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by clusterfoo 12y ago
But under our current economic system, what you can afford is tied to the value of the goods/services you produce. If we find ourselves in a future where 90% of the population produces nothing, then 90% of the population can afford not
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
So long as machines are not far more effective at building (and possibly some day even engineering) those things we desire...
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1 points by clusterfoo 12y ago|0 comments
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
I don't really understand what is being argued. Two statements are made: > A: The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. > B: Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Would you say that the functional paradigm has started to gain more traction lately though? -- I don't know because I haven't been programming long enough, so maybe it just seems that way to me simply because now that I'm awa
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Agreed. This kind of spin sometimes does more harm than good. Not that there's any doubt that greed and corruption play a big role too -- but there are many, many more factors. Hell, I wish it were simply a matter of one big "phar
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Reminds me of this bit by Feynman on the difference between knowing something, and knowing the name of that thing: http://youtu.be/05WS0WN7zMQ There does seem to exist a particular breed of "intellectual" who not
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
> If you mean Hallucinogens, they have been studied extensively and don't seem to be that medically useful. LSD and Mushrooms can be an effective treatment for cluster headaches (a debilitating disease which is said to be "The
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
> The good news is that this is happening faster than you would think. The research might be moving fast, but access to these new treatments still moves at a glacial pace. At least for the people who need them... patients have to wait y
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Heh, my first thought reading the article was designing a game that is simple, yet inherently difficult for an AI player. Thanks for introducing me to Arimaa!
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by clusterfoo 13y ago
> 3) read about Melanoma, was shocked how much I didn't know. Yeah it's weird how little people know about something so prevalent. People are shocked to find how many different types and sub-types of cancer are out there and ho
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by clusterfoo 13y ago
The fact that we have careers decent enough that we are not dehumanized on a daily basis or expected to work in depressing, unhealthy, sometimes dangerous conditions for just enough pay to scrape by should not be seen as luxury; it should b
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by clusterfoo 13y ago
Not only is flipping back and forth much easier in a math/technical book, but, for some reason, I find I actually learn better. Something about associating a piece of information with a physical location on a real object makes everythi
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by clusterfoo 13y ago
> I'd go with "foundational parts of the human experience" But not necessarily professions. The notion of "professional artist" is fairly recent. Most of the great artists, pre-20th century, had day jobs: from Ch
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by clusterfoo 13y ago
Long time lurker, first time poster. This is my first app. I've been working on it for about a month. It's all GPL. Some features that I'm working on: posting code snippets and LaTex and links, subscribing to a conversation,
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Show HN: Sort of like a freeform forum with multi-replies per post.(memorabble.net)
1 points by clusterfoo 13y ago|1 comments