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by waps 12y ago
1) cost : contractors without work are free. No insurance (not even with ObamaCare). No providing infrastructure. No nothing ... 2) risk : contractor fucks up, contractor is legally responsible. Employee fucks up, firm is reponsible. 3) Eas
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by waps 12y ago
But you hit on a very interesting point, but don't follow it through to conclusion: > What the West was able to do is exploit that technology to create a new economic system, ... > Furthermore it's an assumption to think tha
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by waps 12y ago
As a general rule, decision made due to regret ... well tend to lead to more regret. That happens to me a lot. What a lot of people don't do after a project is to first evaluate how well the whole thing worked. How many bug incidents w
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by waps 12y ago
And for the people who find the closed source thing objectionable. You can still have most/all Sublime text advantages : https://github.com/limetext/lime
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by waps 12y ago
Why should the people on this show be held to any higher standard than anybody else ? I don't feel any more ill will towards these people than I feel to myself, for the same reason : I wear clothes like these. Do you ?
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by waps 12y ago
Plus ATP, the cell-internal energy distribution mechanism that is a property of all life on earth destroys itself at 52 degrees celcius. That means no controlled energy actions can happen in cells above 52 degrees celcius. We'd have to
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by waps 12y ago
What is to prevent some guy from making a US business that does nothing other than sell EU businesses' products to customers on their behalf ? Because selling products to the US is VAT-exempt, and US companies selling to EU customers i
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by waps 12y ago
I feel it would only be really dangerous if there is 1 AI that clearly outstrips the others and that can expand itself. If there were an AI community just like there is a human community, the dangers would be much, much less. Anything that
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by waps 12y ago
Looking at my comment history, I get the impression someone's systematically downvoting all my comments. Can I report this anywhere ?
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by waps 12y ago
Since there are a million "what is GWT" questions, let me give a thorough answer : If you have any question with "javascript" anywhere in there GWT is not the answer, unless it's "how can I avoid javascript all
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by waps 12y ago
Here's wikipedia's overview of Birth rates : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... You can sort it. It's quite informative. It also shows that the difference between Japan and m
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by waps 12y ago
The human mind is a behavior copy algorithm, IBM's Watson is effectively an expert system with a search algorithm. The way they answer questions is very, very different. Watson effectively translates the question into something equival
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by waps 12y ago
You have to keep in mind that while technically you are correct, evolution has been running for at least 3 billion years. Fertility is the main thing it optimizes. To think you know the way this should work better than evolution is like bet
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by waps 12y ago
Lifespan is a function of organism size (ironically measured in weight, mostly). The bigger an organism, the longer it's lifespan. Keeping in mind normal human lifespan would be about 30-35 years, you find that many animals of similar
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by waps 12y ago
True. But here's what it would affect. If you are a huge company, or a government, with an extremely large negative net worth (ie. you loaned loads of money). Deflation will cause : 1) your income to go down by more than the deflation
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by waps 12y ago
Here is another factor you might consider. What happens to government finances during deflation ? Well, deflation means falling prices. Prices sponsor wages. Falling prices means falling wages. The large majority of government tax income is
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by waps 12y ago
There are multiple morality frameworks, most including torture, and very few that don't. Western Christianity (ie. "New Testament") and it's "atheist variant" Humanism are fully opposed to torture (unless you c
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by waps 12y ago
From the article > Their concern was not so much whether to end the conflict, but how to end it while holding onto territory, avoiding war crimes trials, and preserving the imperial system. Shows again how leaders think. The factors, pro
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by waps 12y ago
You are attempting to conflate individuals versus ideology. Mustlims are individuals. Islam is an ideology. Islam is evil. No question. > Denouncing all of Islam is ridiculously ignorant. Denouncing all of Christianity is also ignorant (
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by waps 12y ago
Don't you think that any AGI "personality" is going to be very much like a human ? Humans, until they get quite far in their development wouldn't care about any of those questions : > "i want to increase the amou
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by waps 12y ago
This makes me wonder. Aren't those retail investors all indebted to FXCM now ? They mostly made the bets using the platforms, (I assume) very little bets were made by FXCM itself.
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by waps 12y ago
> Once we reach the age of procreation, evolution is pretty much done with us. It seems to me that the same argument could be used against the whole group of social animals. It doesn't work. Older people organize the group, they pro
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by waps 12y ago
Welcome to market reporting ... the S&P 500 has dropped about 5% in the last month. And in my newsfeed I find "up 2%" from a dozen places. Now this is not a lie. That particular day the S&P was up 2% (and it does indeed me
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by waps 12y ago
It's one of the things that seems extremely weird if you consider humans to be what they say they are ... and dead normal if you realize what humans actually are. How memory works, according to humanity : we store all data input in our
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by waps 12y ago
> Erm... thats not what I'm talking about. When Irish Catholics Gasoline Bomb British cities, people don't use the actions of the violent IRA as a denunciation of Christianity as a whole. Firstly I would argue that other people
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by waps 12y ago
Kemal Ataturk is like a lot of other historical figures. What he accomplished is great. If he did 1/100th of that in America today, any state would reintroduce the death penalty just for him. He was a massacring bastard, created instit
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by waps 12y ago
Let's see ... Freedom of speech ... the answer is "No". Every other religion, and atheism, and every government party, and ... Don't get this treatment. Just on page two of the newspaper in front of me is a depiction of
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by waps 12y ago
If you're a business customer in a bank, and you bring in cash on a regular basis, the bank will actually charge you a percentage for doing that. From a discussion I had with a merchant, that rate is quite high, especially for small ch
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by waps 12y ago
The scary part is how low that amount is. It's something like 1000 euro/day and 3000 euro/week. There's also a yearly value. It's been going down over time (by a lot, used to be 5000 euro/day only when the euro
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by waps 12y ago
It is becoming more and more established that human cells are not really alive. They just are a cooperative of things that are alive. Mitochondria, for instance, are alive. Our cells cannot survive without mitochondria, yet mitochondria can

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