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by waps 12y ago
Give it a year or so, and credit will be much harder to obtain. Problem will solve itself, with massive consequences for the rest of us. Problem is that we simply don't have economically useful things for people to do. This problem is
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by waps 12y ago
The problems I find with your argument are that you are taking a partially true statement and extending it as if it fits the whole of science. Yes there are parts of physics theories that support direct verifiability. The double slit experi
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by waps 12y ago
Same as any other lawyer : sue the firm they represent.
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by waps 12y ago
There is a mathematical definition of consistency that I was referring to. It basically means that you can prove that a model can't be used to create a contradiction. In maths, any model where you can't prove that is disqualified
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by waps 12y ago
TLDR: Science is inconsistent, and so is faith. "Gut-level judgements" are all we have, both in science and in faith. Can people please stop ignorantly claiming otherwise ? The laws of mathematics actually prohibit anything other
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by waps 12y ago
That's the whole point of discrimination laws. I don't know if you ever checked but people aren't kidding when they say non-christians, non-whites, ... are more criminal and less smart and ... with the exception of one or two
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by waps 12y ago
> Here's a question I would love to hear economists opines about: why don't high earners work less. Say a Belgian lawyer makes €100,000 euros per year and a paralegal make €35,000. Why doesn't the lawyer work fewer hours?
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by waps 12y ago
> In Star Trek, the economists have been replaced by planners who treat individuals like adults. The individuals act like adults, because they understand that the social benefits of volunteering time and talent vastly outweigh the person
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by waps 12y ago
They claim this is a feature, not a bug. It means that range will never block or do weird stuff. Except of course when it does (bastard question for those who think they know : what does range do on a nil channel ?) Despite all these clarit
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by waps 12y ago
Yes but the point of the parent poster was that go can work on minimal embedded systems, which to my knowledge it cannot, so I enquired.
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by waps 12y ago
Just curious : how does one run go without a linux kernel ? (without a kernel at all, please, I know about the freebsd port)
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by waps 12y ago
When was the last time that a unit test caught a race condition ? When was the last time a unit test caught a contract violation (one subsystem doesn't agree with another about the semantics of a piece of data) ? When was the last time
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by waps 12y ago
Plus spreadsheets are a purely functional programming language : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1194878
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by waps 12y ago
Exactly. In reality : Artificial intelligence algorithm acts totally bonkers because you're not telling it what you want it to do, telling it "it/he/she has to figure it out for itself". To put it another way : car
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by waps 12y ago
Note that the cost of interface{} is, essentially the same cost java imposes. Luckily it's used less, but that doesn't change it really. Anything becomes a double pointer indirect. And just for completeness : even java has better
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by waps 12y ago
Alternate view : the economy has collapsed for most people simply because we no longer have any (economically) reasonable thing to do for most people. In the US 30-40% of people are economically useless. In Europe 40-50% (not counting gover
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by waps 12y ago
But don't you think that if the financial system gets unhappy, you'll quickly follow in that unhappiness ? 2008 was really bad for the financial system. 2009 was really, really bad for everyone else. One was the direct cause of th
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by waps 12y ago
There is the basic principle that anyone can be sued for the consequences of their actions. Uber arranged that drive. They didn't check for insurance status. That could be cause enough. Plus between you and the driver there exists no b
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by waps 12y ago
If you're talking about whether theories match the real world, then you're correct. It can never be conclusively verified due to the problem of measurement. However, given a theory, you can prove whether or not something is correc
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by waps 12y ago
No it can't. You'll find exact sciences don't work like this. First in maths you have models. Of course some models match reality and some don't, but proven "given" a model means a very specific thing and is ex
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by waps 12y ago
Somehow that doesn't seem to be possible. The entire question is a fraud of course : the argument for climate change is based on statistical likelihood of existing trends continuing based on past measurement. While that does satisfy so
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Again taxi drivers strike and/or block several European cities over uber(bbc.com)
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by waps 12y ago
Well he's a cs grad. And one thing nearly all cs grads have in common is the idea that software/software products will dominate economies "real soon now". And they usually believe it's their own software that will d
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by waps 12y ago
Don't forget the complete impossibility of reversals.
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This is what you'd expect government to do when taking away a licence would mean the person loses their livelihood. The same thing is true for lawyers, land meters, certified accountants, ... they effectively get one "get out of j
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by waps 12y ago
> At that point, something like Uber still makes sense as a centralized ride brokerage. Since this is such an obvious part of the business model, I don't think they will get the chance to do this. There's one thing people don&#
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by waps 12y ago
> I would imagine that when surge pricing is in effect Uber comes away with less revenue than periods where fares are normal. That seems very unlikely.
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by waps 12y ago
The simple fact that cities don't scale beyond a certain point is driving up prices.
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by waps 12y ago
Plus there are many ways the Singaporean government gives advantages to the very wealthy. Providing them with roads that everybody pays for but they don't have to share is but one of many.
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> negative externalities like pollution, over-harvesting, misinformation, or antibiotics misuse. Not disagreeing, because the point is true. However solutions for most of these have been found a) over-harvesting : only a problem in a non

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