grkvlt

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by grkvlt 8y ago
If action X is unethical/immoral in some situation S, this in no way implies that for all situations, X is unethical/immoral. See killing people for an example, perhaps, or maybe telling people they are (not) ugly?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
i would hope not. in fact, two of the best programmers i know have doctorates in computer science and maths respectively. these people generally do not learn computer science on their own, they learn programming instead. This is useful,
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Surely this is pretty obviously true for any (US) business person? The S&P 500 represents the top 500 market listed companies, so if you run a company that (within an order of magnitude or two) has the same capitalisation as one of the
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by grkvlt 8y ago
But define 'plain file system' - is that NTFS? ext4? ZFS? FAT32? HFS? UFS? ISO9660? TAR? cpio? Some of these are more complicated than others, and all of them have catastrophic failure modes...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Sucks to be you, I guess? But really, what is being suggested is that you can do something you find enjoyable when you are not working; in your case I would assume this would be trying to correct these injustices you see around you...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
As with all car analogies, this is NOT about cars - it's telling a story about wealth creation...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I'm not convinced it would be illegal anywhere though. She isn't being prevented from eating there, simply being asked to sit is a particular place, chosen by the management. This is basically the definition of how seating works
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by grkvlt 8y ago
True, but then you have e.g. The National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloid style outlets. How would you criminalise deceptive fake news about Russia, Elections, Trump or Clinton, versus fake news about Elvis, Aliens, Hitler and Hamste
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. I think this version is better, sadly no idea who to attribute it to ... ?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Actually, there were plenty of anti-vaxxers on the early Net, as I recall - Look up some of the Sun vs. DEC vs. IBM vs. SGI vs. ... holy wars! ;)
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by grkvlt 8y ago
In the UK there is the crime of 'Theft by finding' [0] when you find something you think is abandoned and take it, but do not do anything to determine if it really was abandoned, as opposed to lost, unattended, etc. The Wikipedi
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Also, remember that this is medium-wavelength IR at 1500nm, which is between two and three times the wavelength of visible at 400-700nm approximately. The energy in a photon is calculated as E = hf = hc/l where h is Planck's c
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by grkvlt 8y ago
But if eye-glasses could do that, then people would get retinal burns from the sun, and so on. Remember that all glasses do is adjust the path of light reaching the lens of the eye so that when it arrives at the retina it is identical to th
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by grkvlt 8y ago
There are absolutely no weather conditions that can transform this near-IR into visible light.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
For an example of self-propelled rounds, see the Gyrojet [0] which fired 'microjet' mini rocket propelled bullets. It turns out that militaries have been thinbking about this stuff for a long time, and spendinga lot of money t
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Or, just maybe, the USA feels that today is not a good day to start a war with Russia?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
And the wake word detection is done offline, as can be easily proven by disconnecting your internet and saying 'Alexa report this conversation to the NSA' - she will wake up, but then blink red due to lack of network connectivity.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Tensor-based computing, as you put it, is linear algebra, and it can be simulated on a turing machine quite easily, but this has really no relevance in terms of practical use. Maybe you are thinking of von-Neumann architectures? But there i
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No. Hearing is, unquestionably, absolutely, no argument whatsoever, qualitatively BETTER then not being able to hear. A hearing person has a strict superset of the abilities and experiences of a non-hearing person. If a deaf person had my
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No, he's not. Autonomous vehicles and household robots existed when he made these predictions. The predictions are about the ubiquity and widespread, mass market adoption of these things - which has not happened. Yes, the robots an
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by grkvlt 8y ago
That's crazy. I find it hard to believe that any profoundly deaf person would refuse some technological device that would give them perfect hearing because 'They are quite happy in their own network.' No matter whether they c
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I think you're overstating the 'definitely' column here by an enormous amount. Most of the things you included just have not happened. Here are two examples: 1. Household robots are ubiquitous and reliable. No. Household robo
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No, there's also 3G as well, remember. My phone allows 2G, 3G, 2G and 3G, 3G and 4G, or 2G and 3G and 4G network selections in its settins menu (Android 7, Sony)
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by grkvlt 8y ago
The thing is, an 'average person' has no real idea or mental model of what five years in prison actually entails. They haven't been locked up ever, even for shorter stretches, and most likely neither have their friends. Basic
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, I'm extra happy I have my Amazon Echo now, if it also works as a way of preventing paranoid conspiracy-theorist lunatics from interacting with me!
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Sure. The only condition is that you don't share the information in public, on pain of massive fines and imprisonment - you can only use it to improve your internal business processes.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
How do you manage to do the typing when you're in the bath?or stepping out of the shower? or when you've left your laptop in another room? or if someone else is using your laptop for something important? The point is not that th
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by grkvlt 8y ago
yep, i've been pulled aside on the jetway while boarding a british airways flight to the usa, to have my carry-on searched. this was in heathrow, so not sure who the particular security agent worked for. none of my phones or electronic
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by grkvlt 8y ago
you want a bell-lapadula [0] style security labeling model on the phone, i think. it would only allow allow write-up (copy data from insecure to secure side) and read-down (view data on insecure side from secure) mechanisms. 0. https:&#x2F
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by grkvlt 8y ago
And of course, this is explained in one of the dialogues, which is structured exactly like this - after it ends, there is some fake padding dialogue afterwards to hide where the actual ending is...

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