FlorinAndrei

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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Where does the fresh water come from? Your assumption is that sex cells are magically exempt from the accumulation of errors.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"How much money does he think he'll need to meet his goal?" That question doesn't make a lot of sense. This is not a Web 2.0 startup. It's a lot more fundamental than that, and a lot of the required tools and technologies have not been inve
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"Does anyone really want to live to 1000? I think you might get a little bored" Boredom is infinitely better than nothingness.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
If it's an imperfect mechanism, then look back at the huge chain linking you to the first living creature: adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / ... How come that chain hasn't failed? Basically, you're j
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
IIRC, either Kurzweil or de Grey said exactly the same thing.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"I think there's a reason complicated life evolved so that it would age. The standard reason given is that eventually errors in replication accumulate and cancer results. I.e. we age to avoid cancer. But that is a ridiculous reason." Exactl
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
I don't think there's any debate on the fact that, given enough time, research will eventually figure out how to stop and reverse the changes brought by aging. The debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed to 10000 years from no
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
I agree. The cell is a much bigger challenge.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
I agree. They wrote a new OS and uploaded it into existing hardware. Still a great feat, but not quite 100% "artificial life" yet.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"In a nutshell: Global warming either (1) isn't real (2) isn't caused by humans or (3) doesn't matter" I know people who might serve you either #1 or #2 or #3 depending on the situation, their momentary mood or the course of discussion. Som
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Now all we need is an explanation for the magnetic field.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Hmm, printing paper is not exactly super-cheap per weight unit.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Sounds like a backdoor that someone forgot, or was too lazy to remove.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Aw, man, I'm so conflicted about that. I made the financial effort to refurbish the "fat" PS3 when it died, even though I'd already bought a Slim, just to keep that system around to learn Cell programming. It's still running the old firmwar
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"That wouldn't account for the 10% drop" Welcome to the world of positive feedback loops, enjoy your stay.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"What are they doing?" Right now? Layoffs.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
My thoughts exactly. HTML5 is going to be (or is already) everywhere, so where's the big risk?
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
If they go into a light meditative trance when hearing the prayer, that may explain it. The changes in the brain's functioning during meditation are pretty amazing. This has been researched pretty well with buddhist monks, etc.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
According to the quoted sources, anything is hard if you want to do it very well.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
upvoted for sincerity
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
"I have been using Linux since I downloaded Slackware over a 2400 baud modem (1991?) and have used most of the major distros over the years. For me, Ubuntu is the "get stuff done with minimal hassles" distro - love it." Same here.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=retarded 6. Retarded Having really good qualities about yourself; havin a banging body; somethin that is just that thang! "He so retarded wit it!" "Them shoes is retarded!"
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Privacy is dead. Get over it.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Agreed. Publishing the story about the device, fine. But it takes a real d-bag to leak the name of the engineer who lost it.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
That's a dangerous article for Mozilla to publish. You know, what with Chrome gaining ground and whatnot...
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
The disdain is from the nerds. Regular users will never complain about that.
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Same on Ubuntu 9.10 with Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Or you could just install the free AVG, the cost is zero (if money is what worries you), the impact on performance is negligible (I do photo and video processing, the antivirus doesn't seem to make Vista slower than it already is), and it's
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by FlorinAndrei 16y ago
Well, Twitter only allows 140 characters, so...
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
That would be awesome, but I'm afraid by "SSL VPN" they mean just the lame browser-based pseudo-VPN gateways.

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