christopherolah

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Remind HN: Last Chance for Copyright Consultation Canada
3 points by christopherolah 17y ago|2 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I'm not sure I agree. For several reasons: a) The phenomena of qualia remains unexplained. This has no bearing on making something that can mimic consciousness, but does become significant if one wants the real thing. The last argument on t
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Think modern copyright has problems? Wait till 3d printing becomes widespread...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
My impression was that it was a developing story: they only told it to the point that events had progressed to. It mentioned her getting laid off, so this seems likely.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
There doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't get xpdf/evince/okular to run. He got X and QT running... For this reason, and the internet connection, I would probably get one, if they were available where I live... And the internet conne
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by christopherolah 17y ago
s/women/people/g
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Not necessarily. He's one of the leading figures in CS, his opinion on major projects like Wikipedia strikes me as significant...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
They need more members to become a Canadian political party... Make sure to consider filling out the second form, which is the one needed to become a political party.
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Free Membership -- Pirate Party of Canada(pirateparty.ca)
16 points by christopherolah 17y ago|6 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Sure, but look at what those companies will do to stay in a strong position. I know Microsoft is an extreme example but look at the damage they did in the last year: OOXML, sabotaging OLPC, FUD in general...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Many of the functions aren't the greatest fits, but this is still very cool.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I'm a high school student and until recently I always thought I'd go into academia, simply because I have a low tolerance for greedy people trying to use ideas for their benefit rather than societies. But I'm beginning to see that the insid
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by christopherolah 17y ago
echo "todo note" >> todo.txt vw todo.txt where vw is an alias for less.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
It strikes me as unfair to judge an organization based on what they did almost 40 years ago... Also, lots of universities/scientific organizations (and I think even the US military) were messing around with that sort of stuff at the time.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
>I'd argue that it's also impossible for you to verify this fact. Who's to say that you don't just think you actually feel things >but in reality it's just your brain playing a trick on itself? >Taking that further (and getting
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I just reread the first chapter of Penrose's _The Emperor's New Mind_ so this is based off of it. Let's simplify the problem to just conversation, for the sake of simplicity. Suppose we have a program that can pass the Turing test... But th
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by christopherolah 17y ago
(I'm not parent, I'm the one who originally asked the question.) Certainly, a _scientific theory_ is judged based on its predictive power. This is why I mentioned my opinion, earlier, that science is "the art of useful fiction." The goal is
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by christopherolah 17y ago
It's pretty clear that your taking a scientific-materialist stance. So, my question to you is how do you explain qualia? Qualia is a term describing the actual _feeling_ of something as consciously perceived. Wikipedia explains it better:
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Seconded. X has only crashed once or twice in the last 3 years of me using it. This may be anecdotal evidence, but then again so is the article.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
You're forgetting that there are other reasons for looking at this besides supporting this idea or thinking it could work.... For instance, I upvoted it because it is still thought provoking. People trying to game a website to donate rice?
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Writing a kernel is fun... I started writing one a few weeks ago. It's not a real one, just something to play with. But it's very interesting, probably because I'd never worked at such a low level before. Great resource: http://www.osdev.o
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Fortunately, we live in a legal system where one needs to _prove_ how much damage was done. The RIAA did not, according the the article, demonstrate anything beyond the value of the song, $0.99.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I thought my symbols were just as good, if not better, than the regular symbols -- it doesn't make any difference what symbols you use -- but I discovered later that it does make a difference. Once when I was explaining some
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I was disagreeing with the statement that `` Pirate Party's copyright reform cannon could sink copyleft.'' I only skimmed through the article and missed that part. (In part because I'm irritated by the fact that I've seen this idea iterated
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I completely disagree. While the GPL and other FOSS licenses would loose power after copyright runs out (int this case, 5 years), so would propreitary licenses. Now, it might seem that this is an unfair situation proprietary software holds
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by christopherolah 17y ago
My first instinct is: ``Physician, heal thyself.'' It's great that the Obama administration sees Freedom on line as important. They can begin by making sure there is no online censorship in the US...
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Why FOSS Advocates Are So Loud(christopherolah.wordpress.com)
1 points by christopherolah 17y ago|0 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I haven't taken a Calculus course yet... But I've thoroughly enjoyed learning it on my own. I've proved the laws I work with (except chain rule...). I think it's probably been the richest part of my math experience.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
For the most part, I agree with Linus. MS shouldn't be excluded, or hated solely because it's MS. But, that doesn't mean they should be welcomed with open arms, either. MS has done some nasty stuff to us (OOXML, FUD campaigns, patent threat
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Perhaps that's what he intends... Maybe the reason he isn't giving the reason he is predicting the collapse is because the reason is to see what effect his prediction has on the market.

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