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by Tichy 13y ago
It is interesting, I am just puzzled that people think such zombies are conceivable.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I've come to the conclusion that it is yet another useless question. Or perhaps "it's alive if it interests us". Is the great red spot on Jupiter alive? I don't know, but who cares if it is interesting enough to stu
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by Tichy 13y ago
Consciousness is just an illusion. It is not a useful concept either. It won't help you to program robots, for example. I was very surprised to learn that according to Less Wrong, the concept of "Zombies" is accepted by a lot
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For Jeff Bezos, a new frontier(washingtonpost.com)
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by Tichy 13y ago
I feel the same, but lately most ebooks I looked at were a couple of EUR cheaper than their paperback counterparts. I think the publishers/vendors are learning.
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by Tichy 13y ago
He still bothered to produce a biography of himself.
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by Tichy 13y ago
It seems very misleading to me to just calculate average revenue by "money paid/downloads". At least a while ago a popular model on Android was to publish the app free and make money with advertising. So the average payout pe
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by Tichy 13y ago
Lots of mediums have gone extinct - tapes, punch cards, what not. To view them now, one has to get a capable device. Maybe to see some old web sites in all their glory we just need to download Mosaic again. Perhaps someone will even make a
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by Tichy 13y ago
The ponzi scheme theory: since apparently Amazon is making a profit it reinvests, it seems to me it could make a "real" profit any day simply by not reinvesting any longer.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Also I think during the boom time they simply built too many malls. Don't know about the US, but even in Germany they build more and more malls while the malls next door are going bust (still building more as we speak). It's crazy
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by Tichy 13y ago
Just avoid producing too much garbage then?
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by Tichy 13y ago
Although I think you can't have that many more hobbies with children, either. I think jobs are a bigger problem than children (bigger time sink I mean).
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by Tichy 13y ago
I don't think they should go to jail for their offense. But it remains to be seen if they will attract female developers that way.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Also, Magento developers and Server experts apparently are sexless entities.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Amazon's job was not to be political. The WP's job is. I wouldn't draw analogies from one to the other.
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by Tichy 13y ago
How can you be worse off for having an option?
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by Tichy 13y ago
They (media, leftist groups) tried to create a scandal about this in Germany and succeeded to some extent. I found it kind of amusing that the mere description of people having to do actual work already seems to be so shocking to middle cla
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by Tichy 13y ago
You sound as if you don't believe you can have adventures with a wife and a kid?
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by Tichy 13y ago
The problem seems to me rather to be the clients of those companies. I don't envy those people in their call centers. Although I don't know how their job is set up, perhaps they just get x$ per successfully referred employee, and
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by Tichy 13y ago
Why don't you just become a Java Enterprise Developer? That is essentially the new Cobol. Note that if you look who created what language and framework, you can see exactly what you describe: technologies like J2EE were created by comp
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by Tichy 13y ago
Ah, is the article written for other platforms who want to emulate Android in automatically limiting Hotspots on mobile plans? Then it makes sense.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Couldn't Android just ask for the DHCP option? It sounds to me as if this is a case of Android as a DHCP client talking to Android as a DHCP host, so making Android ask as a client seems feasible.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Surely people who are not interested in SV content exist.
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by Tichy 13y ago
I have a similar problem with feminism on Twitter, perhaps I would even like to be able to block politics completely. Machine Learning to the rescue?
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by Tichy 13y ago
There are lots of animals that don't hibernate. Have you considered that you misynderstoid evolution theory? Biology isn't complete doesn't mean the parts known so far are wrong. Can't write longer replies now because I
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by Tichy 13y ago
Science isn't democracy, things are not true or untrue depending on how many people beliieve them. You can't vote gravity away, for example.
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by Tichy 13y ago
Great, can I get a job as a teacher, too, please? Since apparently I can say and do what I want in that job, it sounds perfect. Can I play video games with the kids all day and be paid for it? I've heard it improves reaction times in k
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by Tichy 13y ago
In case of hibernation it seems very plausible that an animal evolved to sleep longer and longer, to preserve energy. I don't understand your problem? It could also work this way: an environment had enough food to sustain 20 bears in w
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by Tichy 13y ago
You are only asking for the basics of evolution, every textbook should have you covered (or even Google). And it doesn't happen the way you imagine it, those traits don't have to evolve from one day to the next. Bears can live in
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by Tichy 13y ago
You are thinking about it backwards. Of course first there were only animals who couldn't hibernate, and who couldn't fly (for example single cell life forms...). It's not as if god dropped some bears into Canada and then whe

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