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by fburnaby 17y ago
Perhaps MS word was worse 10 years ago. I think there is only one argument in the article that has stayed relevant, which is that word is a big complicated crash-prone program, whereas it's preferable to have a lightweight text editor. Ther
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Some don't. Others are very willing to make extremely bold truth claims near constantly.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I'm told by an (admittedly pretty crappy-looking) online test ( http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jTypes2.asp ) that I'm an INTJ, with strong NT, but only weak I and J components. I don't know anything about the Meyers-Briggs scale beyond
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by fburnaby 17y ago
When we're talking about how much money is involved with this research, and claiming it as an incentive for climate scientists to lie, we realize that this is money that's being spent on research right? Do we? There is no incentive for th
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by fburnaby 17y ago
This is the obvious interpretation. You'd have to be trying to libel someone if you were to interpret it any other way...
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by fburnaby 17y ago
For me, it's this glass trackpad. No more carrying around mice! I picked up my mac primarily for that, but I've ended up doing the same thing the author did. The OS/X side of this computer just works. I need to boot up a VM and run Ubuntu 2
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by fburnaby 17y ago
What makes me feel tired is reading words in ALL CAPS LOCK; this isn't the year 1999, or 2004. Heck, it's not even 2008...
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by fburnaby 17y ago
And furthermore, this is the reason why we have them licensed.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
To the author: That's too funny that you were doing this at Dartmouth college. I commented after your last post to HN on this topic that I'm helping (by teaching tutorial sessions with the prof) do much the same thing in a linear algebra cl
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by fburnaby 17y ago
So pretty much - don't work, and don't worry that you're not working. Then you'll feel motivated to work!
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by fburnaby 17y ago
This is a fun paradox: someone who graduated from {MIT, Harvard, etc.} can't say they did, since it would be elitist. They can stop mentioning their Alma mater when they realize that it sounds elitist to mention it. But then it just seems
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by fburnaby 17y ago
That's exactly what I'm getting, and living on (though not in NY admittedly). Hardly the -$45,000 claimed by in the article, and either way, it's better than the $0 involved with doing the research independantly.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
What about drowsiness? If sleep is just a behavior for keeping us out of harm's way, shouldn't we be able to just "switch back on" upon being awaken? Granted, sometimes we do just start awake. But still, staying out of harm's way and restin
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by fburnaby 17y ago
A very cool experiment, and I hope it goes well. But don't you get funded to do a Ph.D? Isn't this more expensive (i.e. no stipend) than actually going to a school? I suppose it may be hard to interest a university in some research on ope
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by fburnaby 17y ago
3+3=6, 30/5=6. Sorry for the snark, but what's your proposed interpretation? That it's all socioeconomic?
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by fburnaby 17y ago
That was my snarky point.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Interesting - how? Isn't the means of production also much higher for mechanized farming? I'm hardly an expert so I'd love an explanation if I'm wrong, but I figured that the extra services involved in the larger-scale operations would al
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by fburnaby 17y ago
If the practices can be sustained, then we've increased the carrying capacity. To revert to traditional practices could decrease it again. The bigger the difference between our population size and carrying capacity, the worse that ride down
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I can second that. I took up buying my vegetables from a few hippies around town last year. They deliver to my door for the same price the (non-organic) vegetables would have cost at the grocery store. Though, I think a lot of this improved
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by fburnaby 17y ago
They're the best at capitalism.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
It's a joke, but I'm afraid it's author doesn't seem to think so.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
He's pointing out that it souds like "pedobus". Exactly what the parents are trying to avoid.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I wonder how many get hit by cars careening onto the sidewalk, while walking to school alone, while evading would-be kidnappers?
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I'm just about to start lecturing the tutorials for a linear algebra class next week. The prof that is running the course taught it to me 4 years ago and is the reason I'm now in grad school. She did more or less the same thing that you me
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by fburnaby 17y ago
It would be just as much of an academic service for you to help find a out that AI can't work is it would be if you found out it can. The problem is inherently interesting and worthwhile pursuing, regardless. Phlogiston theory brought on
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Searle is an atheistic (I think - at least he's nonreligious) philosopher who agrees with you. He argued against "functionalism" - which is pretty much the stance that most here are taking - that consciousness is a complex adaptive process,
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by fburnaby 17y ago
"Down with the pointy-headed academics! Their magical theories have failed us again!" It is ridiculous to blame academics for forming and publishing theories. The theories did not cause anything to happen. Someone who didn't understand them
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Very true. That's a problem that in principle can be fixed, though. Your "fake" sciences can in principle all be approached using the scientific method. They are actually real sciences. It's just a portion of the practitioners that hurt
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by fburnaby 17y ago
For me, it just started to work naturally once my parents (finally) got a computer 9 years ago. I thought you just spend some time in front of a computer and it starts to happen...
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I completely share Russell's distaste for the practices of pushy salesmen, but I absolutely can't side with him in condemning them and blaming the cultural problem that he identifies on them. The salespeople are a wasteful symptom of our

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