boredguy8

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by boredguy8 15y ago
My post is hardly pedantic fact checking. The intro talks about how many consider Assange a "megalomaniac" and he seems bewildered by the suggestion. My point clearly suggests that thinking 2/3rds of the time people talk about rape they're
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by boredguy8 15y ago
A great interview. But as I read it, one section jumped out as verifiably odd. Back when we last did a survey, in February, there were a total of 33 million references on the Internet to the word "rape" in any context, from Helen of T
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Trips - http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm Trips - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspe... WIPO - http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/ WIPO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Pr
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SOPA loses 3 cosponsors following protests(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Very interesting to see Darrell Issa (R - CA) as a sponsor on this bill, given how eloquently he's spoken out against SOPA in the Judiciary Committee. Here's the copy of the email I just sent his office: I'll try and contact his office by p
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by boredguy8 15y ago
You're missing the point. "Growth of the language" wasn't the problem for spell-check, it was the size of the language combined with limited space. Computational breakthroughs solved that problem. The parent to my post implied that solving
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by boredguy8 15y ago
There are always questions on the edge of computational complexity. In 30 years: "Indexing all of the individual web pages in the world used to be a tough challenge. Network speeds were in the hundreds of megabits, and..."
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Philosopher invents clever iPhone case(kickstarter.com)
172 points by boredguy8 15y ago|64 comments
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I understand what you're saying. I hope you understand my point isn't, "This needs to be more like pop music." It's rather the simple point that this is perfectly fine amateur music, but not much more than that. Drawing any broader conclusi
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I don't think it worked for Louis CK simply because he's popular. It worked because he's a great performer. And I hope this doesn't come across as too harsh, but the out-of-tune moments, like "find" at about :47 into "When I Find Claire" ar
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by boredguy8 15y ago
When you drive, your goals and the goals of everyone else on the road are roughly aligned insofar as you all want to travel from one place to another place quickly and safely. There are pretty rough consequences for those whose goals aren't
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Attempting to post this link to facebook breaks it. http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/dear-internet-its-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-congress-works- deletes the trailing hyphen and becomes http://www.informationdiet.com/bl
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Please stop linking to secondary sources when they aren't adding substantially to the original article. This seems to be an especially common trend recently. https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-homeland-security-caught-d...
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I missed that, so thanks for highlighting that one. And that's pretty interesting, because I'd imagine that pornography producers are amongst those whose IP is most often stolen. But you're right: according to Forbes, "The [Porn / Adult Ent
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Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate(cbsnews.com)
109 points by boredguy8 15y ago|84 comments
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Wow, it's only being made worse. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), from what I can tell, is adding the payment processing blockage suggestion from Google in the last hearing, without removing any of the terrible, terrible components already in it. The
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I think one particular line got me thinking: Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This is an interesting idea, insofar as it falls generally in line with one of the potential effects of SOPA enforcement. But perhaps more interestingly: because people would still have a job to do, they'd use Bing or something else, which
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Wouldn't that run counter to Google's point about how hard / difficult it is to censor specific sites?
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by boredguy8 15y ago
But you get to live in San Francisco rather than Wisconsin or New Jersey. It might not matter to some people, but I have almost zero desire to live long-term anywhere other than San Diego, LA, or San Francisco. There are enough people who f
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I never got my laptop back. Eventually I needed a computer again, but for about 6 months I survived fairly well without one. I guess, for me, it reached a point of addiction & needed a clean break to recover sanity.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I guess if we were to trace the genealogy of the idea, Plato's Republic has the words, "Now, the true city is in my opinion the one we just described--a healthy city, as it were. But, if you want to, let's look at a feverish city,
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I mean, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" was published in 1985, and Nietzsche wrote in 1874, Increasingly we lose this sense of surprise, so that we are no longer overly amazed at anything and, ultimately, find satisfaction in everything—
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by boredguy8 15y ago
http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html Caroline continued. "So they learn where the pleasure points are by hook or crook, then stimulate themselves directly. And when they get it right, they never do anything else. The
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This article addresses that objection: even with the light mass, there's an ionosphere where there's protection from the magnetic field. If mass were the sole or primary contributor, then we'd see correlation with mass concentration rather
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Because it doesn't have a liquid magnetic core that rotates in a way that creates a magnetic field. It's clear that at one point Mars did have a system similar to Earth's, but it stopped and nobody knows why. The theory is that one of the l
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This 2001 article basically says exactly what you're looking for. Where the magnetic field on Mars is stronger, there's a local ionosphere. Without a planetary magnetic field, solar winds blow away the atmosphere. http://science.nasa.gov/s
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"Rote", not "wrote": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Uhm, what? You couldn't be more off. Traditionally, any liberal arts education would include extensive familiarity with the classics. That means Plato & Dante, at the minimum, whether a BA or BS. You were expected to know Latin and Gree
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Congress' economic opposition to OWS(guardian.co.uk)
11 points by boredguy8 15y ago|0 comments

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