OrganicMSG

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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Depends on what you view the law for. Personally I think the law is a tool that acts as a proxy for group morality, and is useful as much as it serves that aim. The law itself is not sacrosanct and can be wrong, which is why we revise it. U
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I know that this is not a good sample by any means, but from my own life thus far here in the UK as someone with a middle class accent and pale skin tone, who smokes a bit of pot and these days stay out of trouble, however used to get excee
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
People who use bikes don't trust drivers either. In fact I work on the base assumption that bus drivers in particular, are actively trying to kill me.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
This part - “ Horwich says Wittgenstein imagined everyone sketching individual faces to convey meaning, rather than relying on standardized faces as we do today. “I don’t think we get the variety and the flexibility unless you’re drawing th
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Define cheating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDTZuFJYX4
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I think that a renaming is something that will happen. The current DNS mutual hallucination has an insane network effect, but I think something else (fuck knows what, could be a toy, could be a tool, could be a protocol), with it's own
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
In the middle of a city, a pile of scooters is considered by most people to be a less pressing problem than a pile of human shit, both in risk and aesthetic. If either pile gets big enough it will solve itself economically, however the diff
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
RAND corporation in both depth and longevity is pretty impressive. https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/a/asimov_isaac.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/v/vonneumann_john.html
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Could even go full social techno-utopia and make the scooters free for registered addicts to use on rides to any municipal sanitation facilities.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I have never heard of the business version of facebook before. Is it common anywhere?
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Or Zune, even now.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I've never used it. For some reason this makes some people extremely curious as to my reasons and then very angry with me after I state them.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>In 2011, Schrems created Europe versus Facebook, which published the documents Facebook had sent him and flagged up where they didn't comply with EU law. He got in touch with the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (ID
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Of course it isn't just driven by nostalgia. It also requires a constant supply of coffee, for one thing.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Prestwick. Concorde used to land there sometimes. I know someone who was in the process of landing a microlight at Prestwick when concorde had to fly in because of bad weather at Heathrow.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Historically we used to launch from Woomera, before we shut everything down as part of the deal giving us access to US nuclear missile tech, something our politicians were happy to do as they thought that missiles was all rockets were reall
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
How do you allow access and editing of any identifying data previously posted, so as to comply with GDPR?
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
>This is likely to be controversial, but I take a low dose of sleeping pills (like a third of a normal dose) or a very low dose of cannabis whenever I can’t sleep. While I agree with this advice, it is amusing to see it coming from someo
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
When learning, I tend to buy something cheap I can destroy, knowing I'll be fighting it. Then I buy something expensive and everything is lovely.
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
Was listening to "I got it From Agnes" just the other day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k That aspect of his humour however seems noticeably absent from this article. You'd have thought "Po
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
The media tends to push binary stories of humans vs AI. Science fiction, on the other hand, has long explored the complexity inherent in human, AI and cyborg interactions.
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
We may not know the cause of the collapse, however given that it was a new construction method being tested, surely the cars should never have been allowed to be there until the span had finished being surveyed. Is a new thing, plan for it
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
I'm not sure that the Windows desktop has caught up technically compared to many of the graphical shells available for linux desktops, it just depends on which list of things you value in particular.
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
Seems fair. Would be nice to have a fifth slide explaining friction cost and why it might be a very bad idea to embed ever increasing friction as your formal verification method.
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
Is also worth remembering that all phones track you and that people who have access to the mast data can do stuff like this - https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/pdfs/wibreathe.pdf
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
If you are a tech company and you are being moral and trying to keep secrets, you have to try and weed out any overly unscrupulous employees as they may sell your data to other organisations. If you are a tech company and you are being immo
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
> Once Bandai licensed Pippin from Apple, Apple made no effort to market the Pippin platform. All the marketing was to be done by the licensees. Bandai spent US$93 million in marketing alone to sell the Pippin line.[6] As part of the lic
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
In the words of Samuel Johnson; > "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
I still read The Well (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic 'Link) at least once a year, as I have an almost religious addiction to "The State of The World" with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. For reference, here is State of th
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by OrganicMSG 9y ago
I want electric cars to succeed as I am am long bored of breathing in vehicle fumes. Automated driving is cool sci-fi tech, but holds nowhere near the same sense of necessity, as far as I am concerned. So, I thought it wasn't all that

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