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by rhelz 1y ago
We already have UBI....as long as you are over 65 :-) In addition, I suppose you would agree that children should be guaranteed to have a home and 3 square meals. So already something like half of our lives are covered by some kind of UBI.
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by rhelz 1y ago
// most people as soon as they are eligible...stop working...// Is that true? I mean, the best comparison to this wouldn't be some kind of pension system. It would be the universal guaranteed income we already hav
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by rhelz 1y ago
I remember when I was learning how to read, and I complained to my father how unphonetic English was. "Why can't we just write the words the way we say them?" He said, "Well, which pronunciation should we use?" H
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by rhelz 1y ago
Domo Aregato, Mr. Roboto.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Are you a robot?
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by rhelz 1y ago
If the self is an illusion, who is suffering the illusion?
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by rhelz 1y ago
They get all the money; we pay all the taxes.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Infected sinuses are created by swarms of tiny nose robots...
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by rhelz 1y ago
700+ million savings by cutting polio immunizations....
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by rhelz 1y ago
Every revolution has a counter revolution. Get ready for the pendulum to swing back.
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by rhelz 1y ago
The secret to German and French productivity is that when they are at work, they work. They don't spend a lot of time in worthless meetings, surfing the web, or otherwise procrastinating. Remember the movie "Office Space" wh
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by rhelz 1y ago
no matter how much information you think is stored in DNA, the information stored in your brain is at least 5 orders of magnitude more. In comparison with what you have learned, your DNA is a rounding error. What you can learn will just s
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by rhelz 1y ago
Saying that the information doesn't come from the DNA, but from the environment--well that is just conceding my point. Sure, environment is way, way, more important to the formation of who you are than genetics is.
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by rhelz 1y ago
chuckle hello dissenters, downvotes, and doubters :-) Seems like a lot of the objections stem from a few misconceptions: 1. You can dramatically increase the amount of information stored by compression. Uh, no. Information content is
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by rhelz 1y ago
In any case, 6.2 billion bits (interestingly enough, almost exactly as much information which is on an audio CD which you used for your romantic mixtapes) is an upper bound. This rules out pretty much every nutty theory which evolutionary p
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by rhelz 1y ago
Ah the good old days. I remember one of my computer architecture/compiler professors at Purdue chiding us for trashing Intel, pointing out that the 486 was quite comparable in performance to the snazzy new RISCs which were in fashion.
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by rhelz 1y ago
Ironically, Rails was specifically designed to minimize the kinds of problems the article talks about. And they did a heroic job. "Convention over configuration" are words to live by. Probably the single biggest idea in softwa
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by rhelz 1y ago
Individually, yes, our email doesn't amount to much. But when you can aggregate it, feed it into an LLM, etc. Kind of like how individually, our little lives and our circle of boring friends doesn't amount to much, but Facebook
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by rhelz 1y ago
You don't have to get rid of your fears in order to act.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Does anybody really think this letter was sent by accident?
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by rhelz 2y ago
What you are missing in your analysis is that New Yorkers don’t just let stuff like this happen for weeks and weeks. We social distanced, we wore our masks, and the ambulances stopped coming. It’s not like ambulances came every day for a
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by rhelz 2y ago
I was living in an NYC apartment when the plague hit. Every day an ambulance would come up to our front door, and wheel away another one of my neighbors, feet first, never to be seen again. Then it was TWO ambulances a day. I will not abid
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by rhelz 2y ago
Was there no native ARM linux you could have used? As I recall, you have used this emulated MIPs technique in many of your published projects, so it's good to prove that the hardware is working? Or why not just go full native....grab
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by rhelz 2y ago
Like somebody said in response to a paper which was anonymously published by Newton: "I recognize the Lion from his claw!"
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by rhelz 2y ago
My wife knew their Drummer when she was a P.R. and Analyst relations executive with IBM. He was working for IBM research.
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by rhelz 2y ago
From the article: "In Washington DC, I recently came across a famous Catholic Postliberal. I asked him about the possibility of a philosophical regime change — a regime change not just in government or law, but in the way people legit
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by rhelz 2y ago
// Even adults have a hard time to resist // and here we all are.
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by rhelz 2y ago
NAN is a part of the IEEE standard for floating point operations. AFAIK there's nothing which would prevent a NaN from being passed into your function--because NaN is a possible value for a double. I believe what would happen in that
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by rhelz 2y ago
After coming of age on Milton's and Hayek's views of the market--as a mechanism for processing information and allocating resources which was far better than any central planning could be--it was a huge eye opener when I actually
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by rhelz 2y ago
My favorite base. You can memorize the addition and multiplication tables in a few hours. It has a close relationship with primes. Every prime except for 2 and 3 (the factors of the base) end in either 1 or 5.

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