Month: March 2018

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5443599/White-South-African-farmers-removed-land.html#ixzz58VXEVgp7

  • Why Is The Jargon Term “free Market” A Myth?

    Because the question isn’t and never was, about capitalism vs socialism or any variation – those were contrivances. The question was, is, and always will be, rule of law (which will produce markets), or rule by discretion (which will produce corruption). https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-jargon-term-free-market-a-myth

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    –“The market for AI agent Advanced Persistent Threat detection and handling is going to be multibillion. Always on, looking at all of the set-and-forget influencing and nuding variables (scarcity, commitment, etc.) along with more direct persuasion + economics calculating the Economic Value of decisions, in short, mid and long term. That is what I am…

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    —“Simple stories are useful for children and the simple, because they lack the ability to identify and retain complex causal relations. Thus, “though shall not kill” becomes “though shall not murder” becomes “though shall not murder under ordinary circumstances.”— James Santagata

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    —“If the marginal utility of conflict is greater than cooperation or boycott, one should choose conflict.So to make you not kill me, in our polity, conflict needs to more symmetrical to raise costs so we should all have access to weaponry, as well as free association and disassociation, discrimination, to lower the price of boycott.…

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    Well, we know that Google and FB will be targets of Direct Action during any revolution…. wow.

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    I am asked to review work frequently to determine whether people should invest in learning it, or whether it’s somewhere between erroneous and absolute nonsense. Someone asked me to review your work. It’s good work. And morove, you have enough charisma and likability to make use of it in the benefit of yourself and others.…

  • Progressives Feel Unique, Emotional, Anxious (Mothers To Children). Conservatives Feel Groupish, Success, And Religion (Groupis

    (via James Santagata) —“From Twitter. Based on previous findings, we hypothesized that the language used by liberals emphasizes their perception of uniqueness, contains more swear words, more anxiety-related words and more feeling-related words than conservatives’ language. Conversely, we predicted that the language of conservatives emphasizes group membership and contains more references to…

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    (from elsewhere, To Alex Tabarrok, marginal revolution) I think the more operational answer is that all AI’s will be able to do is drastically reduce informational asymmetries, and predict reactions to them out to the first or second order. Just as money, accounting, and now digital accounting have drastically reduced asymmetries of information. However,…

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    –“The basic ratio between German and English is 1000 to 1200 words”–

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    —” is a basic ratio between the English word count and Chinese character count. To our experience, each 1000 Chinese characters will be translated into about 600-700 English words, or each 1000 English words will be translated into about 1500-1700 Chinese characters (depending on the nature of the text).”—

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    The first question of group strategy is “Is it more adnvantageous to boycott, destroy, conquer, or trade with you?”

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    The first question of philosophy is “Why do I not commit suicide?” –Camus

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    The first question of ethics is “Why should I not kill you and take your things?”

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    The better advice is “Do not unto others what you do not want done unto you.”

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    The better question is, “What Would Achilles Do?”.

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    In English, the average word length is 5.1 (8-bit ASCII) characters. You need a word delimiter, let’s just use the space character. 200 characters would contain 32.8 chunks of 6.1 characters, including the trailing space (which the last word doesn’t need), or 32 chunks of 6.1 characters and one of 4.8 characters. So on…

  • Why Does Quora Ban Questions About White Supremacy, Or White Racism, But Accepts Questions Which Puts Down Asians?

    And why does quora TOLERATE questions that insult white people – by the truckload? https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Why-does-Quora-ban-questions-about-white-supremacy-or-white-racism-but-accepts-questions-which-puts-down-Asians