fl3tch

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by fl3tch 15y ago
Duress is not voluntary. If it's impossible to get by without a Facebook account, then that's just a less violent form of duress. Lots of ostensibly voluntary transactions between free agents are actually quite duressed.
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Occupy Wall St is about bringing attention to corporate control of government. The RIAA/MPAA influence on copyright legislation and enforcement is a specific example of that. So, the protests are in fact relevant. I know it has become popul
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> I don't know why a fake version of the real world is a better preparation for the real world that the real real world. Right! I don't know why doctors have to practice on cadavers. Stick a scalpel in their hand and let them operate! Y
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Even that cult of personality hasn't convinced Less Wrong...
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I see we're reading from the same playbook. It would be cleaner to abandon biology, but how do you design something smarter than yourself? Is it easier? Nobody has a clue since we've never purposefully created human intelligence or AGI.
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By "death", I assume you mean senescence: the natural biomolecular attrition that inexorably leads to organismal death absent of outside causes. It is true that turtles can live for almost 200 years and some plants can live for thousands of
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Models are tested by experiments. Freeze a dog for a few years and resuscitate it, then we can talk seriously about the value of cryopreservation. Until then, you're throwing your money away in a desperate grasp at immortality. And that's
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Advertising companies know everything you do online. They have "behavioral profiles" far more detailed than anything the Stasi had. We are in fact under much more surveillance, but the problem is not the government.
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I watched Jon Stewart's response to 9/11 on the night that it aired. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/sept... There's always something touching about seeing funny people be completely raw and out of character. Or ra
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Those of us who have been using Gnome 2 for years have already streamlined and optimized our work flow in that environment. Whenever the UI changes, it breaks existing patterns of behavior that we usually don't even think about anymore. Tha
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The DMV database is not publicly searchable by the whole world. That's an important distinction. Remember those dystopian visions of the future where microchips would be inserted under people's skin so they could be tracked? That future is
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Another warning, for photosensitive epileptics: there are rapidly flashing lights in that demo. I have a mild form of it and I started to feel weird, so if you're highly sensitive, you'll want to skip running the maze on the slide labeled "
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I'm an avid Firefox user, too, but I'm glad to see this happen. The competition has made Firefox better, faster.
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Or it could mean that each browser effectively has veto power over any innovation. If developers know that 25% of their visitors will be using a browser that doesn't support a particular standard or technology, that may prevent them from im
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What if you delete your account entirely? Do they delete your data then?
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by fl3tch 15y ago
There's also the Antisocial filter, which removes social widgets. https://adversity.googlecode.com/hg/Antisocial.txt It has many filters for Facebook, and I can clearly see, for example, the one for Facebook Connect.
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Phil Plait puts this into perspective: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...
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Yep, it's the modern day version of the good old fashioned shakedown. Maybe not as ruthless as the mafia of the 1930s, but the basic idea remains the same.
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Which makes me wonder what kind of connection Speedtest.net has.
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PubMed is your friend: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21850491