donbright

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by donbright 8y ago
Feel like sending an email to Jeff Bezos that just says ????
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by donbright 8y ago
democracy dies because people couldn't be bothered with the "mundane technical details". its like this is a flaw of intelligent civilization that Carl Sagan didn't think about. it's not global nuclear warfare, it&#x
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by donbright 8y ago
to me it seems as though there is no precedent for it. Compare to IBM. IBM created the somewhat open "PC" platform in the 80s. Within ten years there were dozens, maybe hundreds, of companies making "PC Compatible" compu
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by donbright 8y ago
finance is a different culture than hackernews, and the people speak different languages with different philosophy and assumptions about the world. maybe this is not a technical issue, maybe its a subculture interaction issue that involves
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by donbright 8y ago
maybe if college campus tech leaders didnt ogle 19 year olds, there would be more women in tech.
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by donbright 8y ago
wouldnt it be true that, basically, every boom bust cycle is "caused" in part by 'traditional' investments having low returns which makes investors look for something with higher returns? which by definition is probably
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by donbright 8y ago
dear young people who are reading the above comment. IMHO dont be afraid to take it with a grain of salt. don't expect to be rewarded for saying no. don't expect a light feather ruffling. don't expect light consequences. be p
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by donbright 8y ago
then wouldn't we would be able to correlate rates of lower toxic behavior, like harassment and conflict, with the practice of 'cultural fit'? like doing some kind of empirical study? ironically i would wager that the people w
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by donbright 8y ago
Every single sentence you wrote above is factually wrong, demonstrated not only by the study of the history of economics and society, but also empirically in something as simple as a genetic algorithm evolution inside a computer.
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by donbright 8y ago
so i wonder if its like sports... they aren't paying for workers to be or stay healthy. like a football team, they are paying a handful of superstars until their bodies are used up and broken, then they can discard them for the next ge
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by donbright 8y ago
how important are the differences really? whether you are in a Chinese prison or a US prison does it really matter which injust, ridiculous, hypocritical system put you there? does it really matter what kind of grandiose intellectual contor
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by donbright 8y ago
That doesn't make me trust them or their software / electrical team. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-fi-toyota-prius-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barr_(softw
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by donbright 8y ago
my other question is has anyone ever tried to find this with rational points only
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by donbright 8y ago
my question is can you get similar results by doing a physical simulation of charges repelling each other
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by donbright 8y ago
my 2007 macbook could barely load it.
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by donbright 8y ago
i hope contemporary libertarians on the moon and mars will be OK with with some of the worst rankings in everything from infant mortality to diabetes to education, because that is the legacy of this type of extremist social experiment.
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by donbright 8y ago
i agree with everything. however. i recently subscribed to Curiosity Stream. its like netflix but only academic-ish documentaries. its "curated" by human beings. i can almost feel the lack of "algorithm". its weird how i
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by donbright 8y ago
Not specific to robots, but i found your question very interesting to compare with this video which is specifically about managing empathy, and it's dangers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlwDdzlpuk "Can you ru
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by donbright 8y ago
well its an interesting question.... if 'waste' is the limiting of movement of goods or services, then every single tarrif and trade barrier is theoretically a cause of 'waste', since at some point every single product t
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by donbright 8y ago
I'd recommend the Sinica podcast, they have done several shows on surveillance tech and the Chinese state, including one focusing on xinjiang and these camps. Big tech in China is closely linked to government social engineering.
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by donbright 8y ago
As long as there are people like you, there is hope for the world....
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by donbright 8y ago
The crux of the library in 2018 is exemplified here. It is important to have public input to the weeding process (thats what it is called in the US), because libraries are inherently hierarchical government bureaucracies, but funded by taxp
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by donbright 8y ago
You know what's funny is how many topics on 'hacker news' are basically questions of sociology or anthropology or economics or psychology. If you could make some kind of AI that would color the comments here based on what aca
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by donbright 8y ago
Otto von Bismark.
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by donbright 8y ago
so 10,000 years from now they can look at all these nano particles in our bodies as artefacts of our civilization, like we look back at Otzi the Iceman's stomach contents.... ??
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by donbright 8y ago
i have played with it on and off for years. when i was helping with an open source project i used it to test portability. what i really liked it about it was the simplicity. its like you can learn a lot about your own home by traveling some
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by donbright 8y ago
The way I understand it, is that the Cold War was actually a War, although we forget about it, but the propaganda arms of the governments did not allow anyone to be a human being, you must be either a heroic figure or a villain. Maybe it is
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by donbright 8y ago
well, toasters didn't start having USB 3 until recently...
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by donbright 8y ago
is there a proof that real numbers can be added?
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by donbright 8y ago
i did not understand quaternions until I read Hamilton's original works. Maybe i just have a 19th century brain or something. but i found them delightfully free of modern gobbldeygook. https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/

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