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by ryandamm 11y ago
Written two years before he published "1984", Orwell's piece is maybe more relevant than ever. (cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449660 )
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George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946)(orwell.ru)
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I think you're all missing the point. For a lengthy elaboration, please read this classic from 1946: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit... The choice of language isn'
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by ryandamm 11y ago
The equality remains true in the pure, absolute sense. The scenarios you cite are cases where it appears to be violated, but the equality works out anyway. For starters, money is not investment or savings, it's a way of keeping account
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Real. The isn't a statement about exchange rates or currency, it's a statement about the real state of the Chinese economy (even though parent post is definitely about monetary issues). We should expect Chinese growth to average 3
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Very briefly, because the bulk of GDP growth (and GDP) has been investment, either in infrastructure out production capacity (in support of exports). Great way to industrialize, but it's not sustainable as China starts to have more cap
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Like all of professor Pettis's posts, this one requires pretty deep background or a lot of reading to follow completely... But it's well worth it. If you think you understand what's going on in China's economy, you shoul
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by ryandamm 11y ago
In other words, in addition to a basic guaranteed income, we should consider universal health care and public education. I agree with that collection of policies, based on my understanding of current economic thinking and research.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
>Without any hard science to back it I think this is the problem. Here's research that's trying to find some quantitative data about this issue, trying to cut through our received wisdom and intuition. And the response is...
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by ryandamm 11y ago
What I'm hearing you say is this (correct me if I'm wrong): You are resistant to early, empirical results that poverty causes negative outcomes for children, and you will require stronger evidence to overcome this resistance. Fair
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Evidently your floors are cleaner than mine.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Neither can I. Nor can I tell if it's some referendum on the state of the tech industry. But it definitely makes me hungry for some avocados. Perhaps I will go eat one now. Or spend hours googling how to cultivate an avocado tree.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I met Ben Kaufman at TED, when he was working on Kluster. It didn't impress me then and Quirky never really impressed me either. Kluster itself was, well, a cluster* at TED. They didn't really have a good idea or execution, and
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by ryandamm 11y ago
That's the one. YourGoogleFu >> myGoogleFu.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Wow, that's a strong statement. (Are we using the same definition of materialism?) I use it to mean that there are no outside forces describing the state of the universe beyond what's materially measurable/describable; in ot
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by ryandamm 11y ago
So, in a nutshell, the phrase 'It is only determined when one party looks at it' is the definition of non-locality. If the two parties are separated by a significant distance, that implies that one viewer (Alice?) determines what
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, unless the athlete is doing power lifting or something trivial. It's possible an athlete already accustomed to encumbrance wouldn't mind more -- like a few cameras on a football helmet -- but keep in mind that even a GoPro is
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I heard at a VR conference that the CV1 is likely to use the Note 4 screen, but that's hearsay. I had stronger confirmation that it will at least be the same resolution... the Note 4, S6, etc all are 2560 x 1440; we were hoping for 4k
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by ryandamm 11y ago
http://www.nextvr.com/ Also, OTOY is talking about live streaming. That said, I have spoken with more than one startup that wants to put cameras on athlete's heads/helmets. Dunno how practical it is, but I guess
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, it's significantly better. The headset has MEMS sensors running at 1 KHz (the Note 4 runs at 100 Hz IIRC), which means the head-tracking is perceptually flawless. Add to that the quality of the optics, the high quality screen, the
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Content is precisely the problem. Carmack even admits as much here: http://uploadvr.com/john-carmack-talks-difficulty-mobile-pos... That guy's pretty outspoken. (And yes, he's referring to live action content; I
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Oculus owns a lot of the IP, and more importantly know-how. Evidently the Gear VR was the result of extremely tight integration between Samsung and Oculus engineering, with Oculus providing the bulk of the VR-specific knowledge. Samsung p
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by ryandamm 11y ago
No, it uses a Note 3 screen. An executive from Samsung corrected me when I said Note 4. It's significantly lower res than a Gear VR, and you can tell. EDIT: your link confirms it's note 3, not note 4.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Well, for starters it requires an infinite number of universes, each with zero 'weight.' Secondly, it causes problems for materialist views of the universe. (I wrote a long term paper about this as an undergrad, but that was, li
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by ryandamm 11y ago
I don't think you can have a reference point moving at speed C, the universe throws a 'divide by zero' exception.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Beer is a good tool to try to understand quantum mechanics, but there's stronger stuff that might be more helpful. That said, you're articulating a version of what's called a 'hidden variable' view of QM, which is a
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Fascinating that the economist predicted the decline of the music industry, but everyone who's predicting that 3D printing will destroy the economy of physical things either doesn't understand 3d printing, making physical things,
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by ryandamm 11y ago
This is a really good explanation... but I can personally only square most of this entanglement non-locality with a many-worlds interpretation. Which is itself hugely problematic.
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Another way of saying this: we're good at sensing the delta of acceleration, not the absolute acceleration. Also, we tend not to notice small DC values of either acceleration or rotation, so you can manipulate the user's percepti
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by ryandamm 11y ago
Yeah, the fact that they have to cite Honest Co. (not one of the big names), and that the liquidation preference works out to a tiny fraction of their current valuation, suggests to me this isn't a huge concern. Then again, I don'

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