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by zimablue 8y ago
I think one way to look at it is as an example of the positive effects of destruction. Cities bombed down => get to rebuild higher density, modern form, get a strong regulated rental sector Society destroyed => Britain still has a uni
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I don't think it was, for one thing because they mentioned that in internal testing it seemed to be equal strength and for another if you watch the game it's not some like slightly weaker strength- it's fundamentally not unde
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I am sceptical of Alphastar. It's not at all like alphazero, it's lots of complex parts glued together. In the third group (second of the human and first post-review) of games, against a slightly modified version, the human won. I
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The pig that wants to be eaten. I was very young and impressionable and I think this book is like philosophical crack cocaine.
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by zimablue 8y ago
You're using false dichotomy in a kind of odd way, it normally means that you have to choose between one of two positions or arguments, not that someone has stereotyped two groups. I don't think anyone is saying that these classif
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by zimablue 8y ago
There's nothing in this article that mentions "cognitive elite", it talks about education and skills. You brought that to the article completely on your own. For what it's worth, I think that there are definitely innate
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It depends on what sort of redistribution you talk about. Picketty argues that we tax income but not wealth and that's the root of our problems. I would imagine that your income is a way higher percentile than your wealth, income middl
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by zimablue 8y ago
This it getting downvoted maybe because it sounds nasty, but I think there's a relevant point here. Govt open source funding is something that external countries can benefit from, but I think a) the US is so big that any unfairness to
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by zimablue 8y ago
It's all a spectrum, the question is whether a better system is conceivable or achievable. Scotland was offered a free vote on leaving the UK and voted to remain, if they'd left I wouldn't have wanted us to try and block thei
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It's not the countries of the European Union's job to care about their historic ally and second largest power remaining stable and friendly in a time of oligarchs and autocracies? Put aside remain/leave/nationality, your
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The countries of Europe are our allies and friends, the EU as an entity seems to treat the UK as an enemy. The UK as a negotiating entity has failed to argue coherently, because the political classes are hopelessly divided and opportunistic
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SJW is a weird insult to use here, the outcry isn't anything to do with SJWs. FAANG in general are actually very pro SJW in the gender/racial sense, see Damore's firing, the twitter feed of senior devs at any of them. They&#x
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One guess in London will be young middle class people living in delapidated council houses? It sounds stupid now but what else is cheap in the centre? I was living in one a couple of years ago and they're ironically often more spacious
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by zimablue 8y ago
Brutalism is a lot more interesting when you have a vague idea of the background of it => it's a kind of socialist/communist philosophy in architecture, pretty buildings are the enshrinement of social hierarchies into architect
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Yeah and markets are notoriously immoral, so are manipulative bosses. We banned subliminal imaging remember. There's some blurred territory I totally agree, in between egregious deception and "expected, competitive" deception
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Lying to someone for their benefit is treating them as an object because you're not respecting their right to honesty or dignity, you're just treating them as an object that might or might not get run over and deceptive technology
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It's immoral because you don't have the right to deceive and make decisions for other people. Let's take the example further and see if you can find a point where it starts to be obviously unethical, then work your way backwa
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by zimablue 8y ago
This whole piece, and to be honest most of the comments here come from such a dark, authoritarian, arrogant perspective. "lying to the plebs modifies their behavior very slightly in a good way or is it in a bad way?" It's irr
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Because it's built and bundled by a monopolistic company with an (at the time, maybe less now) institutional commitment to backwards compatibility forever. Winforms could have been the worst thing ever written and it would still be aro
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It's a commodity until they extend it with stuff that locks you in, like (to be fair) Gitlab is also doing eg. CI, hooks etc. The whole playbook has always been to quietly remove compatibility and take the most locking-in possible appr
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Nations(companies) have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. Microsoft has a permanent interest to lock you in a box, paying tax. Open sourcing some products or whatever PR move is orthogonal to that, tha
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by zimablue 8y ago
Just because those things are useful doesn't mean that they wouldn't be more useful/tractable if they'd stuck closer to logic. How do you know that their usefulness isn't a large part due to the closeness in logic a
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I'm fighting through a book on formal logic at the moment, I never did a computer science degree, is it on the syllabus? It feels like this should have been the first thing I ever studied. I kind of got to it in reverse, data shuffling
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Whether or not the criticism is justified, shutting down all criticism of a female applicant with explicit accusations of misogyny and trolling is wrong. The guy is literally banned and his thread of comments moved on the basis that he dare
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by zimablue 8y ago
There are kind of three questions: 1. how much is this person suffering 2. is their suffering "justified" 3. is their suffering the cause of their own actions (who is at fault) I and the poster are leaning towards the second and t
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You already maintain a hierarchy of grief. If you found that a colleague was inconsolable because they'd snapped a nail, you'd judge them and respond differently than if their parent was dead. It's also not just based on how
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10 years and never happened. Heard it happen to more than one female friend, think it's somehow a gendered crime.
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There are more axes than character development or adherence to the constraints of current scientific understanding on which to judge a book. To me, originality and "philosophical development", or how the perspective of science inf
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I don't think that's true, it's true that "money is not real", and will need to be exchanged for services. But a lot of the expenses each generation has are for example housing, food, cars. So sure, that method does
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Which flies in the face of population growth and is also sociologically injust in the long term since it's rich people who are trending towards having more children (and also the privileged in more subtle ways: https://mediu

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