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by FBT 13y ago
The author of this post drops enough hints. Also, Worm is enjoying a large surge of popularity right now, as it was just completed.
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by FBT 13y ago
The author very carefully avoids mentioning what web serial this was precisely, but from context I am pretty confident he is talking about Worm [1], for anyone who is interested. [1] https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
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by FBT 13y ago
The sad thing is, this is unnecessary. Why be a despot, when you can be a "democratically elected leader"? The masses will love you, so long as you don't explicitly say that you are a dictator, no matter how violent and blood
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by FBT 13y ago
I am glad you have thought about it it to this extent. It is always reassuring to see that the relevant point have been thought of, and that there is at least a provisional plan to deal with them. This gives me a fair amount more confidence
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by FBT 13y ago
It is always great when evil is incompetent. I dislike that the NSA, GCHQ, etc. are spying on everyone and violating everyone's basic dignities, but it's great that they waste time doing so in rather insane ways, e.g. by playing v
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by FBT 13y ago
And if you are paying for it, there are two products.
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by FBT 13y ago
Remember, one plane did . After hearing about what happened to the other three planes, the passengers realized what was going on, and (almost) took back the plane. This was all on the spur of the moment, yet they rose to the occasion. If t
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by FBT 13y ago
These things work out. Used car salesmen may be shady, sure, but somehow they are still in business. People tread carefully when dealing with them, but used car sales do go through in the end. A combination of regulation and reputation syst
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by FBT 13y ago
>"Okay," said Harry, "let me put it this way. Do you want to die? Because if so, there's this Muggle thing called a suicide prevention hotline -"
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by FBT 13y ago
I just want to weigh in that I am really glad that none of those falsely convicted by this faked evidence were sentenced to death. At least those falsely imprisoned by the "evidence" this scum planted can be set free, even thoug
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by FBT 13y ago
How does one serve multiple jail terms concurrently? The whole idea makes no sense.
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by FBT 13y ago
>> "We built those roads, we gave you education". Yes, except you didn't. >I'm not sure which country you're from, but I'm guessing there are schools and roads funded by the state. And the state is fun
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by FBT 13y ago
You raise good points. In fact, that is the very problem of so-called "Friendly" AI. Note the capital F. It's a confusing term, I know, but the basic idea is an AI that "does what we want", in the most general sense
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by FBT 13y ago
That's how these things are calculated. It's nonsense, but it's the best we can do, or something. It's the same with GDP figures. But no one seems to be able to find better metrics to use...
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by FBT 13y ago
To be pedantic, MtGox doesn't actually stand for "`Magic the Gathering` online exchange" like mherdeg was suggesting, but rather for "`Magic the Gathering online` exchange". A subtle difference,perhaps, but MtGox wa
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by FBT 13y ago
One of the major problems with law enforcement today is that so long as they carefully skirt the edges of what is legally defined as "entrapment", they can bait people into crimes, and arrest them for it even if otherwise they wou
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by FBT 13y ago
"Obstruction of justice". Yeah...
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by FBT 13y ago
So, I don't get it. Doesn't Wikipedia have a system of redirects? Just set it up that going to either the "Chelsea Manning" page or the "Bradley Manning" gets you to her page. There, is everybody is happy? Can
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by FBT 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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by FBT 13y ago
For all that the US government has done some really nasty stuff, I don't believe they are really evil people. They are doing what they think is best for their country, based on their ideas of what is best. No one is rubbing their hands
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by FBT 13y ago
randrange is the fixed randint, which works just as you'd expect. It's far preferable to randint, for the aforementioned reason, and ever since I started using it all those annoying off by one errors that randint kept giving me va
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by FBT 13y ago
The alternative to US control that we want of course isn't UN control. I would even go as far as to say that this article is attacking a strawman. What we object to is the "control" part of "the US controls the internet&
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by FBT 13y ago
Indeed. A very(unintentionally) misleading title. Perhaps unfortunately, the policy here is to keep the original title of an article... That policy has many upsides, but one of its biggest downsides is that there is no discretion allowed in
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by FBT 13y ago
I strongly oppose this view. Understanding how refraction works in no way diminishes the beauty of a rainbow. I would say it even enhances it's glory. Similarly, understanding the underpinnings of fiction does not ruin it at all, and i
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by FBT 13y ago
The difference now, perhaps, is that there is no longer a frontier left. 300 years ago, the people who wanted change and freedom from oppressive governments could sail away over the horizon and set up their own county in a new land. (That
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by FBT 13y ago
I would like to contribute the point to back this up that the question isn't really e.g. "is it OK to wiretap murderers?" Actually, it's "is it OK to wiretap suspected murderers?" And the second one is a vast
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by FBT 13y ago
That is a good question. I will first repeat the advice often given to startup founders: Get it working first, find a was to monetize it second. Beyond that, I have had a few thoughts. Yes, I actually agree that this would be a harder endea
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by FBT 13y ago
Yep. I fully expect forums like that to become a dominant mode of communication in the near and medium-term future. All it really needs is for someone to make for it a slick and easy to use interface. If I was in a position at the moment to
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by FBT 13y ago
Distributed services are the future, it seems. I predict (rather boldly, so I may be wrong) that the next wave in computer technology will be the move from centralized servers to a distributed framework. I foresee the next Microsoft/Go
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by FBT 13y ago
While you make a solid point, I will point out that the newest, hottest technology can make a difference, as in this very case. Silk Road was something new, and different from anything one could do with a telegraph or telephone. For the f

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