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by rjf72 7y ago
But we do all have shared values. In fact, I think we all agree on most of everything. Imagine there was a button you could press where each and every person would suddenly receive at least a nice house, a bit of land to call their own, a
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think this misses the point. Newspapers can do fine when people read them. Ad sales, sponsorships, etc provide more than enough revenue for a local paper that has a at least a moderate readership. The reason newspapers are failing is beca
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by rjf72 8y ago
It's not about making it "easier" to hire top quality people, but cheaper. Easier would imply that companies such as Google, Apple, and Intel are simply unable to hire enough top quality engineers. That's clearly false.
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by rjf72 8y ago
Rather than getting into the issue of who was more dominant in a field at a given time, let's look at another field. Literally all early psychologists were men. Today the field is about 70% women with a rapidly increasing "gender
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There have been numerous other surveys throughout the years including by Gallup [1] that generally all find similar results. The Gallup poll, though, was less precise and simply asked if people expected to become "rich." A directl
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by rjf72 8y ago
What is the point of discussion? I'd say it's presumably to convey our ideas and ideally influence one another. I mean we all think we're right about the things that we believe - or we wouldn't believe them. So why don&#
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by rjf72 8y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with patriotism in and of itself as this applies to most of everything. This $100 phone will cover literally 100% of my use cases in a 100% satisfactory fashion. This $200 (let alone $1000) phone wil
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by rjf72 8y ago
I completely agree with you, with one exception. It's easy to see the absurdity of an armed population against a government with a military at its back. Of course the United States was founded by this very contradiction in intuition, b
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by rjf72 8y ago
The power of the mental can be demonstrated through something as simple as adrenaline. This is something that is mentally produced and can enable feats that seem superhuman, enormous strength and speed in particular. If somebody could consc
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Imagine you take a million humans and you give them a million absolutely identical plots of lands. And each plot of land is, with work, capable of fully sustaining its owner. And you also gave each and every one of them all of the initial t
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by rjf72 8y ago
Interestingly enough, Google like an increasing number of companies is a "public" company. Brin and Page own the majority of the voting power meaning Google, is for all intents and purposes, their company. The same is true of Face
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by rjf72 8y ago
Completely agreed, but that's also the point I was making. The issues with sites such as Twitter are fully self inflicted. The network is simply not designed for the spread or promotion of meaningful information. It's designed to
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by rjf72 8y ago
There are plenty of things that technology can do about this. For the nuclear option, complete anonymity would resolve this problem instantaneously. Comments would only be driven by the merit of themselves rather than by the merit of who&#x
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by rjf72 8y ago
You forget the nature of technological developments. In the 60s nobody would ever imagined that those room-sized and extremely expensive 'computing machines' would become a regular and extremely affordable part of basically ever
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by rjf72 8y ago
The unintended consequences are going to be interesting. Right now we're in going full on with introducing far more technology than we can reasonably ascertain the consequences of. When you get into genetic modification of things, a bi
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by rjf72 8y ago
This is an idealistic world view. In reality many high profile cases are determined primarily by the political clout of the entities involved. When it comes to nations such as the US we are going to get what we want on issues that are deeme
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by rjf72 8y ago
It sometimes seems that democracy, somewhat paradoxically, trends towards division. The grand projects of times past were generally created by entities where their successor would generally be vested in their success. Be this in the form of
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by rjf72 8y ago
The problem with this is that offense and hate is often little more than a matter of perspective. Let's imagine I say "it is self evident that women should be treated equally to men." This, from 'our' perspective, i
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by rjf72 8y ago
Sure thing, this [1] is one better than a meta-analysis. This is a typically extensive report from The National Academy of Sciences in 2010 carried out on gender differences. It involves a mixture of an academic meta-analysis, extensive sur
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by rjf72 8y ago
I do see two. I'm not sure the third you're referencing: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/28/10107 - This is the exact sort of study I was referencing. It only shows that there is a different in resu
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by rjf72 8y ago
I expect weaponization of drugs from malicious governments will come in a far more effective fashion. There's no need for oppressive cops if you can simply drug your population. Not only wipe away their anxiety, but any concept of figh
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by rjf72 8y ago
He constantly emphasizes that it's the entire team bringing SpaceX to what it is. However, there is an important difference between working for a company and leading one. Boeing/Lockheed, Arianespace, NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, etc, et
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by rjf72 8y ago
Every {x} could be cracked by normal methods if it was simply added as a rule. So let's assume something just barely more sophisticated and we use a nonrepeating function instead of a fixed {x}. For instance, maybe the nth digit of pi
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by rjf72 8y ago
Sure thing. Do shoot me the links to those studies you referenced though. I'm unaware of any such thing, but of course I am always be willing to consider the possibility that my preconceptions are inaccurate - something everybody ought
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by rjf72 8y ago
I formalize comments and keep them themselves as data. I don't use JSON for this, but it'd work out as a perfect solution here. There's also good reasons to do it this way. For instance the formalized comments can work as a t
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by rjf72 8y ago
Please do share these studies. I'm reasonably well read on this topic and have found all contemporary studies to be of a similar result. The thing you may be misunderstanding, as it's often made less than clear, is that there is a
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I find this, and SpaceX, so inspiring. It's easy to feel that technology just moves itself forward. After all there are billions of people on Earth with people working on a countless array of different problems. And each day things see
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Brave browser + anti-fingerprinting and blocking third party cookies gets rid of 90% of paywalls, including NYT. Blocking scripts gets rid of 9% more and then you're left with 1% that are quite onerous. All these settings are one-click
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by rjf72 8y ago
Hair tests for alcohol indicates average consumption over a period of months. It can also be detected using blood/urine tests over shorter periods of time, but similarly testing for usage rather than 'are you drunk right now'
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by rjf72 8y ago
Hahah, that's probably a pretty fair point! Though I suppose it gets back to the same point though that even if you do find out that your e.g. sports manager is a dysfunctional coke head, you're probably not going to be pass up a

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