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Are all the hands available to the public?

What are the names of the poker pros the AI beat?

"When that material then started to smolder downwards out through the floor of the chamber, it threatened to come into contact with a large amount of water that had pooled there as a result of early firefighter attempts to put it out with hoses. This would have ignited a second reaction that would have been the equivalent of a 5 megaton explosion. It would have leveled Kiev and Minsk, and would have ejected the nuclear material from the other 3 Chernobyl reactors with a force that would have rendered much of Europe uninhabitable for hundreds of years. With only days to stop it, Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov went into the ruins of the plant, knowingly facing almost certain death from that level of radiation exposure, to release valves that would drain 5 million gallons of water."

Is this really true? Are there better sources than this blog post?

It is not free, Estonians pay for it with raised taxes.

Good for the ones with low income you would think, except of course those with low income that does not use public transport but still has to pay for it.

I've been working on a project for the last 6 months, and this week the company will be founded. When I came up with the idea I barely googled it, I just assumed that if it existed I would know about it. A few weeks ago however, I found out that a version of the system I'm building exists already.

After the initial negative response I started to carefully examine my competitor's solution, and the more I look at it, the more I'm convinsed that our system will outperform it big time. They apparently have technical problems which has stopped them from capturing market shares in the past 6 months.

If I would have found out about this other company 6 months ago, I would have never started working on the project. Thank god I did though. I have learned so much about web and app development, I have expanded the idea of what I'm capable of, I'm about to found a company (which of course anyone can do but feels super exiting for me :D ) and I actually have a shot at making it fly.

It is always better to do something than nothing.

It sounds like you need to work on your people skills

The solution to problems of lablor mistreatment is to quit and get a job at another company that treats their employees better.

One could argue that Gödel's theroem proves that there is no objective truth at all, since the whole universe can be viewed as an axiomatic system.

The question is really: will the (value/time unit) a programmer can generate for a company increase or decrease in the future? Since the world keeps getting digitalized and connected, I think the answer pretty clearly is that it will increase.

> Spoken like someone who's never lost family.

Some family members are worth less to some people than their pets. But I agree with you anyway, it was a pointless comparison. Lets just agree on that it sucks to lose someone, human or other animal.

There was some cocks present anyway

I tried "tits", that worked.

Raytracing and Rasterization sounds so cool :D

If you are interested in learning about the ancient Egyptian civilization, I recommend this book that I just finished (with basically no prior knowledge on the subject)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8536070-the-rise-and-fal...

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0553384902

"In 1938 the common man’s condition in the Soviet Union, Germany, or the United States may have been grim, but he was constantly told that he was the most important thing in the world"

That might have been the case in the United States, but in Nazi Germany and especially in Soviet Union, the common man was told that he was worth nothing, and that the state was everything.

Searched for Monet, the first three paintings result in internalservererror: https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=monet

That was not really the point.

Yeah, so?

Sure, but if these big companies with lots of money to spend did not exist, there would be no one to buy the smaller ones.

Only if they use their power to more bad things than good things.

Well, you don't think the society benefits from the companies? Where else would you get all the stuff we use for everything? Where do you get the factories? Where do you get the machines? Where do you get the software?

If you don't think companies bring societal value, ask yourself what the alternatives are. There were a bunch of attempts in the 20th century, however it never ended good for the population.

Big companies add huge value to all our wellbeing. 1000 companies with a revenue of ten million dollars can afford to spend little to nothing on research, while one company with a revenue of ten billion dollars can spend a lot. How many startups comes up with new medicines, for example?

Furthermore, you are implying that all that people do has to be done with the societal value in mind. What about the value for individuals? Look at yourself for example. Do you do everything you do for the societal value or to pursue your own separate interests?

Well, don't believe everything you read in the newspapers :) I often get a feeling that journalists, at least in Sweden, really just want big companies to fail, instead of being excited and curious about new technology.

No, since stock are offered to early emplyees, which are taxed way lower.

One other reason is that taxation of income gets extremly high (60 %) when the salary rises above ~$7000/month. This makes people feel that it is impossible to get rich by working for someone else in Sweden, which in turn pushes productive people into startups.

So are you

Should we stop creating JavaScript frameworks because “unethical” companies might use them? I don’t know what else you are saying.

Well, not for long.

No, but it's time to automate the state apparatus.

Is this caused by natural selection, or are they smart enough to do this intentionally?