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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
> He's pointed out that capitalism is flawed -- that inequality is not an unintended result, but rather an inherent feature of it. One could argue, though, that the flaw is not in capitalist ideology per se, but that you can never f
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
> “That is, of course, the irony of the patent system. Without patent protection, a competitor can simply replicate an invention and undercut the inventor’s price — which necessarily includes all the time and expense of research and deve
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by dalek_cannes 12y ago
Do we need entanglement to explain the Arrow of Time? Even though in classical mechanics, the past and the future are both equally observable, we remember the past and not the future because the future does not contain certain information y
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I believe liability must rest on he who makes the decision. Will the following work? 1. An executive must carry some personal liability for the decisions he took during his tenure. 2. If the decision was made with the knowledge of the board
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Perhaps I did not phrase this question properly, hence the downvotes. Let me retry: Consider a situation perhaps 5-10 years from now when this procedure is widespread. A critically wounded person has two treatment options: the best is this
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
That's quite understandable. But this is a question that's going to have to be answered at some point in the future, especially for legal reasons. I'm sure someone's already asked it with regards to cryogenics. I would p
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
But will it be the "same person"? Does cold-starting from the same neural network give you the same consciousness or a copy? Does consciousness require some form of continuity that's lost if you lower neural activity beyond
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
And that is what has gone wrong with democracy -- the ability to buy power with money. So long as that is possible, democracy will always have a half-life.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
1. The original article: http://theconversation.com/after-400-years-mathematicians-fi... 2. It actually looks more like a redefinition than a new discovery: "It may be confusing because Goldberg called them polyhedra,
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> Windows 8 is supposed to fuse desktop and mobile, but, that is a problem for Microsoft, not their customers Sounds like classic architecture astronaut thinking ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Excellent. Although I'm not sure the correct word here is "hacking". Law and government should stop using the word to mean "any adept use of computer knowledge or skills that result in undesirable effects for some party&
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I believe this lady may be particularly helpful in this endeavour: http://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicopt...
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles come to mind. It's a British idea -- that police officers are citizens in uniform and police by consent of their fellow citizens.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
This sentence stood out for me: > The reason crowds of people exhaust me is that I am constantly trying to read and understand the feelings and motivations of those around me. To me, this is a symptom of a poor Theory of Mind, or a confl
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I'm more surprised by the frame rate than the color. It seems to have been enhanced. Everything looks smooth, but there's something peculiar about the way people walk, for example, notice the pedestrians' feet at 1:54. Either
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
It takes luck to be in the right place at the right time, but it takes something else to recognize the fact and exploit it. A lot of other people with a similar level of education were in the same right place / right time situation as
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> ultimate driving force behind both authoritarianism and consumerism that continues to rule the world, money and capitalism I would say the problem is any social structure that allows money to buy power, i.e. that allows the translation
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> The bigger question now is whether his revelations can create any change. It will. It will change the acronym involved. First from FBI to NSA. Now from NSA to something else. Edit: not a statement of cynicism; merely predicting what th
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> Deflation... leads to a slowdown in the real economy A fundamental, but slightly tangential question: is that a bad thing? What if modern societies are running too hot and need to cool down? 'Reduction', 'slowdown',
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
"I Am Not Satoshi" is also an anagram of "I, Homo Satanist".
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Surveillance. It always starts with a desire to be safe. And that comes from fear. It seems Americans today are afraid of more things than ever: pedophiles, guns, terrorists, lawsuits. Some news reports are ridiculous by foreign standards:
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I just checked out the author's site. He seems much higher up that wall than grandparent poster :) - born in uruguay - worked his way up to google - learned BASIC at 5 (and made childhood drawings that included handwritten basic code)
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Let us take iPhone-carrying anti-corporate protesters. Should we attribute the iPhone to 'Apple Corporation' and shun it, or to the individuals -- designers, engineers, accountants and managers -- who made happen? Corporations are
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Unix had this right decades ago, in the form of text-in-text-out commands, pipes in between + text-based terminals in between machines. OS's like Windows broke that. It's good to see the philosophy returning. As long as everything
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I've done almost 90. I don't recommend it!
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I love my job, and I love working extra hours on it. But on my own terms and as a means of building something more, not compensating for lack of planning or management. > why the hell wouldn't you want to stay a few more minutes
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Don't take the numbers literally, and read it as "I believe every man deserves...". Merely an unscientific three-way split of a 24-hour day, with a liberal sleep quota and a traditional weekend. It's also the most defens
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Every human being deserves an average of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of family/leisure, 8 hours of sleep and 2 days a week free. Even a doctor on whom many lives are depending . Lives of critical employees are just as valuable as the liv
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
The article repeatedly claims: "The F-22A Raptor is the only US fighter aircraft design in existence or planned which has the capability to penetrate and survive the advanced air defence weapons now proliferating globally". I&#x27
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Well here's something I didn't know about this story: apparently Haber was a German nationalist of Jewish descent who was also responsible for the world's first major chemical attack, which killed about 6000 allied troops. &q

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