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Let’s talk about sex robots(nature.com)
3 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
I have no intention of contradicting that, but if so, that makes it all the more disturbing the organizations where this if not only standard operating procedure but just one tool among many similar ones.
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by etiam 9y ago
Love the robot, but I'm uncomfortable at what I see as an implication in the article that now the astronauts should stop taking pictures and do more productive things instead. I'm pretty sure there's values to that activity b
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by etiam 9y ago
> in the context of the present discussion it can only be taken for what is known as a "strawman argument" Not at all. I'm sure if you make a sincere effort you could, for instance, find a way to take it as a (little-nee
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by etiam 9y ago
On (2), I do know that FEL analysis of small samples such as the ones for protein structure analysis entails completely disintegrating them (off goes all the electrons, then the nuclei quickly realize they have nothing in common anymore and
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by etiam 9y ago
Thank you all. It took me a while to get back to this thread and see your replies, but I very much appreciate them. I'm convinced that you just pushed my over the limit to finally start learning org-mode. And the examples sound lovely.
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by etiam 9y ago
I find some measure of joy in how remarkable that is. Ignoring the disagreeable parts of reality may be pleasant as long as reality's ignoring you back, but when it presents real dangers, ignorance is a recipe for getting into real tro
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That’s a Big Microscope(bunniestudios.com)
95 points by etiam 9y ago|32 comments
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First Look to Support Defense of Reality Winner in Espionage Act Prosecution(theintercept.com)
2 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
Is anyone aware of a way to get notebook style Lisp inside Emacs? Along the lines of what EIN does for Python? I really like the notebook format but I've yet to come across a browser window so good that I'm happy to give up an act
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by etiam 9y ago
Is it instead? Since Facebook and their ilk are surveilling us largely out of greed, surely making the work less profitable for them has some merit as a tool for counter? As is often the case, a true solution probably does need to be polit
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by etiam 9y ago
I remember looking for those models some years back. http://www.fencepost.net/2010/03/usb-flash-drives-with-hardw... https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/usb-thumb-drives-wi...
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by etiam 9y ago
Not spot on the same issue perhaps, but these sorts of effects are an important reason I cringe at the uptake of newspeak like "alternative facts" by regular media and writers. If you not only let your adversary pick the framing b
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by etiam 9y ago
I think it's a shame vbuwivbiu's answer was killed, because though it was brief I find it's quite insightful. Intuition may be a good guide in contexts which matter strongly for broad well-being under the conditions we evolve
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by etiam 9y ago
See nisa's recommendation for the 'about' link, which is very informative.
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Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees(nature.com)
729 points by etiam 9y ago|214 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
I think your point about the frequently gradual nature of the concept is a very good one, and I'll buy that there may be appropriate analogies to a black box in this context, especially if some sort of poetic or metaphoric descriptio
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by etiam 9y ago
1.) For the umpteenth time, they're not black boxes. We can inspect everything in the structure. 2.) "a team of computer-vision researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)" may hav
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by etiam 9y ago
...and some thoughts on the matter by another lab member: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2017/06/30/what-good-is-a-not-...
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by etiam 9y ago
The followup has arrived: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2017/06/30/eternal-petya-from-...
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by etiam 9y ago
Fair point, but the much to the chagrin of other Americans the US of A citizens seem to get a lot of acceptance for their use of the word. And it's pretty clear from context here what's intended.
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by etiam 9y ago
Having a tangible, beautiful object, often with additional art and conveniently readable and viewable extra information, a dead end?! From where I sit, almost all the rest of the world are who went wrong, with impoverished, locked-in stream
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Twitter and Facebook help spark protest movements. Then they undermine them(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 9y ago
Not even a day after the killings. The opportunism is staggering.
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by etiam 9y ago
Resurrected. Do we really censor things like this out of view? I know it's somewhat susceptible to irrational, heated discussion, but for ongoing, dangerous events with the potential to affect the election agenda in an influential nati
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by etiam 9y ago
It wouldn't take a major leap of reasoning to think one of the main motivations is to influence the imminent election and capitalize on the extra media attention available to be had from doing it at this point in time.
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by etiam 9y ago
"Emulate the neocortex" is at best a metaphoric shorthand that will be misunderstood by many, and quite likely the wrong way of thinking about it. It is certainly not to be taken literally. There are plenty of things going on in a
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by etiam 9y ago
Nice! Maybe I won't need to implement this myself then. Now if only someone would release designs for an affordable, reliable, non-destructive robot to do the physical data collection... My backlog of notes is way to big to stand aroun
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China expands DNA data grab in troubled western region(nature.com)
1 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Won’t Say If They’ll Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements(theintercept.com)
4 points by etiam 9y ago|0 comments

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