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by bbctol 10y ago
Wait, you don't consider entering Crimea to be increasing his sphere of influence? Even if you consider that justified, surely it's still expansionist?
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by bbctol 10y ago
To be fair, that would be a far more impressive result than this!
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by bbctol 10y ago
Our brains may be more than the current iteration of extremely simple, layer-by-layer neural networks, but there's no reason to think they're something fundamentally different than the NN principle of parallel distributed processi
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by bbctol 10y ago
Freud's impact on psychology is sort of like Aristotle's impact on science. He laid the foundations of the field, had indisputably profound insights into the mind and without him, psychology would hardly exist in its current form.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'd at least want some idea of what to compare it to. That's certainly closer than if we assigned percentages at random. On the other hand, my intuition is they're less close than if every voter was picking at random, though
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by bbctol 10y ago
Sure, if you find a trait common to survivors that those who died did not have--but to do that, you have to look at those who died, too.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Can someone elaborate on the "Holy War with Google"? I think of Google as encroaching on Apple's standard turf, not the other way around, and Apple hasn't been expanding towards the places Google wants to go. What was Jo
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm not saying I think it's a good thing for companies to openly be at each other's throats, but it sure beats passive-aggressive insinuation.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Color phtography was hardly easily available from the early 1900s. It would be theoretically possible for them to have shot in color, but it would have been expensive, inconvenient, and much harder to reproduce; most images were shot in bla
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by bbctol 10y ago
Sure, but the above point was indicating that even a closed system is capable of decreasing in entropy, according to all other physical laws; it's just that the more complex the system is, the probability of the decrease declines rapid
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by bbctol 10y ago
So... have you read any? Clarkesworld has been putting out a lot recently, it doesn't take that long to check out a Chinese short story.
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by bbctol 10y ago
In this case, it's more like we look down on people who don't wash their hands, but don't care if the companies making soap also handle raw sewage. The tragedy of the modern botnet is that it wasn't even the fault of dum
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think about this every time someone on HN discusses Twitter's problems with finding its role; there's a huge community of Twitter users with a distinct culture and engagement that can't easily be replicated elsewhere, they&
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by bbctol 10y ago
Reminds me of that time the head writer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was hired by a think tank, because he'd spent so much time imagining what the future of warfare could be. http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news&#x2F
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by bbctol 10y ago
What I'm really curious about is what changed between the era of yellow journalism and the mid-twentieth century. I absolutely agree that people hearkening back to print journalism as a time when everything was fact-checked and reliabl
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yes, I'd expect the high-profile candidate to be scoured far more intensely.
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by bbctol 10y ago
What... what is emotional about that? Saying a product is trying to fill a need which has already been filled is the least emotional reason I can think of to not purchase something.
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by bbctol 10y ago
You win 3D-printed augmented-reality goggles so you can relax in your self-driving car built on the blockchain.
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by bbctol 10y ago
What? The dismissal was that the product previously existed. What's emotional about that?
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by bbctol 10y ago
We don't have to choose between two options. Some people are more likely to win than others, but that's to be expected.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Is that really their target, though? I think of twitter as a place for communities, where people react, tell jokes, and have conversations. It's not a place for serious debate, but that might not be the problem.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I don't think in words that often, but when I do, it's usually just the word "Stupid." on repeat.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Computer Simulations Reveal Best Option for Civilization is to Cede Control to Computer Simulations, Trust Us You Guys
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by bbctol 10y ago
Where I live I can get Comcast. Slow Comcast. At the price they set. I pay for TV channels and don't own a TV. I asked if I could stop paying for parts of the service I cannot use, and they told me "No." As they are the only
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by bbctol 10y ago
Again, my point was that even if every exchange, in and of itself, is mutually beneficial, the overall society can still be unpleasant. But it should also be noted that mutually beneficial exchanges do not prevent negative results even di
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by bbctol 10y ago
Oh, I know; my point was that the principle of mutually beneficial exchanges doesn't preclude an overall negative outcome. I don't know if capitalism is an ideology, but it certainly stems from a certain ideological framework (it&
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by bbctol 10y ago
Mutually beneficial exchanges can still be exploitative. You give me money, I don't shoot you, we're both better off. Whether or not capitalism is "fundamentally" exploitative depends a lot on definitions, but the issue
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by bbctol 10y ago
That rider doesn't seem that bad. Sure, it's a little specific and wordy, but there's nothing in there that's really cruel.
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People successfully did boring and tedious tasks for thousands of years in many cases because they were trapped, quite literally, and did not find their experiences pleasant. History may be written by philosophers and kings, but tedious
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by bbctol 10y ago
The arguments you present seem orthogonal to the point. What's the relevance of people wanting to be wealthy in order to give their kids a better life? It's not as if we should improve equality by making sure children have worse

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