balt_s

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by balt_s 7y ago
Cyberpunk hot take: is this YT-funded groups trying to drive people to adopt Kids, or is it a user-upload/streaming rival seeking to discredit YT?
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by balt_s 7y ago
> oxen manage to be strong as an ox on a 100% plant-based diet What an absurd analogy; cheetahs eat a 100% meat-based diet and they're very fast.
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by balt_s 7y ago
Counterpoint: peanut butter and honey sandwich is delicious, and a worthy competitor to the king of childhood sandwiches, the venerable PB&J.
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by balt_s 7y ago
just b urself ;)
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by balt_s 7y ago
Hey man, at least we aren't speaking German!
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by balt_s 7y ago
They look at the opposing political party and think "they are the real monsters, we're the Good People"; America's a helluva drug.
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by balt_s 7y ago
You are clever like a fox.
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by balt_s 7y ago
Everyone has a price.
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by balt_s 7y ago
This is why man invented machine learning...
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by balt_s 7y ago
Based article.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> You'd think if there were some blackops AI center of genius out there, at least one of them would have a job at Facebook making $2m a year or at a hedge fund gobbling up the order books. There are none. Perhaps they were TOO succe
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by balt_s 7y ago
> Why is it always space? Two words: Star Trek
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by balt_s 7y ago
I would like to live in a world where people are good-faith coordinated enough to make this possible, but I think we don't live in anything like that world.
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by balt_s 7y ago
Hang in there, man.
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by balt_s 7y ago
Or perhaps "the only winning move is not to play". I hear it is difficult to surveil through books.
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by balt_s 7y ago
This is going to sound harsh, but: better luck next incarnation.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> Start picketing their house, where they eat, everywhere they go. Certainly you will be the first to take time out of your day to do this....
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by balt_s 7y ago
> Your life is directly or indirectly in danger Should I be concerned? Did they say Texas was hosed?
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by balt_s 7y ago
This is laughable; as well say "you could have an independent ruler".
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by balt_s 7y ago
Username checks out.
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by balt_s 7y ago
A lot of loyalty for some hired guns...
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by balt_s 7y ago
> What (..) job does automating away McDonald's workers create? This is going to sound like a crude joke, but it's not: baby maker. I am not hopeful about the future.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> But to me the climate is the largest business opportunity civilization has ever seen. I nominate this for "Most telling HN comment of 2019".
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by balt_s 7y ago
> You're thinking in short, next twenty years or so I suspect the drawdown of easily-accessible, dense, cheap fossil fuels will spell the end of global integration; consider a very low-energy future where most communication takes pl
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by balt_s 7y ago
I'm skeptical of any argument which hinges on the word "emerge" or "emergent". Consider: "consciousness is an emergent property of brains" vs "consciousness is a magical property of brains".
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by balt_s 7y ago
Double irony: this article appears in Fortune magazine.
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by balt_s 7y ago
Wow, I thought that writing sounded familiar; fancy encountering you here, Mr Greer! Huge fan.
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by balt_s 7y ago
>Your assumption is we have infinite growth on a finite planet, which unfortunately is not the case You're arguing against an implicit faith in the civic religion of infinite growth, and the cognitive dissonance this causes.
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by balt_s 7y ago
> Then it is a wrong societal norm. This is an underrated point, but I hope you can see how prevailing factors in both the business world (Amazon's two-day shipping springs to mind) and the culture are seriously stacked against thes
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by balt_s 7y ago
> Globalization always means more opportunities for the nation’s most competitive citizens, but more competition for the least competitive citizens. The trouble is that in the services sector there are a lot of uncompetitive people. This

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