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zyxley commented on The Invisible American gallup.com/opinion/chairm... · Posted by u/randomname2

zeveb · 9 years ago

> The fact that now many more people are identifying themselves as poor or working class is a shift toward the international norm, which might presage a change in America's political "exceptionality."

I really fear that it may. Once folks realise that they can make their lives better (in the short term at least) by using State violence to rob those who are better off (rather than through hard work), the long-term results are going to be ugly.

zyxley · 9 years ago

You seem to be doing that extreme-libertarian thing where you call taxes "robbery" while ignoring the negative economic effects of the general lack of safety nets in the US.

You may want to read up on the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" first.

zyxley commented on MacOS Sierra itunes.apple.com/us/app/m... · Posted by u/amingilani

acdanger · 9 years ago

I'd rather see updated Mac hardware. According to MacRumors, it's been 490 days since the last MacBook Pro Retina was released.

zyxley · 9 years ago

macrumors.com says there will probably be an update in October. They seem to usually be pretty on target with short-term predictions.

zyxley commented on Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery, It’s Matter nytimes.com/2016/05/16/op... · Posted by u/ceres

myflash13 · 9 years ago

The problem with claiming that consciousness is just a complicated computation is not merely that we simply haven't advanced our study enough to understand it. The problem is that what we know so far about the nature of computation seems to directly contradict and falsify the notion that consciousness is just computation. To put it simply: our knowledge of computational complexity, algorithms, and general problem solving shows that our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains (unless there are some super-fast algorithms that we haven't discovered yet, which would have massive implications on the P=NP problem, and our understanding of physics).

Related video about why we don't have AI yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3of7xYoMQM

zyxley · 9 years ago

> our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains

This only holds if you presume those operations are being performed in the same way as a computer, rather than the incredibly imprecise rule-of-thumb heuristics they actually use.

zyxley commented on Newton inventor claims ‘Shark Tank’ is all a lie bostonglobe.com/business/... · Posted by u/ilamont

rm_-rf_slash · 9 years ago

Any period of history can involve outrageous headgear. Even things we consider classy can change in a heartbeat. Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y.

zyxley · 9 years ago

> Fedoras used to be cool. Now they're weird and neckbeard-y.

Fedoras are still cool... if worn with a nice suit by a well-groomed person.

Fedoras worn with undershirts and untailored clothes were never cool in the first place.

zyxley commented on Geekbench: iPhone 7 faster than all Macbook Airs in single thread daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/762236

cloudjacker · 9 years ago

Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned

Would love a 16GB model.

For the last 4 years of me saying that, everyone and their brother, and the Apple reps all say "oh you can configure that on the site", because they have have access to the parallel darknet version of the Apple site where Macbook airs ship with 16gb RAM

I really like the air, but I can like the Macbook Pro its not really a big deal. JUST WISH THEY WOULD YA KNOW

zyxley · 9 years ago

> Yeah, Macbook air really feels abandoned

The Macbook-with-no-suffix line is the implicit replacement for the Air anyway.

zyxley commented on Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste powertoothpaste.com/... · Posted by u/nappy

nikolay · 9 years ago

Well, if you're okay with putting excess amounts of chemicals on your skin that are targeting your teeth although you may get enough from green tea, I'm not, and many others aren't either. I bought a chlorine filter for my shower, and all my dandruff and skin itching issues have disappeared, so, call it a conspiracy theory or whatever, but you can't beat the facts.

zyxley · 9 years ago

Anecdotes are not data.

zyxley commented on The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH' atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/tosh

zyxley · 9 years ago

Calling it a "utopia" when there's limited space and nothing to do seems a bit inaccurate.

zyxley commented on Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher nytimes.com/2016/09/11/ma... · Posted by u/sperant

zyxley · 9 years ago

My high school was an interesting experience. It was a poor area and they expected few of the students to go to further education - but rather than use that as an excuse to treat the students like losers, the school tried to include some of the spread of college and vocational-school classes. I ended up taking lessons on archery, welding, video editing, and Latin, among other things.

zyxley commented on 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds nytimes.com/2016/09/08/sc... · Posted by u/smb06

logfromblammo · 9 years ago

What's the SI unit for suffering? How do you calibrate your measurement instruments?

If you have a genuine ethical objection to causing suffering to other living creatures, you can be vegan, lacto-vegetarian, or you can eat meat certified as jhatka by a trusted authority. It is never necessary for you to compare suffering ratios.

If you truly want to minimize the pain you send out into the world, it's zero. That is an easily achievable number. Go vegan. Be kind to everyone. Good luck on your path to enlightenment. If you aren't going for zero, why would you bother half-assing it?

For the record, I don't care whether or not my meal has ever screamed in agony. I can still respect the beliefs of those who do care. But I also don't wish to hear any of them preach to me about it, or let them trick me into enduring some sort of ideological sales pitch.

zyxley · 9 years ago

> What's the SI unit for suffering?

You could go with millihitlers. https://www.reddit.com/comments/dlu96/new_si_unit_one_hitler...

zyxley commented on Google and Box Announce Partnership googleforwork.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/akrolsmir

noahmbarr · 9 years ago

We use Google and Box for work at a 100 person Series C startup.

Searching across all the locations for my files is a disaster : - one Local files on my work laptop (mostly synced via dropbox), - two Box (mostly in their web UI, with ~2 folders being "synced" locally), - three Google Drive (shared and authored files a like), - four Email, - five Slack, - six Files stuck in our business systems (like contracts that sit in Salesforce.com, Jira, etc)

It's an absolute mess. I can't imagine I'm the only one to be annoyed and losing productivity.

zyxley · 9 years ago

Sounds like we need a startup to connect the services of all these other startups together.