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Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Isao Takahata Dies at 82(japantimes.co.jp)
1 points by ggreer 9y ago|0 comments
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Sway and client side decorations(drewdevault.com)
1 points by ggreer 9y ago|0 comments
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by ggreer 9y ago
You have the causality backwards. Places with a high risk of robbery tend to install security measures such as cameras. This doesn't eliminate robberies, but it does reduce them.
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by ggreer 9y ago
This isn't the first time I've heard of such a thing. From When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick Jr: > “He’s a big fan of yours, too, pal, ever since the bone flap thing.” The bone flap inci
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by ggreer 9y ago
I've had the exact opposite reaction to the change. So many common actions seem needlessly difficult. Take –for example– joining a wifi network. In Unity, you'd click on the wifi icon in the upper-right, then click on the network
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by ggreer 9y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Neither "Hey Siri" nor Siri itself is enabled by default. It takes 3 seconds to disable if you ever change your mind. To imply otherwise is either ignorant or disingenuous.
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by ggreer 9y ago
You can turn it off by going to Settings -> Siri & Search -> Listen for "Hey Siri". It's not silently enabled by default. You choose on or off when setting up the device.
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by ggreer 9y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a real-world case that took place in Australia around 30 years ago.[1] Apologies for the length. It's not easy to accurately summarize: > Height of the antipodean summer, Mercury at the ce
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by ggreer 9y ago
Those apps have voice and video features, so it makes sense that they'd request microphone access. (And iOS lets you disable those specific features if you want.) iOS also shows an indicator if an app is using the microphone. This is t
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by ggreer 9y ago
That's correct. Apps must request access to the microphone, and iOS shows an indicator while the app is recording. This is pure confirmation bias. If someone tests this and doesn't get a relevant ad from Facebook, they won't
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Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning(slatestarcodex.com)
98 points by ggreer 9y ago|20 comments
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by ggreer 9y ago
> Tell me about the small mammal BRAINS that you have cryopreserved and revived with any evidence of retention of memories or prior training. Nobody has revived a small mammal brain because unlike kidneys, we don't yet have the tech
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by ggreer 9y ago
I can think of several things: - If neuroscientists find that long term memory is encoded in something not preserved by cryonics. (Such as pH levels around certain neurons, or some weird quantum phenomena.) - If small animals such as mice a
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by ggreer 9y ago
> I think it's very unlikely that this company will be able to keep the bodies preserved until we develop the technology to revive them. "Very unlikely" seems too pessimistic. Alcor is almost half a century old, and their
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by ggreer 9y ago
Pascal's Wager posits an infinitely large reward, meaning that even a tiny (but finite) chance of the proposition being true still has an infinite expected value. Cryonics has a large (but still finite) reward. If you think the chances
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by ggreer 9y ago
> If you assume technology will be fantastic enough one day to revive your perished brain, what holds back the caution that this same technology cannot be used to subject you to inescapable torture? This is a sci-fi scenario, not a reali
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by ggreer 9y ago
> I understood you I'm sorry but you don't. (Also, don't I get to decide that, not you?) > Freedom of conscience seems pretty uncontroversial, and it's what Paine is talking about in the quote you gave (on my inter
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by ggreer 9y ago
It's usually pretty clear, and if it's not then it's best to err on the side of free speech. Declaring one's desire to overthrow western society is not a threat or an incitement to violence. Here's an example of wha
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by ggreer 9y ago
You misunderstand me. I thought it was clear that I was talking about ideas, not threats or inciting mobs. You'll have a hard time finding any self-described free speech absolutist who thinks those should be permitted.
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by ggreer 9y ago
Instead of buying a new car, you could just use the adaptor that comes with the phone.
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by ggreer 9y ago
Bump firing can be done with many unmodified semi-automatic firearms, though I hear special bump-stocks can increase accuracy and rate of fire. A trigger crank is pretty easy to construct. There are few moving parts, and nothing needs to wi
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by ggreer 9y ago
Can you please give a concrete example of what you are talking about? As I've said: you can't always escape a threat. What "aggressive and assertive action" will you take if some crazy person tries to cave your head in w
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by ggreer 9y ago
A cryptic response. Besides running away (which is often not possible) what other options are there?
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by ggreer 9y ago
> For example, I am a pacificist. When I tell this to people, they sometimes assume I would stand aside and do nothing if a loved one was threatened with violence. This seems like an own-goal, as the popular perception of pacifism is jus
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The Price Is Always Right(putanumonit.com)
1 points by ggreer 9y ago|0 comments
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by ggreer 9y ago
I also tried it at Umami Burger, but mine was cooked medium. It dripped pinkish juice similar to a medium-cooked burger. I found it surprisingly close to the real thing. Most people would guess correctly in a blind test, but if you served i
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by ggreer 9y ago
> Where oh where is the x60 of today? It's an ordeal, but it's possible to have one. This[1] is my primary computer. It's an X61 chassis with a Core i7-5600U, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. The screen is a 12" 1400x1050 IP
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Highlights from the Comments on My Institutional Review Board Nightmare(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by ggreer 9y ago|0 comments
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by ggreer 9y ago
It's a pinnacle of engineering in the same way that a vehicle made entirely of jello is. Impressive? Extremely. Interesting? Very! Practical? Not so much. I think most of the detraction comes from people who think that impressive thing
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by ggreer 9y ago
> Maybe, or maybe we'll discover in 10 years that eating lab grown meat gives you some form of cancer. Until it is used on a large scale for a number of years (as in decades) we have no idea what the effect of consuming lab grown me

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