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by Qz 16y ago
I read an in depth article on Watson a few months back and I remember that it said it does in fact do that sort of confidence-based buzzing, but I'm not 100% sure.
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by Qz 16y ago
It's really more like "Can we fool ourselves into believing that machines think?" which isn't actually any different from the question "Can we fool ourselves into believing other people think?"
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by Qz 16y ago
If you read further on Searle and the Chinese Room, you'll find that most of his argument has been debunked and what remains is an Appeal to Common Sense. "The man in the room can't really understand Chinese--right guys?"
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by Qz 16y ago
The problem is that Groupon's customers aren't actually the people buying coupons, it's the businesses selling coupons, and we've heard plenty of horror stories from that side of the coin. Whether that aspect is enough to dig Groupon's grav
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by Qz 16y ago
Wow, that is spectacularly obnoxious. Apparently I forgot to disable that in firefox after I updated to windows 7...
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by Qz 16y ago
Yes for modern phones, although I can't say how many free texts is considered enough. If you're not on an unlimited plan and you start texting with someone who is, you can quickly stack up hundreds of texts without realizing it...
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by Qz 16y ago
There's a distinction between substances that interact with brain chemistry in a particular way to enhance addictive behavior, and the circumstances that predispose some people more than others to seek out addictive substances as a means of
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by Qz 16y ago
I know what the term means, but that doesn't make it true. The parenthetical in your statement is my point precisely; hardly 'hard-wired' if it's potentially a product of misguided thinking.
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by Qz 16y ago
I guess what I take issue with is the use of the term 'hard-wired' as the exact causes of ADHD are not known, nor is it necessarily permanent.
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by Qz 16y ago
It occurs to me that governments and computer programs are not that different. Both suffer immensely from code rot.
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by Qz 16y ago
"US authorities had begun another round of domain name seizures, this time against sites connected with sports streaming." I'll just assume the fact that this is Superbowl Weekend is purely coincidence here...
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by Qz 16y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I'm wondering what precisely you mean by 'hard-wired to be impulsive'.
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by Qz 16y ago
Doesn't explain is->in -- that's 4 keys over, and opposite hand...
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by Qz 16y ago
I noticed that Amazon has (relatively) recently changed their results pages so that it preloads the first 4 results of the next page. When you click next, the next 4 results show immediately, and then the rest of the results start loading.
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by Qz 16y ago
I was responding to a post about 'holding back 6 months salary' as a safety measure, with a simple example of how to do so. Obviously, this is something to do before you go and start a family. My point was not that it's possible for everyo
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by Qz 16y ago
If you're willing to move, and live with roommates, it's fairly easy to live comfortably (assuming no children) on 12k/year total. Assuming you're making minimum wage-ish, that's 8k to put in the bank every year.
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by Qz 16y ago
That's a basic property of HTML display - collapse of 'extraneous' whitespace.
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by Qz 16y ago
Latest crazy development: anti-mubarak protesters using laser beams as defense to blind pro-mubarak supporters trying to throw molotov cocktails. This just gets more and more insane/interesting...
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by Qz 16y ago
It seems like no coincidence that the internet came back on just for these pro-goverment supporters to organize out of nowhere. Watching this all on al-J has been surreal...
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by Qz 16y ago
I opted for 1day once when I needed a new monitor ASAP. When you're already paying $250, $4 for one day shipping seems cheap. Two day shipping occasionally gets here in one day, but sadly I'm late in the UPS delivery route so nothing shows
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by Qz 16y ago
WPF/XAML is terribly obnoxious as a layout system. Spark in Flex 4 is a much more reasonable system, and even then it still has its annoying foibles.
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by Qz 16y ago
It may not be the ideal technology, but this was also what Flash was/is supposed to address, at least partially.
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by Qz 16y ago
My guess would be that this is a reference to the alleged anti-Israeli bias as had been mentioned in comments on other recent Al Jazeera threads here.
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by Qz 16y ago
This post needs some proofreading.
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by Qz 16y ago
The difference there of course is that the Iraqis were not in open revolt at the time. Whether or not that was due to how much more insane of a dictator Hussein was I leave as an open question.
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by Qz 16y ago
That's like saying the wives of soldiers in Afghanistan shouldn't worry about their husbands because Terrorism is much worse. We're advanced creatures, I think we can handle worrying about multiple things at once.
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by Qz 16y ago
I'm pretty sure they're using quotes there as actual quotes -- as in, the 'developed' part is a literal quote of something someone said or printed. BBC News does this all the time.
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by Qz 16y ago
Google is honestly just terrible at UI design -- I'm not even an apple fanatic and it's still blatantly obvious.
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by Qz 16y ago
I'm not convinced about 'connected TVs' but I agree that thinking of it as an Xbox peripheral is definitely not the best plan.
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by Qz 16y ago
I have. I'm not dogmatic about this. Part of my other point was that the comparisons in the link to why SMS is ridiculously overpriced, in which the cost of downloading songs via SMS is calculated to be in the millions of dollars, is that t

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