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by pharke 6y ago
I think the complexity could be reduced in the same ways that we reduce complexity in text based code. We no longer write programs as one giant file after all.
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by pharke 6y ago
Yeah I'm thinking it would be more useful to have a really well indexed library of functions accessible by search.
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by pharke 6y ago
Due to the changing nature of the web I'd even say that the sum total of useful information is actually decreasing year over year. I believe we hit an inflection point a decade or more ago when the number of people with specialized kno
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by pharke 6y ago
> the reference to "doing what's best for his family" is often used to describe making ends meat, not making sure 30M a year doesn't become only 10M a year Actually I think that's entirely appropriate. Seeing a l
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by pharke 6y ago
Y'all are taking this way too literally. "a man's gotta eat" is a figure of speech, I meant he needs to maintain his current income. YouTube has probably been jerking him around for years now so moving to a signed multi-
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by pharke 6y ago
Lifestyle inflation is a bitch.
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by pharke 6y ago
You have to keep in mind that Joe is a comedian first and foremost. Comedians have had the rug pulled out from under them with COVID-19. He's doing what's right for his family at the moment. I fully expect this to come up in one o
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by pharke 6y ago
I'll admit that it is well written and makes for a compelling description of the growth of an urban center but it doesn't answer the questions it poses. It seems to say that the value of land and resources increases as the populat
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by pharke 6y ago
Almost feels like they were doing an A/B test
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by pharke 6y ago
I think it's a smart play. Standalone VR makes it incredibly more accessible. Everyone with a Quest does the same thing, they cart it around to parties and gatherings to let people experience VR and it's a blast. Even if this wasn
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by pharke 6y ago
They could be wildly successful if instead of $100 pucks they could just sell $1 stickers that you could attach to whatever you want. With enough of them you could probably use it to aid scanning in geometry of real world objects
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by pharke 6y ago
My question was more to do with how the improved value would scale for rural land that had a lot of use but can't generate as much income. Many rural businesses require a lot of land area but only produce a modest income which is possi
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by pharke 6y ago
So this seems all well and good for urban areas but what about rural land ownership? Or is that not a concern here?
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by pharke 6y ago
Most death in those systems is due to predation though. Just look at what happens when natural predators are removed, the population explodes and then busts due to starvation. If your conjecture was correct then the population would self-re
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by pharke 6y ago
I think I remember reading another sci-fi book or short story that posited the classic "teleporter problem" but the device functioned by making a copy of the individual and then destroying the original, similar to The Prestige I s
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by pharke 6y ago
There are two different pursuits tangled up in this. One is seeking money and prestige and the other is seeking knowledge. They are confused because in order to earn money you often need at least a modicum of specialised knowledge and prest
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by pharke 6y ago
This is exactly the type of thing universities should not be for. We should create a separate institution that serves these needs without pretending to be a university. We literally need a trade school for people who just want a piece of
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by pharke 6y ago
That's a rather depressing way to look at the world. It seems a bit of lazy thinking to assume that waiting for one generation to die is the only way for society to advance. You're also taking for granted that new ways are always
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by pharke 6y ago
If we ever eliminate poverty globally we're going to have exactly the opposite problem at which point lifespan and healthspan extension become critical for the continued existence of humanity.
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by pharke 6y ago
I wouldn't say a feature of evolution. Perhaps it is an adaptation of sexually reproducing multicellular life but it certainly doesn't apply to all life.
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by pharke 6y ago
Probably confounded by the social dynamics of human groups. There also isn't any evidence that it would extend reproductive lifespan either.
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by pharke 6y ago
This may seem like a convoluted scheme but I think it does have solid grounding. Not everyone has developed the same capability for internal reward and not everyone can arrive at this through rational means. Our limbic system is the source
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by pharke 6y ago
I think we'd be much further along if we kept our wet ware and learned how to program our existing DNA and proteins. We already have a functioning system that does what we want and a whole planet full of example code. The molecular mac
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by pharke 6y ago
We still need to apply caution but what we are doing right now is excessive. This is a new virus, there are still a lot of unknowns but the current situation doesn't warrant a complete shutdown. We need to protect the most vulnerable m
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by pharke 6y ago
So let me get this straight, the elevator pitch for this is: "We're going to make a micro-brain out of dick skin and spider webs so we can give it herpes and see if it gets Alzheimers." Just wanted to make sure.
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by pharke 6y ago
It sounds like the problem then is getting everyone to share fundamental values. If everyone has common ground to start from then it's easier to build towards a resolution of conflict. I agree that any group of people will eventually h
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by pharke 6y ago
I don't think you can categorize layoffs as unintentional striking. Businesses are capable of laying off a lot of their workforce without crumbling, they just wind up running leaner and pruning some of the growth they had in the last f
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by pharke 6y ago
I disagree, I think it's important to remind ourselves of the inbuilt limitations of our mind and body. The same way you need to remind yourself that even though sugary food tastes good, too much of it will cause a lot of problems (and
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by pharke 6y ago
I have a different take on this. "do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" isn't a dangerous cliche, it is in fact true (note that many cliches are cliches because they are obvious truisms). The proble
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by pharke 6y ago
I think there is a lot of value in learning in the same place that others are learning. You have a set schedule, you have people to discuss the material with, you can learn from other students, you gain experience working with peers in a gr

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