package vacuum sealed) ? Why aren't they more common in ready mea
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by petra 7y ago
Well, testosterone is the hormone of competition. Males have much more of it. So everything's a competition, for many males. How did society educate men to compete on everything ? Why would it ? And on the other hand, women have low le
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by petra 7y ago
In my understanding, railgun development is physics and engineering. Can you expand a bit on the need for human life for testing ?
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by petra 7y ago
We have much better engineering tools today, so why would it take decades ?
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If Verilog is your target, compile times will be too slow. This is better: "We describe a hybrid area estimation technique which uses template-level models and design-level artificial neural networks to account for effects from hardwar
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by petra 7y ago
// What happens is that S1 is different for different computer configurations, and processing needs to happen. The computer and OS config doesn't change often. And it's doesn't seem slow to test that. So caching at
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by petra 7y ago
Let's say I could offer jobs to every truck accross the US, and had access to every trucking job customer. This enables me to plan the best routes and be the most efficient. My platform will win. But you imply there are hundreds of nic
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The industries you mention are huge. And fragmented. But once we start adding technology(not necessarily just software), they will become much less fragmented, with a few big winners. Doesn't that mean venture capital is a necessity ?
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Why does mentioning a competing job offer damages trust ? Aren't we all adults and know this is how this game is played ?
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According to recent news, Amazon freight is about 30% cheaper.
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Self driving r&d is rewarded in stock valuations. First, because you can create great looking demos and hide the real difficulties. Second, because you can say you will be selling trips, and have network effects,which seems to be a muc

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