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by ewzimm 10y ago
This reads almost like an existential crisis. Glenn Beck is an interesting mixture of honest self-reflection and partisan blindness. He both praises Silicon Valley for sharing values of business innovation and self determination and at the
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by ewzimm 10y ago
If you're on iOS, you should use Google Hangouts to communicate with people across iOS, Android, and Chrome. But it doesn't integrate with the portable Google Voice number, so you'll also want that app. And now YouTube has be
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by ewzimm 10y ago
You could take that concept pretty far. There's no computer system that doesn't involve a human element (CS101). And yet some of the most clever people spend their time finding ways to hack the machine element. Their work inevita
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Or better yet engineer a more efficient replacement for the central nervous system. 100 years in the future at increasing rates of technological development, it seems very likely that we could engineer a substance that could interface with
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by ewzimm 10y ago
To understand where the Dalai Lama is coming from, you should understand the states of transition that Buddhists identify as the relationship between the physical world and consciousness. These are sometimes called the five aggregates. I ca
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by ewzimm 10y ago
You're right, of course, but I have to do something to break up all the time I spend reading EULAs and terms of service for all the websites I visit.
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by ewzimm 10y ago
Nothing beats being healthy, which is why I'm not one of these idiots who doesn't read labels. I've put in the work to optimize my purchasing habits, so I know that the average grocery store contains about 38,718 items. It on
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by ewzimm 10y ago
In the exact same way, you can change the app you use for searches on Windows to Google Now, even disable Cortana completely.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
With the most recent taxi I took, the driver didn't know how to program his GPS, so he handed it to me to program and then ignored it, so I had to also program my phone, which he also ignored, so I had to call out every turn several ti
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Yes, you're right. To clarify, I was talking about the injection of ethics into relationships. The concept here is that animals treat each other in a certain way, a lack of reciprocity, and so we should follow their lead and act the sa
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I do think the need part comes into play when you take into consideration resource constraints. If we end up poisoning the Earth beyond its ability to support life with rising demand for meat, we might need to stop.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Are you implying that if animals treated each other better, we would be obliged to do so as well? Are animals now our role models? I thought it was the other way around, that we valued our unique human cultures with our ideas of ethics and
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I tought angel had to move like a chess king or extend the movement. That restricts the extra 9 moves. But I see it considers movement as multiple movements of a chess king, so you're right. It doesn't have that restriction!
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Minimum specs. But what about when we want 8K-per-eye VR? It will always be possible to get better performance out of a bigger machine. Small form factor is great, but I wouldn't sacrifice quality for a smaller box when it's just
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's just a misleading title. It isn't about the death of the midrange computer in general, just about one person phasing out a form factor. All he says is that "for me" the midrange computer is dead. VR is definitely a
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Sorry! 8 is for the 1-angel. With a 2-angel you can go one step beyond in each, so 16.
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Thanks for the clarification. I do wonder what other kinds of things this math could apply to. It's pretty abstract, but if you want to direct an unpredictable agent toward a certain behavior, knowing where to place control mechanisms
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I only read the part about pretending the left half is blocked and using the left wall as a guide, which seems a lot more specific than just "go in one direction until you're approaching a trap and then change." I understand
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Couldn't the angel calculate when it's necessary to change direction and then do so, forcing the devil to begin constructing a new trap, and then keep repeating the same behavior? I'm sure there's a reason why this obvio
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I've been hearing just the opposite for the last few years, that nuclear power no longer makes economic sense in comparison to renewable energy. Renewables are just getting cheaper much, much faster than nuclear and don't require
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Interesting analysis, thanks. What do you think about the development of more radical redesigns like quanum computers, memristors, or anything else that might show promise to displace the traditional CPU? It seems that there's a lot go
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Seems to be a lot of people thinking Moore's Law ending means that innovation in computers is over. It's really just the opposite. We can't rely on simple scaling anymore, so we need to take more innovative steps to push comp
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Maybe it's because my first MMO was Neverwinter Nights, a 1991 game that took the Gold Box DnD experience online, but I think WoW has only gotten better with every expansion. When it came out, most people I knew disliked it for being t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
An FM transmitter that attaches to a smartphone gives a perfectly clear signal, costs less than $7, and only requires a cigarette lighter, standard in cars since the 1920's, and FM radio, standard since the 50's.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Although bots have been around for a long time, most of them have required precise commands. You're right that imprecision is why it can be successful, and the key to making this work is having manager interfaces like Siri, Cortana, Al
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by ewzimm 11y ago
What I said is that it's a contentious issue. It doesn't really matter what copyright is meant to be, only what it actually is, and there are both people who belive it's beneficial to society and people who believe it's
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I understand that you're simplifying, but I don't think social ill is the right word. It's more like a social good which is ill for the copyright holder. The question in that case is balancing the benefit to society against t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I hope you can see how other people see it very differently. First, basic income can be implemented different ways, including a base that everyone gets regardless of income, fair in the same way that everyone gets equal access to the roads
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Your perspective is perfectly valid, but I'd like to add another. It's possible to care about user freedoms and still think this is a good thing. It doesn't create any dependencies on Microsoft, just opens up opportunities fo
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I do the same thing! Even now, WiFi has poor support on Linux with many computers, especially newer business tablets, so VMs or remote desktops are the only options. This will mean I can get full performance.

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