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by cyorir 12y ago
Certainly, I accept your objection on practical grounds, but cannot quite accept the objection on moral grounds. If something doesn't work, then don't do it. Hiroshima was an extreme example of that. By August the political establ
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by cyorir 12y ago
You bring up Hiroshima as an example. I think that in many ways this becomes the old Moral Absolutism versus Moral Relativism problem. You can have a moral absolutist who says, "Harming another human is wrong, therefore we will not tor
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by cyorir 12y ago
"we would have more friends in the region" This seems to be thrown around a lot. You hear things like, "if we didn't go into Iraq/Afghanistan, we would have more friends in the region," "if we didn't
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by cyorir 12y ago
I think N would retain a Wikipedia page. When you add a page for N+1, you update the page for N to include a history section: "N was the smallest number without a wikipedia page, until December 8, 2014, when N+1 became the smallest num
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by cyorir 12y ago
Watson refers to the technologies used in the Jeopardy system, yes. Specifically, it refers to the Watson API, which consists of all the NLP and AI algorithms used in the Jeopardy system repackaged (with additions) and hidden under a simple
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by cyorir 12y ago
As far as why Plan 9 didn't break the status quo, I'll have to agree with what Eric Raymond said in 2003[0]: Plan 9 was not "compelling enough," whereas Unix was "good enough." In my own opinion, a sufficient
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by cyorir 12y ago
To be fair, the use of chickens in this project would have been perfectly reasonable. The chickens simply act as a heat source to protect the mechanism, they do not power it. An engineer today would likely make use of the thermoelectric eff
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by cyorir 12y ago
I started using Ubuntu from 8.04 when Windows crashed on my first personal laptop. When I saw 11.10 Netbook Edition with Unity I viewed it as something which would be geared towards touchscreens with limited advantages otherwise. So after b
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by cyorir 12y ago
>Considering the fact that the US was completely caught off guard by the scope and effectiveness of ISIS I have to question the effectiveness of SIGINT programs like the NSA. I have to assume honestly that these programs outlandish budge
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by cyorir 12y ago
I think that while having heated discussions on redesign/changing a specification can be important, it is better to try and wrap up these discussions before you move into actually implementing your project. If you have too many debates
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by cyorir 12y ago
Right, at the company I currently intern at this is all done manually by the software librarian. It seems like there is a lot of room for automation in meetings; bonus points if such a system could tie into the issue tracker/SCM (whate
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by cyorir 12y ago
I think there was a Lem work like this. Many of his works had robotic societies and cultures, and I think in one there is a reference to a creation myth about how robots formed. The idea that non-robots formed the robots was considered rubb
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by cyorir 12y ago
I do not see this as being very practical. I think that many of the people who use Qt today have been using Qt 4.x or Qt 5.x, whereas the people who would use something like Qt 3.x are probably already using something more along the lines o
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by cyorir 12y ago
With any tool like Qt, we'll always find things that we want to add or change. Nevertheless, for me Qt is "good enough" in that it suits my purposes better than any of the other toolkits currently out there, like Windows .NET
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by cyorir 12y ago
This was actually how I first heard of the friendship paradox. There were a number of articles related to this earlier this year; here [0] is one and the original article [1]. Sorry for not linking earlier. [0] http://www.technol
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by cyorir 12y ago
Also depressing are some of the corollaries that have cropped up. "On average, you are surrounded by people who are more successful than you." "On average, your (sexual) partners have more partners than you."
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by cyorir 12y ago
While "gender identity" probably doesn't play a large role in the "when" decision, unfortunately "gender expectations" do. Most societies expect different things of different genders, regardless of what th
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by cyorir 12y ago
Hence why I tend to use "female" and "male." Mankind is not separate from the animal kingdom. Although I suppose male human and female human are the least ambiguous.
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by cyorir 12y ago
This article seems to side-step the Bioethics questions. It seems as though giving the treatment may have been unethical, and probably was only performed because it was in Liberia, as opposed to on American soil. I am concerned with the art
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by cyorir 12y ago
We have to keep in mind that much of Anime targets specific demographics and specific subcultures. It is not usually intended to portray society in a realistic or general manner, with some exceptions.
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by cyorir 12y ago
So let us make a few distinctions. NEET =/= Hikikomori. Hikikomori tend to be a subset of NEET, as long as they are not employed. However, most NEET (not in education, employment, or training) would certainly not be Hikikomori. Hikikom
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by cyorir 12y ago
Referring to ubasute[0].Seems more to be an aspect of folklore and popular culture than an actual practice, although it has made for the premise of a good film [1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute [1] http:&#
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by cyorir 12y ago
...and don't forget Nasa's Java SDK, World Wind, which is specifically designed for this type of data. One of the first projecs I worked on, in order to learn Java, was a simple project using world wind. It's a really fun too
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by cyorir 12y ago
I used to volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in the Space Odyssey section. They have had one of these systems there for several years now, so one of my main tasks was to present data displayed on the sphere and offer expla
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by cyorir 12y ago
I completely agree with this. In some cases focusing on a single language or set of languages can be a good idea - especially when it is a language in high demand and it means you know the ins and outs of a lot of different frameworks a la
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by cyorir 12y ago
Government attempts to affect individual fertility are nothing new. The most significant cases are India's sterilization prpgram of the 1970s and China's one child policy. On the other side countries like Japan today want to incre
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by cyorir 12y ago
At the very least, it devalues Google's own service. Victims of this service will see lowered impact of advertising through Google, so they are more likely to simply drop/lower reliance on Google as a form of advertising and look
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by cyorir 12y ago
That could pretty quickly sour relations with a lot of other countries, if we were cutting our own tax unilaterally. Anything like this would preferably be coordinated with other countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by cyorir 12y ago
This is kind of off-topic but birds can be pretty advanced in surprising ways. In particular, birdsongs can be pretty complex and some species have evolved specific cognitive functions for understanding, replicating, and producing birdsongs
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by cyorir 12y ago
A personal trademark has only limited protections if it is not registered. It is also not clear that he wanted trademark protections to apply, since he did not seem to use the (TM) symbol that is allowed prior to registration. He could chal

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