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The source of all real insight is, of course, divinity. True understanding is not generated by the brain but rather received in the Plexus Solaris and then works it's way up to the…

> I'm sure I would gain a lot by being able to shut my mind up at times There is nothing much more to understand. The single best piece of advice I ever got came from an Indian gur…

I'm wondering how many people in favor of legalization would actually like to see a pot shop in their own street. From my own experience in the Netherlands, these kinds of shops at…

> The illegality pushes the price up; You make it sound as if this is a bad thing. I'm having a hard time imagining what benefit will result from making a potent and fairly addicti…

The idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized marijuana business is just as crazy as the idea that you can have a nice, clean, legalized prostitution business. It will not ha…

Pot smokers make a big deal of legalization but seriously, have legality issues ever prevented anyone from acquiring the stuff? I think many people are focusing on legalization bec…

> But he's the one who signed up to do a crap job for little pay, and keeps signing up to do it again every year. And that makes him part of the problem. Quite the opposite. The pr…

It's night and your driverless car is waiting in front of a red light. Suddenly you see a man with a shotgun walking up to your vehicle. How do you tell your driverless car to igno…

I'm fairly doubtful that the present state of AI is able to deliver a driving program that equals the skill of a competent human driver. Moving around requires a lot more understan…

We had that book at home. I remember being totally daunted by the source code of the Star Trek program... that thing had literally HUNDREDS of lines of code!

I wish I could work myself up into some kind of indignation, but what I really believe is this: if you willingly submit yourself to the cesspits of human banality (i.e. Facebook, T…

A second way within the system is that people start to vote for politicians who are serious about privacy.

Young programmers can easily be guilted into working 60 hours a week because young smart people tend to be a little naive about how the world turns. My advice to junior programmers…

I don't understand why AI eliminating jobs is considered a problem. If any job can be done by a computer program it simply means that humanity has outgrown this kind of work and th…

For many computationally hard problems six extra orders of magnitude isn't really going to buy you much.

I like your article and it fits well with my usual methodology of grokking something, namely running a bunch of tiny examples until I see the patterns.

What's wrong by it is that some people are genuinly offended, insulted or even frightened by such a direct approach and you really have no way of knowing this before you try it.

> They readily treat their drivers like second-class citizens Sure, but that is pretty much par for the course for any low-education job anywhere in the world. Can't blame Uber for…

Eating hamburgers is legal both in the Netherlands and the US. But the US has a lot more obese people than the Netherlands. You cannot simply assume that the outcome of drug legali…

Don't forget that only ~1% of startups develop breakthrough products, because only ~1% of startups break through.

The idea you can magically "generate" consciousness by running an algorithm is really silly superstition.

install google picasa, collect all photo's in a single folder.

Thread safety. If you write an API never forget that people may want to use it in more than one thread.

Running Powershell scripts that continue after reboot is not exactly the greatest feat.