Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
Email has similar clues. Either way, unsolicited mail is always suspicious, in both forms.
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by Retra 8y ago
You responded with half a sentence, and you're expecting what kind of reaction to that? A Sixty Minutes special? A state-level briefing? Don't judge people for matching your level of effort.
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by Retra 8y ago
Facebook is not your government? They don't control a military or police force? Of course, censorship is censorship, and those kinds of details are irrelevant. What is important is that we develop powerful skills in equivocation and co
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by Retra 8y ago
The post is not spoiled.
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by Retra 8y ago
The point of the OSI model is to distribute responsibilities so that people can develop protocols that work together. Otherwise you get almost entirely proprietary protocols where every application using the network has to have 10 different
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by Retra 8y ago
It looks to me like Elixir is just doing the same things most other functional languages are doing.
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by Retra 8y ago
Most games run a time-limited simulation, so better hardware will only reduce lag and load times, as well as let you dedicate more computing power toward graphics calculations. An in-game timer can be made to ignore all of these.
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by Retra 8y ago
Your customers payments for a service and other companies payments to deliver advertising material are completely independent processes. There's no reason to choose only one when you can choose both.
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by Retra 8y ago
You're just going down the road which leads to the failures of moral absolutism. The conclusion is not that pain can't exist in a machine, or that it is wrong to torture a simulated being. The conclusion is that torture is not wro
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by Retra 8y ago
You're making a lot of presumptive, imprecise, and careless claims. I disagree with your conclusions, and I question the validity of your assumptions. If you want to have this discussion, I'd urge you to engage in a more digestibl
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by Retra 8y ago
You are confused, you mean.
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by Retra 8y ago
California is over 1/10th the US population. Why would you just ignore it?
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by Retra 8y ago
I think that was just a proposal that never got accepted? Never see it in real code either way.
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by Retra 8y ago
The replication crisis is a problem, but it is almost certainly not the main source of societies ills.
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by Retra 8y ago
A UI is necessary for users to use your product. That doesn't mean the UI is your product.
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by Retra 8y ago
People aren't using those sites because of their UIs, but because of the content they offer. UI isn't the only factor, but it is a necessary factor.
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by Retra 8y ago
Despite popular opinion, risk and reward are not cosmically related.
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by Retra 8y ago
Volcanos are not holes, they are mountains. And throwing it into an active volcano is just the same as burning it, but far more dangerous and expensive.
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by Retra 8y ago
It isn't best option to guarantee success. It just means you're lower on the list of need-based funding allocations.
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by Retra 8y ago
Then it wouldn't be a charity donation. Giving money to successful projects is better done as an investment (or maybe purchase.)
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by Retra 8y ago
That's why we invented birth control. So we could be better at reproducing. When human decision making and the need to reproduce come head-to-head, reproduction is always the motivation, even if it results in less reproduction. This is
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by Retra 8y ago
People could take vows of celibacy, and you'd probably just say they were really, deep down , only doing it to have more sex. And I'll certainly call you a liar, if only because you are so willing to brand everyone else with that
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by Retra 8y ago
I think it just means you have to do more than simply make things efficient. You also have to have some way to minimize total costs.
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by Retra 8y ago
That extra $16K per year is your 'power' money. That's the stuff you'll spend on investments and status.
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by Retra 8y ago
Humans who are concentrating are acting with general intelligence. Humans who are not concentrating are acting with lesser kinds of intelligence. The title is pointing out that human intelligence is not always the 'general intelligence
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by Retra 8y ago
Because sex is a short-term goal, and the more heavily you optimize for it, the less you'll optimize for being accountable to the long term side-effects of dishonesty.
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by Retra 8y ago
Obviously, you're only saying that to get laid, so who can trust you? You could just as well argue we're all paper-clip maximizers, and simply interpret any evidence to the contrary as short-sighted. The only sense in which you ca
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by Retra 8y ago
Best learn some actual quantum physics before you start pretending to understand it.
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by Retra 8y ago
Functions can describe pretty much anything. If you don't see how they can describe something, then you're just using the wrong functions.
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by Retra 8y ago
Obviously not? Looking at your brain is not the same as executing it. You'd just be looking at pictures. It'd be more like calling a function that reformats it own source code.

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