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georgrwasington commented on 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/... · Posted by u/uptown

jvanderbot · 8 years ago

Can you explain why you feel NASA is a jobs program? There's certainly a much larger, constant-stream funding source going to national defense and national sciences. NASA is being paid to continue our usually unprofitable interests in space. Everything else falls under the non-compete restriction. Also, NASA employs some highly employable folks who would make much more in private industry.

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

I'm actually not going to do this. If you want to have this conversation go read up on it. Not trying to be rude but your question makes it sound like you've never heard the idea before. Given that, I feel like you're not ready to have this conversation. ...I'm trying not to sound rude but it isn't working. I am not expressing malice towards you.

georgrwasington commented on 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/... · Posted by u/uptown

integration · 8 years ago

It’s a better definition of luxuries.

If someone is spending more on food, clothing, electronics as their income rise those things are clearly discretionary.

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

No it's not. Poor people live in food deserts and buy 5000 calorie dinners for $2 at Dollar General. It's hardly discretionary to try to feed yourself real food. Now let's tie in the cost of healthcare associated with eating cheap junk food and you've got a problem. This is like an argument with someone who denies global warming.

georgrwasington commented on 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/... · Posted by u/uptown

integration · 8 years ago

40% of America’s lowest-income families’ consumption goes to luxuries.

The bigger problem is American’s terrible spending habits not lack of real income.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/g...

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

We live in a world where you can find a web page with "statistics" on anything. At some point you just realize that people don't care about the truth.

georgrwasington commented on 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/... · Posted by u/uptown

nathanaldensr · 8 years ago

I was with you until your Musk comment. We don't need more centralization of power; instead, we need decentralization--more local sustainability in place of the just-in-time global economy we live in now.

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

My Musk comment was more about how much of NASA had turned into a jobs program than anything.

Take a very simple example, the BMV. We've had good internet now for a couple decades and you still can't do basic transactions without going to the BMV in the middle of the day.

Almost all other government agencies have been entirely immune to technological change as well. They are, jobs programs.

georgrwasington commented on 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/... · Posted by u/uptown

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

America is over. The class divide has surpassed any reasonable threshold and in time it will only further crystalize. This country needs an Elon Musk to replace every part of the government, which is itself a jobs program at this point. We do not live in "America" anymore.

georgrwasington commented on Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out nytimes.com/2018/05/18/op... · Posted by u/cohaagen

pixl97 · 8 years ago

>The crux of the problem is that the field of artificial intelligence has not come to grips with the infinite complexity of language

Or, put another way, the problem space reality presents is unimaginably large. So large that it took 4 billion years to achieve human level intelligence. That said humans have been working on the AI problem a pretty short period of time and we have made some pretty good strides at reproducing intelligence.

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

yeah that's the point. you don't write down a million rules. you write down a program that can find the rules.

georgrwasington commented on How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/stevenwoo

daenz · 8 years ago

>The language of algebra is symmetric: If x tells us about y, then y tells us about x. I’m talking about deterministic relationships. There’s no way to write in mathematics a simple fact—for example, that the upcoming storm causes the barometer to go down, and not the other way around.

Is this true? It kind of blows my mind if it is.

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

he's ignoring expressions. it's not true.

georgrwasington commented on How to disappear from the internet theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/kawera

Rjevski · 8 years ago

georgrwasington · 8 years ago

How was this question not flagged as unrelated to information security? The main problem with stackexchange (aside from closing your questions) is not knowing how they will interpret their own rules.

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