This made me put "sign up on gun.io" on my to-do list. Very cool talk, very sympathetic guy (+1 for rapid fire info,+10 for making a stand for hacker aesthetics and fun in hacking)
> Gov't is already so cheap that we (US) have fluoride in our water, that was planned to be cheap dental care =(. To understand you correctly, do you think the fluoride is a bad thing? IIRC fluoridated water is amongst…
People think taxes are evil but for dome reason will accept warlords?
> This concept implies that it's possible to discover all possible scope before starting a project, which is almost always not the case on any project of relevant scale. This is waterfall. Difference would be that the…
We need to unify this with actually hitting deadlines/making it economically viable, at least until basic income is a working model. Maybe tie it so that every stage has a payout (20% ln start, 80% on finish or sth like…
> Flagging this story as the top comment is political. Please discuss the technicalities of this, not the ethics and politics. This is exactly why I find the idea of enforcing non political discussion unwise. How…
Damn good read
> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that. This is not sufficient to explain to people why there are no rich conspirators hiding wealth. Mind you, I mostly agree with you. But I personally feel…
You can use the Barcode to tie things together... smart pantries and stock monitoring depends on standardised(ideally free) access to identifiers for the goods
This sentiment is so bizarre from a European perspective. So the only thing that stops people from getting an education willy nilly is student debt? Or American engineers are all better in some respects than German…
I very much feel by this study... I grew up with television, books, audio stories=>constant stimulation. I brought books to class to read when it got boring...some teachers let me get away with it(guess who were my…
> It is not unthinkable that the NSA has faked the moon landing and pictures of earth with photoshop / film equipment. You havent been above earth, so how do you know? I think you should be less arrogant at the prospect…
So how do you ensure that sciencists stay careful and try to be objective, how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric? I hate the publish or perish system, but that is due to wrong…
It's not only a question of getting enough power IN but also of getting the "consumed" power(waste heat) OUT
> As I pointed out above, the status quo is actually pretty good. For you. And me. But we are not the majority. The majority does not benefit from automation, globalisation etc. as much as you and me. And it doesn't…
Because it probably won't happen. Just like the idea that "charity will step in", history gives us evidence against it
> Pros and Cons to universal income Some criticism: > Pros > - homelessness becomes purely choice. Poverty is less of a motive for crime Unless health insurance is included and we change how we treat mental illnesses,…
> Socialism and Communism has always been led by intellectuals. Marx was hardly a member of the proletariat for example. It was led, but one of the official foci was "Arbeiter bilde dich", "worker teach yourself".…
Don't know how much that applies here, but there is no inherent moral or egalitarian negative to a "harem" (or "unicorn" arrangements if I remember my polyamory lingo correctly) if everyone involved is actively and…
Interesting points, thank you. EEVblog agrees with some of them and did the numbers on others, I might link it if I remember(it's bed time here soon) One thing where I don't agree:roofs being an unemotional decision.…
I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a "bootstraps" narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making use of government aid per se(otherwise…
I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk…
We could make a new word for people who manage each other mutually, coexisteling in their operations without blind hierarchy...we could call it mumanagement
"Why the West rules for now" has an interesting take on this
How do you make capital?
This made me put "sign up on gun.io" on my to-do list. Very cool talk, very sympathetic guy (+1 for rapid fire info,+10 for making a stand for hacker aesthetics and fun in hacking)
> Gov't is already so cheap that we (US) have fluoride in our water, that was planned to be cheap dental care =(. To understand you correctly, do you think the fluoride is a bad thing? IIRC fluoridated water is amongst…
People think taxes are evil but for dome reason will accept warlords?
> This concept implies that it's possible to discover all possible scope before starting a project, which is almost always not the case on any project of relevant scale. This is waterfall. Difference would be that the…
We need to unify this with actually hitting deadlines/making it economically viable, at least until basic income is a working model. Maybe tie it so that every stage has a payout (20% ln start, 80% on finish or sth like…
> Flagging this story as the top comment is political. Please discuss the technicalities of this, not the ethics and politics. This is exactly why I find the idea of enforcing non political discussion unwise. How…
Damn good read
> ... which is, of course, silly. And the author should know that. This is not sufficient to explain to people why there are no rich conspirators hiding wealth. Mind you, I mostly agree with you. But I personally feel…
You can use the Barcode to tie things together... smart pantries and stock monitoring depends on standardised(ideally free) access to identifiers for the goods
This sentiment is so bizarre from a European perspective. So the only thing that stops people from getting an education willy nilly is student debt? Or American engineers are all better in some respects than German…
I very much feel by this study... I grew up with television, books, audio stories=>constant stimulation. I brought books to class to read when it got boring...some teachers let me get away with it(guess who were my…
> It is not unthinkable that the NSA has faked the moon landing and pictures of earth with photoshop / film equipment. You havent been above earth, so how do you know? I think you should be less arrogant at the prospect…
So how do you ensure that sciencists stay careful and try to be objective, how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric? I hate the publish or perish system, but that is due to wrong…
It's not only a question of getting enough power IN but also of getting the "consumed" power(waste heat) OUT
> As I pointed out above, the status quo is actually pretty good. For you. And me. But we are not the majority. The majority does not benefit from automation, globalisation etc. as much as you and me. And it doesn't…
Because it probably won't happen. Just like the idea that "charity will step in", history gives us evidence against it
> Pros and Cons to universal income Some criticism: > Pros > - homelessness becomes purely choice. Poverty is less of a motive for crime Unless health insurance is included and we change how we treat mental illnesses,…
> Socialism and Communism has always been led by intellectuals. Marx was hardly a member of the proletariat for example. It was led, but one of the official foci was "Arbeiter bilde dich", "worker teach yourself".…
Don't know how much that applies here, but there is no inherent moral or egalitarian negative to a "harem" (or "unicorn" arrangements if I remember my polyamory lingo correctly) if everyone involved is actively and…
Interesting points, thank you. EEVblog agrees with some of them and did the numbers on others, I might link it if I remember(it's bed time here soon) One thing where I don't agree:roofs being an unemotional decision.…
I hope it came through in my comment that I dislike the denial of government aid in the creation of a "bootstraps" narrative when people want to argue against taxes, not the making use of government aid per se(otherwise…
I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this is possibly the iphone moment of Solarcity/Tesla: an old-ish idea, made sexy and tasty to consumers, together with technology reaching a tipping point(and also Musk…
We could make a new word for people who manage each other mutually, coexisteling in their operations without blind hierarchy...we could call it mumanagement
"Why the West rules for now" has an interesting take on this
How do you make capital?