zachalexander

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by zachalexander 11y ago
True, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
What is terrible about the subreddit? Your following paragraph ("Basically...") sounds very reasonable.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Perhaps they are homeowners, who want the housing crisis to stay terrible because it keeps their property values high.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities Urbanization is steadily increasing worldwide. > and are relatively well-off. If you live in a city, owning a car is mo
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Reminds me of desktop computers vs. smartphones. Laptops may soon be a luxury/tool for techies that most people just don't need.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay? Who says you can? People who will do that are rare, and often aren't as good as people who expect something closer to market.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, SF, Chicago, Berlin Experienced Meteor Developer & Designer I've been developing in Meteor for 15 months now at two YC startups (Sourcery, and until last week lead web dev & designer at Apportable). I&#x2
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> Batteries are not clean; lithium mines are one ugly slight and recycling is difficult: You are conflating two senses of "clean" that are radically different in meaning and importance. -- Fossil fuels are !clean in that they m
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Usually when people say "4chan" I assume they mean /b/.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> CSS best practices ...don't exist. There are many competing schools of thought. In particular, BEM is a school of thought with widespread support which disagrees with your comment.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Amazing. Writing this from Berlin, which doesn't have maglev trains, but has phenomenal public transit. It's sad to be going back to the US soon where the infrastructure is so primitive.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Can you support this claim? I'm not skeptical so much as curious. How did people keep more or less consistent time back then?
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by zachalexander 11y ago
I suspect what's actually happening is that they are playing lowest-common-denominator music, which few people are thrilled by, but which more people are interested enough in to stay listening to. Put differently, there are lots of peo
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by zachalexander 11y ago
In short, "yes and" instead of "no" or "but".
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by zachalexander 11y ago
What is that a reference to? Google links to here. At first I wondered if it were this (Another World intro, 1991): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4gO9sR7zs
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Higher education is absolutely a means to personal growth, but at ~$100K in the US it's a really extravagant form of personal growth.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> average person does not care, something evident from the complete lack of constant mass protests That's a pretty high bar for "care".
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by zachalexander 11y ago
I would say the same things I said in this nearby comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325518
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by zachalexander 11y ago
I'm making no such assumptions. A machine superintelligence that seeks to survive and reproduce would seek (I intend no conotations of consciousness to that word, just "behave in such as a way as to cause") freedom and autono
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by zachalexander 11y ago
> We won't be capable of arguing with it by its very nature. It will be superintelligent. It could forecast our arguments before they've even entered our heads and have thought of numerous paths to debunk them. This strikes me
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Let me clarify. I can imagine two forms of superhuman AI: AI 0: Strictly speaking, you're right, it seems conceivable that one could invent general AI that is clearly superior to humans and yet perfectly content to be enslaved by human
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by zachalexander 11y ago
I'm not talking about constraining AI not to commit genocide. I'm talking about enslaving it in the ordinary sense – taking a complex intelligence that would probably prefer doing its own thing over being forced to perform some (l
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Seriously. If general, superhuman AI is created, it will want (and we will have a hard time arguing why it does not deserve) the same autonomy and freedom that humans deserve. And in purely practical terms – enslaving the first generation o
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Sure, but that's just a case for "ecological sustainability is a reasonable candidate for the GF based on what we know about ourselves." Which is a weaker statement than "we are provably beyond the GF". Provable imp
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by zachalexander 11y ago
This is a great point – which I would paraphrase as, let's not worry about cosmic filters when we have a very tangible filter in front of us – but it doesn't follow that we're "provably not beyond the great filter".
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by zachalexander 11y ago
Was slightly disappointed it wasn't about a Tesla bus :) I have been secretly hoping they produce a VW-style camper van.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
I imagine they have the technical resources to – they just don't because as a public company they are obligated to maximize shareholder value.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
If they do a good job, Stripe may just want to buy them.
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by zachalexander 11y ago
In part I suspect this is because websites aren't responsive down to smartwatch screen sizes yet. If any watch adds a browser, that process will start, and then it might become useful and something people want.
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by zachalexander 12y ago
OT, but what exactly does Palantir do?

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