chr1

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by chr1 8d ago
Ability to jump straight to waterfall doesn't prevent you from taking another hike looking specifically for those other things. If solving any problem is possible with ai, the job of mathematician is finding new problems, not trying to
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by chr1 1mo ago
Tax system and government budget in general are very deliberate system of smoke and mirrors designed to obfuscate how the money is spent. You are paying income tax, but your employee is paying payroll tax for you, is buying health insurance
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by chr1 3mo ago
Cost of a great apartment by 1920 standards is affordable to anyone before they are 30, the problem is that they want to add lots of nice but non-essential things to that house driving the price up. If you subsidize building houses, you mer
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by chr1 4mo ago
If quantum computers turn out to be able to do that, the api would be very similar to what dwave has today. That is one will use normal computer to reformulate the task into a predefined form, submit that to quantum computer, and then use
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by chr1 4mo ago
It can't become mainstream, it is a very narrowly specialized hardware for a very limited set of tasks.
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by chr1 4mo ago
In that chain there is no distinction between subjective experience of mental state and evolution of physical state of the brain. If you believe that the 'hard' problem exists then that chain must be modified. What most of the p-z
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by chr1 4mo ago
There is effectively infinite space up high, and low is bounded by death, so it never can average out.
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by chr1 4mo ago
> Parents don't have any choice in this either. That's a very fucked up thing to say, governments or random strangers from internet do not have a right to decide how parent raises his child. Do you even have a child? > I lik
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by chr1 4mo ago
Being in school does not make one educated. Keeping disruptive child in the same room with normal children, means we get fewer educated people, not more.
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by chr1 4mo ago
For instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service . 12 year old would be pretty fine to spend 4-5 hours a day cleaning streets for a while. Btw. I am not advocating for work programs as a particularly good so
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by chr1 4mo ago
I went to school at 6 years, our schools were for 10 years, and at 16 i went to university. At the university with us were some 20 year olds, who went to school at 7 years, were not able to get to university in their 17, were drafted to arm
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by chr1 4mo ago
Laws like "do not kill", "do not steal", have been found long before politicians existed, by the natural selection of societies. That is groups of people who did not follow these laws were largely outcompeted by those w
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by chr1 4mo ago
> Drop out now, we'll give you a bunch of money later Later they only get ability to sit at the same classes at the same public school, so there is no financial incentive. 15 year olds forced to sit in classes they don't want a
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by chr1 4mo ago
> You mean they enroll back at a private school to get their education? I mean the money that government wastes keeping them in school while they are 15 and don't want to learn, can be given to them later when/if they decide to
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by chr1 4mo ago
Keeping them in school like it is done now, does not help them in any way, it merely transforms school from a place to learn into a mini prison where dysfunctional kids do not allow other kids to learn too. 15 year old who decides that he d
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by chr1 6mo ago
When we lived in tribes, people knew who did what job, and those who were taking more than they were contributing were punished harshly. Money is merely a mnemonic device serving the same purpose, to mark those who did more good than recei
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by chr1 6mo ago
That extra 200 will also allow some people to move to a rural area, decreasing demand, which means you won't find a renter.
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by chr1 7mo ago
Well it kinda is the same, in any transaction today two people vote to transfer goods and the rest of the people in the country vote to take a percentage of that as tax. We only need to make sure that decisions affect the smallest number o
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by chr1 7mo ago
That is the same argument proponents of planned economy use. It doesn't work in reality because no one knows what other people need and no one cares. Representatives care about being reelected, but they have a very hard time figuring o
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by chr1 7mo ago
Well if you knew a good reason for secret ballots you could tell us that, instead of telling that you are smarter than me. You really should take another look at hn commenting guidelines, it is useful outside of hn too https://ne
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by chr1 7mo ago
That's a very good question, for instance for most of its republican period Rome did not have secret ballot, and voting was open. That have changed in 138BC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_laws_of_the_Roman_Re
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by chr1 7mo ago
Why is it a bad idea? Can you describe one bad consequence of it, if it is implemented in combination with the other ideas above?
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by chr1 7mo ago
I hope you will agree that the overall goal is maximizing freedom and autonomy, that is allowing every person or group to pursue happiness the way they want make mistakes or good choices and bear the consequences. The representative democra
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by chr1 7mo ago
What we have now is a politician saying vote for me and i'll pass laws that will give you 10k in next 4 years, people vote for the politician who then takes money from scamazon gives 10 to voters and takes 10mln to get elected again.
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by chr1 7mo ago
Direct voting does not replace judiciary or even senate, it only augments the house of congress. Can you bring one example where the public wanted to treat a group unjustly and parliament elected by that same public have defended the group
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by chr1 7mo ago
If majority of people in a country want to persecute an outnumbered subgroup, then what prevents the majority of delegates wanting the same as well? You have an implicit assumption that the delegates are going to be smarter and better peopl
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by chr1 7mo ago
Why do you think that similar law could not be passed without direct vote? The problem is not direct democracy but the fact that it is being done in a wrong way. Voting should be done without anonymity, online. One should be able to either
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by chr1 10mo ago
The main factor reducing gulf stream is increase of fresh water runoff into Arctic ocean. So maybe we should invest into building Sibaral Canal diverting some of the water of northern rivers towards Aral sea, and by that saving both Nordic
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by chr1 11mo ago
Fitting the concept of god into a cosmological model is rather easy. If we agree that everything we see is described by physics, then everything including us is simply a computation. And in principle someone can build a machine to carry out
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by chr1 1y ago
Russians also had the money until government did not start to take away that from people who had lot of it. When government can confiscate all of the money of a rich person, only those on the side of government will remain rich.

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