wayn3

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by wayn3 9y ago
Saving and improving lives IS a political goal.
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if you look at the market as a whole, there is a thing called the "efficient market hypothesis". It assumes that markets are perfect and you can not make money trading securities, because all information is already priced in. This
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Rural areas are getting wrecked by globalization everywhere. Not just the US. Spain, btw, is one of the prime examples. Yet no opioid addiction. Assuming that people kinda decide to just do drugs because despair is a bit ridiculous. Theres
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If a company provided X amount of liquidity to both sides of the market, even if the company itself only entered a position for a millisecond, it still provided necessary liquidity. It did so in a very efficient manner and turned a profit o
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Assuming that black founders have less of a shot at raising money and women have less of a shot at making money, then it would be obvious that black women have even less of a shot at raising money. Mathematically speaking. I'm not sure
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And why did they over-prescribe opioids? Because getting surgery was prohibitively expensive? Doctors, in general, are doctors because they wanted to be doctors. Some of them may be in it for the money, but if you are really in it for the m
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They don't do that consciously (with an agenda). Infants are just being infants. If an AI just needs to keep doing AI things to "reprogram" itself, then theres no barrier for it to do that.
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But we are talking about literal programming here. Not conceptual programming. I dont think that an AI will program itself anything like we program computers. People who "program" themselves really just provide good data. Positive
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by wayn3 9y ago
I wonder what makes people think that an AI needs to be able to code to improve itself. I don't see infant brains "programming" themselves to get better. The next step in programming is probably not anything like programming.
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Oh I get it. "Peasants" are not land-owning farmers. Peasants are menial labor on farms. They are part of the proletariat. Didn't mean to confuse you.
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I don't mean "charity" in a demeaning way. If you operate a business, and a business is really anything that engages in trade but is not a real person, and that businesses purpose is not solely the optimization of profits, th
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by wayn3 9y ago
I don't disagree with social security. Just the amount of it is unbearable. What I meant to say is that Keynesian economics is not the only form of economics out there. Even lots of economics folks blatantly deny that fact.
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I agree, but who defines what a fundamental human right is? Healthcare is man made and not universally accessible even in places like the US. What makes it a fundamental human right? The fact that it says so in the constitution of some coun
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As I said, I do not consider capitalism a "thing". Free Markets generate winners and losers. In nature, in economies, in many different expressions of physical reality. "Capitalism", Marx' big piece, obfuscates that
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by wayn3 9y ago
You mix marxism and communism, which is not the same thing. Which do you want to argue? I consider Marx a clown, and marxism is a clown fiesta, and "capitalism" is the cause they fight against. Of course it contains "meaning&
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by wayn3 9y ago
You could at least try to be aware of the fact that Keynes' theory is not fact - and should not be presented as such. Forcing someone to pay for someone elses expenses is application of force. "For the greater good" is immora
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Thats measured by the fact that we dont have 30 million opioid addicts who turn to hard opioids becaue seeing a doctor is way too expensive.
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Thats what irks me about these statements. Nowhere in my post did I even allude to the fact that I may consider this a bad thing. Not remotely. I'm just stating a fact. People get a bunch of welfare. The one thing I do have a problem w
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by wayn3 9y ago
Is this the "no true communism" argument?
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And capitalism is a term coined by Marx to denounce the idea that in a free society, outliers naturally occur. I don't want to live in a country that is run exclusively by peasants. That happened, successfully, in russia. In the 1920s.
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by wayn3 9y ago
If you have lots of small companies that do not compete with each other, for whatever reason, we are still talking about monopolies. If utilities are operated not for profit but as a form of charity, pricing of their services should be dete
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by wayn3 9y ago
Its almost like you have to learn some marketing to sell stuff(?)
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For a lot of people, the cost of universal healthcare comes out of other peoples wallets. Germany has arguably the best, but certainly the free-est (in the sense that you are free to choose which doctor to see and what kind of treatment to
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by wayn3 9y ago
And thats why Russia is the lone remaining superpower. They have everything, nothing costs anything and their people are free to do as they please. Luckily, philosophers do not believe in the fact that their different ideas actually compete
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by wayn3 9y ago
There should not be "THE" water company. There should be many of them. Then we don't have to discuss which price is fair. Maybe some of them want to sell water at 1k/litre. Others won't. The market will figure it ou
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the only way to get a somewhat unbiased opinion is to consume multiple sources, cross-reference everything and ponder the results for hours. Which is impossible (takes too much time). And kinda lame, because its the professionals job to pro
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by wayn3 9y ago
I'll apply if you post the email address of a real person. Not some non-specific CV intake system that will never reply anyway. I've got 11 years of python experience, studied algebraic topology/string theory and statistical
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by wayn3 9y ago
contracting is the future. "fulltime employment" is a concept that made sense when it meant "stay at this company for 40 years, get a pension, die". people being "fulltime employed" for 2 years makes no sense a
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by wayn3 9y ago
Do you mean a real executive position or a startup "technical cofounder" role?
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by wayn3 9y ago
present me with a better alternative and I will abandon email. Gmail is a pretty good app tbh.

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