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I think it's possible that there's a subjective advantage to the simplicity of vinyl, the fact that the listener can see and easily comprehend some of how it works, and since music is subjective, it's the only quality that re
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What you're saying here seems to be backing up what Scott Adams is saying. I'm not saying you're an irrational person, but your arguments against him seem to be completely irrational, based on word associations rather than ar
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I don't think it's religious. It's more like a conjecture in mathematics, an idea meant to inspire questions. The fact that it poses more problems than it answers is the whole point! We know that systems can be nested. Do we
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Calling a group of millions of people mostly nihilistic says more about the accuser than the accused. It's the kind of thing "Berkeley types" would do to set an emotionally compelling narrative. Still makes for interesting re
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The game itself isn't the blueprint. The source code of the application used to play the game is a blueprint for learning and pattern recognition that can be applied to other things. For example, the DeepMind AI used to play Go has bee
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This is like asking, "why didn't they just build a new dam instead of spending so much time drawing up blueprints?" Games can be useful abstractions and guides that advance our understanding of the same decision making proces
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I think you hit on the critical point where this theory goes awry, which is the idea that there is something special about human or animal intelligence which puts it in an entirely different category of other types of information gathering
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There was a response to this which quoted some statistics, including the argument that overall crime had decreased in the USA while the illegal immigration population had increased. I wanted to respond, but it seems to be gone. This trend i
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People tend to ignore the negative consequences of causes they support. We all want to live in the best possible world, and it's hard to accept that any policy we choose will have serious negative consequences. We know for a fact that
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But he used that in advocating a "common sense" approach to security. It's nothing but a vague non-statement that government needs to make reasonable decisions. Your response is going to depend entirely on your opinion of Tru
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He was obviously talking about agreeing with the courts in this case, not every matter, which wouldn't even be a rational statement since courts disagree. He does speak in generalities, but so does every politician. He's often esp
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"Apple Inc. has received and objected to or challenged at least 11 orders" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute I'm not sure what I'm missing here. The position of the govern
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The government took the position that Apple should unlock the phone. Trump said he agreed. Which part did I miss? I'm honestly curious.
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I'm just responding to what was quoted here saying he agrees with the courts. Was there something in this interview or another that contradicts that?
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Not trying to be mean, but are you saying that Trump represents a new and terrifying threat to infosec because he "agrees 100%" with the existing courts and administration?
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Nice comparison, thanks. I wanted to stress "about" since no benchmark is going to be identical to real world performance.
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Going by benchmark aggregates from PassMark. 2860QM: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2860QM... 6700HQ: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700HQ... 6920HQ: http:&#x
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The high-end processor on the 2011 Macbook Pro was the 2860QM. Current options on the 15" are the 6700HQ, which is about 1% faster on single threads and 14% faster on multiple threads, and the 6920HQ, which is about 23% faster on singl
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This is a good description. I think people need to think of Super Mario Run more like Super Mario Kart. You can drive through all of that game's tracks in less than an hour too, but that doesn't mean the game is over.
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I would take that further and say that using restrictive licenses for opinions shows that the FSF is serious about freedom and not just biased against the idea of restrictive licenses.
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I thought someone might say that and considered explaining further, but didn't want to get too bogged down in details to distract from the point. I don't completely agree with the distinction, even though Stallman is the authority
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GNU Linux does dominate the computing world: servers, phones, and IoT, by far the majority of all hardware runs it. To your second point, I'm just describing a future in which almost all work is done by machines and humanity owns them
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I think the author's definition of capitalism is close to the Wikipedia version. "Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit." What postcapitalists ge
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Microsoft used to only lose money from people choosing Linux instead of Windows. Now the fastest growing part of their business is Azure servers. 40% of them and growing are Linux. Their CEO is from the Azure branch of the company, the plat
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This kind of article is exactly why it's hard to take criticism of Breitbart seriously. People are so offended of having sacred sensibilities offended that they can't see it's satire, a form of reductio ad absurdum at the cla
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I'm sorry. I honestly didn't even realize I worded it that way, and that's totally justifiable to call out. It was meant to flow from inserting opinions to an example of an opinion that used facts to push an agenda, but it wa
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I could give you examples of bias in reporting too, but when you look at a website as a whole, opinions are inserted right next to regular articles, and they're often hard to distinguish. This opinion piece is written a lot like a jour
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The best counter to fake news I've seen on Facebook is when they suggest similar articles that are written from an opposing side. That gives you an opportunity to get a much better view of things.
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I never said anything about it not being an opinion piece, just that it's published by the media. It's just a great example of how you can use words and repetition to create an association without actually accusing someone of some
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Calling people, checking facts, and getting quotes are also tactics to push an agenda. Most of the lies in the media are omissions they make, associations they imply, and opinions they insert. For example, the New York Times recently wrote

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