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by deeviant 12y ago
I don't think your experience has anything to do with my experience. That fact that on your hardware you felt html 5 video works better has no bearing on whether it work for me, on my hardware. The fact that somebody down-voted me for
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by deeviant 12y ago
I think many would agree with me when I say, Windows 8 was at least part, if not the biggest part of the problem . Nobody wants to relearn a UI just because MS wants to create a bridge into windows phone. The fact is the UI changes did not
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by deeviant 12y ago
Ah, but you forget. An apple super carrier would be extremely user friendly. It could probably be crewed with 10 hipsters and a few Apple geniuses.
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by deeviant 12y ago
I've had a pretty poor experience with HTML 5 video. It stutters far more than flash and in particular it does very weird things when I try to skip around in videos. I'll miss flash.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Google Fiber: Coming to a neighbourhood other than your own soon!
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by deeviant 12y ago
I fail to see what sugar mills have to do with the absolute idiocy of corn based ethanol. I would also be interested in the ratio of sugar mills that actually power themselves versus those that just run off the grid.
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by deeviant 12y ago
You know what, upon pondering it further and reading your rather excellent case-in-point from your last post, you have totally convinced me. Fuck subsidies. I believe solar/Nuclear/fusion(heh) will rule the future with or without
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by deeviant 12y ago
Well I should qualify my statements. I think R&D and one time installation tax credits are great and work. I totally and completely disdain feed-in tariffs. Solar should be able to walk on it's own, but I think it's reasonable
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by deeviant 12y ago
It's actually a misconception that solar power is only competitive with subsidies. In the past, it has absolutely been true, but today solar power can really stand on it's own two legs in terms of LCOE(basically the metric that gi
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by deeviant 12y ago
Sometimes I feel my government (US) is so inept that they deserve a pat on the back if they successfully tied their shoes in the morning, but I'll be damned if I can help but feel the US and EU governments delivered Russian a pretty f
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by deeviant 12y ago
Really, there are probably two elements to this: 1. Your posts could perhaps be a bit more thought out or inspiring. 2. You have correctly noticed that down-vote etiquette here is quite bad. People frequently down-vote posts that are constr
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by deeviant 12y ago
I was mainly speaking to the anti-aircraft weapon's addition shrapnel, rather than the drone itself. It's pretty hard to shoot down a drone without, ah, having the drone fall down. You can try some sort of hack, or radio blackout,
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yep, that sounds about right. Between bitcoin, an anonymous brokerage such as silk road, and drone delivery, the dealers would be pretty hard to track down.
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by deeviant 12y ago
Seems like a pretty good use case for lasers as you can generally hit only what your aiming out, and you don't have any explosive and/or metal shrapnel falling back down into populated areas.
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by deeviant 12y ago
> Neither can anyone else, so far. But most AIG researchers don't throw their hands up and say, "Oh damn, it's impossible ( intractable ), it's magic because we don't understand." Forgive me if I feel this
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by deeviant 12y ago
The last thing that AGI needs is more philosophical thinking. Philosophy and the Turing Test have done enough damage to the field. Philosophers can not seem to comprehend how a mass of meat can create consciousness and take leaps to try to
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by deeviant 12y ago
Continuing on both the comment in which you were responding too, and your on comments, I think it is be even more simply stated as: You don't have to understand how intelligence works to create a machine with intelligence if you can
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by deeviant 12y ago
I think that's pretty easy to explain. The change of state in your brain modulates the thing that it both creates and controls (consciousness) state to "feel" pain. Consciousness is a emergent property of the incredible compl
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by deeviant 12y ago
What is a "normal physical phenomenon" and what is a "non-normal physical phenomenon"? It would seem to me that something is either physical or metaphysical. Not once in the entire history of human inquiry has something
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by deeviant 12y ago
It's not really Bye Bye whatsapp if you aren't using it now? And it seems like if you would like to use a social networking tool such as Whatsapp, there is at least one reason for you to get a smart phone. But as they say, differe
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by deeviant 12y ago
Same here. Was not able to find any way to force an update.
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by deeviant 12y ago
You'll have to be a bit more specific in terms of what exactly people are saying that "belittles the question of consciousness", I haven't see anything in this thread that I took as such. As to your other statement, Newt
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by deeviant 12y ago
Free is subjective. They won't be free, but Google could subsidize stations and add ads. IoT companies can create through own hardware and pay bulk rates. Cellphone companies certainly have the option to get on the boat too, if the har
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by deeviant 12y ago
I never found inventory object hierarchies to be a sore point in developing games (hobby games admittedly).
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by deeviant 12y ago
The official story told often at big companies is that the interview process should be tilted towards false negatives over false positives. The truth of the matter is you could probably get statistically similar results from a voodoo witch
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by deeviant 12y ago
Yeah it should open out a whole new segment to consumer markets. Free(but very slow) ad supported internet every where on earth . Connection to the cloud for a million different kind of Internet-Of-Things class devices. I think this is pre
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by deeviant 12y ago
Inquiry is a difficult thing, and it's often gone about in extremely ineffective ways. Asking what can or could be, is useless unless it leads to something that connected to something that is . Saying something needs no proof(and by t
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by deeviant 12y ago
What features need to be observed in order strongly link the pulse to the possibility of intelligent design? What kind of predictive power does intelligent design have in regards to the pulse? What does intelligent design have to say at all
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by deeviant 12y ago
There is no single secret to making good API specifications. But here are few things I've learned: * The more comprehensive the documentation gets, the the quicker it gets outdated, un-useful, or flat out pants-on-fire lying. Define wh
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by deeviant 12y ago
There is a furniture store near where I live that was going out of business for 10 years. My wife and I always joked that they should have a "Proudly going out of business for 10 years" sign. They finally went out of business last

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