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by zentiggr 9y ago
Change pricing to "n% of AGI"? How much for the loaf of bread? .0000012 Tesla? .001 etc?
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by zentiggr 9y ago
I've imagined a company (cable phone or some other long term service) that signs everyone up at their full rate, and for every month you stay with them, they add 1% discount till after 50 months you are at 50% of full rate and stay tha
873.
by zentiggr 9y ago
I'm sure it might have been, but her kids took the "bail and never have to deal with it again" option, and she honestly had trouble just staying focused enough to have something of a day job, let alone remember to make appoin
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Except that with any account at all, whatever information is available, can be sold to any third party that wants it through Facebook Research. Advertising isn't the whole story by a long shot... hence CA / SCL Group (and whom els
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Considering his big picture goal is "humans on more than one world", this makes perfect sense. And isn't 100% obvious.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
He wised up? Many former FB execs and top employees have started speaking out, having major changes of opinion, against what they created.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
I've considered the idea of a course for general education that specifically teaches about these psychological traits and the ways they can backfire... a sort of anti-manipulation, bias awareness training camp. Set up scenarios involvi
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Anecdotal but definitely illustrative: a close friend of my mother had serious trouble managing her bipolar states, she would start manic and it got out of control within hours or sometimes minutes. Bye bye meds, and on more than one occas
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Worst case scenario is that the stored info is taken by someone more malicious and used for anything unintended beyond the original purpose. The whole point of "less surveillance" is to limit the amount of information stored, beca
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Would that be a strong effect on an uncontrolled basis? (I.e., fast irregular shallow and/or interrupted breaths tending to reinforce anxiety etc.?)
881.
by zentiggr 9y ago
Depending on your insurance, ambulance and emergency charges can be either rather high copay or only % covered, and are NEVER cheap on their face. My wife drove me to the emergency room on a 3am Sunday morning when I felt like someone was p
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by zentiggr 9y ago
You are correct to the degree that science begins from observations. However, dismissing one person's contribution to the body of knowledge in isolation ignores the vast amount of work in many different times, locations, amounts of de
883.
by zentiggr 9y ago
F * Wells Fargo. One of the top financial companies on my personal wishlist to liquidate and never rehire the top executives unless they start out at minimum wage and earn their way up again.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Blame him or not blame him, it was hypocritical to proclaim in all other forums for open web policies and then not vote against DRM when the chips were down. From my very distant viewpoint, it's almost inexplicable. I couldn't im
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Regardless of its quirks, I loved the 6502 when I was writing my revision of the onboard ROMs. Easy to get the scope of the instruction set, etc. Having this set of expanded capability would have been game changing... maybe a riff off GEO
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by zentiggr 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd use the phrase "never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy", but I've not visited a ZDNet site knowingly for a long time. Been pulling hijinks since their very early days.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
> Nichols said the AMIR “has great potential” to extend the life of roads, and “save significant taxpayer dollars.” In 2016, an MTO analysis found that the province would save $50 million annually if roads on the MTOs highways could last
888.
by zentiggr 9y ago
So... Project Insight? Hail Hydra!
889.
by zentiggr 9y ago
Heck, if the US Army can get away with it, who's to stop private OR public corporations?
890.
by zentiggr 9y ago
Describing it as wrath is in proportion to the overwhelming lack of action against corporate issues these days... so yes, slap on the wrist on an objective scale, but 'hey, look, they DID something!'
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Typo there with _rose_ quality of life in Venezuela? Pretty sure we've watched that 'democratic' experiment fail spectacularly, at least what news I know of the economy and living conditions in general seem very poor at bes
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by zentiggr 9y ago
> I'm fine with societies experimenting with more surveillance with the aim of improving people's behavior. If only that surveillance didn't open up avenues for exploitation, targeting, and suppression even more. And I&#x2
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by zentiggr 9y ago
uMatrix is great for blacklisting by default and only enabling as needed for website core operations. Also has a "don't filter on this domain" switch for things like bank sites and other fragile ops.
894.
by zentiggr 9y ago
Put a mission statement in one hand, and an optimizable revenue stream in the other, and see which hand the management chain goes for...
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Sounds like mandatory video records of the production lines is a necessary first step... reviewable by anyone at any time and with missing footage fineable (backup cameras are not prohibitively expensive). Again, outside independent monito
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by zentiggr 9y ago
This makes me think that Chuck Moore would be the prototypical full-stack dev... just give everyone a Forth image with core vocabulary and turn them loose.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
Or switch to alternate keyboard layouts that have dissimilar key distances & locations. Using Dvorak/Colemak etc would throw this method off unless it managed to retrain for the particular differences due to layouts. Maybe a rando
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by zentiggr 9y ago
It'll be a keyword in titles until the clickthrough falls off and it'll disappear again. Enh.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
That makes me wonder - given that Jupiter and Saturn are so massive as to have solid cores, how do their core sizes compare to Earth's size? never compared those numbers, not sure where to find core size estimates for our four giants.
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by zentiggr 9y ago
I try to apply a visualization to fearful situations: I imagine that letting the fear have control is riding an escalator down toward the worst possible results, and there are points along the descent where I can step off to the side by tak

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