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by dmfdmf 11y ago
70+ years since the Fountainhead and 33 years since Rand died and yet somehow Rand just won't go away despite decades of smears, misrepresentation, attacks, denouncements, denials, lies and hatchet jobs like this "review" dir
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Stack Overflow Disease: This question is closed by the moderator because users are discussing it.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
"Tesla reports its finances in a different way from the Detroit automakers. Using the generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, used by GM or Ford, Tesla's operating losses per vehicle have steadily widened to $14,758 fr
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I'm in the same boat... Win7 is my last MS OS.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
This was very interesting and a technique that I had never heard of but was implicitly using myself. I have a bad back and after a few hours of work at my desk I often have to lie down and rest my back and end up napping. I'd rest by
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Would the statement "Free will is an illusion" be less of a self-contradiction than when stated as a question? Hard to say.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I think routine is important. If you launch the same routine before sitting down to get to work then you can use the routine to get rolling even if you don't actually feel like. Also, the mind is inherently lazy. (Unfortunately &quot
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
"Plato v Aristotle: A clash between two ways of how to approach understanding of the world: mystical idealist and methodological, which would become scientific method." The article mentions this epic intellectual clash but fails
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Wouldn't it be ironic if Windows 10 was the final straw that pushed Linux to the desktop?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
> For what it's worth, I think you're wildly wrong a) that the Chinese room experiment has anything profound to say about conscious experience, and b) that most AI researchers haven't thought about this. We'll just ha
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
> So you categorically reject the scenario of a machine "processing meaningless symbols" being harmful in any way? How does this follow from what I said? > How does that follow from the Chinese Room experiment? The implicit
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I agree with their financial approach which is funded through voluntary donations, so more power to them. But then I think NASA should be funded voluntarily and would probably have a larger budget if they did. I would donate to NASA if they
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
No mention of Snowden and NSA's mass surveillance and the impact on Cisco earnings? I'm guessing Robbins would rather not discuss that.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Its all about money. Planes are woefully expensive and the 60+ crowd has money or they aren't flying. As I used to tell a buddy of mine who was a pilot; planes are for rich people, motorcycles are the poor man's airplane but we on
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Can you elaborate? Its not clear to me where we disagree, if at all.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
At last, a voice of reason in hundreds of pointless comments. Free speech is a principle and people should be free to say whatever they want no matter how disgusting or distasteful to the majority or mainstream. This is the ideal of a free
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Do you even want to change it? It doesn't sound like it to me but you have no moral obligation to change the world or save it or start a business, be a leader, etc. Being "great" is hard work, not all its cracked up to be an
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
When is Clapper going to be charged for lying to Congress?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
von Mises called this the "crack-up boom".
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
This video is pretty interesting in laying out the questions concerning AI and its implications. But not much new for anyone who has done any study of the questions but still worthwhile to hear it again in different forms and perspectives.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted as I think this is a legit question.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
But can the USG be trusted to keep their word?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Or who's cell phone shut off 1 or 2 cells over then turned back on 1 or 2 cells over in the time frame of the crime. This is the kind of FBI sleuthing I'd support, assuming they got a warrant.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
> Convince me otherwise. This statement presupposes free will. Free will is not primarily a political concept but an epistemological concept that has political implications. Free will is an irreducible primary that many people today want
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
You make a good point, I'd like XP to go away too, but people are still running it and sans patches it is getting even worse than you describe by the day.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Since the Navy is paying can MS share the updates with the rest of the world?
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
I have written a daily journal since the early 90's, on paper. It was one if the best decision I ever made. However, I am on the verge of moving my journal to digital format, probably as a private blog. Also, I see the need to clearly
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
If anyone is interested, go to tvfool.com and plug in your address and get a TV Fool report. It will tell you what broadcast (over-the-air or OTA) TV stations are possible to receive at your location. If you live near any metro area you sh
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Are you in the Bay Area? NBC is on VHF and very strong through out the bay. You could pick it up with an FM T-style antenna but not the UHF bow type antennas.
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Never bother to examine a folly just ask yourself what does it achieve.

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