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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Essentially ... "Austria’s anti-immigration far right has triumphed in the first round of the presidential election" The same issues propelling the US Republican Presidential primary race are winning in parts of Europe. A reductio
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Musk said ... “The probability of having an accident is 50% lower if you have Autopilot on. Even with our first version. So we can see basically what’s the average number of kilometers to an accident – accident defined by airbag deployment.
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
Essentially ... "Intel is never going to catch up in smartphones. Intel, like its pal Microsoft, whiffed when the world shifted from PCs to mobile gadgets that didn’t use Intel chips. The company has little to show for 15 years of tryi
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by SlipperySlope 10y ago
An agent framework I built for my AI research has exactly that. I use an additional message parameter, automatically inserted and maintained by the framework, which is a list of the messages (FIPA style operation + parameters) from the orig
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Sorry, but you could have made your point in a more hackerish way by saying that the Islamic State is looking into using off the shelf drones to widely distribute Cesium 137 dust harvested from Medical X ray equipment. A devout martyr would
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Private industry should fund the colonization of Mars. Who cares what the public thinks? Musk and early colonists will end up owning an entire planet.
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Very similar to the way Intel, years ago, rigged its Pentium CPU to excel on certain industry benchmarks. http://www.classactionrebates.com/settlements/intel-pentium-...
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
An industry pundit's theory is that Microsoft ownership of Skype threatened the wireless carrier's revenue from voice and SMS traffic - thus the carriers did not push Windows phone products.
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
I retired at 55, nine years ago broadly using the well known principles and agree that "Creation of new ideas, new enterprises, or new things is the biggest joy of being alive".
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
When I began programming in 1968, Fortran IV offered upper case variable names up to 6 characters long. Often the first character was used to implicitly define the type, e.g. a variable denoting an integer began with "I". The conv
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Wages of truck drives in the USA are well over 100 billion dollars annually. Wages of taxi drivers in the USA total over 4 billion dollars annually. Cost saving is the reason for the rapid replacement of the human-driven vehicle fleet. It t
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
A tech job brought me to Austin in 1999. No state income tax and plenty of ranch land for development nearby. The University of Texas at Austin has a very powerful supercomputer and lots of sponsored research. Apple has a huge campus in Nor
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Looking for the effects of climate change in the USA, I compared the first decade in one browser tab with the most recent decade in another browser tab, omitting F0 tornadoes due to better observations in the most recent decade. It appears
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Regarding insurance, a tactic of the frugal is to forgo insurance if you can withstand the loss. For example, my household does not purchase collision insurance on our vehicles. Likewise we can withstand high deductibles and as a result obt
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
The thesis of this article is that a frugal lifestyle may lead to relative wealth that permits occasional splurges. I regard the article as inspiring to someone who wants to become successful later in life due to their wealth, despite a mod
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Capitalism does not entail that the wealthy deserve what they have, only that if they are not wise with respect to their wealth they will lose it. With regard to Mr. Bieber, or celebrities/sports stars in general - there are many fooli
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Sorry I was not clear. * Compound interest in this context is ROI after inflation. * Savings in this context is defined as investment, e.g. saving the earnings of one spouse to make the down payment on a rented duplex. * Frugality in this
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Frugality is easiest to practice as a habit. E.g. rather than regard entertainment as an expense, frugal folks make simple errands and tasks into their entertainment. Also frugality is not about showing off, except among frugal friends comp
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
The dynamics of capitalism put wealth into the control of its wisest custodians - frugality being defined as among the wise virtues in this context. For those who argue that democratic government is the wisest custodian, e.g. there is estat
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Its clear to me that the article's family are still living well below their means. Multiple homes make sense for those who are frugal enough to restrict vacations mostly to the second home, which if well-located can appreciate in value
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Its important to have a spouse who has a similar desire for sensible frugality. The level of income is less important than simply living below your means for your whole life. With prudent financial planning, compound interest and the passag
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Here's hoping that Oracle loses its US Supreme Court case over copyright of Java API's. Otherwise I love that Java and GNU/Linux CRUSHED Microsoft in mobile.
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by SlipperySlope 11y ago
Essentially, the US Solicitor General says that the lower court ruling in favor of Oracle should stand. And Google should pursue a "fair use" defense of their adoption of the Java standard library APIs. Hypothetical worse case for
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
I would be great if an independent lab would certify equipment and software as spyware free. And it would be great if one could buy insurance to that effect on equipment and software. The NSA has done great economic damage to US exports of
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Interesting that Rush concedes the youth demographic, including millennials, to the democratics. He also it appears is conceding the tech-savvy demographic. I suppose that flyover country is not aware of what real broadband is capable of, a
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
DARPA, the USA sponsor of much AI research is quite balanced, taking risks on many different approaches to challenge problems. Robotics especially, as grounded as it is in physical reality, employs a hierarchy of methods. Chiefly sub-symbol
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Hinton gave a well attended keynote at the recently concluded AAAI 2015 conference in Austin, in which one of his concluding slides simply stated in a headline font ... "GOFAI is finished" I'll explain the irony of this drama
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Easier to commit the crime and subsequently ask forgiveness from overseers, than to ask permission publicly.
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
The pecking order of the sciences ... Psychologists answer only to Biologists. Biologists answer only to Chemists. Chemists answer only to Physicists. Physicists answer only to Mathematicians. Mathematicians answer only to Philosophers. I w
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by SlipperySlope 12y ago
Well we are talking past each other. I predict that timely delivery of life saving medications and medical devices will first happen outside of the USA, in jurisdictions favoring UAV innovation. http://www.uasvision.com/2015

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