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by bh42222 15y ago
If people are sufficiently outraged, then change should come. If not, then its up to you to educate your fellow citizens. This is an utterly useless truism. How do you fire up a significant portion of you fellow citizens over copyright
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by bh42222 15y ago
distributed power generation that's cheap enough and renewable enough so people in rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa don't have brown outs anymore. desalination that is cheap enough for a farmer in Mozambique to do himself I am sorry, b
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by bh42222 15y ago
I think it shows how much cash traditional media is capable of generating compared to Internet based media. I think this should mean more and more ads should move from the more expensive media to the cheaper alternative, in theory.
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by bh42222 15y ago
To me "the guy" was clearly another AI.
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by bh42222 15y ago
It is very creepy to me and I happen to have a very hard time remember people's faces and recognizing them. I wonder if my brain is just worse than average at face processing, and that's why this becomes uncanny to me? Whereas to someone wh
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by bh42222 15y ago
I think where the uncanny valley falls is different for everyone. Obviously many people enjoyed watching the Final Fantasy movies as well as the Polar Express movie, and many will enjoy watching Tintin. I can barely get through the ads for
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by bh42222 15y ago
I'm pretty sure Ghost in the Shell, and it's assembly sequence came long before All is Full of Love. And I am sure there was even earlier stuff. Chris Cunningham is absolutely brilliant but I don't see the direct connection to that particul
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by bh42222 15y ago
I could equally well argue it's an awful vampire story. Still way better than.... (I can't do this, you know what I was going to say).
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by bh42222 15y ago
I found it creepy only because of the uncanny valley. The movement was.... close but not exactly human, and the face was dragging the bottom of the uncanny valley, which actually means it was very close to human. The story itself I took as
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by bh42222 15y ago
If your 3.5 year old had been born 10 years ago, he would have still understood something about gravity at 3.5 with the help of Spaced Penguins. A simple Java or Flash game (can't recall which) about shooting a penguin into orbit around pla
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by bh42222 15y ago
If all your resume contains is a list of previous employers, that is a horrible resume! Where/when you worked should be just a company name and a date. That's it. It should be followed by a very brief description of what you did there. So
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by bh42222 15y ago
They should clean up the front page. Too many of the default subreddits that appear are super lame. No. That's what mass popularity is ALWAYS like. What they need to do is create a better way to find sub-reddits you are interested in but
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by bh42222 15y ago
Isn't that really what LinkedIn is? Which is why no one asks you for your LinkedIn password.
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by bh42222 15y ago
I expect a lot of things too, but I never cease to be surprised by the world we live in. Consider that as popular as Facebook is, it is still mostly popular for younger people, who vote less than older people. Consider how easy it is to con
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by bh42222 15y ago
I am curious, however, what will happen to people who really don't have a facebook. I've never had an account, would they believe me or assume I deleted it? Diligently create a facebook "version" of yourself which appears to be a great wo
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by bh42222 15y ago
Sorry, we are now stretching the term "portfolio". Your link is what I would call an item in your resume, with a quick summary about which you would be ready to talk during the interview. I think when Jeff Atwood says "portfolio" he means n
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by bh42222 15y ago
#1. Yep, great negative filter. And if I was looking for a job, I would be happy to do this. #2. Hard. Very good programmers will often be very busy and never get a chance to open source any of their work. I have so many open source things
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by bh42222 15y ago
Imagine how the disproportionately-libertarian leaning crowd in places like HN would react to being compelled to serve in the military. That's exactly the point. It is almost certain we would have fewer wars, and they would be shorter.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Imperfections in the antenna, obstacles in the path of the signal, etc. From the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is... My point is space is
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by bh42222 15y ago
Totally misleading. Not just developers, and not just people on top of their field, will take less money if it means a better quality of life, all the time. This can be as simple as a shorter commute, or simply a less stressful job. As long
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by bh42222 15y ago
I know the idea behind SETI is great, but I have great doubt about the execution. Here is why: From: http://www.damninteresting.com/space-radio-more-static-less-... When any non-focused electromagnetic signal is generated– such as a tele
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by bh42222 15y ago
Since it happened slowly, over decades, with real help from external forces like terrorists, and we did not "wake up" then, we certainly are not going to suddenly wake up now. The world is slowly sliding towards a semi-free market/totalitar
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by bh42222 15y ago
While an egg or cocoon might be airtight, it must also still remain air permeable. Everything must be able to breathe. So while there might not be a visible flow of air, like through an open window, oxygen and CO2 still make their way in an
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by bh42222 15y ago
I think the way it works for most most (maybe even all) insects is to use air to blow themselves up much like a balloon to get out of the egg or cocoon.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Happens all the time. If you are either very good or a bit naive, or both.
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by bh42222 15y ago
>This is how we move forward. This is how a monopolist forces us to move forward. Good for them. Not so good for us.
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by bh42222 15y ago
One of the things quantum computing might be applicable to is protein folding. If we can compute exactly how a protein would/should fold in linear time... well that could potentially lead to a cure for EVERYTHING.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Jake Tapper, the White House correspondent for ABC News, pointed out that the administration had lauded brave reporting in distant lands more than once and then asked, “How does that square with the fact that this administration has been s
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by bh42222 15y ago
Those are quite analogous to Facebook, no? No. They would analogous to Facebook only if you are a professional web social marketer or something like that. Then Facebook would be to you like github is for programmers. Still 90% crap, but
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by bh42222 15y ago
But for everyone one else Facebook "fun" is a waste of time. So now everyone who is NOT a geek and reads that article thinks github is where geeks go to waste time and be unproductive. OK, better add this github to the corporate black list

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