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by ythn 10y ago
Swap out prophets for celebrity "scientists"/eccentric billionaires, and swap out scripture with speculative pseudo-scifi publications, and you have a new religion!
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by ythn 10y ago
Only artificial recursively self-improving super intelligences know the answer
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by ythn 10y ago
My mistake, you are correct - plurality is the correct word here. In my example the party with plurality can capture the majority of the vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean the party itself is a majority.
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by ythn 10y ago
> I'm only annoyed that people have been stating that same old statistic which hasn't been true for at least a decade. Do you have a source? Wikipedia seems to still support the "same old statistic" in a lot of ways a
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by ythn 10y ago
> 41% is never a majority In my country, 41% of people are red party, 38% are blue party, and 21% are green party. Which party has the majority share of voters?
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by ythn 10y ago
> By the way I get annoyed when people say LDS is the majority here Are you annoyed that the entire state was founded by LDS pioneers? Without the mormons, Utah would be west colorado wasteland or another desolate, sparsely populated sta
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by ythn 10y ago
People that drive drunk should be charged with attempted homicide because apparently the current penalties are not enough. Drunk drivers are just as deadly as your average mass shooting. Ram head first into a van and kill a family of 5 in o
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by ythn 10y ago
I would say we understand intelligence even less than the wright brothers understood flight. What is "intelligence" and how is it different from "algorithms". Where does first person consciousness come in? Can a superint
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by ythn 10y ago
Am I the only one that thought this was going to be an exhibition of outdated CSS techniques that can still be found on old websites?
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by ythn 10y ago
Just wondering if this philosophy extends to all aspects of life (not just software). For example, should restaurants make all of their dishes free as in freedom (providing a copy of the recipe?) Should all companies make all of their produ
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by ythn 10y ago
I agree that GPL is good for some things, but not every thing. Linux would probably not be as good as it is without GPL. On the other hand if I have to open up my entire product just because I want to use one utility function in a GPL'
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by ythn 10y ago
I was talking more about companies like Facebook releasing React (toolbox) without releasing their actual project source (house). Giving power to the users can be costly and so often software is proprietary if only to mitigate risk. For exa
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by ythn 10y ago
> Only unimportant scraps of code can be free, but the real code must remain secret, restricted, proprietary. That just seems like entitlement. "Home Depot released a really awesome free toolbox that has everything you need to build
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by ythn 10y ago
> So don't link with GPL code, find a work-around, a different library or write your own code That's what I do. Hello MIT/BSD > Again GPL protects the user of the code not the developers that want to remove the user fre
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by ythn 10y ago
In other words, tech savvy customers will not be paying for my product since they will just host locally and use community support forums. And if my product is marketed to tech savvy people, that's a huge hit to my market.
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by ythn 10y ago
Right, so why is everyone surprised that businesses don't like GPL? More power to the user = less power to the company. Companies don't like to give power to the user - they like to be in full control of UX.
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by ythn 10y ago
I mean, if I am just contributing to the community or using a technology in a non-linking way, I don't see a problem with GPL. However, from a business standpoint, can you explain to me how linking in GPL code wouldn't just cause
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by ythn 10y ago
I've never had a problem with Xubuntu besides the occasional hiccup that stackoverflow easily solves. Maybe you've just had bad luck?
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by ythn 10y ago
> which in turn can be used as an intelligence data source. I find it ironic that so many people are distrustful of the government in some areas (intelligence, defense), yet at the same time wanting the government to take a bigger and mo
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by ythn 10y ago
> It also helps if you don't have entrenched poor communities Even still, the article does address this - "another economics professor at Brigham Young told me that his church ward had recently deliberately expanded its boundar
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by ythn 10y ago
Also, lower oxygen levels in the air have been linked to higher depression and suicide (not just Utah, but everywhere near the Rockies).
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by ythn 10y ago
> The thing is, Utah has never had a truly poor population. What about when the first destitute pioneers arrived and found a desert?
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by ythn 10y ago
A lot of progressives think that if you oppose government welfare programs, then you are being "ruthless" (even if you have a different solution in mind)
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by ythn 10y ago
All things equal, the person who works harder will usually come out on top (of course, there's always some RNG). Applies to all areas of life. Scenarios where you have an unfair advantage (money in the bank) are irrelevant here.
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by ythn 10y ago
Yes but it's currently popular to speculate on the automated future where nobody works and everyone gets free money. Yet, I have a hard time believing that vision of the future. My vision of the future is one where people still need to
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by ythn 10y ago
> This is impressive, and I'm usually not a fan of unions Germany has an unusual knack for making normally inefficient things efficient. You are probably used to unions in America which are often extremely inefficient, to the detrim
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by ythn 10y ago
Now that you mention it, I'd like to take some time off to hit the gym and get into shape instead of having kids. Improving individuals improves society, and if everyone had this benefit, there might be less obesity.
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by ythn 10y ago
Try outlawing tobacco and see what happens (hint: Prohibition).
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by ythn 10y ago
> unreasonable union interference grounds my belief that unions often engage in crude, counterproductive behavior. They definitely do. It's like what attorneys do with their clients. They try to sweep their clients' faults unde
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by ythn 10y ago
How much does it cost to get my temp email service white listed?

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