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by delegate 7y ago
I've seen comments here trying to play down the message or discredit the signatories of this letter. Don't. Please take it seriously. This is not sensationalism. What the letter means is that if your country is not there yet, you
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by delegate 7y ago
So the creator of Doom wants to get into artificial general intelligence .. what could possibly go wrong :)).
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by delegate 9y ago
Being conscious during the trip is an essential part of the healing process. In fact, healing comes from the realization of what consciousness really is, that death is not the end, how my little self is just a stubborn part of a larger inf
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by delegate 9y ago
The thing with any 'recommendation' system like Discover Weekly is that while it recommends based on past preferences, the recommendations have the effect of influencing and reinforcing the musical tastes and at some point one wil
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by delegate 9y ago
> Reality exists independent of the observer. This is costing me way too much HN karma lol, I guess nobody likes to get down voted, but try rewording that first statement like this: Observer exists independent of reality. If that were tr
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by delegate 9y ago
Turns out, eclipses have everything to do with solar flares and every other phenomena you observe: You. All of these things happen to you . We've been trained to look at reality as something 'out there', but truth is that re
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by delegate 9y ago
There's also the eclipse preceding these events. Of course there are relationships, I just don't think most of us (scientists or scientifically inclined) know how to see them, since some of the links are not in the 'rational&
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by delegate 9y ago
Psychedelics are also called entheogens ("generator of the divine within"), because one common trait of a psychedelic 'trip' is experiencing the nature of the divine, but also the divinity of 'life' in all livi
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by delegate 9y ago
Bitcoin and other crypto require a well functioning internet infrastructure, otherwise it's just data on a hard-drive. Disconnect a country from the Internet (or filter the traffic) and you're forking the chain. Spend on both netw
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by delegate 9y ago
That's if you go to the emergency room - they will keep you waiting (closer to 2 hours than 6), when you have no apparent life threatening condition. If you have a serious issue, like a heart condition or a broken bone or vomiting etc,
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by delegate 9y ago
I don't really see the point of a block chain in this situation. Why not implement it on a centralised Burger King server ? Why bother with a distributed p2p network, mining, apps, when a simple mysql database plus a php file can achie
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by delegate 9y ago
I haven't seen all ads in the magazine, but I notice that most (all?) of the companies are no longer around. Except one. The ad had a bit of a prophecy in it too: "You can't outgrow Apple."
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by delegate 9y ago
As I understand they're using copyright laws not to prevent me from copying content, but to preventing me from not consuming content. In other words, the copyright law is used to force content consumption.
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by delegate 9y ago
Depending on complexity of your app and the level of polish, it might take a while. I mean, you can make an app in a day if you follow a tutorial, but if you want to enjoy the language and what you're doing, then you'll have to
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by delegate 9y ago
Self-driving cars will slowly (or quickly) make car ownership redundant. Why own a car (pay taxes, insurance, parking), when you can have one at your door in a couple of minutes ? When you arrive at the destination, just exit the car - no n
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by delegate 9y ago
I agree with the article, but would also like to mention that it has a very steep learning curve. 1.5 months after my first line of Swift I had my app in the app store (granted I was proficient in Objective-C). 2 years since I've start
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by delegate 9y ago
I'm not a game developer, but I think one of the reasons is Visual C++ (Visual Studio), which is still the best C++ IDE around.
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by delegate 9y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. Their tech is not the cars themselves as much as the robots/software building those cars, so they have slowly moved from being car companies to robotics/tech companies. They build computers with wheels.
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by delegate 9y ago
Humans are a much bigger threat to humanity than AI. A super smart AI would come up with strategies to herd humans rather than eliminate them. Let humans have the illusion of being in control, while setting up the game for them so that the
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by delegate 9y ago
Great explanation, thank you !
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by delegate 9y ago
Anyone familiar with both Elm and Clojurescript ? Clojurescript's 're-frame' lib implements something similar to the Elm architecture and is quite pleasant to work with. How does the Elm experience compare to the Clojurescrip
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by delegate 9y ago
Talking about 1984 and A Brave New World, I think these might have been dystopian in the past, but not now. Technology (including surveillance technology) was the missing piece and we've closed that gap not long ago, making Oceania and
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by delegate 9y ago
> Some 10,000 foreign addresses of Hansa Market buyers were passed on to Europol. That's really bad, because not all countries are Holland, which is famous for its 'relaxed' attitude towards drugs in general, so some users
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by delegate 9y ago
I wonder why I don't see candidates jumping up from joy when they hear about it ? Don't you want to be conveniently tracked, compared, analyzed and disposed of with a couple of clicks ? Don't you want your professional profil
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by delegate 9y ago
It's also nice enough to mention the hashing algorithm used - MD5, just so you don't have waste time guessing.
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by delegate 9y ago
I personally consider another possibility : AI is already here and we're all slaves to it already, we're just in denial of being in control. It's just a matter of interpretation. Right now, machines dominate our life from the
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by delegate 9y ago
> Smart money right now isn't in BTC, Where is it then ? I too would like to join the 'rich fast' bandwagon !
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by delegate 9y ago
Thank you, that answered my question :). How fool of me to forget...
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by delegate 9y ago
Aren't Saudi Arabia major financial and ideological sponsors of terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda ? Isn't terrorism (in the face of ISIS and the likes) one of the top menaces for the UK ? So isn't supplying arms to
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by delegate 9y ago
Could you go into a bit more detail ? What did the Brazilians do / change ? As for ThoughtWorks, I've been at an interview with them and got a strong cultish vibe from the whole thing. Especially when they made it clear that their

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