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Statements like these are STEM vs. Non-STEM version of "why does Twitter need 4000 software engineers? I could make that in two weeks!" Didn't Paul Graham write an article about that?
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Your wife and family got off easy! You could have developed an affinity for... I don't know, boating, or restoring vintage Ford Mustangs, or watch collecting. There are some things that people -- even the regular "non-rich" -
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There lies the issue. Let's take the extremes: No two people share the same experience, therefore discussion is not possible, because one cannot share exactly the viewpoint of the other. That's the extreme on one end. On the other
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So, maybe it will help to look at what is Not Capitalism. In say some midecentury communist country, the workers owned the capital, right? In practice, though, someone who called themselves a worker (a party secretary) with political power
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The term capitalism is meaningless now. For example: the Japanese mode of lifetime employment, low salaries, high intangible benefits to employment, an almost exclusively age based hierarchical system is labeled the same thing as the Americ
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I'm guessing that the issues have something to do with the management structure. If your CEO is delusional, it's usually possible to reign him or her in... From what I understand, Neumann had some special votes that basically allo
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I think you're right, but taking this approach leads to some strange conclusions. For example, that there is no way for you to know that everyone you have ever known is conscious.
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Depends on what you mean by prevent tyranny. But there are numerous examples of fighting forces comprised of citizens with small arms and explosives making the mission long, bloody, and expensive for the US military. Nearly every military c
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They studied alligators to arrive at their conclusion. It's pretty insane how long that group of animals have been on earth: the same basic design has been in play for 200 million years. Compare that to your typical piece of software ;
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It seems to me that there is a shortage of qualified employees and yet also a shortage of jobs in every single well-paid, well regarded sector. It's almost as if we want people to train themselves to work doing hard stuff and also don&
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That is something we do. Almost all cities, even very progressive ones, have a long history of redlining, which is still being dismantled today. The biases are racial and on income, which are strongly commingled from even heavier handed dis
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The single consistent thing I have noticed in dealing with this type of anxiety is that if I spend time with people I actually like being with, it completely disappears. It's impossible to be so self-directed if there is another person
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For another legal podcast, the Amicus podcast (Slate mag) covers the Surpreme Court in deep detail. It also leans left.
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I think people come up with the idea of marketing things as having AI behind them, before the implementation is fully realized. Once they have funding and employees, they can't exactly back down. So they have to put humans behind the s
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The student loan thing is more of a big weight dragging on the middle class. It’s not like anything is going to implode — the debt isn’t dischargeable. Instead, it’s just going to drag on and on for decades, preventing the lower classes fro
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Eh, photoshop and PDF editors exist and we can still use documents and photos as evidence. But, there will definitely be a new cohort of expert witnesses with software tools (functional or just appearing so) to testify about the veracity or
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If the battery was user replaceable, how would that improve the issue? If anything, it would make it worse from the standpoint of Apple’s customers getting a subpar product. Batteries are the worst possible offender when it comes to counter
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No surprise at all. They heydey of litigation is over -- everything settles, what doesn't goes to arbitration, and the sliver of work that doesn't go to arbitration goes to trial. In the meantime, the market is absolutely flooded
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3 possibilities: - We are not living in a simulation. - We are living in a simulation, but it is a "perfect" simulation. There is no way to determine if we are in a simulation from within the simluation. - We are living in a simul
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I have seen dang's tailored-to-individual responses to provocative comments on HN, and in my view they are THE gold standard method of diffusing these difficult sorts of discussions, both in real life and on the internet. That type of
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He mentioned this. He wanted to do something that was detached from sales as it cheapened the experience.
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Or, the galaxy is populated, and every entity has developed a policy of leaving everyone alone, so as to avoid detection and subsequent annihilation by other entities. Because as soon as an entity speaks up, everyone else seeks to eliminate
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So living in a desert should be correlated with psychological distress, right? Is that the case?
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This is the true reason. Although, we should have the ideological goal of colonization, as a failsafe option to prevent extinction. Every now and again, people are able to organize themselves for a goal beyond economic gain (which seems lik
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1) is it a rounding error? There are a lot of doctors, every one of them making a lot of money. I don’t know but every doctor making a lot more every year has got to add up. 2) Doctors are overtrained. This is by design, to keep salaries hi
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For those who don't understand German, this is an interview in English, also from someone at Max Planck about Wendelstein 7-X: https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e...
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I first read about this idea here: http://innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/olivine... Estimates in this paper put it at 250bn per year. It strikes me as imminently doable, and as an additional benefit
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The new version is not under patent, the patent expired on it several years ago.
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The patent is expired on the “new version,” Humalog. It expired sometime in the early 2010s. However, because it is produced biologically (altering RNA in bacteria) instead of chemically, additional regulations prevent a genetics from enter
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I actually laughed out loud when I saw the image of the human RNG distributions. 7 is a random number. Who knew?

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