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by dpq 8y ago
...From the creators of "unscheduled rapid disassembly" a.k.a. explosion on the launchpad.
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by dpq 8y ago
Why don't you post the rest of the quote as well? > I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of pr
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by dpq 8y ago
What an amazing privacy policy do these guys have! Don't take my word for it, check it out: https://wolfpack-digital.com/privacy /sarcasm mode off
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by dpq 8y ago
Could you please clarify what you mean by the claim that the genocide has been abused? Should the Armenians be less outraged, stop fighting for its recognition, exclude it from history curriculum or something?
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by dpq 8y ago
While I totally agree with your pov and sentiment from my personal experience (raised in a bilingual family, now speaking 4 languages), I don't see such loss as a terrible tragedy. Cultures that have lost the evolutionary race, who fai
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by dpq 8y ago
Entertainment can also have negative value. That's what the parent meant: your entertainment is provided by someone exploiting your gambling-addicted (and gambling may cause an actual addiction afaik, no less so than opioid addiction a
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by dpq 8y ago
Coordination is hard, otherwise this would already have happened. I recommend "Inadequate equilibria" by Eliezer Yudkowsky https://equilibriabook.com/ if you want a better grasp on how and why such situations aris
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by dpq 8y ago
I'll play the devil's advocate and say that I'm actually disappointed by this development. A very long time ago when AdSense was young I was thrilled by the idea that instead of being bombarded by stupid ads designed to cater
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by dpq 9y ago
This is incorrect, as far as I know. The FSF page [1] says as much. IANAL, but the relevant portion of the license appears to be this: You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you
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Flexible ethics: slavery and artificial intelligence(medium.com)
2 points by dpq 9y ago|0 comments
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by dpq 9y ago
I suppose we should be overjoyed anyway. This update means that Google is not shutting Scholar down - at the very least, not today. Knowing their habit of axing products that do not quite attain civilization-level scale, it's always a
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by dpq 9y ago
Instead of becoming a more or less of a clone of Facebook news feed for researchers, RG has become infuriatingly full of nag boxes, and in its efforts to get you use the website more prevents you from actually using it at all.
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by dpq 9y ago
They definitely did, at least in the JPL 360deg stream (can't say if the commentary was identical across all locations, but probably not).
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by dpq 9y ago
Facebook is annoying and grabby? This guy obviously hasn't ever used ResearchGate. Facebook is the paragon of non-intrusive user experience compared to RG.
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by dpq 9y ago
A screencap of Alexandra Elbakyan's rant: http://imgur.com/a/xGwD6 . Basically, she expresses her disappointment that other people get awarded for promoting and popularizing science in Russia while she never did. S
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Sci-Hub founder blocks access to the site in Russia(sci-hub.cc)
6 points by dpq 9y ago|1 comments
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by dpq 9y ago
It probably does well when translating general human speech, but I was rather interested in its performance on a paragraph of a scientific text (it being a much more challenging task, obviously). * "The impact of the solar wind protons