When Megabus started I seem to recall that its advantage was (ahem) a less problematic quality of clientele than you get on Greyhound due to the fact that you needed to have an internet connection to actually buy a…
Are these people being naive, or are they just designing a better dish-washing robot? The typical "dish washing robot" that people draw does a much better job of washing dishes. It doesn't require me to do all the hard…
>Google makes no illusion about it any longer, they aim to curate what their users have access to and want to ensure that the curation conforms to an acceptable spectrum of thought The good news is: I've finally figured…
>This is great. Unless Trump is doing this I look forward to seven more years of this kind of thing.
I'm not sure how the US got so hopelessly divided between the red and the blue tribes, or how to fix it. Is it the 24 hour news cycle? Is it a consequence of the office of the President encouraging the personalisation…
I don't think the target market is CEOs, it's regular civilians. Grandmothers, teenagers, people whose job doesn't involve computers. These people use their phones for everything, they'd probably be happy not to have a…
>Incentive alignment is a good thing - it's the whole basis of capitalism. The government taking your money and giving it to other people for votes isn't capitalism, it's corruption.
The US Civil War killed 620,000 people, and ruined the lives of many others. That's pretty freaking bad. On the upside, it freed about 3.9 million slaves, but really there should have been a less costly political…
Thanks, death penalty opponents, for insisting that scarce budgets be spent keeping him alive all this time.
It's possible nowadays with a bit of effort to create entirely new "facts" via a one-two shuffle between news sources and Wikipedia. First, you publish an article on some news source, asserting the fact. Then you update…
So we split Facebook into multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other?
You could contract different lines out to different companies. I think Tokyo does this. At the very least, though, you could contract out the running of the whole system to a company for five years a time and let…
In the US, the price of unskilled labour has been deliberately driven down by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws. Even a year after the election of a President who was supposed to deal with this issue…
But they can opt out of any order they don't want to fulfill, right? Who would choose to fulfill that crazy order for the price on offer?
Women tend to desire men who are older, richer and more educated. Men tend to desire women who are young, hot, and of good character. Men can't always get what they want, either, but nobody writes articles about how…
It seems that this "voting rights act" is a form of mandated gerrymandering, which ought to be done away with. I can't say exactly what the boundaries ought to be, but taking the colour of people's skin into account…
I don't think it's so bad to mix metric and imperial units; I'm in favour of using whatever units keep the numbers readily comprehensible. Grams of protein per ounce of food seems like a good example of this.
And also the present, and at least part of the future.
>My point was just that the US and Colombia aren't radically different in terms of economic inequality. What if you take into account the non-linear value of money, though? This seems to be missing in most accounts of…
>He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students in the first year class at Olin College of Engineering. It's impressive not so much that he did that, but that he bothered to try. Most lecturers (myself included) will…
That sounds pretty fucking racist. Do you also think that Native Europeans should have superior rights to non-Europeans in Europe?
>I believe this is because nicotine is an insecticide? Okay, but how would a bird know that?
Damn, I'm a foreigner. Will I be banned from speaking about US politics on facebook?
Yeah, but that's also what I said when it hit a dollar. (On this very site, but I can't remember what my username was back then so I can't look it up and prove myself stupid.)
Let's sit back and take a chill pill. Will this capability exist? Yes, probably. Am I concerned that this capability will be deployed against me? No, not really. Theoretically it could, but then again, so could a dude…
When Megabus started I seem to recall that its advantage was (ahem) a less problematic quality of clientele than you get on Greyhound due to the fact that you needed to have an internet connection to actually buy a…
Are these people being naive, or are they just designing a better dish-washing robot? The typical "dish washing robot" that people draw does a much better job of washing dishes. It doesn't require me to do all the hard…
>Google makes no illusion about it any longer, they aim to curate what their users have access to and want to ensure that the curation conforms to an acceptable spectrum of thought The good news is: I've finally figured…
>This is great. Unless Trump is doing this I look forward to seven more years of this kind of thing.
I'm not sure how the US got so hopelessly divided between the red and the blue tribes, or how to fix it. Is it the 24 hour news cycle? Is it a consequence of the office of the President encouraging the personalisation…
I don't think the target market is CEOs, it's regular civilians. Grandmothers, teenagers, people whose job doesn't involve computers. These people use their phones for everything, they'd probably be happy not to have a…
>Incentive alignment is a good thing - it's the whole basis of capitalism. The government taking your money and giving it to other people for votes isn't capitalism, it's corruption.
The US Civil War killed 620,000 people, and ruined the lives of many others. That's pretty freaking bad. On the upside, it freed about 3.9 million slaves, but really there should have been a less costly political…
Thanks, death penalty opponents, for insisting that scarce budgets be spent keeping him alive all this time.
It's possible nowadays with a bit of effort to create entirely new "facts" via a one-two shuffle between news sources and Wikipedia. First, you publish an article on some news source, asserting the fact. Then you update…
So we split Facebook into multiple companies which must of necessity coordinate all their activities with each other?
You could contract different lines out to different companies. I think Tokyo does this. At the very least, though, you could contract out the running of the whole system to a company for five years a time and let…
In the US, the price of unskilled labour has been deliberately driven down by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws. Even a year after the election of a President who was supposed to deal with this issue…
But they can opt out of any order they don't want to fulfill, right? Who would choose to fulfill that crazy order for the price on offer?
Women tend to desire men who are older, richer and more educated. Men tend to desire women who are young, hot, and of good character. Men can't always get what they want, either, but nobody writes articles about how…
It seems that this "voting rights act" is a form of mandated gerrymandering, which ought to be done away with. I can't say exactly what the boundaries ought to be, but taking the colour of people's skin into account…
I don't think it's so bad to mix metric and imperial units; I'm in favour of using whatever units keep the numbers readily comprehensible. Grams of protein per ounce of food seems like a good example of this.
And also the present, and at least part of the future.
>My point was just that the US and Colombia aren't radically different in terms of economic inequality. What if you take into account the non-linear value of money, though? This seems to be missing in most accounts of…
>He memorized pictures and bios of all 90 students in the first year class at Olin College of Engineering. It's impressive not so much that he did that, but that he bothered to try. Most lecturers (myself included) will…
That sounds pretty fucking racist. Do you also think that Native Europeans should have superior rights to non-Europeans in Europe?
>I believe this is because nicotine is an insecticide? Okay, but how would a bird know that?
Damn, I'm a foreigner. Will I be banned from speaking about US politics on facebook?
Yeah, but that's also what I said when it hit a dollar. (On this very site, but I can't remember what my username was back then so I can't look it up and prove myself stupid.)
Let's sit back and take a chill pill. Will this capability exist? Yes, probably. Am I concerned that this capability will be deployed against me? No, not really. Theoretically it could, but then again, so could a dude…