dreamweapon

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by dreamweapon 12y ago
It seems like you're saying that private enterprises should either completely divest themselves from any commitment to social responsibility (defined broadly as: "doing the right thing because it's the right thing, even whe
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The smartest people I know who do personally work on AI think the scaremongering coming from people who don't work on AI is lunacy. -- Marc Andreessen Given that a significant portion of what marca himself says and advocates these
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
It's why they are created as firms instead of philanthropies. A false dichotomy.
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Arctic sea ice is smallest size on record this winter(reuters.com)
1 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN. My Russian friends would probably laugh at what you're saying. You have to be very, very naive about what's happening in Russia these days to have that impression.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
There's no need to "smear" him. By appearing on RT, he's discredited himself enough.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Regarding what is perhaps General Mattis's finest work, the First Battle of Fallujah: Burhan Fasa’a, an Iraqi journalist who worked for the Lebanese satellite TV station, LBC and who was in Fallujah for nine days during the most inten
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Ach, bitte. There were plenty of shenanigans going on between the U.S. and German politicians in the early BRD days. But the scanned document everyone's been passing around purporting to refer to the so-called Kanzlerakte is obvio
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
As to 'Putin-Versteher' and RT shill Udo Ulfkotte: I've written about the "journalist" Udo Ulfkotte over the years and was pleased that he seemed to have faded from view, disappearing into the pages of the 9/1
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
"And we'll use drone strikes to punish the evaders."
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Unless the implication is that most/many of the other team members are also Indian? That seems to be the implication. And yes, it may be relevant to understanding the context and merit of her claims. EDIT: Not that the replacement h
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The counterpoint to that is if we don't "mess" with them (i.e. mark them for preservation) now they're much more likely get plundered / messed with by other, less well-intentioned persons at some point later on.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but why is a private company even been allowed to test kids? In a nutshell: because a profound ideological shift has occurred in the last 40 years, which dictates that nearly all aspects of public li
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Any test of students' abilities whose efficacy can be substantially weakened by leaking is, from its very design, just not a good test. Even my HS teachers (who designed their entire curriculum -- front to back) were hip to this. They
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The online dating site sued for targeting married people(bbc.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that w
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Virginia school suspends an 11-year-old for one year over a leaf that wasn’t MJ(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
rent control basically traps people in a single apartment for the rest of their lives. It doesn't "trap" anyone; that's just hyperbole. The main effect is that it gives a significant number of people a chance to stay i
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
As noted by others here, it discourages maintenance and property improvements to rent control units. The landlord has an incentive to create a terrible living situation to get the tenant to move out. An enforcement in issue. In NYC the l
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
I got the impression he was hiding his own fear of inadequacy behind a wall of disapproval and smack talk. I know this method. I used to use it myself, when I felt for sure I’d be fired from the team as soon as they realized I’d never used
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Using Digital Realism to Restage Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ Research(journals.plos.org)
1 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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Indian bridegroom dumped over failed maths test(bbc.com)
2 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Families of the dead ultimately received $5,000 each, plus one goat. Unit cost of the MQ-1 Predator: $4.03M Program cost, as of 2011: $2.38B
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Twitter Finally Banned Revenge Porn. Now How to Enforce It?(wired.com)
1 points by dreamweapon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
To be fair, the potential consequences of a market trade -- or even a feint at a trade, as a certain proportion of HFT trades are widely suspected to be -- can be far greater (and more difficult to predict) than those of doing a Google se
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
"Shook to its core" is more than a bit overstated.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
You're reading too much into it. The person I responded to (at the second iteration) seemed not to be aware of precisely these externalities -- so I was providing clarification, nothing more.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Empirical evidence gleaned from day-to-day observation (not to mention numerous news reports) suggest that a significant portion of the population is basically clueless about the limitations of this technology. They're also basicall
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
Until the day comes when balloons stop working for some reason. That's when the fun begins.
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by dreamweapon 12y ago
The fun begins when people start going out to places currently not well-served by the usual mapping services -- places they normally wouldn't think of going, without extraordinary precautions -- thinking "Hey great, looks like we

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