Digit-Al

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by Digit-Al 5y ago
Both authors had different aims. Tolkien's aim was to build an entire fictional word with a rich history. Adam's aim was to reflect upon, and poke fun at, the human condition. (A simplification of course.)
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James Blunt is always entertaining on twitter. He's one of the few people who manage to turn that toxic turd into gold.
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A landmine is not an autonomous weapon. Autonomy suggests being able to select a target and harm only that target. A landmine just blows up when someone steps on it; there is no selection, thus no autonomy.
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I'm not so sure. I think Facebook might oppose it on the grounds that there are large numbers of people on the cusp who may just abandon Facebook if they have to give their credit card details. Facebook is already haemorrhaging users,
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Firstly, stop this rubbish about getting old; with current life expectancies I wouldn't even consider someone middle aged until they are their forties. Old is probably late sixties to seventies. You still have a long way to go :-) Seco
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I'm still using my Google Nexus 6P that I purchased five and a half years ago. Yes, it hasn't been updated for years but I almost never download new apps to it and I haven't been compromised so far (as far as I am aware).
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Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence(theatlantic.com)
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Searching HN is always the right way to go :-)
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If AI Is Predicting Your Future, Are You Still Free?(wired.com)
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The first octopus farm – should it go ahead?(bbc.co.uk)
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Back in 2017 there was a superstorm over the UK and France. Here in London the lightning was basically continuous. It was really bizarre because it looked like someone had put stadium lights on so the whole sky was lit up continuously. Appa
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The problem we have here is that the big social media companies want to become the commons of the web, but they don't want to take on the responsibility this entails. They want to be the storage source for all of your emails, photograp
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The article did not claim it started with Reagan. > In America, trickle-down was exemplified by President Ronald Reagan's tax slashes.
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What We Will Never Know(gizmodo.com)
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I hope I don't curse myself saying this, but I bought an AEG washing machine over 9 years ago and so far have never had a problem with it.
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OP is not suggesting actually booby trapping cars. Having the sentence in quotes is the giveaway. He is saying to spread the myth that this is happening so thieves aren't sure if it is real or not and might be put off stealing them.
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How to Stop Caring What Other People Think of You(theatlantic.com)
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Back in the late 80's I actually had a COBOL compiler on my 8-bit CPC-464. The CPC-464 had a port at the back that you could connect an EEPROM box to. I had an assembly compiler, a COBOL compiler, a BCPL compiler, and a C compiler on i
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Sam Raimi should definitely write a film about a poultergeisha lol
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So, basically we're more intelligent because we're better at pumping ion.
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I think you are misinterpreting OP's comment. They didn't say that old people aren't out doing many things, they said that it was normal to assume that old people aren't out doing many things. There is a difference. I
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I recall reading something about having to have "an account in good standing", which certainly suggests that they can tell if an account is a real one or a dummy one.
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That's the big problem with these massive tech companies. They want to suck more and more of your life into their ecosystems, but they don't want to take on the responsibility that comes with it. When losing your account just mean
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Does anyone else wonder if Page and Brin feel any pangs of guilt over how their company went from "Don't be evil" to such corrupt practises? It really is a classic case study in the journey from apparent idealism to a complet
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I agree. At one company my team had a new manager start and one of the first things he said to us was "if you have to work overtime I'm not doing my job properly". That attitude should be more widespread in my opinion.
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I sincerely hope you're not putting your son in a doghouse lol
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The race to grab all the UK’s lithium before it’s too late(wired.co.uk)
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Just be glad it's not the 40ft long "terror crocodile".
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I can hardly believe I've been a member for 9 years. I looked up my first ever submission; it was on Sept 2012 and was an article claiming that a global bacon shortage was "unavoidable". Thankfully history proved the author w
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How to Be a Man(psyche.co)
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