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by aamar 15y ago
You're inappropriately comparing the actions of candidates with people who have actual power. Neither George W. Bush nor John Yoo is running for office. Ron Paul is, and as a non-leadership representative, he's not in a position to affect p
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by aamar 15y ago
If that is a priority, you can reproduce manifoldly inside the VR. Why disprefer those children? It's possible to make the simulation run as long in subjective time as the outside universe. Thanks for the book tip. For curious others: The M
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by aamar 15y ago
I agree with the article that we're likely to eventually find virtual worlds more interesting and fulfilling than outer space. I do not agree that we should look down on these VRs or be alarmed or disappointed by this possibility.
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by aamar 15y ago
If we run in their VM, then the Fermi paradox still applies--since physics is consistent in this VM and seemingly leads frequently to life, why wouldn't we see signs of it elsewhere in the galaxy? If the "we're like ants/barnacles to them"
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by aamar 15y ago
Nit: 47 billion light-years in all directions; 93 billion light years is the diameter.
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by aamar 15y ago
One obstacle might be that by entering the VR, you'd be ceding a lot of control to the people "outside" your reality--they might gain physical advantage over you or hack your VR. But if that concern could be definitively answered--and I thi
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by aamar 15y ago
True, but if these super-advanced aliens are populating many planets, then we'd presumably be able to detect them somehow, irrespective of whether they care about us. It may be electromagnetic leakage or Dyson spheres or any of a number of
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by aamar 15y ago
The physicist David Deutsch makes the point that there is no real way to distinguish a consistent, convincing virtual reality from reality itself. Therefore, there is no real moral difference between richly populating such virtual worlds (o
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by aamar 15y ago
This is correct; there is some double compensation. 746W per machine => 7.46KWh per day. Multiply by $0.03 USD/KWh (=1.5 INR) to get $0.22/day or $0.00022 per napkin, slightly cheaper than the industrial solution. In other words, the ho
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by aamar 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand--isn't defending a preference one way people relate to certain other people? If by "other people" you meant all other people--I don't think that's actually true or evidenced here. All of these people have professio
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by aamar 15y ago
Here are some rational reasons why consumers might publicly and self-interestedly advocate for products they have already purchased: 1) If the product maintains a good reputation, early adopters will have been seen to have good taste or per
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by aamar 15y ago
A good and fair question. Generally telling the truth to strangers strengthens society. If someone chooses to lie to strangers, society properly should brand that person as not worthy of business and maybe worth imprisoning for fraud. Becau
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by aamar 15y ago
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Great book, 60 years old today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/23/google-dood...
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by aamar 15y ago
Can you please share why you avoid Epicurious? The recipes they have from Gourmet seem to me to be the best large collection of online recipes: diverse, well-written, tested, proofread, and forthright in their descriptions of each dish. The
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by aamar 15y ago
Ha! I might have known back then, but it's also likely I made college harder for myself than necessary. Yes, ROT13 (or maybe ROT47) might be enough to stymie lazy solution-seekers. Might do that here if an even-numbered exercise seems to w
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by aamar 15y ago
After doing nearly all the exercises through 1.3 I did approximately 1/4 (randomly selected) through 1.5. I agree that the exercises generate good insights not in the text, but 1/4 might still be a good amount for me to do, given time const
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by aamar 15y ago
Yes, it was somewhat interesting though it does seem to me basically off-topic. My answer is here, if it's helpful: http://pastebin.com/aPB1v2j9
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by aamar 15y ago
To answer your question at the end: a child born in the U.S., whether born to illegal immigrants or not, is a citizen and therefore a legal resident and therefore can attend public school. Children who themselves illegally immigrated to the
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by aamar 15y ago
Looks like it requires the Google Earth plugin: http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/explore/products/plugin.... "The plug-in is also used on Earth view in Google Maps."
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by aamar 15y ago
Good point. Schmidt mentioned that competitors have similar features, but I didn't connect the idea that they're all doing very similar things, which they probably are, with the idea that those features are part of any complete search pro
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by aamar 15y ago
Let's say Google entered a clearly different market, such as making & delivering pizza. Further say: Google's pizza is slightly more expensive and somewhat less good than pizza created by their competitors. Based on that, we would ordin
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by aamar 15y ago
> Maps, and Places, and Product Search -- they are all part of search. That's a very relevant point, but it also sounds at least superficially similar to Microsoft's "the browser is part of the OS" argument, which generally seems to be
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by aamar 15y ago
The central question seems to be the following, articulated most precisely by Mike Lee (R-UT): even if the organic search results are entirely unbiased, Google also programmatically (via "Google Universal Search", the system that organizes
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by aamar 15y ago
Interested; please include me. Once the book arrives I'll have to confirm I can make the time. In terms of how: I was part of a terrific, useful "HN reads SICP" group a while back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428248 , couple of us
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by aamar 15y ago
> The larger the group, the more complex the system, the longer the system has been in place, the worst the results are. It seems to me that these are not monotonically true. If I have a handful of competent allies in the wilderness or
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by aamar 15y ago
Know off-hand why "britnay" and "briteny" come up as edit distance 6? Compare "britanny" at 2.
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by aamar 15y ago
As I mentioned below, it's used to illustrate that Google works on cool stuff on a page called "Why Work at Google?". But it's an interesting question: what kind of puzzle could use this as source data? How about something along the followi
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by aamar 15y ago
It's used as an illustrative example on the "Why Work at Google?" page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/swe/whygoogle/ I thought at first it might be the source data for some kind of programming puzzle, but searching "link:www.google.c
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by aamar 15y ago
You've observed something important: deployment is a frequent source of errors. It is a discipline unto itself which deserves understanding, study, coding, and infrastructure. Here is my system: First, here are the specific types of solutio
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by aamar 15y ago
I'm not Christian, but I am familiar with the concept you describe, and it seems very different to me. Paul is I think advocating people to mentally distance their selves from roles or identity-classes, like straight, Christian, or atheist.

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