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by cookingrobot 17y ago
A more efficient natural gas generator is fine, but not exactly "green" compared to wind, solar, thermal, hydro, nuclear or other carbon neutral tech. Does this device include carbon capture, or does it just spew CO2?
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Maybe it will be easier to build extremely intelligent, consistent, rational AI than to get the nuanced emotion and irrationality that regular people have.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
You can flip through the first 30 pages of the book he wrote - I found it more interesting than the blog post. http://www.artofbeingminimalist.com/preview.html
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Watched it - it was ok. Nice relaxing tone/pace. He basically argues that if one person is in charge (has final cut), the product will be as good as their taste. If no one is in charge and decisions are made by consensus / bureaucracy, th
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Every time I re-visit the page it says I'm unique. That's not much of a fingerprint.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
One feels like allowing people to die (offering a dangerous product), and the other feels like forcing people to die (coercing officials to require use of a dangerous product).
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Wow I hate corruption. The fact that this was a UK company is interesting, because it means there's actually a chance of some kind of justice. The execs of this company should be tried for fraud + multiple manslaughter, or at least produc
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
How much can he lose? What kind of business would he need to register to limit his risk? For ex, if this was an LLC, could he pay himself a sweet salary during the next few months, and then just declare the business bankrupt if he loses th
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Thanks - the incredibly strange thing is that I was thinking about exactly this idea this morning, just a few hours before reading your post. I just couldn't believe the coincidence! Love Xobni btw.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
This also allows some good plausible deniability. If someone knows you're using this sytem and forces you to decode your collection of random bit files, you can arrange 9 out of 10 of them to get a harmless plausible result (a bunch of har
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Search is essential. If Google went down, people would start using Bing or Yahoo, and would be fine.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
Prices for books move around more than I would have thought. I can understand the Amazon price drop on Stephen King as mention in the article because it was an analyzed move to compete with Wallmart. (price history graph: http://www.shop
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
That's awesome. But from the last page of the patent, it looks like it was re-examined a month and a half later and all the claims were revoked.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
I agree, but I think the general assumption is that if we stop giving bailouts and 0% loans, then the banks would fail and bring down the economy. That's why we should have public banks ready to replace them.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
How about if congress creates a "public option" bank. Then we can stop letting the private banks steal our money through tricks like this, and if that makes them collapse, so-be-it. Honestly I think every major institution should have a pu
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
What if your employee was secretly being paid by a competitor to sabotage your project. As you say, you could just judge the results of his work, but it can take a lot of time to judge the outcome of complex projects, and to separate delib
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
If this was true we could do something much more interesting than shuffle cards and decide not to turn it on. We'd basically have an infinite improbability engine at our disposal. We could declare that unless bricks of gold spontaneously a
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
It's a play on the expression "WWJD", "What would Jesus do".
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
I don't agree with the first point about anniversary stories; there should be more follow-up in journalism, not less.
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by cookingrobot 17y ago
This guy seems like a psychopath of the most normal variety. The kind of guy who couldn't imagine putting on his pants in the morning if it was only going to benefit the goddamn asians on the other side of the planet. If his ballteam can'