ejlo

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by ejlo 5y ago
The ones who fight cynism are the most cynic.
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by ejlo 10y ago
Here is a page with a lot of good examples of more accessible modern classical music: http://lukemuehlhauser.com/how-to-fall-in-love-with-modern-c...
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by ejlo 10y ago
Trump also has nothing to offer the rural midwest. The difference was that he pretended that he had. Even if manufacturing and coal mining where to increase ten fold, there would be no new jobs for people without a long education, due to au
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by ejlo 10y ago
Of course, things turned out way better for him than he could have planned, but that doesn't rule out that there was some plan behind it. Step 1. He also attacked pentagon and Washington. Imaging if the latter had succeeded! It's
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by ejlo 10y ago
It would have been quite stupid, though, to reveal the plan too early.
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by ejlo 10y ago
Of course, it's difficult to know for sure if that was the original plan or not. However the actions seem to be quite consistent with that strategy: Choosing Afghanistan (the grave of empires) as the base of operations, and the selecti
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by ejlo 10y ago
He seems to have completely missed the reason for 9/11, which is not strange since it was not until the 2004 speech ( http://worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm ) that bin Laden explained the reason for the attacks, na
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by ejlo 10y ago
Hmm, did you try searching for it before posting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_fi...
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by ejlo 10y ago
Mathematically, tau is clearly superior, since it represents a full circle. The question is whether the gain is big enough compared to the trouble of introducing a new constant. It's not like pi is going to disappear any time soon.
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by ejlo 10y ago
I think this poses a real threat to the open web itself. First we have DRM video and soon after music. Next the game industry wants to protect their source code. And app developers. After that come images. A lot of companies would love to d
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by ejlo 10y ago
Wow, 60 lives were saved and 40 persons less had surgical complications! Just in 3 month in Ontario. Of course, there was not enough data yet to conclude any improvement within the 95% confidence interval, but still, it does hint at a great
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by ejlo 11y ago
> The miseries from bank runs and crashes are real, but even so, the total impact on human welfare from fractional reserves has been overwhelmingly positive. It surely has been positive in the past but that does not mean it is positive n
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by ejlo 11y ago
An event like this is important as an eye opener, to show the citizens that there are alternatives to the current car focused city. If enough people like the alternative version, it will be easier to make reforms to reduce traffic in the fu
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by ejlo 11y ago
The tool for that is demurrage , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29 , which adds devaluation of the currency over time. This complements Basic Income very well, with UBI for money creation and demurr
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by ejlo 12y ago
Well, assuming you run the JIT on its own code it could be considered conscious to a tiny degree. It can analyze it's code, but only at a very low level, with no understanding of how it works. Also it can change its own code, but only
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by ejlo 12y ago
For me consciousness is "the ability to analyze and influence your own thoughts". This might not correspond 100% to what philosophers mean, but it has the immense advantage of making consciousness a well defined concept, and even