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by goatcode 5y ago
>the strong force and the weak force. Is there a reason we're leaving "nuclear" off these forces' names now?
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by goatcode 5y ago
I could hope that the hackability could at least extend to changing behaviors not related to safety, but I'd imagine there would be some justification for just about anything being about safety.
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by goatcode 5y ago
> And the fact is that humans can't reliably identify emotions from photographs, so there's zero chance for AI. I believe there are a lot of examples of AI doing things that humans can't. Typically it's a matter of s
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by goatcode 5y ago
Hopefully there will be at least one company that will offer a hackable car. I'd hate to be locked into doing only the things the designers want me to do with a thing I own.
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by goatcode 6y ago
The vast variety and diversity of cultures and peoples historically in Northern Europe discovered after 10 minutes of looking makes both "white supremacists" and white-frighters look equally extremely silly. I understand the idea
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by goatcode 6y ago
> supposedly full of disgusting poor people and criminals, and run by slumlords who skimp on maintenance. Interestingly, back when housing was more affordable, they were, for that reason (using the lingo, of course not judging people).
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by goatcode 6y ago
Interesting: I went into reading this thinking in the context of programs. However, reading the replies here has made me realize it wasn't constrained to just that. For programs, there are better alternatives, especially if you'
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by goatcode 6y ago
I wonder how long it will take until the anti-?ism apologetics come out to justify this to headline-readers.
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by goatcode 6y ago
>If the fundamentalists are a problem, maybe there’s a problem with the fundamentals? What people call fundamentalists are often not all about the actual fundamentals. Rather, they're stuck on one or another bad, but still old idea
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by goatcode 6y ago
>The 0.01 percenters represent about 0.007 percent of the U.S. population I don't get that part. Does half the population not pay taxes, or are there people outside the US paying US taxes? Both?
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by goatcode 6y ago
Djikstra is the king of smarmy CS quotes.
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by goatcode 6y ago
> it would not be able to be reconstructed in the archive Much the same way as if one were to look at our own neural connections, it would not reveal our memories. The recall of some pieces lead to a reconstruction of the feeling or the
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by goatcode 6y ago
We may need to look into this further!
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by goatcode 6y ago
> It would be equivalent to say that lighthouses cause ships to run aground, because many teams when ships run aground it's near a lighthouse. But if a lighthouse manufactured coral reefs, and the coral reefs on which ships were run
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by goatcode 6y ago
The intense interest thing may be of help then. Getting over the activation hump can be challenging, otherwise. Pair programming might help with difficulty investing into learning things, as well.
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by goatcode 6y ago
From experience in dev, there are multitudes here with learning disabilities of many different kinds. Without knowing more specifics, I'd say just about anything is open to someone from a wide range of learning disabled backgrounds.
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by goatcode 6y ago
Thanks! I did a bit of digging around, and it looks like the BSE-causing prion can rarely, on ingestion, cause prion formation that causes CJD. So, if I understand correctly, it's not exactly a disease that transmits like a virus, it
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by goatcode 6y ago
Not being a biologist, I'll ask what might be a dumb question: If the essential elements of each disease are compared, is there a difference? Are the prions associated with each disease different from one another? If so, is there a d
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by goatcode 6y ago
>Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and some of its variants, including mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. I thought CJD and BSE were the same thing.
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by goatcode 6y ago
It's interesting that you can categorize a number of the top comments according to this list.
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by goatcode 6y ago
Are large gatherings allowed at all the planned locations? This seems a little tone-deaf.
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by goatcode 6y ago
Not to be confused with Techno Viking, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y
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by goatcode 6y ago
> devaluing rich people's money Do the very rich, the top 1% * n, keep much of their wealth in liquid currency?
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by goatcode 6y ago
The utilization of government assistance is the utilization of force and violence. If a small number of players do this, it is not a free market, was my main point. If there is a way to utilize government, it should come with the strings
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by goatcode 6y ago
> market-dominating I'm reminded of In-Q-Tel at times like these. I defy anyone to find more than 20% of wildly successful "tech giants" who have not received government funding and support. It's not a free market w
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by goatcode 6y ago
Reminder that a few hundred years ago, people typically worked a few months out of the year, and were able to live the whole year. The source(s) of the reason(s) we need to work nearly 5/7 of the year now is one element of why this is
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by goatcode 6y ago
Part of me wonders whether the thinking of those who don't has been affected by movie and television's portrayal as anyone who thinks as having an internal narrative. Granted, it's hard to convey an abstract thought through
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by goatcode 6y ago
> politics I agree. And there's a massive depth unwinding to that.
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by goatcode 6y ago
>This is the kind of government competence that only exists in the most wild conspiracy theories And, possibly, before the 1960s.
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by goatcode 6y ago
Bout 3.50

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