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by cb18 10y ago
Despite popular belief, simple possession laws ARE upheld in Canada, but the people charged are disproportionately minorities and poor/homeless people. It's quite likely that those are compound charges, meaning possession is no
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by cb18 10y ago
The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperialism The second h
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by cb18 10y ago
I don't think you need to be a 'hippie liberal,' nor is it necessary to make value judgements of the nation's actions. You can simply look around the world and see that the US has hundreds of military bases in other oste
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by cb18 10y ago
I guess one answer to my question might be: They are trying to build an AGI. But one would have to say that the relatively sparse training data consisting mostly of takeout orders, and the sweatshop like environment would be a strange w
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by cb18 10y ago
I'm happy to hear Buffet's thoughts on financial matters, but I'll still place more weight on the emergent consensus of a market. I understand his point, but in a sense gold's utility is it's non-utility. Or another
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by cb18 10y ago
I get that they are trying to use the human responses as a training set. But the scope of these general purpose concierge services mean that what they are going after is damn near Artificial General Intelligence. At least in terms of capabi
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by cb18 10y ago
I don't think there's any doubt that the game plan is to shrink these devices as much as possible, provided investor interest/market derived revenue can sustain things to that point. It's interesting how we've seen
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by cb18 10y ago
I forgot about that. I was thinking the only (ultimately unsustainable) uses bitcoin had happened upon were buying contraband, and exit scam type swindles, I forgot about extortion. I was thinking these were unsustainable because authoritie
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by cb18 10y ago
Compare that to gold supply/trade. It would seem much easier and reassuring to slip some gold into your pocket if you're concerned about electrical or communication networks being severed. Also the part where the vast majority o
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by cb18 10y ago
ohh.. Better go tell a large percentage of the world that they are wrong and they should all buy bitcoin then.
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by cb18 10y ago
It's amusing watching people feign cluelessness and shit talk gold just because they think it will make the value of their bitcoins go up. I have no financial interest in gold, I just try to understand the world through unbiased eyes.
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by cb18 10y ago
It's not quite so easy to create iterative improvements on the basic elements of the universe, as it is to iteratively improve crypto currency software. It could be just as easily argued, probably more persuasively, that bitcoin's
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by cb18 10y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of resistance to corrosion, elemental arrangement of particles, etc. Theoretically, human ability to worship should be transferable to any object of worship.
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by cb18 10y ago
Also, when gox tried to blame "transaction malleability," people rightly saw that as a ruse. But when people said transaction malleability was a non-issue, they were quickly proven wrong when someone used it to DOS the network. Bu
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by cb18 10y ago
The characteristics from which gold derives it's value are basic facts of the universe. The characteristic from which bitcoin derives it's value is a brand name. A 'bitcoin asteroid' can be found by simply copying the bi
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by cb18 10y ago
Not only is it not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning, but to choose a period of 24 days that correspond to a period of diminishing interest in bitcoin and heightened interest in gold because of roiling in the broader markets and t
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by cb18 10y ago
If by wild fluctuations you mean the out of nowhere exponential price growth, I think gox shenanigans are understood by many(without the bias of millions of dollars invested) to be among the main causative factors there. It certainly can&#x
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by cb18 10y ago
Cool, I like those kind of subtle references. I've not seen that movie, what little I've seen about it seems interesting. Would you recommend it? That dialogue is reminiscent of " A musician must make music, an artist must pa
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by cb18 10y ago
What's the deal with giving girls these masculine names? Murph? Max? Also, this may be the hardware basis for interfaces of the future.(yes, it's neat, something similar to what many of us have been imagining for a long time I sus
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by cb18 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not particularly well-versed in this, but I'm inclined to agree. As others have mentioned they were probably just believing there own hype. There is the question though of at what point did they realize what they were at
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by cb18 10y ago
cluelessness and herd mentality The guy[0] who pointed out how ridiculous the Rolling Stone UVA rape story was while the press was eating it up, made the point that when people are told what they want to hear they don't ask many ques
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by cb18 10y ago
That stuff would seem to make it all the more strange. Was she "playing business" and got in over her head? Was it just an outright scam? Some people have said maybe those big name directors were brought in to grease the tracks as
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by cb18 10y ago
There are just too many ambiguities in what is considered sexual harassment Just as there are many ambiguities in what exactly constitutes a 'marginalized class,' which makes your intentionally giving special treatment to certai
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by cb18 10y ago
It'd be nice if you answered some of my questions as I've done for you. Also, I'll point out that your attitude is unbecoming, and you seem to be interpreting wrongly or to narrowly or in the wrong context the things I'v
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by cb18 10y ago
In working to prevent Islamic terrorism obviously more attention should be given to muslims than non-muslims. Are there racial restriction on who is allowed to join Islam? Can you explain to me why you took such umbrage to me stating the ob
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by cb18 10y ago
No nice way to say it, and no accurate way to say it, because nothing that was said was 'racist.' (whatever that word even means anymore) Notice how my comment laid out a logical sequence of statements that amounted to coherent re
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by cb18 10y ago
That's a good point, the way that the collateral inconvenience is dispensed is obviously far from perfect and definitely needs calibration. What's ironic about the point you raise, is that it stems from one of the main topics of t
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by cb18 10y ago
We will fight terrorism together, for I understand it is a disease that has roots in no religion but in apathy. What are you basing such a claim on? If you ask the Islamists committing attacks, they will tell you just the opposite. If yo
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by cb18 10y ago
It's not good to be disablingly fearful of Islamic terrorism, but we do need to be prudent, and proactive in preventing it. What those silly charts get wrong, is that the other 'fearful' things they compare terrorism to are w
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by cb18 10y ago
Well, I'm saying those are bad subs, because they have 'vigorous' moderation. So subs with 'strict, vigorous moderation' is not a feature that automatically connotes, good sub.

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