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The "problem" that basic income is trying to solve is the massive increase in productive capacity due to automation, of which the increase of unemployment is a symptom. It's not so…

I have to disagree: There certainly are people who can keep (very) large systems in their minds and refine and extend them, but they are very rare and most of the people who might …

"... From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit becaus…

Like Lessig's Super-PAC? https://mayday.us/

If I had another life I would go search for this plant. It seems plausible to me and would definitely be awesome to find it if it exists.

But psychopathy is a kind of divorce from reality; while it seems that the genius is somehow closer to reality than the normal person?

That's pretty amazing! I sometimes use imagery of a toilet flushing and the thought going down, several flushes if necessary (imaginary water is free!) Also, imagining white noise …

Your friend could have gotten the same benefits while working on something that also was of greater (presumable) benefit to others than "Cat Snaps". (I speak as one who has tremend…

The point of spiking trees isn't to hurt people, in fact the tree-huggers tell the loggers that the trees have been spiked so that they won't attempt to cut the trees. The point of…

No new features, no improvements, nothing -- just the same language, for a decade. Am I alone in being excited by this? I am figuratively drooling over such stability.

I've been saying for years now that Star Trek forms the best commonly-known model for what future "economics" will be like. It's really awesome to read a well-thought-out treatment…

"So much to do at Cartmanlaaaand.. But you can't come! eXpecially Stan and Kyle!"

Well, waste is waste. Burning VC money is practically criminal when you think of the "opportunity cost" of what might have been achieved with it. The saddest was overhearing a (ret…

I took a bit of umbrage at the idea that humans surviving longer than, say, the dinosaurs did is "over hyped and misunderstood". That comment was my attempt at an unhyped and easil…

"KNOW HOW THE DOUGHNUTS ARE MADE" In my recent experience working for startups in the SF Bay Area I saw this pattern repeatedly, and it shocked me. Otherwise intelligent and compet…

Derp. My bad.

Will there still be humans in 300,000,000 million years?

Except this: "Yes! Lisp is the superior language! The only reason it doesn't dominate all others is that most programmers are too stupid to see how wonderful Lisp is!" ...is exactl…

Backus' paper on Functional Programming might be of interest; click on: "ACM Turing Award Lecture" http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/backus_0703524.cfm

The original use for that code was to build a list of parsing objects to create a single parsing object that was the OR'ing of the basic ones. Aw, heck, code speaks louder than wor…