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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
From a Bayesian perspective, he seems like an excellent source of predictive information, when appropriately weighted.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
My understanding is that deposits are really just a manifestation of a promise that a trusted party holds, so that the party making the deposit can make more promises to other parties. So, in banking a promise is often just as valid as hold
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I'd assume 'wildcat did growl' was chosen for for the use of staccato to create rhythm from the consonants, which would be absent with 'wildcat growled', rather than to add more feet to the line, but hey, we are jus
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Of course you know this bit of doggerel verse, everyone does; ... “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my eart
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Well, the lyrics of Bob Dylan have clearly elicited a strong emotional reaction from you, if nothing else, given you have bothered to make an anti-fan page about them on your personal website. :) I also love Vonnegut, but I wouldn't au
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Wire that to a neural implant, and you almost have the plot of the book "Interface" by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
She may be extremely magnanimous about it, but didn't they give the prize for J.B.B's work to her supervisor who had told her that the signals were terrestrial? The peace prize was corrupt from the start. I am, for an atheist, a g
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Obama was the first Nobel peace price recipient to bomb another Nobel prize recipient after getting the award, after an airstrike on an MSF hospital. Kissinger is also responsible for bombing of another Nobel Peace prize winner, however he
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Not just the peace prize. I've heard of astrophysicists describing the physics award as the "No Bell" prize after Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The peace prize was really a joke from the start though, considering the origin of the mo
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
AI tends to have both the biases of the programmers plus various unknown biases that it creates itself from the input data. "The evidence photos are all on bright sunny days and contain blue rectangular objects in the top left, probabl
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Well, it is propaganda.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Am amused that the repeat posting of "extremely normal website" on twitter has, from here at least, made twitter the current top google result for "extremely normal website". https://www.google.com/search
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Sounds fun, Frank Herbert's "The Green Brain" is on very similar themes. Is also an excellent book. I suspect it would be much better known, if it wasn't so overshadowed by his Dune series.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
> It would be interesting to see if you could meaningfully execute a company with total transparency but I don't think it would survive contact with reality. Entire countries manage it. Sweden, Finland and Norway publish all income
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Security by obsolescence isn't the thing where you just dump old code on internet connected computers and steadfastly refuse to do any form of technical assessment other then "Does it run?", due to the assumption that nobody
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Well, like a multinational newspaper, magazine and TV station conglomerate, with few ethical boundaries when it comes to profit, a willful disregard for truth, that bugs and tracks their global audience on behalf of anyone with money to spe
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Yes, of course it was. Anything with a network port was plugged into the lan, which was plugged into the free router that came with the business broadband package. Which was also the only firewall and it was still on factory defaults other
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
So, is Thiel going to be in trouble for this or is that threat only for small investors? http://fortune.com/2018/09/14/canada-cannabis-ban-us-border/
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I worked in a factory that produces critical parts for both the nuclear industry and the silicon fabs. Their main software stack is old dos software with a win95 front end bolted on running in compatibility mode with an integrated database
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I have found a good way of getting people to question chiropody more. Explaining that I am not entirely sure that necromancy has a place in modern medicine, gets people to stop and ask me what I mean. I then have their attention to point ou
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
You set up a lot of speakers and a decent computer. Two decent computers if your room isn't ideal. > Music Research Centre's Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium is equiped with a sixteen speaker Ambisonic rig. This rig cosists of fou
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
I have been trying to get professional musicians interested in ambisonics for about 20 years, since I first learnt about it from my brother and I haven't yet found a single one who is at all interested in experimenting with it. I have
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Although many of them are only represented by relatively small populations, the US has a much wider range of languages and language groups than Europe, as it has the languages brought from Europe, the creole languages from the slave trade,
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Lying to your environment is an evolutionary benefit in a lot of cases. Is why we have species that impersonate other species, or that have camouflage patterning.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>Cultural differences across the US are miniscule compared to the differences between EU countries. Linguistically and culturally, the US has massive differences within it. And the fact that the media landscape does not reflect the bread
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
The same is also true of the USA.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
These twitch streamers and their relationship to their audiences reminds me a lot of William Gibson's simstim celebrities in the Neuromancer trilogy.
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
>people trying to sell you a thing are unlikely to give you extra time past the "I need to buy this" impulse to decide not to buy it In the EU, the consumer has the right to cancel any order or return any purchase, for any reas
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
China, according to those links, purchases 60% of all global soybean exports. Looking up the figures, about another 30% is the EU, with 10% for everybody else. Now, the EU is increasing their US soybean imports, but they cannot make up the
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by cuboidGoat 8y ago
Sounds like they are mirroring the behaviour of the US toward Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. > Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the United States was charging members of the Chinese military with economic e

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