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2641.
by c22 12y ago
> One can easily think of a situation where a beaver might actually do better to not build a dam - but a beaver will try to build one anyway. The real question is if the beaver realizes this. I can think of situations where humans have d
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by c22 12y ago
What possible evidence do you have to support this? Why is it crazy to think that the beaver builds a dam because it wants a place to live? Why wouldn't the beaver choose to cut down logs with the intention of using them to build a dam
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by c22 12y ago
Fortunately by the time that point moves to "100% of human based endeavors" we will be yielding the planet to our new AI overlords and we can pat ourselves on the back for being the first species in history to execute its own exti
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by c22 12y ago
> Simply because you were born, doesn't mean you are entitled to anything. The United States and most of the rest of civilization disagrees with this statement. We call the things you are entitled to "human rights" and whi
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by c22 12y ago
I have never been on a phone call that felt more "high definition" than two landlines connected together unmediated by any voip or cellular link.
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by c22 12y ago
There's as much disposable income as you're willing to dispose of. I live comfortably on less than 20k a year. If I had a 120k/yr job but otherwise maintained the same lifestyle I could totally drive a Porsche, but my inclina
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by c22 12y ago
I somehow doubt proving your innocence will be your (or your surviving family's) primary concern if you kill one or more raiding swat members.
2648.
by c22 12y ago
When everyone's wearing this I'm gonna dress up as Ronald McDonald and walk invisibly through the crowds.
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by c22 12y ago
I'm most amused when people notice the hilarity and bizarreness of arbitrary systems on the internet but lack the temerity to apply their newfound conception back to "the real world."
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by c22 12y ago
Perhaps not, but these experiments were apparently able to induce an experience in mice, giving some hint as to how science might be able to "work with something that you can't observe."
2651.
by c22 12y ago
Oh really? http://m.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/387
2652.
by c22 12y ago
The pragmatic benefits you mention are the direct consequence of the moral imperative the free software movement is fighting for.
2653.
by c22 12y ago
Where do you draw the line? Isn't compiled byte code just harder to read also?
2654.
by c22 12y ago
Funny thing, most of them are actually still just starving...
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by c22 12y ago
But if one subscribes to scrollaway's hypothesis one must conclude that someone cannot conjure anything new out of thin air, that your work does not exist in a vacuum and that "entitled strangers" are not disconnected aliens,
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by c22 12y ago
If they put colored sections indicating appointments around the circles in the latter example, as if they were 24h clock faces, it would be even more useful than the first example.
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by c22 12y ago
You can zoom with one hand by double tapping and then sliding down or up on your second tap.