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by pvnick 9y ago
Correction: "Most people currently have..." In the long run, the only barrier to competition is regulatory capture, which is much harder to overcome than short-term problems like there not being enough competition. Technical cha
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by pvnick 9y ago
Wait patiently for the inevitable correction. E.g. innovation like this and other things we can't even imagine yet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/17/elon-musk...
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by pvnick 9y ago
Good. The less federal regulation over ISPs the better.
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by pvnick 9y ago
This is what happens when bureaucrats in the administrative state determine rules rather than congress.
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by pvnick 9y ago
I personally wouldn't, but the people most susceptible to buying into that kind of thing would.
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by pvnick 9y ago
> The alternative is to let no-nazis, white supremacists publish articles unfettered about the evils and inferiorities of Blacks and Jews so they can win supporters Then let them. If you try and censor their views then you give them cred
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by pvnick 9y ago
Quid est veritas? Not sure how I feel about large corporate entities taking the lead on what is and what is not true or acceptable speech. The internet and mass media has oversaturated us with information. Rather than make us smarter, it se
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by pvnick 9y ago
> the amount of information on the web itself dwarfed anything available in books Yes but that information has turned out to be largely shallow and meaningless noise. For example, if you're searching for anything of substantial impo
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by pvnick 9y ago
NK having or not having nuclear weapons is a binary choice. AGW is multivariate. If temperature is rising, how much do we expect it to continue rising? If rising temperatures are due at least in part to CO2 emissions, then to what degree? H
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by pvnick 9y ago
> Stopping -- let alone reversing -- climate change is orders of magnitude more difficult than that. It involves the coordination of billions of people in a task that goes against their short-term, individual interest. It is also extreme
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by pvnick 10y ago
I'd love to hear your thoughts on how those issue can be solved that doesn't involve totalitarianism or in other ways infringing on people's rights. Because the problem you're trying to solve has been attempted by many m
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by pvnick 10y ago
At some point there's a threshold beyond which alternative enegry sources become more profitable than fossil fuels, and at that point zillions of dollars will be spent on R&D. We're getting there, albeit perhaps a little more
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by pvnick 10y ago
Indeed it is a complex situation. The difficulty is that, among proposed solutions, there are ideas that are being taken seriously that have the potential to drastically slow down the economy, decrease the standard of living for millions or
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by pvnick 10y ago
The bar to ban things has dropped so low because of that handwavey line of reasoning, despite real economic effects to people whose livelihoods are at stake (i.e. farmers).
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by pvnick 10y ago
All science starts with a hypothesis. If the evidence he presents supports his, then what's the problem? Peer review will illuminate if he is dishonest in his analysis. The bigger risk is the converse problem, where nobody around is ch
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by pvnick 10y ago
The idea that technology will cause widespread job-loss and economic upheaval is such an old fear, and it never works that way. Technological innovations lead to wealth creation 100% of the time, along with more opportunities for more peo
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by pvnick 10y ago
Silicon Valley culture needs to recognize its tendency towards bullying people that are perceived to not fit the ideological mold, and fix it. Like now. Brendan Eich and Peter Thiel are two examples in recent memory. In addition to being et
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by pvnick 10y ago
We can circumvent the rules against political discourse as long as we do it under the veil of listing all the negative things that Republican policies will do for YC.
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by pvnick 10y ago
> Not only can Facebook say you are a Trump supporter, but they can know by how much and as time series! That's a fascinating insight. They also have the geographic data and could slice/dice to get a sense of electoral college.
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by pvnick 10y ago
> Among experts, the gauge on NSA is trending strongly towards "clownshoes". Really? That's interesting (and funny!). Can you elaborate? What in particular regarding NSA points towards clownshoes?
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by pvnick 10y ago
I don't think anybody is implying that.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Great summary, thanks for that. This therapy appears fairly elegant. Let's hope it makes it through trials.
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by pvnick 10y ago
That's interesting. Thank you for the history lesson and for the glimpse into the culture at CERN.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Wow, that's interesting. Interactive python a la jupyter notebook revolutionized my workflow; I guess it makes sense to allow the same for a codebase written largely in c++
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by pvnick 10y ago
That's what I initially thought of as well. Great movie.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Can somebody please shine some light on why such an endeavor was undertaken by CERN? What was so important about JIT C++ that they had to write such a sophisticated piece of software?
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by pvnick 10y ago
Good point!
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by pvnick 10y ago
I'm not sure what the problem is though. In all likelihood the doctor has been trained on HIPAA procedures.
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by pvnick 10y ago
Actually, sufficiently aggregated health data is generally fine to release publicly since it can not be tied to an individual. Anonymized data you must be very careful with, since individual data elements can frequently be combined to re-id
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by pvnick 10y ago
How come it has to be progressive? Wealthier folks consume more and therefore pay more.

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