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by tsally 18y ago
I think I might have some insight. I'm a sophomore in the Computer Science Department at UIUC, and my college choice came down to the Econ program and Chicago, or here. The only thing that matters for the colleges you mentioned is what you
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What Major Ethical Challenges Will We Face in the next 100 Years Because of Tech?
10 points by tsally 18y ago|17 comments
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by tsally 18y ago
"Pramana, which means "proof of reality" in Hindi, is currently in "stealth" mode, and won't reveal much about its customers or just how it works. The company isn't just media-shy--it also wants to prevent bot creators from figuring out how
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by tsally 18y ago
I know! Read a long article about how not to procrastinate.
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by tsally 18y ago
Not a fan of the copying/borrowing a badge ideas. If you don't support whatever the conference is covering, you shouldn't be there. If you do, you shouldn't mind fronting some cash to support the event.
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by tsally 18y ago
http://nearlyfreespeech.net I am a big fan of these guys. Their technical knowledge is top notch and their pricing plans are perfect for small websites. Heck, I even remember them emailing me letting me know that ICANN fees were going t
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by tsally 18y ago
> It sounded like something that Robert Ludlum would write. Or John Markoff?
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by tsally 18y ago
It's sad that we get so excited when our justice system works; it should be a matter of course.
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by tsally 18y ago
It doesn't call for government-controlled agriculture, and neither do I. Regulation is far different than control.
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by tsally 18y ago
> Feel free to cite anything about which you have complete information. You are proving my point valid; pure free market theory doesn't work because you never have complete information.
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by tsally 18y ago
> Govts have no more inherent ability to be consistent than markets. Not so. Being consistent requires a redundant system. A redundant system is not the most efficient one. > Since markets create far fewer human rights violations
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by tsally 18y ago
Because essentials always need to be available to people, even at the cost of efficiency. The article addresses why essentials are a special case. "If the just-in-time system for producing cars runs into a hitch and the supply of cars shri
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by tsally 18y ago
To ask this is missing the point; essentials are not about efficiency, they are about consistency. As I have said before, the article addresses this point. Did you read it? "The problem is that, while this system is undeniably more effic
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by tsally 18y ago
A similar thing was covered in Randy Pausch's lecture on time management.
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by tsally 18y ago
Agreed, the edge cases being the things that people absolute require: the essentials.
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by tsally 18y ago
> That's an absurd definition because no one has complete information. Not really. Markets depend on complete information. Else, how can someone accurately judge the value of something? If I buy a candy bar that's actually only worth
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by tsally 18y ago
> It sounds like a great idea to let government regulate food. A very successful country did just that, the USSR. Where people stocked up on such nonessentials as butter when the factories finally could produce it. No one is proposing "
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by tsally 18y ago
Don't all students who want to study technology in Africa need it? I would imagine there are not too many opportunities. If that isn't the case, you could give the scholarship to the middle of the pack. This would maximize the need and int
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by tsally 18y ago
> If govt doesn't fail much more oftenI note that very few markets have set up death camps or waged significant wars. than the market, why would one want the govt to be responsible for all essentials? The article addresses this; becaus
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by tsally 18y ago
Actually, the government doesn't fail that much more than the market. If you want to talk small scale, the government makes little mistakes every day. But the market fails every day too. Any transaction in which one party has incomplete i
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Albert Einstein's Blackboard(images.google.com)
3 points by tsally 18y ago|0 comments
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by tsally 18y ago
These claims don't contradict each other. At any point in time, there is no way Google stored any significant amount of records in memory. The scientist is not saying it's impossible to multiply the matrix, he is just pointing out that yo
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by tsally 18y ago
This is certainly a case where the loss is efficiency due to regulation is outweighed by the cost of a market failure. In all honesty, essentials like food, education, clean water, and so on should never be left up to the free market.
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by tsally 18y ago
Well if the scholarship is being given out based on ability like you say, you have no choice but to give it to the students who perform the best. If there is a need based component, it would be different. But you do not seem to indicate th
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by tsally 18y ago
Right now the quota on my school inbox is so restrictive, I can't keep any significant amount of email history. So I just forward everything to GMail. And don't even get me started on the interface... I think it's highly unlikely that in
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by tsally 18y ago
The blog post is clearly sensationalized. A poll option to fire him, really? There's also zero original content or insightful commentary, It's essentially just a copy/paste job from drama that happened on this site, with a bit of spice f
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Classy.
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by tsally 18y ago
I suppose my comments are delving into a larger problem with the media in general, and the constant use of sensationalized stories and facts in order to get more exposure. All the main news organizations are doing it as well, but I wish jo
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by tsally 18y ago
This blog post seemed rather silly to me. It's poor journalism and quite frankly not news worthy. It feels like something that the author hopes gets picked up by Digg/Reddit/etc.
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by tsally 18y ago
Wow, this looks really great. I'm excited to see how far this goes. Just out of curiousity, is your blog supposed to be invite only (it is at the moment)?

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