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The Athens of Plato's time was a society built on slave labor. They were a strictly patriarchal society (women weren't allowed to leave the house much), and to be a citizen meant you didn't need to work for a living. In short: a degree and a kind of classism we have difficulty imagining.

None of this mitigates the lessons that Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, etc., have left behind for us, and which await us at the local library (or liberal arts college).

You're right that access to higher education is not where it should be. This is well understood, protested, discussed, etc.

But the decision to pursue more or less lucrative paths is a free decision.

You may well be coerced by issues attending economic inequality. You may face great sacrifice in order to devote yourself to something like philosophy[1]. And certainly the decision is inextricable from (let's not forget) your family life (oh, you want kids? you want to live in a real house, not a tenement house? you want healthcare and a minimal retirement fund?).

But these are decisions about what kind of life you want to lead, and the examples above are about the comforts you may want in life. It is not a coincidence that philosophy's purview lies in asking the questions that help you understand why you value what you do, and base your decisions accordingly. And it may even turn out that, in the course of better understanding why you have found something meaningful in the past, that you no longer find it quite so meaningful. You may, in fact, have turn of heart, and start a new chapter in your life.

It would be great if we had social values that translated into an economy which enabled academic pursuits instead of hampered them. (If you think this is idealism run amok, take a look at Finland[2], with the best primary education system in the world, where getting a degree in education is as competitive and prestigious as becoming a doctor; not coincidentally, those careers garner similar salaries).

But we're not there yet. Maybe what's needed are more philosophy majors.

[1] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/gifted-teachers-lif...

[2] https://www.google.com/#q=finland+education+system
That is pretty cool. Do you have any websites that make you feel nostalgic for the past? Any interesting websites in 1990's and early 2000's as well?
Well, we developed an easy way to make insulin, and have been failing at getting it to the rest of the world due to lack of political will or economic pressure. I seriously see no reason why wealthy people who develop immortality will want or be able to share it with the poor. That, and the idea of "once we solve the hard problem, the easier problems become easier" is a terrible logical muddle that can be used to justify literally anything.
He might have a valid point but the point is off-topic.

Here the context is technology, not politics or economic policies.
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Isn't this a common libertarian fallacy - that government and private enterprise are 2 separate entities. Government is bad and should be restricted from interference and private enterprise should not be regulated and market forces will auto-converge to some nice maximum.

In reality there is really not that much difference between government and large enterprises. Funny enough that can also be reconciled with the libertarian dream, perhaps by simply viewing bits of the government as extensions or private enterprise. So FDA is a subsidiary of Monsanto, FCC of Verizon and so on.

So what is the fastest and easiest way to make a most profit - change regulatory environment, lobby, and so on.

This works for large companies and down to individuals as well. We just saw in latest DNC leaks, there is a price you pay and you get named ambassador in some picturesque European country.
The book Command and Control by Eric Schlossler does paint a pretty grim picture of the ICBM situation. It's probably a miracle none of these have detonated by accident or by deliberate sabotage at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)
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We have certainly attempted to end hunger and done a pretty good job, however, certain parties and our own reluctance to meddle prevent us from fully accomplishing our goals.. e.g. we know for a fact that very little of the aid going to NK or Palestine gets to where it should, and instead lines their leaders' pockets, but we haven't done anything meaningful about it yet.

And I'm not saying we should do something drastic, Iraq certainly taught us that - however, we certainly don't deserve the blame for any of the aforementioned examples when we are trying our best but prevented by local warmongers (e.g. Africa) and such.

If everyone refused to better yourself because someone else has it worse, nothing would ever get better.
In my opinion, kube-up and other kubernetes-specific provisioning helpers were created with the goal of letting people of varying backgrounds to complete numerous Quick Starts and tutorials with minimal pre-requisites. They make no assumptions about user's expertise in system administration.

For production use, you should definitely embrace the tooling you have already invested in and make Kubernetes a part of it. How else would you integrate it with your existing identity management, monitoring, storage/backups, etc. I am no expert in Salt, but I'm assuming Ansible (my choice) is similar, then yes: building a solid set of Salt recipes would be my recommendation, or just hire us: we'll install and manage hundreds of clusters for you, one for each engineer, even. ;)
Oh, I didn't know that.

