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by chris11 17y ago
I agree with you in that consciousness does really see ill defined. But I don't think that would stop a computer program from achieving consciousness. Even with consciousness being so ill defined I'd say that there are a few points that we
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by chris11 17y ago
I'm really not surprised. I was really suspicious of their claims that they could both legitimize the site and and still keep the users and traffic. I also didn't really get how the buyer both convinced Peter Sunde and the other founders to
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by chris11 17y ago
How intelligent is the spam filter? I'm getting some spam from websites (like myspace) that I actually would want to get certain types of emails from, so I can't totally block them. Would gmail's filter be effective with these types of emai
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by chris11 17y ago
I actually use several email addresses. Hotmail is what I mainly use. I have a yahoo address that I got for playing chess online, but I never check it. I also have gmail, but that one is rarely used, mainly because I don't get a lot of emai
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by chris11 17y ago
Yeah I'm certain that you can, but I'm not sure how well it would convert though. I've read that pdf's won't convert well if there is a lot of graphics in the file. And I would expect that some of the text would be treated as graphics since
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Ask HN: How many of you have ereaders?
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by chris11 17y ago
I wonder if this means you could get LaTeX documents to be readable on the Kindle. I have a few free math books that are in LaTeX, so this would be useful to me.
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by chris11 17y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. I don't really see much personal benefit in using brick and mortar video rental stores. Going to one means that I have to take a half hour or an hour out of my day to get a movie. And I can't check the inventory of a
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by chris11 17y ago
Yeah, I don't remember all of my passwords either. And I usually have the most trouble remembering my most important passwords, since the number of times I use a password is pretty much inversely correlated to the importance of the data it
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by chris11 17y ago
The site seems interesting, and from the brief glance I got I think that the design is clean and works well. But I noticed that the font for most of the subsections is really small and basically illegible. For example, the text for http://
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by chris11 17y ago
I guess number two explains why I have heard of some companies keeping contractors around for a maximum of one year. My brother worked for Apple doing tech support as a contractor for awhile and he said that once you had worked for a year y
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by chris11 17y ago
I think a lot of professors put up their papers on their own websites. But that would really be a pain getting the articles from different places.
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by chris11 17y ago
I'm not sure that amazon has much to worry about from this. I don't think a tablet will end up competing directly with other ereaders. I'm thinking about getting an some kind of ereader this summer. While color might be nice, and I'm sure a
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by chris11 17y ago
Are you really sure that the same people have both views? I have generally gotten the impression here that a lot of people are health conscious, or at least knowledgeable about diet and health. At least in all the exercise/sleep submissions
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by chris11 17y ago
Not only is it their business to retain customers, I think they are also trying to retain your personal data. I don't really know what their business plan will be, but I'm sure it won't involve normal users paying any money. So they have to
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by chris11 17y ago
Sure it seems like he is intentionally gaming HN, but I don't really see anything really bad in this case. Sure, I guess the post about his initial observations on the Iphone SDK didn't say a lot, but I don't really think it was linkbait. I
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by chris11 17y ago
Apparently MTV is doing a reality t.v. about student engineers who pull off clever stunts and hacks. They are describing it as Myth Busters meets. I just heard about it from the engineering department at my school so I don't know a lot abou
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MTV wants engineering students for reality tv show(lycos.oodle.com)
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That does make it seem like it will be an improvement. At the very least, it will be more private. Unfortunately, I don't see how any big media company is going to want to do any major deals with them. I doubt they would sign a contract wit
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by chris11 17y ago
It seems like the founders of TPB have had several projects fail because of lack of funding or support. Their effort to buy Sealand is a good example. So the foundation could do a lot of good. It has a lot of money now, and the founders of
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by chris11 17y ago
I really would like to hear Douglas Hofstadter.
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No bias found in TPB case(torrentfreak.com)
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by chris11 17y ago
I agree with the original comment. I don't have any problem with talking about books from grade school, and I do agree with you in that this has started an interesting discussion. But I'm pretty much only finding the discussion interesting.
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by chris11 17y ago
And I'm sure dropping the background check would actually make the service more attractive to people. I'm sure that there is tons of personal info that could be found by someone motivated enough, but I'm still not comfortable giving out det
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by chris11 17y ago
Though I'm happy he managed to get his phone for $299, I don't think he has much to be outraged about. Sure, Apple and AT&T could have handled it better. For one might be cheaper for current iphone owners to just pay the ETF and get the
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by chris11 17y ago
Or you could create a hidden volume inside of a hidden volume. Supposedly Truecrypt's data looks random, so if you are forced to decrypt one volume, they wouldn't be able to prove there was another volume. http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=
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by chris11 17y ago
That is interesting. Were they just trying to get a game removed, or were they actually going after Kongregate?
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by chris11 17y ago
That is what I was thinking too. This book seems like it might have some good info on hiding your assets. http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Essential-Protecting/... .Also, the author of that book seems to sell ghost addresses at htt
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by chris11 17y ago
I also am not in a position to offer much advice. But in regards to GoDaddy, they have been accused of censorship. So I would suggest reading up on them to see if you trust them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godaddy#Controversies Another
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by chris11 17y ago
Think about it from a company's perspective. They can hire somebody because he performed well for a few hours in an interview, or they can hire somebody who performed equally well in that interview, and comes highly recommended by a respect

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