bingobangobongo

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by bingobangobongo 13y ago
Or bad means "bad bet" (before the fact) instead of "unsuccessful bet" (after the fact).
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by bingobangobongo 13y ago
The Oak Bro logo is very subtle. You immediately see the leaf, but not the negative space line of busts on bottom and line of asses on top.
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by bingobangobongo 13y ago
I mostly agree with you, but organizing a bunch of stories that mention certain keywords is innovative and useful. And there is a big problem with the way the current system works: Meltwater is supposed to go negotiate some deal with the A
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
A basic income guarantee is a far more important idea than free higher education or affordable housing. The argument for universal healthcare is that we're going to take care of the sick whether they purchased insurance or not. What argum
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
> The market capitalization is only 500 million dollars. Emphasis mine. That seems crazy high. How many million dollars would you pay for all of the existing bit coins?
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
> impossible to maintain expert level skills in more than one or two language + library environments And the crappier your language and libraries, the more time it takes to be an "expert."
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
Yes, I don't think I phrased it well, but I didn't intend to assume that there is a single Robot Mega Corp. > The more humans we replace by robots, the lower the cost of goods will be Most physical goods have two parts: materials and la
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
You're looking at things from the viewpoint of society. There your argument makes sense -- of course "people" will continue to work. But that argument, that we'll just continue to work on things higher up Maslow's hierarchy, doesn't hold
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
I don't like this explanation at all. This fuzzy thinking works out because you knew it to work out based on your much less fuzzy understanding of the complex numbers. Similarly fuzzy thinking in a new problem domain won't work out 90% of
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
When I worked in retail, our boss would have us send our friends across the street to our competitor's store to really screw with their employees. The theory was that this would make them less courteous to their real customers, which would
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
This isn't really something we can try, but I suspect you'd get turned down some reasonable percentage of the time (2%-10%, say) with such an offer, by people who have "all the money they need." Since to me the utility of the first few mil
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
First, let's do the experiment with a billion dollars and see if you really just offer me 50 million.
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
Reading the summary you've linked to, isn't the implication for this thread that certain puzzle type questions, if they do a reasonable job of measuring general intelligence, are useful predictors of job performance? (With the big caveat
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
I almost wrote "uniform", but that seemed simplistic since it didn't take into account factors like age, number of children, etc. But if the majority of the wealth goes to the few owners of the machines, then the economy certainly doesn't
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
Whether or not the term "meritocracy" is thrown around as propaganda is a separate issue from whether or not we should want to live in a meritocracy, which is what the article was about. In fact, most people don't want to live a pure merit
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
The following are mutually exclusive: a) All children have equal opportunity. b) Parents are able to spend money on their children. I've spoken with many people who are in favor of both a) and b) and don't see the cognitive dissonance, but
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
This is mostly right. This is certainly not about the boycotters believing all information (or even all academic publications) should be free, as the other branch of rayiner's thread assumes. And if Elsevier was more reasonable in their r
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by bingobangobongo 14y ago
That sounds terrible.