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Artillery with spotters accomplished the same task.

William Catton is another visonary. I consider his book, Overshoot to be better than limits to growth. This lecture sums up his work well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8Ez…

A discussion between Li and Fujiyama: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r0yIMs2qqb4

Dominico Lorsudo's Liberalism: A Counter History https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9670246-liberalism is a a must read for the history of liberalism.

Eliminating suffering and preventing (re)birth? Sounds like Buddhism.

What is the use case of blockchain besides evasion of law enforcement and speculation?

I'm ready to accept that these phenomena might really be of Earth origin.

Arstechnica had a good piece on how patent reform was killed in Congress: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-the-patent-t...

Actually that's exactly what happened in the 1920s onward. Harvard’s admissions committee began using the euphemistic criteria of “character and fitness” to limit Jewish enrollment…

> how they're "just middlemen" As are Uber/AirBnb and internet advertising giants Google and Facebook.

Have you tried IQ testing instead of algorithm questions to measure intelligence?

I agree, it's bad for candidates but companies might like it. If everyone gives out take home assignments, it would be harder for candidates to negotiate by lining up multiple offe…

In my case, every company that gave me a take home assignment had on-site white board interviews as well.

#2 and #5 are issues with the company/hiring manager. #1, #4 and #7 are issues with traditional interview as well. #4 It's incredibly difficult to accurately assess potential durin…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0 In this video, a Google hiring committee were given their own anonymized hiring feedback and wouldn't even hire themselves.

What do you think about take home projects/homework interviews? I've noticed that they have become much more prevalent among smaller companies as a replacement for phone screens. A…

Sci-Fi Short about telerobots controlled by gamers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk

Jürgen Schmidhuber had an interesting comment on the Strange Loop in his AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a... As we interact with the world to achie…