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by eggoa 16y ago
And Disney imitates 1920 Buster Keaton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpQ-K7n2uc
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by eggoa 17y ago
I guess that's the right answer, but it's not really satisfying. If the servants can walk off with the safe to crack it at their leisure, how is it secure?
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by eggoa 17y ago
And the general reaction (on Hacker News and elsewhere) was ridicule and disbelief. Schneier explains why he thinks this is naive.
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by eggoa 17y ago
Yes, "the future becomes the past". But I think the point of this article to to reconcile this concept with experiments that affect the past. From page 17, discussing such experiments: "Many of them in fact assume that the future already e
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by eggoa 17y ago
http://arxiv.org/
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by eggoa 17y ago
Power Grid is good. Less random chance, less trying to trick your friends into making bad trades.
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by eggoa 17y ago
But there is something to be said for player elimination. Sometimes I like to have a graceful way to quit a game I'm certainly going to lose!
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by eggoa 17y ago
I've downloaded a few versions of the "Danish text" from scribd, and I can't find the numbers that this article is quoting. It seems that it was just drafted with placeholders like "$X" and "[XX]%". Can anyone tell me what language in the
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by eggoa 17y ago
I'd like to see this re-tried with $1000 on the line. As it was done, the AI only had to convince the gatekeeper to forgo no more than $20. I'm not saying it wouldn't still be possible, I just doubt he'd be two-for-two at this point. Edit:
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by eggoa 17y ago
The windows installer seems to work well in Wine. (But open source would be nicer.)
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by eggoa 17y ago
Where I live you can access JSTOR for free, logging in through the public library's website. This only covers a lot a of liberal arts material as well as journals for some of the "softer" sciences (and it's licensed for personal, education
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by eggoa 17y ago
We've heard from plenty of sources on this climate center hacking business. We really don't need an article from the Washington Times!
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by eggoa 17y ago
SCOTUSblog has the transcript, if you're interested. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/todays-transcripts-66/
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by eggoa 17y ago
"full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts" If it's actually comprehensive, this is a very big deal. I don't know how LexisNexis Westlaw are going survive now that Google is giving away a
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by eggoa 17y ago
Just to clarify, the issue in this article isn't exactly expiration or lapse, it's just the possibility of transferring ownership.
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by eggoa 17y ago
I hope this doesn't end up equating having English as a second language with supidity.
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by eggoa 17y ago
It just means that the virgin group has a higher percentage of homosexuals than the non-virgin group.
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by eggoa 17y ago
Exactly. Regarding the "passive voice" see Victims of Page 18: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1485
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by eggoa 17y ago
Apparently that is the "hard problem" of conciousness: How does the mind produce concious experience? The topic of this article is the "soft problem": Why is it useful to conciousness at all?
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by eggoa 17y ago
I just tried it on my wimpy celeron laptop running Ubuntu. The desktop client maxes out my CPU and drops frames, while Hulu shows run smoothly in firefox (with some cycles to spare). So, for me anyway, it's actually worse than normal Hulu.
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by eggoa 17y ago
It's super boring. Glossaries; descriptions of different kinds of file cabinets, envelopes, and fences; a diagram of how to tape an envelope shut; forms for security guards to fill out; etc. Plus lots of, "This page intentionally left blank
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by eggoa 17y ago
I first read about this in an article in Analog Science Fiction magazine. The technology sounded cool but the venue of publication seemed inauspicious. . . I really hope this produces something.
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by eggoa 17y ago
The paper is available at: http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/RedNoise.pdf This quote just about summarizes every post-apocalyptic movie I've ever seen. "After this fixation of pure horizontal learning, occurring very approximat
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by eggoa 17y ago
"Since small business constitute 99.2% of all employer businesses in California, and all of non-employer business, the regulatory cost is borne almost completely by small business." This a non-sequitur. According to www.sba.gov, small busi
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by eggoa 17y ago
Original paper at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp7112297
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by eggoa 17y ago
"At its most basic level, Cortera’s service enables any business to rate any other business on how they pay their bills." This isn't really a consumer issue. It doesn't reflect customer service, just reliability in re bill-paying.
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by eggoa 17y ago
This journal seems to have a definite political agenda. http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/91/strange-bedfello...