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by gonvaled 12y ago
I do no get this. How is the chance of gains less than 1 in a trillion? This is not an all-or-nothing bet: outperforming the market by a very tiny margin also qualifies him for the title. So you do not really need 1 trillion managers to g
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by gonvaled 12y ago
What the German government should do is to refuse intelligence gathered using criminal methods (and push for an international prosecution of the American officials involved in such actions), and request information sharing gathered by leg
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Nobody is saying the government can not collect intelligence (and pass it to their allies), but that it should do so lawfully.
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Well, they will need to do a bit more than that to change the prevailing perception that they are up to no good (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish and http://www.theregister.co.
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by gonvaled 12y ago
I see. So, basically, whenever a woman has a trait which we consider bad, it is because they are actually men under cover? It is not very surprising then that by defining "woman = good" we are going to get "woman == good&quot
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Well, you should be saying that there isn't a very large difference. Or maybe there is, but in the opposite way that you are suggesting. The US has the same motivation (proven by the leaks and media reports) of spying on people. More
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Of course he is the good guy! He is the president from the USA, remember!? I saw American Sniper the other day, and it is very clear that they are the good guys, even when they are killing little kids. You can see it because it is so damn
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by gonvaled 12y ago
That would be true if it were not for the fact that targeting comfortably from your desk makes it much more likely that you do not care about killing people. It is just a game, after all. And you are the good one!
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Side thought: what is the purpose of designing a humanoid robot? To make it tolerable to humans. What is the purpose of designing a terrifying humanoid robot (even if it is covered by fake nice-looking flesh)? None whatsoever! Whatever sh
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by gonvaled 12y ago
If I shoot you and you die, I have killed you. If I hadn't shot you, you would have not died (by my shot). You would have (maybe) still died by somebody else's shot. You don't know that.
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Why? - Because your government is "better"? (for some definition of "better") - Because you expect that it will protect the interests of its citizens? - Any other reason?
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by gonvaled 12y ago
I think the author is confused: isomorphic javascript's goal is not to run the same code on server and client - that is just a (minor) side effect, for some components. The main goal is to split the UI generation at a more clear bounda
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by gonvaled 12y ago
This is funny: > Central banks are political entities which exist at the behest of government. And as such, they will always need to be mindful of politics if they are to maintain political favor and to keep their independence. So, to re
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by gonvaled 12y ago
It will be difficult for a malnourished and disarmed majority, with little information about the structure of power, to raise against an AI army. And until the AI army is ready, the AI capitalists can finance an elite of soldiers to keep th
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Or, more people (all those becoming unemployed because of advances in AI) will chase the little jobs remaining (those not taken over by AI), creating three classes: A) the 1%: capitalists financing (and controlling) AI, will get phenomenal
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by gonvaled 12y ago
State terrorism, anyone? Sure not, it is not terrorism if you get the right do define it!
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by gonvaled 12y ago
It seems your definition of "it is possible" seems to be "he got immensely rich". Being rich is a comparison: you are only rich compared to poorer people. So, by definition, only very few people can "make it":
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Science does not "prove anything". It just offers an explanation which can be falsified (can be described objectively, and makes predictions which, if refuted, disprove the theory). Other belief systems are based on non-falsifiabl
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by gonvaled 12y ago
SPOILER ALERT The science was basically non-existing: controlling a distant device with gravitational waves? Which can only be controlled whenever it is in a specific room? Which stores the information transmitted and repeats it endlessly (
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Is the system corrupt? Probably! But the government is there to protect the interest of the voters. Democracy is flawed, as is human nature, as is capitalism. There is no pure system. We need a combination of all of them. And, sometimes, we
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Capitalism is the recognition by consumers that human nature is flawed, and that the profit motive is king, and that free enterprise has the potential of benefiting society. The empowerment of a government to interfere in the market is the
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Only the data physically on the smartphone gets encrypted. All information (emails, documents, photos, ...) in the cloud is up for grabs.
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by gonvaled 12y ago
What if the universe is a black hole, with a very big (and growing?) Schwarzschild radius? That nothing can escape a black hole does not mean nothing can't exist within a black hole ...
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Great stuff! Can this be used as a library? Python bindings?
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by gonvaled 12y ago
I for one am convinced that aging and death is an evolutionary error (from the point of view of the host, not of the genes!), which can be solved with technology. Like all technological problems, it is just a matter of dedicating enough bra
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by gonvaled 13y ago
It is not unreasonable to think that "God is less likely than Russell's teapot", but it is definitely unreasonable to say "I am sure god does not exist" since, by definition, god is untestable. I guess that what I a
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by gonvaled 13y ago
There are lots of atheism and agnostic variations. Actually an agnostic can be also an atheist (or a theist, by the way). But here you have a nice explanation: http://atheism.wikia.com/wiki/Atheist_vs_Agnostic As expla
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by gonvaled 13y ago
"Faith and science can co-exist, but atheism has a belief that they can't." Of course they can co-exist, and atheism has nothing to say against religion: religion, by definition, is non-falsifiable, so atheism can not negate
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Atheism is not a belief: it is a non-belief.
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Microsoft killed (or at least delayed, so much that they are not yet here) Linux laptops. I am using a Linux laptop (no M$ tax), but it was not easy to find. And it is not state of the art (HP 635). Microsoft has forced me to continuousl

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