Abekkus

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by Abekkus 8y ago
Also, you can leave scores of drones lying in wait, and alert a small number of pilots to fly the right ones when motion is detected.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
Extracting value is not at all the same as contributing value. Contributed value cannot be measured by people's bank accounts.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
language is a technology
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by Abekkus 8y ago
non-euclidean is an ill-fitting name, It's just extra dimensional, still within euclidean constraints, and generally not even making full use of a fourth dimension, These games only explore allowing overlapping 3-dimensional spaces wit
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by Abekkus 8y ago
The contract was for 800 Home Depot locations out of ~2,000 total locations. Our location has People watching the entrance of the store as well as combing the aisles to pitch customers. Valuable products don't need a hard sell.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
nukes only threatened to change this, drones will change this.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
Colorado has land to spare. That quote might even be based on zero-cost land.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
The first Erlang platform was even written in Prolog.
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by Abekkus 8y ago
Every market is a designed market. Markets aren't a natural dynamic system.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I once got a two week survey course in the history of mathematics. I can confirm it was riveting the whole way through, seeing the evolution of the toolset laid out.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
This is a strange image. The carpets aren't a source of dust,and if designed for it, carpets could capture more dust than a wood floor, until they are vacuumed. While the dust in room with a wood floor, would continue to circulate, an
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Society will need to overcome endemic unemployment and autonomous weapons before San Francisco will have to worry about sea level rise.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I'd give you the same deadline of 5-10 years for figuring out a way to hold off the automation of military and security operations, which will be just as bad as losing the open web.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
"trying not to get squashed by the powers that be" is the future. Only going to get harder each year.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I would like to see more evidence that fruit is much better than fruit juice, beyond the fact that it is easier to over-consume the juice. The sugar content of fruit still makes it suspect as a net-negative to a diet. There are better so
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I'll watch and read this,thanks, but in the meantime my money is on democracy ending with the automation of military, police, and security operations.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Since wikipedia and stack overflow allow for self-selection, and encourage heavy use of editing power, the stanford prison experiment seems like a great analogy for them, but it is nice to hear that the experiment may not represent the tend
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Managers in an organization often have more incentive to make the problems they work on look difficult, and therefore important, rather than fixing their problems quickly, cheaply, and reliably, which can make them look less valuable to lea
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I would like to find a "hacker news" for the "not fucking it up" business, please. Especially for the part where we try to keep the military and police from being automated.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
If your political enemy has the internet, and you don't, you lose.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Is there a static substance that reflects loose neutrons? I thought that the choices for a substance were either to let the neutron pass through, or to absorb the neutron
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by Abekkus 9y ago
There's a fine line of volition that is arguably crossed when involving tested social constructs that leverage human weakness better than many chemical addictions.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
There are bluray players for $70 that can stream netflix over wifi.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Assuming that password complexity is the weak link in their practices.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
between github, metasploit, and rails, ruby is falling out of favor the way that java has fallen out of favor.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
I'd read up on the elixir language itself from the official website, then look into the "Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook" https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid...
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Political campaigns are being won by code.
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by Abekkus 9y ago
Specificity beyond the point of courtesy is NIST's mission, and it's passion. Please, nitpick away.
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by Abekkus 10y ago
That quote was designed by malice, to encourage stupidity.
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by Abekkus 10y ago
He's had the job for 72 + 5 days already.

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