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No, that's not what the quote was about, the quote was saying that their economies should be managed the same way. Your interpretation of that quote is much narrower and in particu…

Nation is very different from a household. There is lot more people, they are anonymous. You need money to track who owns to whom, in household everybody knows. The worker speciali…

The West also has social credit system, it's called money. If you do something useful for society, you will get them. If you don't do something useful, you will not get them and di…

If anything, I think Civ tried to subvert the bias of war games by allowing other types of victories than just a military one.

Maybe I am reading too much into this argument, but I think this is moving the goalposts. So Bregman comes and proves, presumably mostly based on history of Western civilization, t…

It's like the best speech ever. And IMHO the idea to add Inception soundtrack to it makes it even so much better.

I haven't read the book, but I suspect you're disagreeing with Rousseau and not Bregman here. I don't think Bregman recommends removing the civilization, but rather augmenting it b…

I think you're right - according to category theory, only relationships of the objects matter, not the objects themselves.

I think I disagree, but it really depends what you mean by "test" or "test case". I assume that test case is for a given input, expect certain output, and test verifies certain ass…

> Tests that use random input data are much more difficult to write correctly. Interestingly, I personally find them easier to write. I actually find classic unit tests hard to wri…

Actually, you can get reproducible tests even with randomized tests, by setting the random seed (I always do that in e.g. Quickcheck). So this is really a moot point, not a good ex…

I am glad that somebody is trying to challenge the conventional wisdom. This might also be relevant: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...

The way I like to explain this is to start from an intensional definition of money as "something that has no value by itself but can be potentially exchanged for something of that …

I think that Trump believes that Snowden is a Russian spy, because he cannot imagine (given their different personalities) that somebody would do what Snowden did just for intrinsi…

> I'd still consider MS the gold standard for back-compat No way! IBM mainframe (zSeries) is the gold standard for backward compatibility in IT.

I come from a former communist country. Non-existence of free speech didn't always mean that somebody will disappear you. It might also have meant that you lose your cushy job and …

> Corporations usually sell goods and services, but do not have control over individuals most fundamental rights including those of freedom, health or even life - like governments …

When I was a kid in the early 90s (in Czechoslovakia), I watched Wargames and Short Circuit, and they influenced me a lot to become interested in artificial intelligence. I found t…

> made me realize the degree to which society has been mechanized, how our alienation to nature There is a nice segment about industrialization in Planet of the Humans. I wouldn't …

> Apollo 13 - I think few films come close to capturing how ingenious some people can be I agree, I also like The Martian and The Shawshank Redemption, which both have similar prem…

I like Millennium Actress. And Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a classic.

I think it just happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061653 GPT-3 just wrote an essay arguing that intelligence is doing nothing.

I think what you have to understand is that monad is quite an abstract concept. It is possible to give a specific example of a monad, but from the specific example, you won't fully…

I would question your assumption that "clean code" that you describe is really modularization and abstraction. (In particular, separating everything into small scattered pieces, wh…

We have actually solved a lot of problems like that through ecological and other regulations. Just from the top of my head: - worst pesticides (DDT) - sulfate aerosols from coal - …