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by bh42222 15y ago
Well lets see, I have high hopes for brute force computation approaches to scientific research. More IBM Watson-like systems, which teach themselves, and more full automation of complex scientific experiments. Industrialize, automate and co
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Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded. I will now reveal my super secret method to meet literally like-minded people: 1. Find a group engaging in some
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This wikipedia entry only very briefly touches on some of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Wars#Controversy_and_signi... But saying only that To make a long story really short, the British did ridiculous amounts of good in their col
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I'd be very confused if the TSA was either consistent or any good. I'd think I'm dreaming.
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Is it any more of a ripoff then any of the other MP3 players which were manufactured specifically to compete with Apple? Except those companies were big and had lawyers of their own.
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Right now industrial robots capable of performing complex tasks which require visual processing are very, VERY expensive. I don't recall exact prices for that one that de-bones ham, but I do recall it was significant chunk of change. Do you
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How would a non-poisonous snake compete? It will have fewer predator defenses, and hunting for its prey will be very different, possibly harder. Wouldn't the poisonous snake out-compete it, unless it ends up in a different niche?
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As an immigrant I have a very hard time buying this. Shoot, I've been living 24/7 for years in a foreign country, and I've not had a single moment of identify crisis. This concern over the call center workers' lost identity seems silly to
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What's sad about the attempts to make it "on-message" is how bad and shallow they are. India is a big and complicated place, and there is a lot to think about its economic development. Are big foreign companies favored over small and/or loc
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Presumably malnutrition is not much of a concern after one has left poverty. That's exactly the point! The big win here is gaining one up on the basic necessities of survival. The fact that ennui is unaffected well sure that's a downsid
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Today, almost half of BPO employees are women, many of whom outearn both of their parents. Free-market cheerleaders, conflating rising wages with rising spirits, are quick to applaud India's "maturing" markets. But the truth is more compli
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This is fantastic! Imagine you want to do something with DNA, perhaps you'd like to sequence something, or stick some in on orange, or beer yeast. So you have this bit of DNA, but it's so incredibly tiny and fragile, it's almost not real, i
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Think about a brilliant poet and essayist who has written absolutely brilliant poems and essays, but is scared by the thought of writing a book. How could he ever write something so long ! This is what we're talking about, a problem of pra
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I'm not surprised. Even my no-name state university did not teach source control or any editor/IDE skills. I picked all of that up from the other students and learned even more by coding myself into a corner, fun! But that's all because I k
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I am completely uninterested in Facebook, twitter and all that came before. And I am old. But recently almost everyone around my age and younger has joined Facebook/twitter/etc. And I keep waiting for this to end, for people to become bored
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As a general rule, researchers do not test or document their programs rigorously, and they rarely release their codes, making it almost impossible to reproduce and verify published results generated by scientific software, say computer sci
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Do you need a court order to legally hack, like a search warrant?
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Social game theory is complex but not impossible to understand. If it were impossible, countries not ruled by the pope any more would be all like Somalia.
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but it can’t tell me under what circumstances it would be moral to take money from the wealthy (or, heck, the middle class) in order to feed starving children. Sure it can. Take north western Europe, notoriously secular (when compared to
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Wait, so if the government breaks the law (I'm assuming you meant illegal hacking, otherwise never mind) they must be doing it for the right reasons and it is great and admirable and wonderful. But if private individuals illegally hack some
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I hear Somalia is nice this time of year. Well, you could make a decent argument that in a direct democracy like Switzerland the politicians are largely figureheads similar to the queen of England. In other words, that's almost like being
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Echo location, just like a dog or any animal with long ears.
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I think that may well be purely mechanical or actually osmotic.
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Unless it wasn't selected for in humans. Or any great apes. But perhaps in a much older mammalian ancestor. And in humans it simply has not been selected against, which is why it's simply not as good or useful as it used to be. Sort of like
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Just like the power and responsibility to prevent Greece from imposing further utterly useless austerity measures on its citizens lies with the Greek public? The riot police would beg to differ. Oh come on, Greece is not North Korea. Do y
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I've always thought that social networks like Friendster, MySpace and Facebook follow a clear and old path laid out by the fashion industry. Fashionable things are almost by definition meant not to last. The early adopters will often take u
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Replying to myself because someone on the Internet is wrong! ... between 1974 and 1982,they earned nearly twice the GNP of Sweden From: http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=322
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It helps a lot to have a small country Maybe, or a big but dictatorial country like China. an ethnically homogenous population Care to elaborate? Would you consider countries such as Switzerland, Canada, Taiwan, and Singapore ethnically
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Sweden's main industries are: telecommunications equipment, wood pulp and paper products, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel. And ABBA. (I'm only half joking the royalties on their music equal quite a few Volvos.)
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Well.... the EU is sort of, kind of, like that. The treaty of Maastricht, EU regulations superseding national regulations, it's all supposed bring rich north western European style government to the poorer more chaotic south and east parts

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