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by vladms 2y ago
The abstraction manifest more on the language level. No memory management, simplified synchronization primitives, no need of compilation. Not sure virtual machine are fundamentally different. In the end if you have 3 virtual or 3 physical m
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People got smarter and buy only what they need?
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by vladms 2y ago
People like having someone to blame and fire and maybe send to jail. It's less impressive if someone blames everything on their Excel sheet...
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by vladms 2y ago
And several revolutions are underway (simple examples Myanmar and Syria). And in Syria, "the previous government" lost. The 1789 was one of many revolutions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_peasant_revol
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by vladms 2y ago
Historically, humanity evolved faster when it was interacting. So groups can try to isolate themselves but on the long run that will make them lag behind. US benefited a lot from lots of smart people going there (even more during WWII). If
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by vladms 2y ago
There are many people claiming many things. Not sure which "top" you are referring to, but everybody at the end of a chain (most rich, most political powerful, most popular), generally are selected for being unscrupulous. So not s
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by vladms 2y ago
I would challenge you to give me examples where security feels "real" and how does that help. Most software products rely on very complex software stacks, and if you trust 100% all the libraries and the OS you use I would say it&#
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by vladms 2y ago
My impression is that companies in most of the fields do not like to be regulated or scrutinized, so nothing new there. While observing some people using LLMs, I realized that for a lot of people it really makes a huge difference in time sa
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by vladms 2y ago
The hierarchical subdivision is done only at the rendering steps to reduce the number of polygons. A better rendering would be anyhow required, but I was more curious if the rest of the game would be fine with different and dynamic levels o
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by vladms 2y ago
It's not primarily optimistic. I just think that education of the people can bring the best improvement on the long run, and not adjusting democracy, demonizing rich guys or another "new" system. While I hope iterative improv
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by vladms 2y ago
What happens in US right now shows that change is achieved through voting. There are other examples as well in Europe where things did change because of how people voted. If the change is good or bad depends on your perspective. For me the
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by vladms 2y ago
Nice explanation. I like the viscosity part, I implemented something similar a couple of years ago in an open source RTS game engine (test video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQW8WXNpYXk ), and without viscosity water
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by vladms 2y ago
Agreed upon? Or taught in a certain way? From far away (Europe) I don't see a big difference between the multiple "fanatical" groups that I hear about in US that define one thing or another "their way" and everybody
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by vladms 2y ago
> I think we seek to credit the source for reasons that are not clear. For me a source means I can verify some claims, find another opinion/presentation, are able to view other work based on that source. It is the difference between
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by vladms 2y ago
Not the poster, but, for example, some people invested heavily in self driving cars (which could be seen as a subset of AGI) and it is much more limited than what we were promised. My guess is that (as in most fields) the advancements will
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by vladms 2y ago
The discussion was about leaving unattended valuable objects in public places. Sure, a theft can happen even if attended, or using violence, but I personally avoid increasing the chance of having something stolen by leaving it unattended. I
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by vladms 2y ago
Yes, if I go to the toilet I take my backpack/small bag with me, because usually I have valuable stuff in them and are easy to carry. This does not apply to a large bag (in which I don't put valuable stuff). The standard is mine a
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by vladms 2y ago
Different regions of the world would see different degrees of responsibilities regarding theft. I would consider absurd to leave unattended in a public space something valuable, considering the effort required to avoid that (that is: taking
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by vladms 2y ago
For lots of problems the boring answer is: because there is no easy solution. For me as a software developer, I can imagine a lawyer asking "but why are there so many bugs in applications?". Would we be able to have a world in whi
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by vladms 2y ago
Depends on the time scale. I mean the early middle ages (500 to 1000) could be described as "(smaller) tribes fighting over what is left" (considering all the barbarians from the north pillaging the roman empire while the Arabs co
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by vladms 2y ago
I have doubts the effects would be as envisioned. There might be negative social/biological traits (ex: fear is stronger than happiness; low threshold for believing things) that amplified by the exponential effect of such a network can
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by vladms 2y ago
Is Facebook though the perfect community tool? Using centralized systems has advantages (simple/easy/available/cheap) but also disadvantages (less customization/less control/more expensive). When Facebook appeared m
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by vladms 2y ago
My experience is that "common people" try (or were trying) as much to "game the system" as "rich people". Examples (not from UK): shops not giving a receipt (this improved probably with cards), people avoiding
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by vladms 2y ago
And HN seems to flag the topic, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
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Engineering is a lot about trade-offs. Use a new (dynamic/not stabilized thing) because it is 20% better at something, but you risk to need to adapt or use something old and stable that involves more work? It is possible that many peop
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by vladms 2y ago
What is censorship for you personally? I don't have a clear definition in mind (because I think is hard), but something along the lines of "the ones with overwhelming power should not be able to impose what ideas are spread".
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You mean something like described in this page: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-... ? This one seems illegal at least in UK. Do you know if it is different in other countries?
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You know "optimizing" means different things for different people. For example: France offers specific saving deposits with guaranteed interest rate and non-taxed. If a normal saving deposit would be taxed and has similar interest
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Considering the differences in living prices in major capitals and other cities, I would claim you can do that (career break/retire early) even today in multiple countries in Europe. But that would mostly mean changing places. If you g
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> As a member of the working class, I find there’s little incentive to build something new or innovate because the effort required to navigate through all the burdensome regulations is overwhelming. On top of that, any additional income

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