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by benpbenp 15y ago
Doesn't Monroe with no first name mean James Monroe? Because of this I was really trying hard to see the president, all the more confused because I am nearsighted.
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by benpbenp 15y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but I think this is a good thing to know. Apocryphal means "of doubtful authenticity", not mythical or false, which is the how you seem to be using it. The story is clearly apocryphal.
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by benpbenp 16y ago
And the download is here: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/info/downloads/Default.htm...
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About the IE10 Platform Preview(msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by benpbenp 16y ago|1 comments
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by benpbenp 16y ago
In middle school one day there was a loudspeaker announcement that all teachers were to stay after school for "the special meeting, I repeat, the special meeting." It was so obvious to everyone that this was a coded message and we got it ou
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by benpbenp 16y ago
An interesting addition to that point is the fact that it's the unique combination of little sun + arable land that set the stage for whiteness to develop in northern Europe. Take northern Native Americans-- they had little sun but also cou
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by benpbenp 16y ago
I personally do not assume that consciousness only exists where it is observable. I am merely interested in the fact that it is unobservable-- and in how that makes it weird and different. Do you agree with me on this point?
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by benpbenp 16y ago
Sorry I forgot the qualification: excepting one's own experience of one's own consciousness. That was silly. What makes it weird and different from physical phenomena is the fact that it is not generally observable, even though it is posite
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by benpbenp 16y ago
It's not that there are "data" to support the idea, but there is the fact that consciousness is unobservable. That is weird and different from all other physical phenomena, wouldn't you say?
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Chart of Milk Products and Production Relationships
2 points by benpbenp 16y ago|1 comments
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Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours(nytimes.com)
6 points by benpbenp 16y ago|1 comments
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by benpbenp 16y ago
Yes, I agree -- my point was merely that in any case, it wouldn't make sense to argue against a bill on the basis that it takes away freedoms, since that is necessarily what any bill (with a few trivial exceptions) must do. (Of course you
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by benpbenp 16y ago
> Anyway I don't like bills that restrict people's free will like this. Isn't the point of all legislation to restrict people's free will in one way or another? (Just a quibble; I realize this statement is not central to your comment.)
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by benpbenp 16y ago
Yes, and inflection is the general case which includes declension and conjugation. It's unfortunate that most people are only aware of the other meaning of inflection, having to do with tone of voice.
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by benpbenp 16y ago
> Facebook’s self serve ad business is exploding, say our sources, and may be significantly more robust than even the most favorable third party forecasts predict. Is it just me or is this a silly, meaningless sentence. Are you predic
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by benpbenp 16y ago
In general, this is an invalid inference. Consider the heap paradox and the continuum fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
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by benpbenp 16y ago
The problem with the Noble Savage myth is that it is a ridiculous romanticization, much akin to the myth of the "simple, merry country folk." The idea in itself doesn't have anything to do with the race of the savages in question.
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Miagakure: A puzzle-platformer in four dimensions(marctenbosch.com)
1 points by benpbenp 17y ago|1 comments
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Iceland prepares for [possible] second, more devastating volcanic eruption(timesonline.co.uk)
14 points by benpbenp 17y ago|4 comments
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Slaughter House Rules - Passing the health-care bill(online.wsj.com)
10 points by benpbenp 17y ago|24 comments
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by benpbenp 17y ago
Honest question: how do you know this?
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by benpbenp 17y ago
Your comment reminded me of Ben Franklin's case for older women. http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html
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by benpbenp 17y ago
Or do they just know better the effort required to become a master at kung fu?
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OCRopus preparing for next release; falls short of beta(groups.google.com)
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by benpbenp 17y ago
I think the fact that the argument is equally applicable to the human brain gets at the heart of the general problem of consciousness, of which AI is just a special case. Consciousness is not an observable phenomenon (excepting one's expe
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by benpbenp 17y ago
Yes. While I understand the point of view of the article, I can also see a corporation just as a group of persons acting in concert. Each one of these persons has natural rights, so why can't they exercise these rights in concert?
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Delivering Finland's web 'human right' [video](news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by benpbenp 17y ago|0 comments
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Google to mobile industry: 'F*** you very much'(theregister.co.uk)
70 points by benpbenp 17y ago|94 comments
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by benpbenp 17y ago
Linux too! http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
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by benpbenp 18y ago
I hope they patented.

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