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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
I agree. It's crazy that someone who didn't put up the skin to acquire the business thinks they should get to run it anyway.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Because he built his career on "freedom" advocacy? Doesn't he support pirating ebooks? Didn't he plagiarize, then just copy, emacs source? Turnabout's fair play.
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A CEO that sweetened the deal would set about turning brave into chrome and google search. You cannot both castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
The first perceptron was explicitly designed to be a trainable visual pattern encoder. Zero assumptions about potential feelings of the ghost in the machine need to be made to conclude the program is probably doing what humans studying art
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>misuse Do today's artists pay royalties to the classics of the past they "misuse" when they do studies in art school? I'm really getting tired of reading these sorts of articles. Clerks didn't complain this much
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
"Andy giveth, but Bill taketh away" (1998 and earlier): https://youtu.be/BUud1gcbS9k?t=3114
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>There was a time when American corporations discovered that financial services were more profitable than manufacturing. ... The "profits" were at least partially fraudulent -- division managers cooking the books in order to ma
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Fame-hungry microbloggers are lying about an acceptable class of target to clickbait lazy users and ride an elevated engagement bandwagon? Say it ain't so!
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
And I was referring to OP having no such deal.
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To add on to (1), expeeienced hackers trying to educate new users really should first immerse themselves into descriptions of the "bad old days" of utility programming to help get back into the mindset of the novice they're t
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
No idea where you are or where you're referring to, but there's a lot of cultural variation out there in the legal code; some jurisdictions around the world are much more "free speech absolutist" on what rises to the lab
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
You have a deal with a copyright holder? Have you considered taking them to court over it? I'd donate to help get you what their contract owes you, and I'm sure others would, too.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
The author of the linked blogpost, Mark Tarver, has spent over a decade developing his own pair of Lisp dialect and symbolic AI system, called "Shen" and "The Logic Lab".
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
It's a strange sort of Lisp fetishism that wants to bring back Smalltalk instead of Lisp.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Glad to see you're still fighting the good fight on this one, lproven. If anyone finds this interesting, Liam has three great fosdem lectures out introducing this topic from the perspective of business software dev, hardware tech, and
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Absolutely agreed. Articles in this vein rather get my goat, especially because the analogy to real debt is more clear: If someone wrote a consumer finance article like "All purchases of things other than cans of beans and Certificat
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Have you ever actually read Machiavelli? Have you read The Discources, instead of the trendy practice of misreading Art of War and The Prince and ending the day early? This is a borderline slanderous misrepresentation of one of the first gr
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>It is true that Lewis did not seem to have a high opinion of sociologists This also seems correct going by a couple of his current issues essays. Two spring to mind: The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment , where he says something like
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
You should know that most of the claims of unusual proportions of very long life from these communities turned out to be bunk. Many researchers spent much more effort on present-day cultural and medical study than they did on discerning his
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
The cynic in me says that this is more correct as a statement about the author's patent possesion than it is about the items themselves.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Longevity scientists are mostly just experts in the field of getting duped by pension fraudsters who say what they want to hear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone#Scientific_reception Parts of the field are in wo
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
This nonspecific snippet reads like, at best, bandwagoning, and possibly more down the spectrum towards dramamongering. Can you comment a little more specifically on what you think happened that wasn't "explored".
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I'd love to know particularly what 2011 worker safety initiatives you'd point to that ended the infamous american worker limb amputation crisis of the late 1990s, and also if you have any insight into why Britain and the EU haven&
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>Above all, they are passionate advocates of what appears to be an impeccably libertarian form of politics - they want information technologies to be used to create a new 'Jeffersonian democracy' where all individuals will be a
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>But even from this remove it was possible to glean certain patterns, and one that recurred as regularly as an urban legend was the one about how someone would move into a commune populated by sandal-wearing, peace-sign flashing flower c
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Soft paywalls aren't, like many nouns that need an introducing qualifier (think homeopathic medicine for the most common example). More specifically, a soft paywall isn't a starving artist trying to get their daily bread from valu
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Are you asking why "found guilty" means found guilty in a court of law and not some other private person or org asserting a perogative of association? Are you mixing up those two things?
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
>But is the free market more important than for example the declining life expectancy in the US? Perhaps the decline of the free market in the US might be exactly as important as the decline of life expectancy in the US.
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by Phiwise_ 3y ago
Didn't think I'd run into the Department of Housing and Urban Development on HN today. Call me crazy, but I'm not sure they're the best party to be asking for capitalist definitions in this dispute.

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