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by stevens32 9y ago
Those quotes were to show that the article didn't take findings out of context - it was a restatement of things in the paper. According to the article it's already passed peer review, where reviewers upgraded the findings from &#x
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by stevens32 9y ago
The paragraph immediately below in the paper states: > At the 14-week interim evaluation, there were increased incidences of right ventricular cardiomyopathy in the heart of male rats following exposure to GSM- and CDMA-modulated cell ph
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by stevens32 9y ago
>Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness. You're not wrong, but UBI isn't exactly welfare - it's more like a blanket grant to pursue whatever it is you&#x
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by stevens32 9y ago
TripleByte hires for startups right? Seems like a slight bias against enterprise backgrounds (a different environment) is kind of expected
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by stevens32 10y ago
Hey! I saw that ludicrous display last night too!
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by stevens32 10y ago
Apparently hosts are built with React.. good to know.
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by stevens32 10y ago
Couldn't buffers be used for explicit memory control? I think that was how emscripten implemented memory management
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by stevens32 10y ago
Which man are you referring to? edit: nevermind, just saw the NYT article
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by stevens32 10y ago
What's the argument for basic income through government being unconstitutional?
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by stevens32 10y ago
It seems like the important thing is having some influence over your environment. If everything seems to have been placed with care, an occupant might hesitate to change things to their preference. But if the place doesn't seem to have
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by stevens32 10y ago
Seems like the case here, if someone is leaving hundreds of opinion-based criticisms of someone else's work that's a pretty clear indication of dissatisfaction.
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by stevens32 10y ago
I would happily work on something like this for free
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by stevens32 10y ago
"America is for Americans" ironically sounds extremely un-American to me. Isn't this on the statue of liberty? “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming
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by stevens32 10y ago
Bridge building at every opportunity with those of opposing political views should become the policy of the tech community. Hopefully the YC/ACLU collaboration can make some headway on solving the problem of both sides demonizing the o
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by stevens32 10y ago
Could he? There's probably a very large intersection between the group of people who would be great start up founders and those who adamantly oppose the political views of the current administration.
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by stevens32 10y ago
Even if these are marketing moves they'll end up doing some good, which is definitely better than marketing moves which do nothing but market
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by stevens32 10y ago
I was just looking for something like this, great timing!
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by stevens32 10y ago
What do you mean by constantly paged?
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by stevens32 10y ago
I don't see how a robot psychologist wouldn't fall into an uncanny valley. Though, the automaton from Pohl's Gate seemed friendly enough.
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by stevens32 10y ago
Some were arguing yesterday that there'd be a strong negative emotional response when a driver-less car causes someone to die. I hope there will be an equal and opposite reaction when people are saved by this technology.
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by stevens32 10y ago
AI is a fundamentally different technological innovation than the ones he compares against in the post. It's not an incremental improvement on methods, it's a complete replacement of the labor force for many industries. But the pr
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by stevens32 10y ago
You're right, I'm projecting a level of reasonableness that may not be there. It will be an emotional issue, and it will probably be influenced heavily by how the media decides to play it out. Elon Musk is literally every millenia
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by stevens32 10y ago
>That's not at all true, or at the very least, it requires a raft of other assumptions which may not hold, to all stay true, in order for the consequence to stay true. Like for example the cost of rare earth metals, good trading rel
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by stevens32 10y ago
I am, and I think the industry will have the safety numbers to back up any policy decision to the point where voting against it would seem negligent.
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by stevens32 10y ago
Check the root post of this thread Edit: that is to say, I agree with you, and my original post was explaining why
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Those are from his post on transemployment http://lemire.me/blog/2014/09/03/transemployment-creating-jo...
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by stevens32 10y ago
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress Kind of seems like the inevitable conclusion of
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by stevens32 10y ago
I think he just defined it as any job not fulfilling a direct need: food, shelter, reproduction. So, most jobs are transemployment. It doesn't seem like a super useful distinction.
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by stevens32 10y ago
We don't have to guess though, the fundamentals are there. It'll be safer. It'll be cheaper. How would it not happen? It doesn't seem bold at all to think people won't be driving manually in the future. Some trends
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by stevens32 10y ago
When they exit the building and the chaos pauses for a moment.. absolutely breathtaking every time. It really sold that in the end everyone is on the side of humanity, and everyone hopes for a future. They just couldn't agree on how it

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