bawana

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by bawana 10y ago
So how should we punish him for lying, polluting the net, wasting bandwidth,etc?
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by bawana 10y ago
no ask yourself THIS: would elon musk have done any of this if he were married?
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by bawana 10y ago
why can't we get AI to replace some of our government? Maybe our elected officials wont be saying stupid things? Maybe lobbyists wont be able to buy influence?
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by bawana 10y ago
This is a watershed moment for Google. Providing free email service was a way for them to get lots of data. The goal of course being to learn to massively scale computer networks, how to maintain them, back them up etc. Your data was the eq
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by bawana 10y ago
@thaumaturgy Did you translate that yourself? Is there a website that offers such bidirectional translation? I want to be a CEO too!!
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by bawana 10y ago
Steroid deprivation in general leads to depression- post partum depression, etc. Steroid administration leads to a type of 'euphoria' or well being - 'steroid high'. The link between steroid levels and mental status is a
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by bawana 10y ago
Does the presence of dark matter and dark energy imply other 'dark' properties. Consider 'dark' intelligence - I think our presidential candidates qualify as vast repositories of this - you can't observe any intelli
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by bawana 10y ago
sarcasm derives from the ancient greek meaning 'tearing of the flesh'. Sarcasm is intended to wound the recipient. Ironic humor is also a poke, but only tickles. I suggest a new word 'gargalism'.
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by bawana 10y ago
But that was my point. Financial institutions USED TO inject capital into companies. Now they inject MOST of their capital into other financial instruments. Their 'investments' are actually just wagers - bets - because nothing is
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by bawana 10y ago
Money needs to be classified into two types- money derived from financial transactions and money derived from stuff - the exchange of goods/services. 'Financial' money should only be used for stuff. Only 'stuff' mon
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by bawana 10y ago
same problem with government. How do you get them to pay themselves less? How do you get them to be accountable?
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by bawana 10y ago
is there anything like this for windows?? (please dont hate me)
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by bawana 10y ago
The capitalist model, the concept of 'disruption', Adam Smith's precepts work well when they allow individuals to control their choices, their fate, their destiny. When the transactions exceed human scale - when they become
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by bawana 10y ago
Why move the bridge? Just build a fairing over the bow and put a bunch of tv cameras on it.
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by bawana 10y ago
Money was a fungible proxy for stuff people made/harvested/gathered. The first distortion was its use on speculation/investment/insurance- in a word, finance. These instruments allowed value to change in the absence of s
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by bawana 10y ago
So why didn't SYLK files get their own extension? Having to parse the file to figure out what it is? Seems so error prone. But maybe Machine learning will solve this too. Isn't that why extensions were invented- to reduce cognitiv
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by bawana 10y ago
I wonder what prevents GB from doing a Greek thing? You know, the Greeks voted overwhelmingly not to honor the debt to the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015 But in the end the govt did no
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by bawana 10y ago
Indeed, third world immigrants work for less than the natives. Same is true here in the US. But I dont think the pay scale between the UK and the US is that much different for most jobs. Anyway, Ireland has been playing tax shelter for many
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by bawana 10y ago
WOW! GB left the EU and they did not even need to elect a communist party or have Varoufakis mouthing off. Maybe Greece should grow a pair and go now too. Maybe join GB.
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by bawana 10y ago
The problem with most economic theories is that they neglect the phenomenon of entitlement. Since welfare was invented, more and more people find the utility of their choices distorted. They will spend discretionary income on luxury goods a
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by bawana 10y ago
As a physician I can tell you it's not about data entry and data retrieval. It takes time to abstract into words the cognitive model in a physician's brain that represents the patient's condition and progress. Words are stati
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by bawana 10y ago
Didnt he start DEC?
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by bawana 10y ago
I am your parents. We invented nuclear weapons. We still regret it. So what if we decided to stay the course and figure out how to make a black hole? The first thing that would happen is it would be weaponized. That is what we do. Weaponize
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by bawana 10y ago
proctopoiesis: life is whatever crap gets thrown together
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by bawana 10y ago
And I remember the net before the web. FTP, Gopher, and lynx. So why did a 'web browser' succeed? Because you could integrate bandwidth hogging graphics?? or was it to mimic the gui interfaces of mac OS, windows, BEos, etc? I stil
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by bawana 10y ago
so are there any em spikes coincident with the transit of each planet? I mean if there was a civilization broadcasting into space with analog, we might hear them. And since they are using radio, we can be pretty sure they would be technolog
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by bawana 10y ago
Why didn't video cables go optical? Like toslink did w audio?
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by bawana 10y ago
This is the way of real life. We breathe, eat, excrete all without understanding or knowing. We poke at our bodies with junk food, exercise, video games, and other stimuli. Sometimes we achieve the desired effect, most times not. We still d
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by bawana 10y ago
You mean the health care sector has gotten so good at fixing all the other causes of death that what we see is the 'noise in the system'? I think not. You cannot legislate good care on the backs of physicians. Or physicians will
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by bawana 11y ago
I guess they dont want to be under facebook's thumb (didnt they invent torch?)

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