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by vtange 9y ago
Massively further ahead or massively further behind. Additionally, I would assume that any "first contact" with an alien entity won't be a face-to-face, lifeform-to-lifeform meet; We're more likely to meet the robotic cr
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by vtange 9y ago
Any keyword that is depended on to move money will see hype waves, surfs and crashes. We are seeing/saw it with crypto, it is no different with AI.
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by vtange 9y ago
The article presents a sort of naive assumption that if we stayed primitive we may have ended up in a more egalitarian, less brutally competitive world. Problem is, in a less developed culture, there is still competition due to human nature
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by vtange 9y ago
So we need to write more code to make fancy Photoshop-like editors for the average-Joe programmer who can't see the big picture? That just adds more to the code issue - even Photoshop has bugs you know. The fact that "Few programm
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by vtange 9y ago
I'm pretty sure less people would be rushing into the software engineer profession if they knew it came with the liabilities you described. That would drive up the prices of engineers.. and I'm pretty sure the industry in general
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by vtange 9y ago
Wow this is really well written. Sometimes I feel like this "extra layer"/middleman-adding is not only just to enable government interventions but is just fluff added so we could create jobs for those whose skills don't
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by vtange 9y ago
Since we have Trump on board, the post might be even more interesting with a slide 10: let South Korea/Japan go nuclear, in face of the political issues.
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by vtange 9y ago
The post did mention Nuclear subs. It cautioned that relying on them will add stress and risk to them since they had to be position/deployed constantly in specific areas of the Pacific to fulfill their role.
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by vtange 9y ago
..As opposed to the even larger number of Chinese who just accept that their government is the way to go and also believe you deserve it equally, if not more?
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by vtange 9y ago
According to many articles that's a common misconception - that younger people empowered by Tinder can bang each other more and casually.[1] From my own anecdotes Tinder is actually a hindrance, since it creates a picture-oriented, ext
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by vtange 9y ago
Isn't there a lot of talk about how today's youth is much less likely to date/engage in sexual activity? So what you're saying is, they don't always have sex, but when they do it's unprotected? That sounds pret
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by vtange 9y ago
This is how you end up with a dreary, hyper-capitalistic, race-to-the-bottom world where money trumps all and all moral lines are crossed just so a company can increase its profit margin a slight bit. So if North Korea opened its doors just
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by vtange 9y ago
The map really brings into light Japan's lack of presence in the tech world.. They barely register on the map. I'm surprised India has more presence than China considering how much the news talks about places like Shenzhen.
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by vtange 9y ago
Every nuclear power since WWII has had the ability to invade many countries with minimal fear of retaliation.. Of course, lots of fingers point to the U.S., but China and Russia have invaded places as well. The article basically postulates
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by vtange 9y ago
The article explicitly stated how North Korea might feel free to hit or try to hit places like Guam, S.K. and Japan without fear of retaliation because the author guesses the average American would be OK with losing Tokyo and Seoul but not
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by vtange 9y ago
Reading this makes me relieved that Nazi Germany did not obtain nuclear weapons - else a regime change ousting Hitler might not have happened at all, and it would've been free to carry on its agenda with less fear of Allied interventio
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by vtange 9y ago
We people are funny; We're spend so much time and effort these days making things that help us know things about others without actually talking to them.
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by vtange 9y ago
If this system is scalable area-wise wouldn't it be a good idea to shield the ice caps with this? A 3C to 5C degree difference could mean quite a bit in preventing further ice melting, no?
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by vtange 9y ago
Isn't IQ based on a standard deviation? If everyone had an IQ of 120, wouldn't 120 become the new 100?
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by vtange 9y ago
The Chinese are very proud of their writing system - to the point that Chinese calligraphy is pretty much high art there. We love it when non-Chinese talk about how hard it is to learn - it gives that quick ego-boost like what you get when
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by vtange 9y ago
Probably far off in the future but assuming we perfect robotics and A.I. wouldn't it be possible to manage nuclear with no human-hands? The thing then will be who takes responsibility for accidents caused by robots..
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by vtange 9y ago
I kinda blame it on our sci-fi fiction: so far we cannot imagine a space adventure where there are no humans at the frontier. Even the most recent space-themed games and movies fall to this trope. It's almost an ego sort of thing - the
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by vtange 9y ago
It's funny that with all this talk recently about the rise of AI and robots, we continue to just assume that space exploration and colonization has to be done with human beings.. As if we've already exhausted the most robots could
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by vtange 9y ago
People also hurt other people with cars. What was it again? You are more likely to die from a car accident than in an airliner?
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by vtange 9y ago
Low interest rates also inflate stocks. When you can't earn much with cash sitting in the bank you switch to something with more return. And last I checked the average Joe doesn't have enough savings to put into stocks.
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by vtange 9y ago
For the past couple months the media has pointed out China's successes in tech in Shenzhen, how they have a much better stance on climate change than Trump, and how they have the most prudent position (that doesn't involve all-out
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by vtange 9y ago
Yes, but in places where say news organizations are tightly controlled by the state, it is much easier to push a nationalistic, "my-country-can-do-no-wrong" agenda than in places where multiple parties push for agendas that help p
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by vtange 9y ago
And the worst part about having to move out of country to find out things that were censored/hidden? You'll be inclined to believe foreign nations have a negative bias towards China. At least, that's China's (and Russia&
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by vtange 9y ago
There's inevitably going to be people trying to justify the tragedy here by suggesting America is no better, pointing to instances such as the Kent State Shootings (Vietnam War protest). For those people I'd like to point out that
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by vtange 9y ago
Can confirm this. In a lot of design schools (I went into architecture school) students are taught to iterate, iterate, iterate to improve and refine on their design. It's very rare to see great designs 100% complete on the first try,

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