unexaminedlife

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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
For many years I've wondered if the extremely close 50/50 splits we so frequently see in politics isn't because randomness (in some way) is playing a role.
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Disclaimer: didn't read the article, am responding in general to the title. Also, I am in no way trying to discount the possibility that activists are being surveilled. What I recently have started to think about is how these sorts of
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
The real problem IMO is that government in the US isn't able to keep up with how quickly the world is evolving. The solutions thus far are obviously not optimal. The solutions being proposed also probably have issues yet to be discove
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Granted most countries are probably far more well-behaved than the US, but I don't know if you read any of the articles that clearly showed people weren't even happy with the kinds of restrictions they were asked to practice. Let
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I've seen some other comments echo this sentiment. I was never "stunned" by how lethal this virus is. Though I have read plenty of stories to realize it can be (and in a lot of instances) was brutal for people who had it.
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Ask HN: What are the classic signs (if there are any) of market manipulation?
3 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|0 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I'd recommend moderators look into who flagged this and determine whether it was warranted...
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Ask HN: A call for an organically self-correcting society
1 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|0 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think you read a little bit too much into my claim. Obviously I'm not saying "all outward observations that ever occurred".
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think it's ironic if you consider the fact that all of the "outward observations" are ultimately meant to advance human civilization. If human civilization collapsed what was the point? I don't think anyone (99.9%?)
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What would you consider the “irony of all ironies”?
1 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Personality in Darwinism
2 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|0 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I played music for several years when in school, starting in Junior High. Didn't read the article, but the title inspired me to make a comment. I think the skills you learn in music performance are extremely valuable. Sure, there are
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
The article says they're increasing tuition for "courses seen as less vital to the economy". I have certainly not met all computer scientists obviously. But what I can say is almost every single arts / humanities gradu
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
You may be right, but I can't recall ever being convinced it could be real until very recently.
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Ask HN: Deep Fake potential impact on upcoming US election
1 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|2 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I learned many years ago that auto theft is almost 100% committed by a very tiny fraction of the overall population. Probably same phenomenon here. Small # of people doing this. I'm hopeful Amazon does not go easy on these people. T
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
"Explicitly constraining and mitigating certain categories of complexity was likely to pay off in the medium and long term." 100 million % correct. It boggles my mind when I am hired onto projects to help "bring them to prod
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I see the productivity decrease in large corps as a part of the organization's risk management. If you've ever been brought into a project in an emergency capacity because the "lead" developer bailed (typically due to b
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I wonder how domain-specific GPT-3 was trained on React. And what sort of arbitrary limitations, if any, exist in what the user can request? I noticed the user didn't have to specify which programming language they wanted the apps i
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I haven't been persuaded yet that AI will ultimately replace human creativity. Rather I think AI, once it gets "good enough" it will start being used to supplement human creativity. In other words I kind of think there will
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
We are, as far as we know, the first "documented" instance of the universe becoming aware of itself.
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
Are there studies that have proven that a citizen's psychological profile / attitude toward government aren't impacted by mandatory national service?
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Ask HN: Mandatory National Service, would it make politics less polarizing?
2 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|8 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I think getting rid of 'winner takes all' elections and replacing it with an "order of preference ranking" system might help. This way people would be less concerned about picking the guy who is "least undesirable
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I cover my camera (not MacBook, but I did when I had one). Partially because of what you read about hacks. BUT, the main reason I cover my camera is as a stop gap to user error. I have started chats with people (co-workers, etc) where I a
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Ten-Code(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by unexaminedlife 6y ago|0 comments
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I have this condition. Never even knew the vast majority of people experienced the world differently than I do until recently. One of the perceived benefits IME has been that I seem to have a substantially higher capac
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
The thing that has me bearish on cpu manufacturers in general... From what I understand parallel architectures vastly simplify the overall schematics of CPUs in general, while retaining the power-saving benefits. As we approach the critica
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by unexaminedlife 6y ago
My basic takeaway from all of this is MOSTLY that society isn't (on its own) capable of a real democracy. YET. I'm optimistic though. I do agree in general that we don't want any single "arbiter of truth", but gi

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