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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Brandt, the company's co-founder and COO, told CNBC at his San Francisco office. "You have inputs. You have outputs like your productivity, your reaction time, your happiness even. By better human, they appear to mean more pro
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What type of consumer products? And I'm not sure what comments you're referring to.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There is no reason to believe, that we can't do this. A brain is part of our world, governed by physics. How do you know consciousness is "governed" by our contemporary understanding of physics?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>By contrast, most central banks pilot the amount of money in circulation in order to try to keep the price of goods stable. This is, imho, as absurd as changing the length of the meter because we've noticed that generations after g
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>universally recognized The value of gold is not universally recognized, and is inflated more from idolization than by its practical uses. >When I was older, I learned what the fighting was about that winter and the next summer. Up on
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Sounds like that netsec guy's team serves military customers then?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>wouldn't be the end of cyberattacks. This is a strawman. No one knowledgeable is saying it would create 100% security, just that it would be a net increase in the security of our infrastructure.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
A defensive response would be to inform major vendors of our own infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco) of the gaping holes in their systems, instead of leaving them open for the world to attack.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
East vs West, Cold War, Politicians, "Cyber". Does anyone else find it foreboding that attacks like these are still being primarily framed within the terminology of a legacy 50+ year old threat model? "World War III is a gu
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How does the economy know what equilibrium is?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>that higher rent has much greater value (access to better jobs Indeed, and this is getting to the point that the parent and I are making. The same system which ideologically mandates maximum employment, is the same one maintaining the a
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Ditto my friend, which is why I used the word "empty" (meaning vacant) rather than "available for sale/rent". 13785000 / 610042 = 22.6 24 empty houses for each homeless American (assuming only the USA) seems l
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There are ~23 empty homes for every homeless person in the US[1]. For those of us living in the US, have you ever wondered why we have "housing crises" and such high rents when we have such an absurdly high surplus of empty homes?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why are you assuming that Pavel is the only possible exploit that could be used to own Telegram?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is it ethical to have ~23 empty homes for every homeless person in the US? https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22335/are-there...
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement. Highly recommended for anyone interested in an "outside the box" perspective on mental health and society at large.
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Ask HN: Do you feel fulfilled with your work?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented soc
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Nefarious ones.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
1. So is Facebook and the credit rating agencies in the US 2. No it's not, it was unsuccessfully tested in a single county 3. So do the judgments of employers on whether or not to hire or fire someone based on publicly expressed poli
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What would you do with those answers?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What is the goal in asking these questions?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It is planning what it calls a “social-credit system”. This aims to score not only the financial creditworthiness of citizens, as happens everywhere, but also their social and possibly political behaviour. This already exists across the
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Chrysler, GM, Ford, United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta, and Lockheed have all also been bailed out by the government.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>if Amazon stop running well then someone else will come along and replace them Is this really true though? Over the past few decades we've seen that if a company is big enough, and it fails, the government will step in and prop it
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Fixed, thanks for the feedback.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is skepticism not inherently necessary when it comes to securing computer systems?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"As the networking accelerates humanity into a spherically embracing, spontaneous union, yesterday's locally autonomous, self-preoccupied governments are left in the exclusive control of yesterday's most selfishly successful
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>trust that the markets will work their magic. Mythologies aside, this statement falsely assumes that the big tech giants aren't already propped up by the enacted laws of the government.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>One man's assets are another man's liabilities. Exactly. National debt is a liability for the nation. It's an asset for the central bank which created it. Ipso facto the central bank owns the nation.

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