But it's still obvious that this is not the metric that was used.
I didn't notice it at first, but there was a link at the bottom of the popup for me that said "No thanks, continue to download." Clicking it triggered the download.
The easiest thing would be to boot the Alto off a good disk, then swap the disks and write a good boot environment to the bad disk. (You can switch disks while the system is running.)

One of the guys working on the restoration (Carl) is building a FPGA-based disk emulator, which we could use to re-write the bad disk (as well as read and archive disks).

The Alto supports network boot over Ethernet; I'm working on a BeagleBone-based Ethernet emulator/gateway so that's another option. (The Alto's 3 Mbit Ethernet isn't compatible with anything modern, so I can't just plug an Ethernet cable into it.)
I searched on my podcast app, and found an RSS feed that has the three existing episodes. Who would have known that YC has a SoundCloud account?

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Sure it would be easy to manufacture a billion doses of anti-death pill. But how will you guarratee high-quality life for billions of immortals and their descendents ?

It's a really hard problem, it could cause a lot of large scale problems(where usually the poor/weak will suffer).

And i wouldn't be surprised if you asked most poor/regular people if they see this as an important problem for them, the answer would be no.
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Did you know that in the original version of the Matrix motion picture, humans were grown and plugged into the Matrix so that the AIs could use their brains for complex computation? I'm not sure why they changed the script to turn the people into rechargeable batteries instead of CPUs, but it was a really bad idea to do so.

So now I am imagining row after row of mice in little mouse chairs, wearing tiny VR helmets, organizing for a raid on the MegaMechaCat boss in the Mousecraft MMORPG.

It would be interesting to see if escapist recreation is necessary for a healthy high-density society. Purely for self-rationalization of my own gaming activity, you understand. Any scientific benefits would be purely accidental.
It's a lot easier to go from "expensive treatment" to "inexpensive treatment" (and/or supporting funding) than to go from "no known solution" to "treatment" (however expensive).

Asking people for funding for a cure for mortality is hard, not least of which convincing them of the problem, and then convincing them that a solution is not only feasible but realistic. Asking people to help make an existing cure available to everyone is much easier, because you've already overcome the fundamental disbelief in the problem and the possibility of a solution.
Seems to work for him though...
> Since when did entrepreneurs decided to speak in scifi-bullshit? "We have a digital tertiary self in the form of out email capabilities, our computers, phones, applications."

It's not sci-fi, it's a legitimate view. It's basically the opposite of the common "omg children today are spending too much time with computers, this is unnatural, they should communicate more face to face instead of texting so much" bullshit. The idea is that our tools are a part of us, extensions of our bodies, not something "weird" or "unnatural".

> And also, arrogant to the point of being funny? "Interviewer: Do you think people that want to be useful today should get PhDs?Elon: Mostly not." LOL.

That seems like a sane view of the current state of scientific process. There are way too many career-PhDs. So many that a lot of research is bullshit. I thought this is widely recognized as an issue.
> It has been in decline for decades

I don't have time to put together a great convincing case, so I'll just say that this is very different from my view. Some high level regulations have been removed, sure, but meanwhile almost every corner of life now has regulations and regulators that have to be obeyed and asked for permission.

It would be nice to have some kind of objective measure(s) of the overall level of state regulation, rather than trade anecdotes/gut feels. Some economist has probably done that already.
I love Edge (and loved IE Metro). It's ideal for a device like the Surface.
I'd disagree here. All the most productive developers I know make heavy usage of the CLI, and some of them, including me, are even developing in it with tools like vim or Emacs.
lots of people (myself included) like pixel art. Hey, I'm going to this (http://pixelartpark.com/)

I think one issue is that most people don't appreciate or understand the limits. This comes up in the demoscene. The demoscene makes realtime demos. The fact that they are realtime (or 4k or 1k or 256b) makes them interesting to people who understand the limits. But to most people outside the scene they're just mediocre effects because they aren't aware of the limits and instead are used to Star Wars: the Force Awakens effects or Pixar or whatever.

The same is true for pixel art. Many people like pixel art because of nostalgia. Others like it for the creativity within limits. But, probably most people, aren't aware of the limits so to them it's just not latest AAA game level of art.

