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by yarou 10y ago
Believe it or not, but this is exactly what the Chinese government mandates. It's known as China shifting[0], and can cause quite a lot of headaches. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d
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by yarou 10y ago
Eh, things happen. Policies are neat because they let you impose limits to human behavior in a very binary and arbitrary fashion. But humans are complex beings. People fall in and out of love all of the time. It needn't be exploitative
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by yarou 10y ago
Well played.
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by yarou 10y ago
The prisons would be overflowing. Not a bad pitch for the reintroduction of private prisons! :) When a system of government becomes so corrupt as to allow actual criminals to run for the highest office, there is something severely wrong.
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by yarou 10y ago
I hear they call it "design patterns".
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by yarou 10y ago
The patricians, in their minds, felt the Roman Republic was "democratic", where consuls (and other powerful officials) could only be other patricians, and intermarriage between plebeians and patricians was forbidden. I imagine tha
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by yarou 10y ago
Thanks for the link, it definitely gives me something to ponder over.
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by yarou 10y ago
You are very astute, I only wish that my fellow countrymen would wake up to the truth. I truly believe Trump is a populist reformer, trying to help the Everyman. But keep in mind that even though the Populares were nominally "for the
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by yarou 10y ago
Can you point to an example of a Western democracy today?
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by yarou 10y ago
Just a general comment, again anecdotal. There seems to be a trend of recruiters performing bait-and-switch in SV currently. For example, you may be hired for a technical role, but you end up doing manual work or bash script maintenance. An
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by yarou 10y ago
In my (albeit anecdotal) experience, incompetence is the norm rather than an outlier in BigCo SV land. Frankly, if you are more qualified for a position, chances are you will be rejected because your interviewers will fear for their own job
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by yarou 10y ago
You do realize that this isn't a problem that can be solved with more money, right? The City of SF's budget was 8.9 billion dollars FY 2015-2016[0], roughly 1.2 of which was earmarked on "human welfare and neighborhood develo
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by yarou 10y ago
The former is intellectual suicide, the latter, philosophical suicide.
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by yarou 10y ago
Try to teach him the lambda calculus. Church-Turing thesis still holds today, so if he's able to learn the lambda calculus he will understand what functions are indeed computable, and what functions are impossible to compute, regardl
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by yarou 10y ago
You didn't even bother to refute the GP's points; rather, you go on some strange invective against both US political parties. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader of what this implies. (hint: it smells a lot like cheap
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by yarou 10y ago
Could this really be used for self-correcting quantum memory, as the article suggests?
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by yarou 10y ago
Yeah, but garbage in is still garbage out. Which is the point he was trying to make.
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by yarou 10y ago
Clearly, I know the difference between type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is primarily genetic, which I may not have explicitly mentioned in my comment, and type 2 is a mix of genetic and environmental factors. Thanks for the two sentence reply fam,
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by yarou 10y ago
I've always been fascinated with metabolic diseases/syndromes like diabetes. It seems to be a symptom of the first world, i.e. affluenza, but there's this weird sort of trade-off where it can manifest itself (type-2 specifica
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by yarou 10y ago
Discouraging someone to use an IDE is more a symptom of the target language's shortcomings. Xcode provided me with beautiful compile-time errors for both Objective-C and Swift, and forced me to really think about what I was doing. Inci
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by yarou 10y ago
> The typical explanation was that SF was a "fun" place to live with much better leisure options than the desolate office parks and suburbs of the SV towns. Depends on your definition of fun - being harassed constantly by both
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by yarou 10y ago
They enjoy the part that comes after - intense binge drinking on a daily basis.
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by yarou 10y ago
I've considered that possibility as well. We are the only known species to propagate out of balance within our local environment. Our brain has this concept of "infinity", which shows up everywhere in our society. Unconstrain
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by yarou 10y ago
Everyone is miserable. Everyone is alone. Everyone escapes. But giving up is a fate worse than death in my eyes. I'm roughly half your age, but I understand, I get it. But don't give up hope. You can still change, no matter how d
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by yarou 10y ago
Illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in any sane court of law. How is this any different? This reads to me like: there's this bad area in town where drug dealers are known to congregate. Does that make every person who hangs a
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by yarou 10y ago
As I've said in other places, the discussion of nootropics used to be a scientific discussion of cognitive enhancers by sober, psychologically healthy people. But as of late, it's degenerated into shady grey market talk of legal h
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by yarou 10y ago
Keep in mind you still have the constraint of the Yerkes–Dodson law [0]. Drugs that are neuroprotective at therapeutic doses can easily become neurotoxic at extremely high supratherapeutic doses. The only exception that comes to mind is mem
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by yarou 10y ago
I highly doubt that the majority of homeless people in San Francisco (at least where I lived, Tenth and Market) fit into the category of non-conformist hippies that want to live outside of the System (neoliberal capitalism, really). Many of
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by yarou 10y ago
> Account created 3 days ago. Really makes you think, huh?
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by yarou 10y ago
That's why we upgrade machines (either through pharmaceuticals, and soon, I suspect, gene therapy. Introduce the caloric restriction gene and suddenly the urge to eat uncontrollably goes away.) Hell, most legal stimulants are appetite

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