dhume

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by dhume 17y ago
Searle doesn't make an argument about formally equivalent Turing machines, he makes an argument about a person using an instruction book to manipulate strange characters. Right, this discussion is imcomplete without bringing in Church's t
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by dhume 17y ago
According to the "Chinese room" argument, a machine is not capable of genuinely understanding a language (since it is only looking up and applying transformation rules). It is generally believed that a human can, so that would mean a human
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by dhume 17y ago
Extended: http://i.imgur.com/Behcf.jpg
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by dhume 17y ago
It is clear to me that restoring choice to the education market will allow competition to occur, which will likely result in increased quality. Except in this area, the quality of the student seems to matter quite a bit more than the qual
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by dhume 17y ago
1. Selective admissions 2. Self-selected applicant pool 3. Easier time removing disruptive students In short, private schools have better students.
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by dhume 17y ago
You say you think the mistrust is misplaced, then proceed to (in my opinion) explain why it is not misplaced in your last sentence. Except it is still the case that the reason you gave applies to non-intellectuals as well.
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by dhume 17y ago
From the paper: "In any case, security economics teaches that you’re unlikely to get a secure system if Alice guards it while Bob pays the cost of failure." This problem is nothing new. All that changes with 3DS is that Carol pays instead o
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by dhume 17y ago
Stross, at least, seems to see this as an attack on both his publisher and him (if nothing else, he ends up as collateral damage). Amazon demands more publication rights and a larger cut of the sale price, which means he gets less for his w
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by dhume 17y ago
It's hard to tell if a company with a large patent portfolio is only planning to use them defensively. Does Amazon lend any support to patent reform efforts?
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by dhume 17y ago
I don't consider that as satisfying the prediction of computers embedded in clothing any more than I consider predictions of flying cars fulfilled by ultralight aircraft.
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by dhume 17y ago
You should only blame yourself though, you could have had a simple crypt on the db, with a key stored inside the binary. At least it would take a bit more work to rip you off. Well, there's one I didn't expect to see on HN. A developer ge
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by dhume 17y ago
If you're pooling enough people's resources to make a machine that big, you're probably going to get enough independent tasks to make good use of it too.
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by dhume 17y ago
Kurzweil's defense of "computers commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry" as applying to iPod Nanos embedded in pockets is a bit of a stretch, but in practicality not far at all. I'll accept this when the iPod is embedded with some degr
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by dhume 17y ago
It's not about showing correlation. It's about showing that we're not getting what we're paying for.
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by dhume 17y ago
Cheerfully waving everyone through is not the only alternative.
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by dhume 17y ago
It doesn't have to be. It just has to mean it's more likely that he was telling the truth than that the border guards were, and the border patrol doesn't exactly have an upstanding reputation.
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by dhume 17y ago
Fire service is definitely excludible (not on the subscriber's list -> we're not putting your house fire out) and arguably rivalrous (a team of firefighters cannot be in two places at once).
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by dhume 17y ago
Hiding some behavior is not an acknowledgment that the behavior is wrong, just that there may be someone out there who thinks it is.