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by dbspin 7y ago
You're confusing a moral judgement rooted in emotional conceptions of 'justice' (what one 'should' do) with a logical response to a systematic problem (how to most effectively ameliorate antisocial behaviour). Which
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by dbspin 8y ago
I find this fascinating. Never heard the claim before that lip herpes grants immunity to genital outbreaks. Also, whats source of such common early childhood herpes in Russia? Kissing from infected relatives? Given lethality of neonatal her
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by dbspin 8y ago
You mention 'no national boundaries anymore'. But robocalls are extremely rare in Europe. Presumably both for legislative and commercial reasons. None the less this is an existence proof that they aren't some kind of inevitab
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by dbspin 8y ago
This is an anecdote, but I believe relevant. I studied psychology as a mature student. One of the other adult students on my pre-degree course (kind of equivalent to community college I guess) had been a train driver. After two suicides on
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by dbspin 8y ago
Techmoan is an amazingly soothing 'slow tv' channel in this regard.
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by dbspin 8y ago
Clearly, based on the comments on this article, that isn't remotely true. As someone who lives in a city with one of the most severe rental crisis in the world, with a 3:1 ratio of Airbnb properties to rental properties: I earnestly ho
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by dbspin 8y ago
The book (and film) is specifically talking about absent fathers. The next line is "Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?" It's pretty much the theme of the film: Mascu
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by dbspin 8y ago
I hosted my own wordpress blog for several years on various virtual private servers, and was hacked multiple times. Just got to be way too much work to admin the site. I use wordpress.com currently. It's less than ideal, but I think yo
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by dbspin 8y ago
Most of what Lanier has to say isn't predictive - it's description and prescriptive. In other words he's not guessing at some ghastly future, he's describing the ways that social networks are manipulating behaviour right
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by dbspin 8y ago
This exists. It's called a credit union. They're successful and widely used globally, and have 101 million members in the US alone. Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union
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by dbspin 8y ago
That's actually a good use case. User initiated chat with business certainly has its uses. Business instigated conversations with users however...
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by dbspin 8y ago
This cannot be emphasised enough. Twitter repeatedly conflates organised spam / abuse / brigading, with sincere criticism and disagreement. They've shown a shocking disregard for differences of opinion, while refusing to deve
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by dbspin 8y ago
Seems to be a direct successor to the 'HoloPlayer One' dev kit, shown off last year by the same team - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJZj9Iy8Vck&feature=youtu.be
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by dbspin 8y ago
This 'article' adds little to the debate, merely restating the reductive idea that constraints on supply (rather than a host of factors from massive foreign investment, to wage stagnancy) is the sole explanation for the US housing
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by dbspin 8y ago
Why the scare quotes?
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by dbspin 9y ago
Thanks so much.
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by dbspin 9y ago
Amazing. Been looking for something like this to use as background music for youtube videos. Much appreciated.
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by dbspin 9y ago
Much of the affordances of AR will require a higher FOV - irrespective of use case. E.g.: Tagging objects, directions and buildings with tracked information, following characters in the real world etc. Long term a complete immersive solutio
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by dbspin 9y ago
> My best guess is that no single business could grow to Facebook's size, but that there would likely be a steady state of a lot of little networks of various kinds. And don't just think 25 Facebook clones, but thing Faceboo
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by dbspin 9y ago
I'm with you on the absurdity of asking government to do this. There are very few governments worldwide that have managed to produce tolerable, let alone enjoyable and useful citizen facing software. Let alone the privacy implications
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by dbspin 9y ago
As someone who was creating a reasonably popular 'video podcast' back then, I have a different perspective... Uploading to Google video was incredibly slow relative to Youtube. During the period of the 'battle' between t
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by dbspin 9y ago
The Xiaomi phones absolutely work. They're amazing for the price, and very popular as imports here in Ireland. There's always the chance they might have Chinese govt spyware however, as has been alleged with Huawei https:/&#
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by dbspin 9y ago
Anecdotally, the kind of person who spends 800 - 1000 on a phone also upgrades it every year or two. It's a status symbol as much as anything. Plus there's always the fact that you will have the latest and greatest camera, and for
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by dbspin 9y ago
"If Putin succeeded in becoming a dictator in Russia, I think it's going to be easier for Xi to become a dictator and maintain his power in China." Not sure what this means... In what sense is Putin not a dictator already? De
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by dbspin 9y ago
Three... They were also investing heavily in the Cell architecture, codeveloped with IBM and Toshiba. That one just didn't pan out.
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by dbspin 9y ago
Try Reaper. Much more efficient processor-wise than Logic.
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by dbspin 9y ago
(In mammals) neurons lace the gut and other organs, and are implicated both in cognition and recall. For example Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis holds that affective decision making 'polls' physiological responses which d
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by dbspin 11y ago
Me niether.
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by dbspin 11y ago
Ok, accepting first generation immigrants from developing nations, whats the level of 3rd level educated non white people living in Ireland? I'd bet it compares unfavourably with the number of non-white people working in tech here, giv
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by dbspin 11y ago
Describing the Dublin tech community as 'a small white male tech elite' is bizarre. Given the still tiny number of non-white people in Ireland, and the relative number in the tech industry, outside of the teaching hospitals the te

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