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by charonn0 14y ago
Averting global warming by instigating a mild nuclear winter does not seem a reasonable course of action.
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by charonn0 14y ago
But if the math we have is accurate because we have distilled it from the inaccurate, the question remains why is it accurate?
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by charonn0 14y ago
Math is the ideal tool for understanding how nature works. We see math everywhere in nature, like this hexagram. In principle, we can describe exactly how the hexagram got to be there, through math. But we don't understand why . Can we kno
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by charonn0 14y ago
If they're selling software which they don't have the right to sell, and not sharing the profits with the rightful owner until and unless confronted, that fact should be communicated far and wide. It is a serious breach of ethics if intenti
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by charonn0 14y ago
Makes one wonder whether nature is defined by mathematics, or is mathematics defined by nature?
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by charonn0 14y ago
Must be an awesome view from the surface at midnight on Saturn.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Oh, thank god...
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by charonn0 14y ago
Intellectual Ventures is a company who own the rights to large patent portfolios. Rather than use the patents to, say, make something useful, they sue or threaten to sue other companies. For various legal and PR reasons, they file suits usi
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by charonn0 14y ago
I'm a homosexual, and Mr. Turing is one of my heroes. The conviction should stand, not as a shame for Mr. Turing but for those who convicted him.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Do the supporting countries have a specific beef with the IANA or is it only because it's US-based/backed?
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by charonn0 14y ago
The only somewhat similar thing I can think of would be mitochondria, but even mitochondria retain their own unique DNA outside of the nucleus.
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by charonn0 14y ago
According to this theory, long, long ago, two very different animals, one destined to be wormy, the other destined to take wing, accidently mated, and somehow their genes learned to live side-by-side in their descendants. This is simply r
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by charonn0 14y ago
I was commenting more on the difficulty of predicting technological change than complaining about the lack of personal flying machines.
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by charonn0 14y ago
I'm still waiting for my jetpack and flying car.
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by charonn0 14y ago
What about for the ITU? Surely without the support of the Western world it would lose much of its punch.
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by charonn0 14y ago
There are no people who don't lie, and there never has been. To believe otherwise is to lie to yourself.
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by charonn0 14y ago
You're confusing impossibility with human ignorance. A great example of human ignorance is nuclear fission, which is known to have occurred naturally long before Humans figured it out[1]. An immortal toy maker with flying reindeer capable o
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by charonn0 14y ago
Uncredited verbatim copypasta from Wikipedia and another website's article from 2008[1] among other sources. [1] http://crunkish.com/top-ten-worst-computer-viruses/
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by charonn0 14y ago
Be mindful of your glass house, Microsofties.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Failure to adapt leads to extinction. Which, ironically, is a theory the GOP tends to spurn.
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by charonn0 14y ago
If he were nuts, he would have told the court the same things he told the reporter and with the same conviction. He didn't, so he's sane but unreliable.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The resolution in question is House Concurrent Resolution 127: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll555.xml
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by charonn0 14y ago
The ITU might have more geek cred if there were fewer politicians and diplomats and more technologists and engineers making the decisions. Do we really want people who regard the Internet as a "series of tubes" and/or a threat to their dome
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by charonn0 14y ago
According to Mr. Binney's sworn declaration[1] in support of an EFF suit[2] against the NSA (stemming from the warrantless wiretapping/AT&T scandal,) he doesn't actually know that any of this is going on, but bases his assumptions on
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by charonn0 14y ago
What might the ramifications of a US/Canadian/Eurozone withdrawal from the ITU treaty be?
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by charonn0 14y ago
I never said painless. However Apple doesn't have (yet) the power to imprison or execute anti-Apple subversives. Vive la résistance!
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by charonn0 14y ago
Moving to non-replaceable CPUs seems unnecessarily hostile to Intel's biggest fans.
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by charonn0 14y ago
My understanding is that only the government and military elite have access from North Korea.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The advantage of a cloud provider is that you can unilaterally sever the relationship without serious penalty.
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by charonn0 14y ago
You completely miss my point. I have no problem looking at ads, or with the publishers selling ad space that obscures 50% or more of a webpage. That's their prerogative. I object to having the details of my life collected and monetized by s

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