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by q-big 4y ago
> It also encourages slavery. Indeed, if slavery turned out to be more efficient, it would. But I think that the claim that slavery is more efficient does not hold, since opressing people binds a lot of ressources; also opressed people t
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> What's the value in a spyware ridden laptop? Pre-installing spyware gives money to the vendor of the laptop. The developer of the spyware can afford to give this money to the laptop vendor since he can use the collected data to ma
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> If I don't buy anything, I'm out of the market system and the whole argument of "the market is best" falls down: it means the market hasn't solved my problem. This means the vendor makes no money from you. If a
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> but [the market] will not decide whether the 10 smartphones are needed or what kind of smartphone are needed. This is what buyers decide about via their buying decisions.
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> Efficiency in this case defined as "extracting as much money from consumers at as low a cost as possible", not "providing as much value as possible to consumers at as low a price as possible". "providing as mu
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> I don't like Android, I don't like iOS. What do I buy ? Not buying is also a possible decision. You should of course choose this choice if all other available option have a negative net value for you. The fact that you decide
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In the sense that those who are willing to pay the most get preferred resource allocation in a way that is self-adjusting. If a company is able to pay more for their commodities, it means that it is able to create more of an economic value
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> And increasingly, consumers have become resources rather than market participants. By their buying decisions, they actively decide that this is what they want.
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> The free market has always been a fable. The whole economic system is not geared towards maximization of consumers' quality of life No economist would claim that (and I seriously ask from where you got the "markets maximize c
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> What about your children's social/well-being from not interacting with their peers? With "social skills", you mean either tolerating bullying or becoming a bully? (Compulsary) school is a prison, so the only social
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> MIPS, Itanium, SPARC and POWER all have weak memory models. This does not seem to hold for SPARC: according to > https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/x86tso-paper.tpho... the (strong) memory models o
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> You can have the very best decompiler in the world and you're still going to be a rounding error compared to companies like Figma, because (1) not that many people use disassemblers (1) could be changed by making a decent offer to
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I agree that a web browser is an abstraction over some parts of what an OS offers. But a web browser is clearly not an operating system.
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> "Sometimes I think the new OS is not going to start from the hardware, because the classic OS definition, that Tanenbaum, one of the guys who wrote the book on Operating Systems that I read when I went to school was: “It does two
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> Are they culling microsoft teams? Pun intended?
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> Is tech still counter culture now that it pervades every place in society? Tech is not counter culture (and has in my personal observation never really been). Hacker culture, on the other hand, was counterculture from beginning on and
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> There are even more secrets that were discovered in recent years that aren't in the talk. Could you give details?
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> If by "online algorithm" you mean incremental learning, the problem is that they still don't work well due to catastrophic forgetting... I rather think that with "online algorithm", gnull means exactly this cl
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> If you also consider parts of the world like Europe where the price of electricity more than doubled and the power consumption of 4xxx series (practically secondary room heaters) Considering the worries about heating in the winter this
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> What is the Slashvertisement? I assume that it is a portmanteu of "Slashdot" ( https://slashdot.org/ ) and "advertisement".
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> Yeah, I think people underestimate the compelling nature of diverse expression. In my experience whether they find this compelling depends a lot on the respective person. "Manager types" might like it, but quite some programm
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> They did make good on this. You can make Meta accounts with arbitrary emails and there's no connection to Facebook or real name stuff. Can you also use the Meta headsets without creating any account?
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> Sorry, Feynman, whatever else he did, on probability he gets a grade of flat F. Here is why: In his book Lectures on Physics he states that a particle of unknown location has a probability density uniform over all of space. No it doesn
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> It's like driving a car; you do not have to be a engineer to drive one; but the more you want to push the limits of performance, the more you need to know about the details. This is a potential argument why users don't have
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> or don't want to rock the boat too much by not having any. Why is "not having children" rocking the boat. Intuitively, I would rather argue that (for example because of reasons outlined by the GP) having children means
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> Because it is mathematically equivalent to the others. Observationally indistinguishable. By Occam's Razor, if there exist multiple theories that are indistinguishable, we should take the one that has minimal assumptions (i.e. no
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> If someone were to show me a simple mathematical expression as defined above, I would be open to it. As far as I can tell, all this article is saying is "maybe it's possible". Finding such a simple mathematical expressio
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I cannot understand why superdeterminism is so much frowned upon while the many-worlds interpretation is considered to be perfectly fine. I rather think the same standard should be applied to both.
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> QM can't be based on LOCAL hidden variables. ... as long as we assume that the system being measured is uncorrelated with the choices of which measurements to make on it. :-)

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