blueadept111

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by blueadept111 6y ago
"Ad hominem" literally means "against the man", and it refers to the logical fallacy of attacking the attributes of the man rather than the logic of the man's argument. That's all there is to it, and you'
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by blueadept111 6y ago
Stick your head in a microwave, if that doesn't kill coronavirus, nothing will.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
As of this morning, Youtube (ie the default 'recommended' feed) seems to have been scrubbed of all negative coronavirus vids and all negative stock market vids, except for mainstream news videos. The truth is now officially anyone
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Why do I keep reading the advice that it's important not to touch your face? How is the skin of the hands different from the skin of the face?
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Maybe analogous, maybe not. Analogy is in the eye of the beholder. There's no law of the universe that says that consciousness is equivalent to computation. Maybe consciousness is an emergent property of biological systems, along som
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Does it feel pain? I think not.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Good luck sleeping at night
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Algorithms is more like Happiness than Poetry. just think about it... wow.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
At the top of the page it will say "manipulation of scores is not allowed".
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Holy nitpick, batman. It's an outcome. "Solution" depends on the goal. If the goal is to have a planet so choked with humanity that almost everything else dies, then no, it's not a solution.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
No viable way? All it takes is a single generation to have 50% less children to cut the world population (and therefore carbon emissions) in half. Not only is it viable, it the solution that will be forced upon humanity if humanity doesn&#
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by blueadept111 7y ago
If he can actually address the shortcomings of upwork, etc (and there are MANY), he can always scale up. Nobody right now is providing a good application that models the end-to-end experience of hiring a freelancer for software development.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Hey, after reading this article I tried to sign up at flexiple.com as a freelancer... until it asked me how much I wanted to make in rupees. I live in Canada.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
I noticed that the query "foo" AND "bar" does not give the same result as "foo" + "bar". So what's going on, is "AND" just treated as another keyword now? Lame.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
"Time is one of a startup's most valuable assets, and several startups and their CEOs have been robbed of time by SoftBank's actions" Oh boo hoo! The line up for getting someone's else money slows down sometimes? O
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by blueadept111 7y ago
But still crazy like a fox.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Organic chemistry is the bomb. I was bored to death with inorganic chemistry, maybe because of the way it was presented, but organic chemistry seemed like suddenly being shown that all the cool stuff in the world is made of lego pieces (car
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by blueadept111 7y ago
She performed the valuable economic function of separating fools from their money.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Wouldn't a restaurant or fast food outlet let you use their bathroom? I think if you make it clear that your options are to take a dump either on their toilet or right where you're standing, they would show you the toilet immedia
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by blueadept111 7y ago
I had PRK and it left me with astigmatism in both eyes. Afterwards I had both eyes redone and the "touch up" made it better, but it was still bad enough that I needed glasses to correct my vision. I'm trying to decide whethe
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by blueadept111 7y ago
The mechanism for preventing most bad stays is called the reputation system, which is based on reviews. As for exchanging real names, do you think the system would be improved if all participants were completely anonymous? There's a r
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by blueadept111 7y ago
No, because there's a fixed time limit to submit a review, afterwhich the review is posted irregardless. Hey, I guess airbnb put more than 10 seconds of thought into the design of the process, what do you know.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Neither review is visible until both are done, so that's nonsense.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
I disagree. I've been both a host and customer for many years, and in general I've found the customer service to be good or even very good for resolving issues either as a host or as a customer. In fact, many 'scare' art
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (and dumped).
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Gnat? That would be impressive. How about a single cell. Or even a single protein. Can't even get it to fold right in simulations.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
But that one is going to take your job and then make a copy of itself.
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by blueadept111 7y ago
The other way of solving the problem is to let people kill each other fighting over dwindling resources as the planet dies and becomes sterile, because we're not smart enough as a species to find and maintain a sustainable state of equ
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by blueadept111 7y ago
Good grief, there's ONLY one thing: have less than two children! In a couple of generations this would cut the word's population in half, assuming everyone followed step.

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