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by polymatter 11y ago
Social condemnation of torture would be a great start. But unfortunately the average Joe strongly believes that its easy to tell if someone is holding out and that torture is an effective way of extracting information if they were. Programm
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by polymatter 11y ago
I'd be interested to hear any other potential solutions. Seems to me the choice is either: a) basic income, or b) all the unemployed who can not get a job in the new economy are given a government job. The work in the job doesn't
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by polymatter 11y ago
I'm not sure if it was edited, but reference to China has now gone.
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by polymatter 11y ago
> This is essentially the problem which you are seeing from a different angle and that's okay. Having thought about this, I think you're right. I can see how keeping salaries secret doesn't cause the issues I suggested it
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by polymatter 11y ago
You are right I shouldn't refer to a woman in her early 20's as a girl. Its a habit when I thought "girl" meant, woman younger than me. Sorry. Horses are expensive to maintain, even if they are gifted to you for free. Bu
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by polymatter 11y ago
But keeping salaries secret leads to rumour and speculation. How is that better? Especially when you make it so taboo to talk about, it just makes it more exciting. Especially so since you can't hide the externalities. I'll give y
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by polymatter 11y ago
I think his ultimate point was that embik is being naive. That it is just a simple coverup with a thin, obviously untrue excuse.
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by polymatter 11y ago
> so financially ignorant I agree, and specifically I think of the confusion between gross profit margin and net operating cashflow. Tesla makes money on every car sold (as they actually have a gross profit) but have been spending cash r
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by polymatter 11y ago
what made you change your opinion? I love it when there are translation notes on screen. It feel inclusive to explain to me what's going on. I can't speak Japanese, am not embedded within current popular Japanese culture and did n
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by polymatter 11y ago
its probably a short term fix while they work through the process of working out how to identify the defective machines and isolate them properly within Windows Updates. still incredibly dodgy though.
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by polymatter 11y ago
be interesting if we allowed prisoners the choice of prison, haha.
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by polymatter 11y ago
optimise by a score. score is calculated as a function of price and some quality metric. unfortunately this can get complex.
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by polymatter 11y ago
do you have any recommendations on such tutorials/introductions that teach category theory?
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by polymatter 11y ago
I agree that more can be done to increase incentives for manufacturers to produce better packaging. I would caution against outright bans, as that often exacerbates unforeseen circumstances. You might end up encouraging massive deforestatio
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by polymatter 11y ago
Re: 1, the following is a quote from the aforementioned licence pag ( http://www.hwaci.com/cgi-bin/license-step1 ) --- Even though SQLite is in the public domain and does not require a license, some users want to obtain
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by polymatter 11y ago
I highly recommend CGP Greys video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU ) for a good overview of the issue. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9341055 for similar discussion.
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by polymatter 11y ago
Not being double-blind makes it cheaper. Hence takes less budget, lower taxes, everybody cheers. Anybody proposing to make it double-blind is going to need to find the money, either from other departments or by raising taxes. Without a chor
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by polymatter 12y ago
Work does not imply job. Jobs are where people are financially rewarded for work. Work that is not financially rewarded still exists. See topic: Hobbies, Charities, Volunteering.
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by polymatter 12y ago
I highly recommend the following CGP Grey video for further detail about the problems of First Past the Post voting ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo ). > But instead we have FPTP, and why? Its the simplest and
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by polymatter 12y ago
> you simply offer a bottle of vodka for a cell-phone photo of the ballot marked the way you want you have to keep tens of thousands of people quiet for that to work without any suspicion at all. with e-voting you can commit major fraud
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by polymatter 12y ago
But it also means that a virus that intercepts your PIN and your ID card can log in an hour later and vote for someone different. You then would have no way of knowing.
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by polymatter 12y ago
That was a very interesting video but I think you misrepresent it slightly. Its clear the Estonian E-voting system was designed very very well in comparison to the ridiculously bad Diabold machines of yesteryear. The problem was that the cu
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by polymatter 12y ago
I couldn't find any obligations. Its probably a good idea to keep your PIN secure to reduce the probability of ID fraud. As far as I can tell its a state backed digital signature and authentication system so wouldn't confer any ob
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by polymatter 12y ago
Interesting stuff. btw I think the type of your the function h is a -> c. I know its a minor typo, but it confused me while I was trying to follow.
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by polymatter 12y ago
Confucianism is a religion. No blurring out of technical theological details is required. Confucianism has a holy city, temples where people pray to him, miracles attributed to him, unquestionable holy books and an organization to promote i
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by polymatter 12y ago
Seems to be similar to a list at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/irregular-verbs/
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by polymatter 12y ago
!java means limit search to Java documentation !scala means limit search to Scala documentation !golang means limit search to Go documentation !cpp means limit search to C++ documentation etc. see ( https://duckduckgo.com/ban
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by polymatter 12y ago
I believe he is using the term "bullshit jobs" to mean jobs that are pointless, produce no producivity and are mainly created for the sake of appearances. In other words, the administration and civil servant jobs that you refer to
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by polymatter 12y ago
1 and 2 also applies to many adults and their peers. I think the main difference is as you stated that teenagers haven't internalized those lessons yet.
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by polymatter 12y ago
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