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aiioquip··on Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality
Personally there's nothing I could add that would fix this, it has to be scrapped. Financial equality is not about making everyone poorer (more realistically it just makes a small group poorer), and also labour becoming less valuable is a consequence that can simply be fixed by distributing wealth to those who lost their jobs, not by trying to force labour to become more valuable.
aiioquip··on Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality
This phenomenon has been known and crystallised in research for a long time, but also has been talked about for even longer. At this point what is true as anything is that it doesn't really matter how accurate your results are, the economic system not changing has nothing to do with a lack of a correct answer.
aiioquip··on India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change
Not per capita, though
aiioquip··on Learn C in Y Minutes
For you, yes: you will better understand Python's source code, which is written in C. Poke around the source code a bit just out of curiosity after learning a bit of C and it becomes a bit interesting.
aiioquip··on Eric Weinstein Says He Solved the Universe’s Mysteries. Scientists Disagree
“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”
aiioquip··on Just Be Rich
Not in my many years of lurking have I ever once seen someone point out that the metrics created by the world bank et al. are themselves terribly flawed. People just spout them out like they're magic. Thank you for being a voice of reason.