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by M_Grey 10y ago
Who suggested anything about turning this into more than a personal policy? Edit: Not to mention that if you want to publish "tradition", don't call it "science".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You're absolutely preaching to the choir here, but I don't know how to communicate that sentiment to people for whom it isn't gospel, without them getting really huffy about it. Being gentle doesn't help, they're
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Around the issue of this crash? Yes. Around the issue of how much Uber needs self-driving to pan out, now ? Not so much. Around the reality that Kalanick is bad news, and at the same time utterly in control? Not at all. I see what you&#x27
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This is for me, the big issue and the reason why these kinds of studies have begun to just fly under my radar. When a couple of decades of "research" in various fields adds up to, "Flip a coin, any coin..." something is
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The only things I've ever backed are FTL, Torment, Cryamore, and um... SnotBot (not a game). I must say, you took a lot of chances that I decided not to, and most of them turned out pretty well. This reinforces my belief that Kickstart
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As a rule, Mercedes tends to keep mum on tech they're not ready to roll out (at least to the S-Class), and they like it be pretty near perfect at that piont.
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It can be even more awkward... at that kind of establishment often they'll either cater to Japanese people only, or tourists only (you do get some mixed places). The thing is, they're so polite that it can take a long time to re
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by M_Grey 10y ago
There are some good articles, but they exist in a sea of noise. I don't know about you, but I come to places like HN because that noise is undesirable.
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I’m glad that people are working on new kinds of bouncing icons because they believe that humanity has solved cancer and homelessness and now lives in a consequence-free world of immersive sprites. That’s exciting, and I wish that I could
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's actually a very common things in Japan at least, for men and women. Not just karaoke either, men and women pay younger, attractive people to pour them drinks, pay attention to them, laugh at their jokes, etc. Not defending Uber&
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Dramatic evolution within human genome may have been caused by malaria parasite(sciencemag.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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Selling the data on would be my primary concern.
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A VPN you trust not to keep logs, and/or TOR.
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New Portal to Unveil the Dark Sector of the Universe(sciencebulletin.org)
2 points by M_Grey 10y ago|2 comments
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I've often said things like, "Not even if you paid me," but the truth is that rarely are you offered money like this. Not even for $5.
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At first, sure, but essentially you're training people to ignore you regardless of what you do. As advertisers are finding out, eventually someone will create a tool that allows people to ignore you online the way they would anywhere
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well yeah... if I wanted to buy cheap counterfeits; most of the time I don't.
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I doubt it... most of the counterfeit junk on Amazon is just Ali products and sellers leaking over.
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Why would such a cooperative require intelligence, never mind high intelligence? We already see such vast cooperatives in fungi, but they have no selection pressures for intelligence. Far from it, competition is the driver that made us &quo
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I have to get around to reading those books... I have Blindsight sitting on a shelf.
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I'm pretty sure that they stopped giving a rat's ass about what anyone thought a while ago.
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There is no reason to believe that intelligence, in whatever form it takes, ever stops being energetically expensive. Is it possible to imagine selection pressures that would select for high intelligence over other factors? How harsh can an
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The worst models have always had really nasty asymptotes near the end, and it would certainly appear that we've reached that point in at least one critical system. Given the other issues arising at the same time (permafrost melting, me
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't know about creating the account, but I would definitely recommend reading the site rules, which are more extensive than most other sites, but well worth reading and following. Assuming that you want to do more than the digital
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Can confirm, was a youngster in my teens at high school during that time. I actually remember a friend getting a Zip disk drive, and immediately regretting it when someone else showed off their new CD burner. Heady days...
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That's a good point, and you're right of course. In fact I take some hopeful comfort in the notion that while the leap from organic molecules to single-cells might not have been too big, there are some indication that going to mul
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I think it's a good possible resolution, yeah, generally referred to as 'The Great Filter Hypothesis'.
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When you look at the many different potential sources of, "Fucked... goodbye..." the trend is very clear. We're juggling apocalypses and just waiting to find one that will stick. Will it be ocean acidification first? Ocean le
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As I said in a previous post, technology doesn't change, but empower us. Unfortunately that power doesn't usually reside in the hands of people who would use it best, but the people who want it most and have the least regard to th
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Most people aren't bright or educated enough to understand what you're saying, the best they can do is pick people or groups to trust. They are far more moved by pathos than logos.

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