It kinda sucks but there's lots of things the masses don't like/don't get. Fortunately there seem to be enough who do like these types of things.
By "we" do you mean San Diego specifically, or by "we" do you mean the entire industry as a whole being frustrated in a lack of applicants for their CRUD application that can't have applicants that can traverse a BST on a whiteboard or pseudocode malloc/free?
How is that relevant? Are you trying to say that potable water and electricity are mistakes because we haven't gotten them to everybody yet?
yes that's the idea !
but your example is wrong because c1 never compile a branch that was not executed before.
Rotary phones are from the 70's and earlier.
Scaleway (scaleway.com) offers similar pricing to OVH but with more storage. They only have a datacenter in France, though, so if you use the OVH data center in Québec it will not be of much use.

I personally haven't tried them, but they are part of Iliad, the large French telecom / Internet business, so I would expect them to be reliable and to stick around.
Yes, it would be up to the state..

LOOK AT YOUR DL from your state, does it show your SSN?

In some USA States we still can have our SSN not listed on our DL in some other states we cannot
If I had to do it over, I think I would shrink the rest of the piece, and expand the last section. (Maybe I still can, it is not paper after all).

Anyway, thanks for your thoughtful feedback.

I don't necessarily disagree with most of what you say, but here are a few responses:

1. For what it is worth, I think consciousness might be an emergent property of machines, but not of the sorts of machines we currently have. That is to say, I don't think symbolic logic or machine learning are those sorts of machines.

2. Why do you dislike casting statistical and symbolic machines against each other? (Because this is the internet: serious question.) alluding to your note (1)

3. I am aware of some of the original criticisms of Searle's Chinese room, but I am not sure what you are alluding to here (in your note 2).

4. You make a fair point about defining desire, wants and so forth. This is quite a departure from many of the other points that question the need for desires or wants. I would be very curious as to how you believe that would add an important dimension here. (again, because of the internet, serious question.)

Thanks again for reading it and taking the time to comment.
Seems like it's working though? Why not redefine what a CEO's role is? Just a though here no arguing intended. :)
Sue the department / city to hell for this.
And it's a shorted goo.gl url, that also could expire or be removed in the future.

What's indeed against plain text in the body? It's more easy, it will always be readable. And what about accessibility? Or archiving the content?
Because their own leaders/people don't want them to.
Podcasts are also great because they let you save something now and listen to it later (in the car, doing chores, etc.). I'm really interested in listening to this, but by tomorrow when I'm doing something that is amenable to listening in the background I'll probably have forgotten it exists. If I could add "How to Build the Future" to a listening queue I'd certainly be more likely to get around to it!
Recently turned 31 and I too am scared of it. I think all software engineers / devs should think about FI/RE (financial independence / early retirement).

Or at least get setup, so you have money in the bank. You never know when you might need it later on in life. If you do experience tough times, for finding a job.
I would guess it has something to do with tough lessons learned from their catastrophic early technical debt that brought the site and development to somewhat of a standstill right around 2009 or so.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenrfm50mXw
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Historically, expensive treatments for the rich have become universal treatments for everyone over time.

What makes you believe that life extension will be any different? Or, if you disagree that expensive treatments generally stay expensive, what are your examples?

I agree we could have a temporary awkward period in the middle, say 20 years, where it's not cheap yet. But on the scale of history that's a short period of time...I'll admit that's cold comfort to those who die in the meantime.

(See: antibiotics, insulin, appendectomies, lasik, ...)
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Making cars is pretty capital intensive; Ford's Market Cap in 1990 was in the ~20bn range depending on what point you look at.
That seems bizarre to me, why? I mean, certainly it's harder because everyone is busy with adult responsibilities, but why can't you still get together with friends from time to time?
Given the volume of law that we have, it's not surprising at all that there are laws which contradict other laws.

Decisions of which law supersedes another are more often than not up to judges, and sometimes juries, in cases like this. Other laws can be written which try to settle the questions, too, but by and large it's the court cases which settle precedent.

This is why who gets to be a judge is such an important question. At the end of the day, the decisions of individual people who are judges can hold an incredible amount of power... and so long as their decisions are well reasoned (or well rationalized)... they can determine how we can live (or not live) our lives.

(edited for clarity)
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Any article how they stopped the lawsuits?
What is a modified elo rating?
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You can either use automatic adjustment of brightness and color scheme when it gets dark, or you can adjust it yourself. You can make it so dark you can barely see anything. It's not a problem in practice.
This is why Theranos was such an effective scam: the current culture of "innovation" is so heavily based in software, an unconstrained space where a creative wunderkind can make great advances, it thinks all problems can be solved through sheer thinking outside the box, "disruption," and dreaming big. Those are all good things to try, but I don't think it's a coincidence Silicon Valley-based big-dreaming startups aren't doing nearly as well as big, boring research labs with heavy understanding of the science and measured goals.
Fair point. To clarify (as I've written elsewhere in this thread) I can indeed see how in some contexts it can be sexist. Absolutely.

