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by rwallace 8y ago
Maybe. But hundreds of millions of people have already been hurt by disappearing jobs and falling real wages. To say nothing about that is to let the narrative of sacrifice stand. I think it would be worth focusing on the potential to creat
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by rwallace 8y ago
Okay, the article claims there was a lost opportunity to do something about the problem in the eighties, but reading the actual text, the presented historical facts (which are very interesting and very well presented!), I'm not seeing
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by rwallace 8y ago
As I understand it, if you are going to go out of order, a large number of architectural registers is actually a handicap; it costs more resources to map them to physical registers. Given that, was it the right choice to go with thirty-two
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by rwallace 8y ago
> it is not clear what else to do – in our abstract machine, there is no single coherent “address space” that all allocations live in, that we could use to map every pointer to a distinct integer. Every allocation is just identified by a
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by rwallace 8y ago
Much more so! The inventor of the Altair was unhappy when that expansion bus took on a life of its own and became a major industry standard, but by that time he couldn't stop it, and yes, that piece of history rhymed a few years later
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by rwallace 8y ago
While I still haven't been able to find an actual time series graph, a Google search for 'Old Economy Steve' gives some indicators of what has been lost. And remember, the new scarcity is all artificial. There was a time when
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by rwallace 8y ago
No. Closest I've come across, though I can't find the link now, is one set of figures that just looked at housing, and found by that metric, real income in the U.S. peaked in 1959. Which, I will claim, was the main cause of the op
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by rwallace 8y ago
I'm suggesting that we treat discrimination against remote workers the way we treated some other forms of harmful discrimination in hiring: stop doing it, stop accepting or repeating excuses for doing it, stop tolerating companies doin
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by rwallace 8y ago
> If you live in a fancy metro, your rent will be above average compared to the nation. The problem with this view is that places that a few decades ago would have counted as 'fancy metros' are now more accurately described as
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by rwallace 8y ago
There is some truth in this article, but a critical point is being missed. > per-capita income has more than doubled since 1972 Actually, per capita income has plummeted since 1972. To correctly assess income, you have to know the rate o
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by rwallace 8y ago
> The idea that someone could make 61 different purchases over a span of years, and then go back and think that they are entitled to refunds for all of them is a little crazy. There is an important distinction to be made. I agree that he
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by rwallace 8y ago
Communications keeps being the problem with drone fighters. And situational awareness has always been the problem with air combat in general. Maybe the next military aircraft project should be a drone AWACS? Design a radar/comms packag
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by rwallace 8y ago
Do you know of any case studies of companies being completely destroyed by this process? I have certainly heard of such projects getting into trouble, would be interested to know of any cases where it went as far as the customer going bankr
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by rwallace 8y ago
> The philosophical content of Godel's theorems is already found in the Liar paradox, "This statement is false." Sort of. Common reactions to the English version of the liar paradox are along the lines of 'that's
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by rwallace 8y ago
I never heard of a grad student program that pays you to do your research project. The ones I've seen, always offer a choice between paying you to work on someone else's research project, or you get to work on your project but y
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by rwallace 8y ago
> It’s fairly easy to make a case that Japan is a good example of what the stage before post-scarcity looks like though. Yes there is poverty, but it’s unusual. Is that true? Everything else I've heard about Japan says poverty is co
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by rwallace 8y ago
> I think you're confusing personal preference with universal UX guidelines, especially w.r.t copy-paste. OP started a conversation based on the premise that there are right and wrong ways to design a user interface. If you're
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by rwallace 8y ago
Windows can be set to only require a single click... I think that's actually since 95, but I'm not sure; it's definitely at least since XP. Did the default get fixed at any time, or does Windows 10 still default to require do
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by rwallace 8y ago
> Cutting and pasting ideally should consistently work exactly like that operation in real life That sounds intuitively reasonable, until you look at the current situation where every time you copy paste text between programs that suppor
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by rwallace 8y ago
> The user interfaces for the Lisa and the Macintosh made almost all the right choices right from the beginning No, they did not. Off the top of my head: - No cursor keys. You had to reach for the mouse every time you wanted to move the
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by rwallace 8y ago
shrug Or come up with reasons for not implementing any fix, and wait for your country to destroy itself, if that's what you prefer. Not my country, and I don't get to make the policy decisions. I can make suggestions, but it&#x2
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by rwallace 8y ago
Sure. There are a few things that could be done, most of which have been done in some form in other countries: - Make it illegal to bribe politicians. - Make it illegal for cities to restrict construction of new housing. - Make it illegal t
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by rwallace 8y ago
> All of the modern buildings you mention had an immense budget and were intended to be great buildings for generations. So was the Pantheon. Survivor bias invites us to compare the great, high-budget buildings of previous centuries with
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by rwallace 8y ago
Thanks! Credit where it's due: I got it from a post here a while back, though I forget who wrote it or what the thread topic was.
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by rwallace 8y ago
Beware of casting a float to a boolean. Yes, every group of humans has some degree of toxic competition and hierarchy, but some much more than others. It makes sense to look at the ones that have less, and ask what they are doing right and
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by rwallace 8y ago
> I'm sure if you made everything in thin cardboard with minimal markings, they'd be angry. If only some things had minimal packaging, those vendors would be a competitive disadvantage, but if everything had minimal packagi
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by rwallace 8y ago
> You would have to stop the plastic being created at it's source, and prevent it from ever being released into the environment. Then let's do that! Sure, you can't police a fishing trawler or some guy in a Third World cou
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by rwallace 8y ago
> That attitude would reign among professional cryptanalysts until January 1970, when Dr. Carl Hammer, Director of Computer Sciences at Sperry-Univac, made a startling revelation at the Third Annual Simulation Symposium in Tampa, Florida
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by rwallace 8y ago
Neutron stars would presumably consist in large part of QM, if it exists. Colliding neutron stars spray large chunks of material therefrom, into interstellar space. It is said that this contributes a significant percentage of the gold and u
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by rwallace 8y ago
This reminds me of when I first read about fractals: a collection of phenomena I've been staring at all my life, but never really saw until someone pointed out how to see them. Currently popular music mostly sounds like noise to me, bu

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