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by akimball 7y ago
Said every abuser and con artist ever. Yours is often a good reaction, which corrects for pervasive and insidious distorting cynical biases, but you should also be alert to it's hazards.
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by akimball 7y ago
In particular, for geometrizing semantics. Montague grammar is a tarpit, and pragmatic utility of inference on distributed representations has been abundantly demonstrated in the past decade. Symplectic structure is one of a small class o
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by akimball 7y ago
I do not believe that they lacked pen and paper. They lacked will
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by akimball 7y ago
So where is there a fork of the repository?
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by akimball 7y ago
And that much to public benefit. Governmental secrecy is the essential precondition of governmental corruption and criminality.
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by akimball 7y ago
Terrible article, perfuse with one terrible, fatal misconception: Systems openness is essential to confidence. Concealing breaches or even vulnerabilities does orders of magnitude more damage to public confidence than disclosing them and r
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by akimball 7y ago
Pace Fredkin.
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by akimball 7y ago
Sounds like "personal goals" might be misaligned with personal goals?
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by akimball 7y ago
Indeed, what good is signal on your phone, when your phone is out of your control?
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by akimball 7y ago
Slow, heavy Volkswagen is my take.
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by akimball 7y ago
Embarrassing for IBM (the snarky quote of Dario Gil) and for Science (the snarky headline).
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by akimball 7y ago
Simply false. In every case of my personal knowledge, and there are very many, it has been to protect the right to privacy, and no taxes have been evaded. I find use of cash in all amounts to be increasing as surveillance increases.
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by akimball 7y ago
The inevitable consequence is absolute despotism. Without privacy, there can be no freedom. I don't think that is a worthwhile price to pay in order to preserve an obsolete system of government funding. Especially since it won't
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by akimball 7y ago
My takeaway was "5g does not reliably cause cancer". Seems legit. It's not a magic cancer box, yo.
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Since when was it not?
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by akimball 7y ago
It is pretty clear that radio waves can cause cancer. What is unknown is how they do it.
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by akimball 7y ago
Do your children randomly forage?
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by akimball 7y ago
Milkweed is essential for monarch butterflies, also a pollinator.
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by akimball 7y ago
There are raspberries and pomegranates on the market, yes.
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No, you just need to be patient and/or fast.
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by akimball 7y ago
Bitcoin continues to be one of the most lucrative trading opportunities, but automated trading has become highly competitive in the past 4 years. Much higher levels of knowledge and abstraction are now required in order to get returns which
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by akimball 8y ago
Good point. I infer that any cascade impact from i29e will be felt in lower orbits.
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Will they check the stability of the airframe design? I ask because I read that the software was created to compensate for using dangerous forward weight placement to accommodate oversized engines without undertaking the expense of designi
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by akimball 8y ago
My great concern is that satellite fission may cascade, enveloping the Earth in a debris cloud and taking away access to space.
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by akimball 8y ago
And people get killed by extortionists, or live in cages, as a result of destroying privacy rights. You can't have freedom without privacy
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Untrue. Many people are victims of kidnap, extortion.
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It is not much comfort to the Norwegian familes extorted, that crime rates are low.
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And I will not appear on such a list.
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I don't want to live in a cage. I keep my assets private, to protect my family.
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I do not want extortionists and theives targeting me any more than they do

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