icandoitbetter

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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
How long before an ignorant humanities scholar writes a book claiming that the "Rathke Affair" proves that all math is nonsense?
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
It may not scale, but the chances of it making (any/more) money are much higher ("riches are in the niches") than a "fast startup" as it's very rare for a startup to grow fast and monetize quickly at the same time, because most peopl
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Why would you try to implement this with WebRTC? WebRTC is for real time communication. It's in the name. Social networks don't have to be real time. How would you do persistence in a WebRTC-run social network? E.g. how can I visit your pro
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Piecemeal compilation: // beginning of file Coffeescript = require('coffee-script'); // compilation Coffeescript.compile(line, {bare: true}); e.g. var f = eval(Coffeescript.compile("(x) -> x + 1", {bar
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
> I detest politically motivated scientific theories Then you detest every scientific theory ever devised.
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Internet Scam Alert: Most "Kickstarter" Projects Just Useless Crap(youtube.com)
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
I assume everyone has the same amount of equity then?
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Is it impossible to imagine a system where fellow human beings would help you even if you didn't produce anything of value?
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what Marx advocates.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Well written, but I completely disagree. Behind your reasoning lies the classic libertarian argument about epistemological complexity (not saying you are a libertarian, just that you are using Austrian school reasoning): because we can't kn
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Stop putting words in my mouth. I never said that this is a solution for labor rights or unemployment right now.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
It's not a flaw on your part. Stop being so moralistic. That kind of job is something that NOBODY needs to do. If we really tried, we could automate those jobs within a couple of decades or less. But we won't because those workers are possi
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
People would still want to work. But they'll start working on things they actually care about, because they won't be enslaved by their fear that if they quit their jobs they'll end up homeless or without health insurance. Right now so few s
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
With a wealth redistribution mechanism like basic income.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
There's always work to do exactly because there are always people looking for work. It's not the other way around. Most jobs aren't necessary for our survival, so people who don't want to work shouldn't be forced to work. It's not Utopian h
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
> One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown) One may argue that if she has no understanding of the European financial meltdown, and just wants to find evidence for the fai
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
That's textbook Reddit garbage right there. When you don't have good insight on people, they all look the same.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
The state gives you the "moral right" to your property by protecting it from others using violence. There's no such thing as private property without the state. That was my argument. I'm not taking a position on whether Saverin should've re
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
> listen, the state doesn't have a "moral right" on your money, energy, or time Of course it does. Without the state, there would be no property rights.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
No, it's not.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
The European crisis has nothing to do with the inflated public spending. That's just the spin that American and especially conservative media have pursued for obvious reasons. Greece does less public spending than Germany, for example (chec
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Similar experience.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
This person is ostensibly is in favor of gender equality, but he believes that the problem has been overstated and it will simply solve itself. He believes that the world has become more gender-equal in the past decades not because of the r
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Light Table was actually heavily inspired by BV's work by his own admission
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
>Who wants to spend 30 hours speculating on the psychology of an alienated prude with a bunch of pseudo-philosophical garbage about the meaning of life slapped on as affect? How can you even make that claim when the game isn't out yet?
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
oh come on. the article is dripping in journalese. you can hardly make any judgments about his character based on it alone (it even features the Beautiful Mind-esque cliche of "doesn't understand the social conventions of how to act around
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
It's not "crappy foreplay" - it's a presentation.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Can't tell if you're joking.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Godel doesn't talk about space, time, human experience, truths that exist independently of human experience. I fail to see how he's relevant.
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by icandoitbetter 14y ago
Its relevance in philosophy/epistemology/science/computing has been inflated out of proportion by the confused arguments of Hofstadter, Penrose, etc. Just because it's difficult to understand doesn't mean that it will tell you the meaning o

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