asgard1024

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by asgard1024 6y ago
No, that's not what the quote was about, the quote was saying that their economies should be managed the same way. Your interpretation of that quote is much narrower and in particular, it only applies to foreign debt.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
Nation is very different from a household. There is lot more people, they are anonymous. You need money to track who owns to whom, in household everybody knows. The worker specialization is much more relevant in the national economy. There
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by asgard1024 6y ago
The West also has social credit system, it's called money. If you do something useful for society, you will get them. If you don't do something useful, you will not get them and die of hunger. And if you do something wrong, you ca
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by asgard1024 6y ago
If anything, I think Civ tried to subvert the bias of war games by allowing other types of victories than just a military one.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
Maybe I am reading too much into this argument, but I think this is moving the goalposts. So Bregman comes and proves, presumably mostly based on history of Western civilization, that humans are (at least in some ways and on average) better
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by asgard1024 6y ago
It's like the best speech ever. And IMHO the idea to add Inception soundtrack to it makes it even so much better.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I haven't read the book, but I suspect you're disagreeing with Rousseau and not Bregman here. I don't think Bregman recommends removing the civilization, but rather augmenting it based on the moral principles that we already
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I think you're right - according to category theory, only relationships of the objects matter, not the objects themselves.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I think I disagree, but it really depends what you mean by "test" or "test case". I assume that test case is for a given input, expect certain output, and test verifies certain assumption, such as for a certain class of
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by asgard1024 6y ago
> Tests that use random input data are much more difficult to write correctly. Interestingly, I personally find them easier to write. I actually find classic unit tests hard to write, probably because I am painfully aware of the lack of
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by asgard1024 6y ago
Actually, you can get reproducible tests even with randomized tests, by setting the random seed (I always do that in e.g. Quickcheck). So this is really a moot point, not a good excuse not to do random testing (or not to use QuickCheck ;-P)
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I am glad that somebody is trying to challenge the conventional wisdom. This might also be relevant: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
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by asgard1024 6y ago
The way I like to explain this is to start from an intensional definition of money as "something that has no value by itself but can be potentially exchanged for something of that value". And total amount of money in economy is th
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I think that Trump believes that Snowden is a Russian spy, because he cannot imagine (given their different personalities) that somebody would do what Snowden did just for intrinsic reasons. So Trump is trying to make a deal with Snowden -
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by asgard1024 6y ago
> I'd still consider MS the gold standard for back-compat No way! IBM mainframe (zSeries) is the gold standard for backward compatibility in IT.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I come from a former communist country. Non-existence of free speech didn't always mean that somebody will disappear you. It might also have meant that you lose your cushy job and get a less cushy job. Which is not really all that diff
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by asgard1024 6y ago
> Corporations usually sell goods and services, but do not have control over individuals most fundamental rights including those of freedom, health or even life - like governments often do. And yet in the U.S., your health care and pensi
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by asgard1024 6y ago
When I was a kid in the early 90s (in Czechoslovakia), I watched Wargames and Short Circuit, and they influenced me a lot to become interested in artificial intelligence. I found the idea of intelligent computers fascinating. Although the a
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by asgard1024 6y ago
> made me realize the degree to which society has been mechanized, how our alienation to nature There is a nice segment about industrialization in Planet of the Humans. I wouldn't mind if they made another full length movie out of i
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by asgard1024 6y ago
> Apollo 13 - I think few films come close to capturing how ingenious some people can be I agree, I also like The Martian and The Shawshank Redemption, which both have similar premise of human ingenuity solving difficult problems.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I like Millennium Actress. And Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a classic.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I think it just happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061653 GPT-3 just wrote an essay arguing that intelligence is doing nothing.
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I think what you have to understand is that monad is quite an abstract concept. It is possible to give a specific example of a monad, but from the specific example, you won't fully understand it. Here's the first sentence in the d
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by asgard1024 6y ago
I would question your assumption that "clean code" that you describe is really modularization and abstraction. (In particular, separating everything into small scattered pieces, which is IMHO a horrible Java habit that I have to e
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by asgard1024 7y ago
We have actually solved a lot of problems like that through ecological and other regulations. Just from the top of my head: - worst pesticides (DDT) - sulfate aerosols from coal - CFCs - chloride based plastics - asbestos and dust - leaded
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by asgard1024 7y ago
> lot of the worst offenders of that are people who are quite likely operating on the basis they'll be dead before we feel the absolute effects These people often have kids, and they do a lot for them. They need to understand that i
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by asgard1024 7y ago
Humans are peculiar creatures. When faced with a choice between deadly heatwaves, or trains and buses, they will go with deadly heatwaves!
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by asgard1024 8y ago
I considered downvoting you for needless bragging, but I did not - I think I am a better person that way.
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by asgard1024 10y ago
It's hard to tell, but it can be because most maths research is published in Chinese, while these rankings are little anglocentric. Also lot of Chinese probably migrate to the US as soon as they can. Anyway, I was just pointing out tha
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by asgard1024 10y ago
"It's an interesting question when you consider that in at least two university mathematics department rankings[1][2], the US holds 7 of the top 10 global spots." It's a fallacy. US is a large country, so those talented

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