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by gradys 13y ago
It's identical to the drive being overwritten by actual random bits, which some people do, so I would say that doesn't count as a signature.
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by gradys 13y ago
You might find The Mind's I [1], co-edited by Dan Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter, to be valuable. In particular, a piece called "Prelude... Ant Fugue" [2], written by Hofstadter, covers some of this territory. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org
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by gradys 14y ago
Would you mind expanding on this a bit? How exactly does it contribute to Microsoft's performance in new fields? This is a completely genuine question. I'm not an apologist just trying to defend MS in a roundabout way.
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by gradys 14y ago
I think this is an overly cynical view. Minecraft is actually fun, particularly with friends. The multiplayer experience is in a niche essentially on its own. This great multiplayer experience encourages people to get enlist their friends t
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by gradys 14y ago
It seems to me that building a complete model of the human brain would necessarily be identical to creating a strong AI. If they build an incomplete model of a human brain then they have nonetheless created an (incomplete) strong AI.
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by gradys 14y ago
I know very little about finance, so treat this as a genuine question: what would be wrong with preventing people from buying or selling in such a tiny window? What would be the downside?
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by gradys 14y ago
Well, Facebook can tell how often you interact with certain people. They can determine certain things about the content of those interactions. They can detect how similar your friend graph is to another person's. They know that your grandma
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by gradys 14y ago
Homepages aren't designed to appeal to people who have already signed up for the service. At least in Github's case, the homepage is purely for marketing.
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by gradys 14y ago
What is Valve's plan for getting developers to actually develop for Linux? Is the hope that the chance to be compatible with Valve's hardware will encourage enough other developers to get on board?
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by gradys 14y ago
While the P5 (US, UK, France, Russia, and the PRC) have veto power on the Security Council, they don't necessarily have veto power in the body discussed in the article. Theoretically, the Security Council could pass a resolution to stop the
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by gradys 14y ago
College junior here. I am very glad to have taken as many AP classes as I have. I took 9 AP tests and did well enough on them to get credit for all of them them at my top 25 university. I started college with around 45 credits. More importa
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by gradys 14y ago
I would recommend doing something about the demo page. It is going to give people a bad first impression of the tool even if it is awesome. Maybe either turn off collaboration (which would greatly detract from the value of the demo, I know)
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by gradys 14y ago
That was also the conclusion I drew, but it makes me wonder why that would take too much power to be practical on a smartphone as the article suggests. It seems like it would only need to capture the text of the question and push it over th
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by gradys 14y ago
Great work! A few things: - I think your front page might be a little bit confusing. Are you providing a tool or are you explaining how documentation should be written? Upon reading more closely, it looks like you are doing both, but since