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by bugsy 16y ago
"You can’t be thrown into prison or fined for saying the wrong thing in the US." I'm not so sure that's true. First, many people have found themselves at the receiving end of lawsuits and harassment because they wrote a bad review of a rest
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by bugsy 16y ago
Just google the term I used.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yeah it's kind of a different topic, I probably shouldn't have been extemporanializing (sp?) at the end of my comment and kept it more focused. I agree with that about anonymity. People will be more tempered in what they say. Only today the
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by bugsy 16y ago
The Chinese government has the "50 cent army" which is a 300,000 strong persona ops set. Many are Chinese students in the US who are required to post pro-China posts while in school and pretend to be a random western sympathizer. This is th
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by bugsy 16y ago
Wow, it's not just that they shut them down, but the US government put a big label on all the sites for all the users to see which basically says it was a child porn site, even though it wasn't, it was all some sort of error and most of the
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by bugsy 16y ago
3 years to do a sale is far too long. By the time things are ready to go there's no point, the market has long moved on. What could really be causing this? It's not the stated reasons because if it was the problem would have been solved. I
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by bugsy 16y ago
This is not a news story, it's a marketing story promoting the company. The reason is that the claims are not remarkable at all, but the story promotes them as if they were, which is misleading. Per-employee profit and revenue is larger in
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's very different. The humans have to decode the visual and aural representations before parsing for meaning can commence. The computer should have to do this too, but that step has been done in advance for the computer. This gives the co
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by bugsy 16y ago
Well is the text "fed" in a word at a time, or the whole question as a block that takes nanoseconds to parse. That's an unfair advantage if so because because the computer is getting the data in a different format than the other contestants
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's amazing that there are advantages to this. It seems the main one is the observation that intersections have many overloaded functions which combine to explode the complexity of operations that can occur: intersections handle cross traf
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by bugsy 16y ago
Weird article. Long tail of products is definitely here to stay with the internet. Weird things, out of print books, fancy japanese pens I can't get at the office supply store, movies that were never released in the states, ingredients to s
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by bugsy 16y ago
The point of the example is that the student intends to type in 10+10, believes he typed in 10+10, and when he gets 100 as the answer he assumes that is the answer to 10+10 is 100 because the calculator gave the result and the calculator is
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's really obvious to me - having dealt with people raised on calculators for several decades now - that if you can't do arithmetic in your head, you don't understand any math. Calculator kids will type in 10 + 10, get 100, and then assume
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by bugsy 16y ago
It has nothing to do with nuclear reactors, that is correct. It has to do with production of fissile material for nuclear bombs being developed by a psychotic islamic fundamentalist state run by a madman. If someone is writing viruses to de
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by bugsy 16y ago
This is a really good point. Going back a mere 20,000 years there was an ice age, glaciers covered much of north america, and you could walk on land from China to Australia. Burying stuff with a half life of 25,000 years means that in 25,00
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by bugsy 16y ago
No one is saying that there are no good cities! That was the whole point of my other post, the article wrongly extrapolates some miserable cities to a miserable state, which is obviously an incorrect conclusion. But there are a lot of reall
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by bugsy 16y ago
"Central California is very Republican" The voters might be but not the population, most of whom are not US citizens. Only US citizens get to vote. I lived in a couple of places in the central valley and have spent quite a bit of time in th
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by bugsy 16y ago
The rural parts. I used Idaho as one of many rural states as an example. Those areas are in bad shape and there is massive meth use, which makes people crazy and violent and quite likely to break into houses and sometimes kill the inhabitan
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by bugsy 16y ago
Well, maybe it is useful for a lot of people, but not everyone. I went to one of the best universities (famous west coast one) and was really looking forward to it. I had dropped out of high school to go to community college where I did lea
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by bugsy 16y ago
They can't think of any way how? Maybe they could cut back on the resort like environments? If these educators lack the ability to imagine how it's possible, maybe they shouldn't be teaching. Here's one idea of many. Average time to graduat
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by bugsy 16y ago
The BBC is making a big error (I suspect intentionally) by extrapolating a number of 'miserable' cities, using a given criteria, to "most miserable US state". Many of the most desirable places to live in the world are in California. But the
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by bugsy 16y ago
The more dire the warning, the more likely it is that it will be slaves who are forced to give their lives to recover the treasure.
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by bugsy 16y ago
A really good warning would be "Death comes on wings to he who enters the tomb of a pharaoh." That should keep out the curious.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I hereby release the following original story into the public domain: Once upon a time five philosophers came for dinner to eat fish. But there was no fish, or utensils to eat the fish. This was a sad day for the five philosophers. A servan
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by bugsy 16y ago
OK, you are not debating honestly, you are playing games.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sigh. This is a political issue dating back to shortsighted decisions in the 1970s, not a technical one. Reuse this stuff in breeder reactors, the waste from which has a substantially shorter half life. Then you don't have to build toxic mo
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by bugsy 16y ago
Sure, there is a good argument to be made that 70 years plus life is extensive. However, anyone who wants to place their content into the public domain is free to do so. I have done so myself many times. And those who do not wish to do so,
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by bugsy 16y ago
No because a given implementation and/or context is not the only possible implementation and context. It's like saying we should get rid of laws against murder since if you are OJ Simpson you can hire fancy lawyers and get away with it.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Except it is not true that "current IP laws prevent anything from entering the public domain".
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by bugsy 16y ago
Isn't wikipedia supposed to be user created? That's different from the "pillage and plunder" model you are promoting in your response.

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