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by shireboy 8y ago
Maybe it’s naive, but I’ve often thought law itself should be spelled out in code. Obviously some things are human judgement. But take those as inputs into an unbiased machine that outputs fair sentencing, procurement etc. Still let meatb
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by shireboy 8y ago
Exactly. So is Linux, C++, and Java. I remember being at a conference where this was discussed ages ago. The speaker was describing a colleague chastising her for working on code for a guidance system. He had helped develop a mouse, whi
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by shireboy 8y ago
The article mentions they tried to engineer mosquitos to not carry malaria, but it made them weak and so natural selection favored the non-engineered mosquitoes. As for the rest, yeah tricky business. By all accounts we have more value tha
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by shireboy 8y ago
Then it was also 10 Asian rivers that account for most plastic: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas... I guess I understand it is a hard problem to calculate, but it is an area where I wish the
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by shireboy 8y ago
I agree with the general concern that lack of competition could hurt innovation in this space. But I think we should all pause to soak in the irony here. Anybody with memory of the Great Browser Wars between FF and IE has to be wondering
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by shireboy 8y ago
I've thought along these lines before, and am writing a hard science fiction novel with this premise. I love thinking about the possibility of other advanced civilizations etc as much as the next guy, but it does seem like the _other_
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by shireboy 8y ago
Do we? Our physics today suggest there are hard limits. We do have some creative theories (Alcubierre, wormholes) to work around those limits, but they could run into issues and in current forms require massive energy that could well be im
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by shireboy 8y ago
Don’t some still balk at an open ended contract though? They have budgets etc that limit what they can spend.
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by shireboy 8y ago
This sounds great. How the hell do you get customers to buy into it though? I often wind up falling into this sort of situation with old customers once they're confident in my work and fairness. But for new customers, how do you tel
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by shireboy 8y ago
If you listen to some of the DotNet Rocks podcasts around when they started open sourceing so many things, some of the higher ups like ScottGu and Scott Hanselman talk about this issue of trust. They said to the effect that they understood
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by shireboy 8y ago
I like the direction you're thinking - I've wondered lately if there isn't actually some chance for politicians to get us off of perpetual war-based economies and on to space exploration economies. Maybe naive. One problem
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by shireboy 8y ago
Fellow HN reader/fly fisher here. I tie my own flies as well. As a friend once said - you get to work on these flies through the year as a way to do something fishing related when you don't have time to fish, then when you catc
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by shireboy 8y ago
Right, it'd be really hard in this case. Only being armchair-level interested in UBI I'd have to be content hoping that real economists and UBI researchers would come up with ways to test or at least address the risk. Maybe there
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by shireboy 8y ago
Well, I do tend to hold that objection for lots of economic policies ;) Governments can be really bad at foreseeing things like this and slow at changing direction once they are detected. Obviously one can take that too far and do _nothin
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by shireboy 8y ago
I think this article misrepresents "skeptics". "Disincentive to work" is really only one reason to be skeptical, and I'd argue not a good one. I'm more concerned about potential unintended consequences that wo
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by shireboy 8y ago
I understand competition can prevent inflation and that lower competition markets will have more inflation. My thinking is that the effect on pricing would be more indirect. Maybe companies have to pay more in taxes to cover the UBI. The
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by shireboy 8y ago
Tax cuts are an interesting analogy I hadn't thought of. The first difference that comes to mind is that a tax cuts are still "earned" money. Less of the money I worked to earn gets taken. So while a tax cut does result in
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by shireboy 9y ago
One thing I don't see addressed here or in research on the topic is the macroeconomic impact. Would a UBI cause inflation or other mechanisms to make up the difference in prices? For example, if everybody received $1000/mo would
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by shireboy 9y ago
I recently had an issue where I'm fairly certain someone in Coinbase's verification process stole my credit card info and started charging it fraudulantly. I was able to cancel the card before any damage was done. I contacted su
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Ask HN: Alternative consulting contracts
7 points by shireboy 9y ago|1 comments
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by shireboy 9y ago
Can you explain this more? The ID number can't be treated as identifying information? ID literally stands for Identifier- if not used as identifying, how is it used? How does one identify themselves when getting a loan if not by us
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by shireboy 9y ago
One bit of advice that I learned in art school and think applies to all sorts of learning is: "Work general to specific". When painting, you first block in large sections, then break those down into smaller sections, smaller and
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by shireboy 9y ago
I'm not sure about "stuck", or that a huge international affair like ITER is a good solution. We could have maybe AI with our maybe fusion for $70 billion in 40 years ;) But watching my 1yo learn to toddle around and navigate
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by shireboy 9y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but at least in my testing, IE blocks the file:// request for any non-intranet site. So it won't work with just any webpage.
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by shireboy 9y ago
I wouldn't call this for "non-programmers", but I have lots of customers who can handle HTML and some basic server code, but who find Angular a bit of a leap. They want a way to crank out modern web-based forms-on-data apps
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by shireboy 9y ago
I think the gist is the person creating the app would not write any javascript at all. Just the markup and reference the mavo js/css. In Angular and any other framework, you would typically write a JS component and HTML or other form
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by shireboy 9y ago
Realtime is interesting. I'd suggest cramming way more stories on a page. HN/Reddit work for me because I can glance the top 20-30 things.
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by shireboy 9y ago
I'm a big Planet Money fan, and remember this episode. As I listened, it occurred to me that I really wished we had a non-partisan, uniform way to measure "experiments" like this over time. Agree on measures of success (GDP,
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by shireboy 10y ago
Android only, or have I missed some news? Really wish iOS would support this already. HTML5 offline does similar, but cache/update scenarios can be tricky.
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Show HN: A free, simple dashboard for your home or office(gomix.com)
1 points by shireboy 10y ago|0 comments

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