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by yters 6y ago
That seems orthogonal to the primary concern of communism, which is to make sure no one goes without something they need, i.e. from everyone according to ability, to everyone according to need. Lack of accounting for wants can make for an a
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by yters 6y ago
Why is human preference essential? Everyone has certain needs in common: - food - housing - clothing And all those needs can be satisfied in a cookiecutter way for everyone. It's unclear to me why such a system cannot be centrally pl
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by yters 6y ago
Depends on the timing of the workout, but speaking from personal experience an all day hike is perfect for generating a deep, restful night's sleep.
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by yters 6y ago
There is a certain sense where this is communism's central failing. If we remove all the moral components of mass starvation due to idealistic utopianism, the central tenet of communism is materialism and consequently that all human i
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by yters 6y ago
If you go to Shalizi's article, which the author links to, then you'll see that polynomial time is a based on very generous assumptions about the problem space of the economy to make it amenable to convex optimization. Under real
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by yters 6y ago
So if we can ever prove P=NP then communism becomes practical viable? It's interesting the political system reduces to a problem in computer science.
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by yters 6y ago
I would not give up on discussing the issue. Marriage and love is about giving up and sacrificing for each other. If she can see there is something good about not just being small minded and selfish it will help her in life as well.
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by yters 6y ago
Very tough situation. I suppose it is difficult to discuss the imbalance.
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by yters 6y ago
A hard workout, waking up early and avoiding caffeine help me a lot with insomnia.
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by yters 6y ago
Totally agree with this. I much prefer being really slow and actually learning a language and writing code I understand vs banging out a thing for work with stackoverflow and an IDE.
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by yters 6y ago
I remember reading little house on the praire where the teacher bull whipped the classroom bullies, and they never caused any problems after that.
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by yters 6y ago
Or, Walmart can pivot to entirely online delivery shopping and save loads of money by not having stores. Or, Amazon can slide into the groceries space.
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by yters 6y ago
Here's one comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24704986 The writer claims the decriminalization was forced by a heroin epidemic, and it coincided with an economic downturn. So, my statement that it caused ar
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by yters 6y ago
I read a HN comment here from a resident of Portugal the decriminalization has been significantly mischaracterized. The main reason it worked at all was due to a huge rise in heroin use, which the criminal system was having trouble handlin
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by yters 6y ago
What if they made Walmart be a giant vending machine, automatically fed with conveyor belts from a warehouse in the back?
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by yters 6y ago
how is identity politics any different than right left, liberal conservative, religious atheist, vanilla chocolate, vim emacs etc.?
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by yters 6y ago
I have multiple CS and CE degrees, and learned his proofs, but industry is pretty antithetical to his approach and most CS pretty irrelevant. I am not sure he has that much real influence. Not that I don't wish it were otherwise. I l
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by yters 6y ago
Great point. I forgot HL was originally Sierra. It seems they were able to adapt to the new market, so CUC can probably be blamed for their demise.
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by yters 6y ago
I wonder how much of Sierra's demise was due to CUC vs. just the change in gaming landscape. Compared to the early 90's adventure gaming is non-existent minus nostalgic kickstarters. Sierra may still be alive today, but it may b
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by yters 6y ago
so people chose medium for no reason?
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by yters 6y ago
would their articles get much readership without medium? build it and they will come only works if people know about the thing
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by yters 6y ago
I also request free access to everyone's hard earned knowledge. I deserve it afterall because information wants to be free.
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by yters 6y ago
Well, glass is still a liquid, which was the most counter intuitive claim to me, whether or not the flow is humanly perceptible. In fact it is even more counter intuitive now, since glass is an even more solid liquid.
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by yters 6y ago
ruby coders always seem so happy closest i can think of is clojure coders, they also seem quite pleased
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by yters 6y ago
it looks like the line marked gold metalworking is the same, although hard to tell for sure. But long periods of history were at least pretty close to today's remperature according to that graph
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by yters 6y ago
according to that graph the world was as warm if not warmer relatively recently
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by yters 6y ago
is adapting our food production out of the question? it seems that might be a bit easier than fixing global warming
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by yters 6y ago
but if this change happens on the order of 100 years, that seems enough time to respond
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by yters 6y ago
why is global warming so catastrophic? the globe has been much warmer in the past and we are all here today
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by yters 6y ago
All my freetime dissappeared and what I have is monopolized by existing obligations and projects. Work is too scattered to allow the necessary focus to learn.

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