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by dghf 12y ago
> The primary argument against fusion power has been that despite decades of work, it still doesn’t exist. I thought it did exist but wasn't efficient (i.e., energy in > energy out)?
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by dghf 12y ago
Yes, but arithmetics is a branch of maths, whereas typing is not a branch of programming. Maybe they plan to extend the site to include trig, algebra, calculus, etc. problems?
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by dghf 12y ago
And Satan stood up against them in the global environment.
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by dghf 12y ago
It is a breach of privacy, and it has some unpleasant side-effects: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/law-lets-irs-seize-acco... Accompanying HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by dghf 12y ago
You're missing a third option: "I give a lot to society at large (of which I am part), out of enlightened self-interest (reinforced by legal penalties if I act short-sightedly)." Some people will thrive no matter what: cent
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by dghf 12y ago
Also missing "a copyright notice, ... a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material."
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by dghf 12y ago
Pretty much exactly what I came to say. Also, as well as ponying up the cash, they will also be risking their skins. We need human guinea pigs, and the super-rich are volunteering.
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by dghf 12y ago
You seem to be assuming the actual existence of a "thread of consciousness" or a "conscious strain", when it could be an illusion. When you wake up after a dreamless sleep, are you the same person, the same conscious ent
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by dghf 12y ago
Maybe he meant the bad faith shown towards Turing by the British Establishment.
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by dghf 12y ago
> "parallel universes", like gods, are mere dogmas Hardly dogma. Lots of physicists hold to the rival Copenhagen interpretation, and have yet to be expelled from the halls of academe for heresy. > supported by flawed (correl
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by dghf 12y ago
> The origin of the word "sin" as most people use it today is a word from archery. It means hitting the target but missing the center. This page (which gives the OED as a source) says that's true of the Greek hamartia (o
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by dghf 12y ago
My worst comment was my mention of the late Ken Campbell's project to promote Melanesian Pidgin English as a global lingua franca.
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by dghf 12y ago
And using the label "Silicon Valley" to refer to businesses that are antagonistic to strong copyright? Companies like Adobe? Apple? Electronic Arts? Oracle?
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by dghf 12y ago
> But suppose that a Web site, awesomestuff.com, ran an item that said something like “This piece on copyright is a great read!” with a hyperlink on the word “piece” to my article’s page on The New Yorker’s Web site.... Effectively, awes
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by dghf 12y ago
Well, either the corporation is a separate legal person from its shareholders, in which case it should pay its taxes like everyone else, or it's not, in which case things like limited liability and the corporate veil have no foundation
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by dghf 12y ago
Apart from anything else, the article is about MDMA, not LSD.
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by dghf 12y ago
The Cox (Cox's Orange Pippin): sharp and crisp like an autumn morning.
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by dghf 12y ago
> for example, to know that "he went through the door" means that "he's not in the room any more" > sure, the computer is able to recognize a bottle on a table, but doesn't have an internal representation
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by dghf 12y ago
> Computer vision is getting really good, but at this point, it's completely useless Driverless car? (OK, that's lidar rather than vision per se, but still surely depends on constructing a model of the world based on external s
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by dghf 12y ago
> Take the sentence "Harry picked up the glass." "If you can’t imagine picking up a glass or seeing someone picking up a glass," Lakoff wrote in a paper with Vittorio Gallese, a professor of human physiology at the Un
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by dghf 12y ago
David Chaum also invented blind signatures[1], which as I understand it make truly anonymous electronic cash possible. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature
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by dghf 12y ago
If you're going to use a warp drive (or any other means of FTL travel), you'd better hope that Novikov's self-consistency principle [1] holds, or else be prepared to deal with the ensuing causality violations [2]. [1] http:&
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by dghf 12y ago
"Oh, that's just the window-display charter. Our real, secret charter gives us unlimited power forever!" -- Boss to Agent Norbert in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. (Okay, that was the Federal Atomic Regulatory Taskforce
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by dghf 12y ago
"Already, sRGB’s FF0000 is quite definitely on the orange side of neutral (I tend to call the sRGB primaries “orangish red”, “yellowish green”, and “purplish blue” for clarity when trying to explain technical aspects of color to non-ex
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by dghf 12y ago
tl;dr -- people are generally bad at predicting the future, but some get lucky.
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by dghf 12y ago
I also find it interesting that the effectiveness of these orders rely purely on the captain's sense of duty, as (assuming the system has worked correctly) the only other person who knows what they say is dead.
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by dghf 12y ago
"I've always understood "dead man's switch" to literally mean something operating without human intervention.... That said, the options available to the commander do leave some room for interpretation". Yeah, h
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by dghf 12y ago
My understanding was they still do: I read somewhere (can't find the link now, sorry) that when the system was explained to Tony Blair on his second day in office, he went white.
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by dghf 12y ago
Not really a confusion: if the letter of last resort (sealed orders to be opened in the event the Government is destroyed) says "launch the nukes", you do have a sort of dead man's switch, assuming the sub's captain foll
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by dghf 12y ago
The National Bureau of Economic Research did an experiment where they sent in the same résumé for the same job under "white-sounding" and "black-sounding names": the "white" names got about 50% more call-backs

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