What I meant to say was that in this context I can't see how it would be construed as sexist. Or put another way... I can't see how this statement automatically defaults to being sexist absent any other indicators.

At any rate, this kind of proves my point that it's very easy for communication to come across in a manner other than the speaker intended. So serious charges like "sexist" or "racist" should not be levelled lightly.
JSON is really just like S-expressions, of course. It's trees all the way down.

(At least until you have to process so much XML that you have to do it sequentially, rather than parse it into a tree in memory.)
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Advertising.

A democratic republic is ruled by advertisers - the ones best able to persuade the public.
> Did you know that in the original version of the Matrix motion picture, humans were grown and plugged into the Matrix so that the AIs could use their brains for complex computation?

That's really nifty, and there are a lot of interesting directions that could have gone it. But it would have driven it closer to more hard sci-fi, and I don't know how well that sells.
Whats wrong with vulcanizing? The product is the same you would get with grunt/gulp and what people were doing for years building their js files.

Is bower less reliable than npm? (I do more python work than JS)
We're just used to CEOs having only a decorative role, who can be replaced in an instant. So much so that when we see a CEO actually working/engaging with the actual product/service, they seem like a peculiar and rare specimen.
It's a difficult balance and requires judgment and luck. If you're constantly on the "new language/framework" treadmill, you're wasting a lot of cycles learning fads that won't last, for the N% chance of learning something that ends up big. On the other hand if you stick with refining your knowledge of what you know, you risk getting left in the past. Need both kinds of learning.
> That's what worked for me anyway.

Therefore it works for everyone.

There are lots of people that do not make friends easily. There are lots of people that do not have friends in the industry that they work in. There are lots of people that have moved very far away from any friends once or many times in the past few years and have either completely lost contact or don't have friends that would be in any position to throw other contacts your way.

So no, it is not just go make friends and everything will be great.
More importantly (for market cap), they often grow faster.
So you're saying you post your age in your profile?. This has no correlation
yes,
if the method was already compiled into a big or medium size method (in term of assembly code). JITs will not try to inline it again otherwise you will have too much code duplication and nobody want too many cache misses from the instruction cache.
Well he is technically the CTO of SpaceX.
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What's interesting about a savant is how they can end up defined by what they don't see. I have nothing but respect for Elon, however I think he is working on the wrong problems. That's not his fault and he is most definitely making his best effort. However he's the paragon of a paradigm of a European culture which is as unsustainable as it is powerful.
Great, works here, thanks! (In case anyone wants the SC profile link: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator)
Thanks for reading it, even if you're unhappy with it.

I agree that Musk et al are not AI experts. I wanted to respond to their public comments which I do not agree with. I am not necessarily at odds with the "actual experts" as you put it, so I didn't respond to them.

I also agree that the AI experts have substantive positions, and I am do not claim I have undermined them.

This last point has been repeated many times. I have clearly failed to address it in my piece. I summarize the point as: an AI may not have desires, but it can have goals.

I did think about it, and I tried to address it in the last section, but clearly it was too little and too late. I may try to rework it to address it more fully.

Thanks for reading and responding.
Thanks ... but I live in Norway. I'm not sure any of the water is fluoridated here. In the states, however, everywhere I lived had fluoride in the water.
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Is he in any way preventing you from dedicating your time and effort to the things you consider important?
I like Elon Musk, but the hero-worship disturbs me. Yeah, he founded one pretty successful company, got in early at a very successful company, and has been using the money to fund cool projects ever since. I think Tesla and SpaceX are both interesting, but still experimental: he hasn't been singlehandedly Tony Starking up the future in a lab, he's just used a lot of money from making some smart/lucky decisions to hire good people.
Honestly I don't care if they fix it or not.

I am not even going to make anything public.
There is an openresty project that provides this https://github.com/pintsized/ledge - also provides ESI and more.
He must mean reviewing designs and prototypes, not actually creating things.
Most of them are near a 2 hour drive, if you are anywhere around commute hours and you live in a typical (not right off the freeway) area in SF. To name a couple, Intel and Cisco.