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It appears that Wikipedia does keep an archive ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restorin... However ... > A message by Wikipedia system administrator Brion Vibber from January 2007 warned that
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by _rpd 11y ago
http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Yuri_Gadyukin
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by _rpd 11y ago
Perhaps religious service attendance via podcast, and a long memorized search string that finds the latest download?
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Part of their training is to write statements that can be interpreted multiple ways. This allows them to distance themselves from problematic interpretations (crucial for career survival) while claiming credit for popular interpretations,
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by _rpd 11y ago
> “Technology — even when it’s equally distributed — isn’t a bridge, but a jack. It widens existing disparities.” As an unqualified statement this is too absolute. Some technology decidedly levels the playing field. As always the key i
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by _rpd 11y ago
Making robot construction a prime target for automation.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> I guess explanation kills the magic. Once belief systems are understood as evolving memetic complexes that compete for niches in the ecology of the noosphere - well, it does tend to unweave the rainbow.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> something that only exists in the noosphere I hear what you are saying, but the working assumption is that thoughts, memories, beliefs and memes all have physical neural correlates.
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by _rpd 11y ago
More irony: the author is attempting to proliferate the meme that "memes are a myth" - presumably to defend some sacred belief system that memetic analysis undermines.
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by _rpd 11y ago
Summary: ponders the Fermi paradox, worries that AGI is the Great Filter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
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> They became popular because they are effective. I believe this, but I'd like to read more about their effectiveness. Is there a particularly good article on the topic?
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by _rpd 11y ago
It's a crank theory. Don't waste your time. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe
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by _rpd 11y ago
May be the underlying ice melting and refreezing like on Europa ... http://i.space.com/images/i/000/029/810/i02/europa-thick-ice... ... due to occasional asteroid strike?
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by _rpd 11y ago
If they really don't have a use for the money, they should pay it out to the shareholders as dividends.
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by _rpd 11y ago
See also: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
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by _rpd 12y ago
Popcorn Time doesn't anonymize BitTorrent participation, right? Just makes it easier?
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by _rpd 12y ago
This is a good analysis. However, it is a little odd that everyone mentions the Saudi failure to reduce supply as a factor in lower prices, but no one mentions the increased supply from US shale oil. Although up slightly, conventionals ar
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by _rpd 12y ago
In fact, it is common advice to reject any offers that don't include a tuition waver. It signals that the candidate didn't really meet the department's standards, but that an exception will be made if they are independently
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by _rpd 12y ago
Closest I know of ... http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm I believe Zubrin expands on it a bit in his book ... http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Mars-Settle-Planet/dp/0684835...
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by _rpd 12y ago
The suffering of the people of Greece will be so great that no one will follow their path. In fact, it will be the basis of European fiscal union, since it will be so clear that there must be a mechanism to prevent further such tragedies.
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by _rpd 12y ago
My understanding is that the mobile banking services being discussed provide an account, like a paypal account, that can be used to accumulate funds - and pay your phone bill. In some local marketplaces, it is virtually required to partici
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My reading of the article is that it is supposed to be an art project / innovative entertainment.
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The inevitable buzzfeedification of non-paywalled journalism.
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Additional bonus for rolling your own: not having to deal with restrictive, ambiguous or outright bizarre licensing terms and, in the case of SAAS, that the service or its best API will become unavailable with minimal warning.
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> Nuclear fission in the earth's core produces [Helium] This is quite an interesting hypothesis for those interested ... Deep-Earth reactor: Nuclear fission, helium, and the geomagnetic field http://www.pnas.org/cont
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Yes, respondents are almost certainly picturing military strike drones and thinking that people want them for home defense.
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In the case of gold, I think it is useful to look at the types of demand - jewelry and electronics consumption vs. currency hedge and speculation. In this way you can learn a lot about gold from bitcoin and vice versa.
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by _rpd 12y ago
> several should survive even a Chicxulub-class event That's an interesting proposal. I'd love to read a study on that. > But I suspect you mean something different than independent biospheres. If so, what risks are you thi
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by _rpd 12y ago
My understanding is that he got dozens of offers to help promote his app. Some were blatant buy-a-download - just to gain app store rank - some were less blatant, others were more traditional buy-a-targeted-clickthrough. It can be difficu
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by _rpd 12y ago
I'm pretty sure a friend's app got a bad rating when he declined to sign up for a service like this.

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