3beard

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by 3beard 12y ago
The source of all real insight is, of course, divinity. True understanding is not generated by the brain but rather received in the Plexus Solaris and then works it's way up to the brain, where it is turned into action, language or mem
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by 3beard 12y ago
> I'm sure I would gain a lot by being able to shut my mind up at times There is nothing much more to understand. The single best piece of advice I ever got came from an Indian guru named Muktananda who said "Meditation is not
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by 3beard 12y ago
I'm wondering how many people in favor of legalization would actually like to see a pot shop in their own street. From my own experience in the Netherlands, these kinds of shops attract a sort of crowd that you would much rather avoid.
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by 3beard 12y ago
> The illegality pushes the price up; You make it sound as if this is a bad thing. I'm having a hard time imagining what benefit will result from making a potent and fairly addictive narcotic cheaper and more available.
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by 3beard 12y ago
The idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized marijuana business is just as crazy as the idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized prostitution business. It will not happen. Some stuff in life is just dark as of itself, and karm
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by 3beard 12y ago
Pot smokers make a big deal of legalization but seriously, have legality issues ever prevented anyone from acquiring the stuff? I think many people are focusing on legalization because they want to avoid the real question, namely what is yo
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by 3beard 12y ago
> But he's the one who signed up to do a crap job for little pay, and keeps signing up to do it again every year. And that makes him part of the problem. Quite the opposite. The problem is that there already too many assholes who ma
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by 3beard 12y ago
It's night and your driverless car is waiting in front of a red light. Suddenly you see a man with a shotgun walking up to your vehicle. How do you tell your driverless car to ignore the red light and get the hell out of there?
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by 3beard 12y ago
I'm fairly doubtful that the present state of AI is able to deliver a driving program that equals the skill of a competent human driver. Moving around requires a lot more understanding than is generally believed.
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by 3beard 12y ago
We had that book at home. I remember being totally daunted by the source code of the Star Trek program... that thing had literally HUNDREDS of lines of code!
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by 3beard 12y ago
I wish I could work myself up into some kind of indignation, but what I really believe is this: if you willingly submit yourself to the cesspits of human banality (i.e. Facebook, Tinder and all the likes), you pretty much deserve all the cr
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by 3beard 12y ago
A second way within the system is that people start to vote for politicians who are serious about privacy.
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by 3beard 12y ago
Young programmers can easily be guilted into working 60 hours a week because young smart people tend to be a little naive about how the world turns. My advice to junior programmers is "your recruiters/managers are probably more cy
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by 3beard 12y ago
I don't understand why AI eliminating jobs is considered a problem. If any job can be done by a computer program it simply means that humanity has outgrown this kind of work and that nobody should do that mindnumbing crap anymore. Let&
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by 3beard 12y ago
For many computationally hard problems six extra orders of magnitude isn't really going to buy you much.
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by 3beard 12y ago
I like your article and it fits well with my usual methodology of grokking something, namely running a bunch of tiny examples until I see the patterns.
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by 3beard 12y ago
What's wrong by it is that some people are genuinly offended, insulted or even frightened by such a direct approach and you really have no way of knowing this before you try it.
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by 3beard 12y ago
> They readily treat their drivers like second-class citizens Sure, but that is pretty much par for the course for any low-education job anywhere in the world. Can't blame Uber for being like the rest.
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by 3beard 12y ago
Eating hamburgers is legal both in the Netherlands and the US. But the US has a lot more obese people than the Netherlands. You cannot simply assume that the outcome of drug legalization can be transferred from one country to another.
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by 3beard 12y ago
Don't forget that only ~1% of startups develop breakthrough products, because only ~1% of startups break through.
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by 3beard 12y ago
The idea you can magically "generate" consciousness by running an algorithm is really silly superstition.
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by 3beard 12y ago
install google picasa, collect all photo's in a single folder.
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by 3beard 12y ago
Thread safety. If you write an API never forget that people may want to use it in more than one thread.
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by 3beard 12y ago
Running Powershell scripts that continue after reboot is not exactly the greatest feat.