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by vivekd 9y ago
But you're just sidestepping my point. In the case of an actual planetary threat the argument you describe about letting poor countries catch up would be incoherent and insane. Let's change the scenario here and make it more extr
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As far as I know when we say AI today we just mean computers that perform various mathematical calculations in a way that makes it appear superficially like human reasoning. That is no where near the kind of cognition that humans or animal
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See it's stuff like this that makes me suspect that the climate change debate is more about virtue signaling than any actual threat. Because really if we honestly believed that the earth was warming because of carbon and that this pre
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Well that's because things not based on empirical observation are not science.
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Even a small fine is a big start because if someone gets a small fine for bad behavior in court, and they repeat that behavior, they get a much larger penalty the second time around for willfully disregarding the court ruling about their il
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Maybe but even if all of that were true it has no bearing on pharmaceuticals encouraging irresponsible over-prescribing and over use of their opioid based medication.
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I was wondering how this was different from regular income tax that we pay now and found that it's unclear because there are different models proposed by Friedman . However, the idea seems to have a 1. A base tax rate, 2. An income cu
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by vivekd 9y ago
Well even in Norway, the prison in the article is not the norm, it is the exception. >Inmates do not start their sentences at Bastoy. They must do time in a conventional lockup and apply to be transferred, having convinced the authoritie
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Tutorial: How to use the Microsoft rest API in django projects(docs.microsoft.com)
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I always thought Shakespehre was over-rated both as a dramatist and as a poet. I happily read this article thinking someone else was finally going to make the case for Shakespeare's mediocrity. But alas, I had been tricked, it was ab
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by vivekd 9y ago
>I do not want kids who learn only what they are interested in. I know too many adults who don't like to read, hate math... - they never would have learned to read or do basic math if they had not been forced at some point. I agree
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by vivekd 9y ago
>"No, I don't want to go on a date with you". The key is that it allows BOTH parties to avoid an unpleasant interaction and to save face. (Assuming that they both take the hint, obviously.) I think the key there is "a
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by vivekd 9y ago
But can't we decline politely while still telling the truth. Lying seems unnecessary in this situation. I think white lies are more for things like when someone asks you what you think of their cooking and you tell them it's del
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by vivekd 9y ago
Fair enough, still though, you'd think someone at facebook would have returned his photos and videos if he had requested, just to be nice. We are moving to a cloud based world, and I'd hate for it to be a world where people rely
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by vivekd 9y ago
>It's not clear who is behind the spreadsheet, but the authors claim it was compiled "by several people of color." I reached out for a comment and received this response: "Sorry, we are not taking media inquiries.&quo
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Django: Advantages and disadvantages(hackernoon.com)
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Earliest evidence for life on land found on 3.4 billion year old rocks(theconversation.com)
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Mushrooms don't sound safe at all, as far as I know mushrooms have to be grown exactly right or they may develop deadly fungi. I don't know how willing I'd be to trust an unregulated drug operation to grow my mushrooms prope
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Add to that, if anything goes wrong, they would have a much easier time cya-ing and convincing their superiors they did all they can do to prevent it if they build a large, complex solution than if they just went to the quickest, simplest o
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by vivekd 9y ago
She dated the wrong guy and trusted him too much. That's fine, lots of women make that mistake and she shouldn't be shamed or blamed for that. I never said she should be. All I am saying is that it's not facebooks respons
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>Because from that premise, now you need to be careful about what you allow to be filmed and by whom. Yes, exactly!! You do need to be careful about what you allow to be filmed and by whom. That is the substance of my comment. I agree
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by vivekd 9y ago
no - the best you can do is get it appealed to a higher court.
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Well we're seeing a bunch of stuff happening out there and calling it dark matter. 1. The big problem is not enough stuff. Galaxies don't have enough stuff in them to let gravity hold them together. 2. A second problem is that we
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by vivekd 9y ago
I am not certain about the mechanics of it, but one of the most prominent theories right now is that dark matter is actually primordial black holes 1 . 1. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scient
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by vivekd 9y ago
Interestingly enough, there is a startup that is working on this: https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/aircraft/airlander-10
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>How do you explaining gravitational lensing with no visible mass, without dark matter? Black holes? The physicist says: >What struck me was some regularity in the anomaly. The rotational velocities were not just larger than expected,
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by vivekd 9y ago
That makes a lot more sense, I'm glad you pointed that out. I was getting to thinking the Norwegians had gone crazy and started trying to store seeds to hedge against the apocalypse.
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>Facebook isn't doing internet.org for "the poor". It's doing it for itself, to get them to click on ads, I highly doubt that there is much marketing dollars to be spent selling to the poorest third of the world popul
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Your counter example is missing the word free An ISP chooses to provide you with FREE access to some websites but if you want to pay more to get the full access you can. Facebook is doing this for free for the poor and privileged peop
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>When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide “failsafe” protection against “the challenge of natural or man-made disasters”. Guess it wasn't all that fail safe after all

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