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by hodwik 10y ago
Film made everyone sick when it first came out as well. People will get used to the sensation, and get over it, especially as they grow up with it from childhood.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Entrim 4D (out of Samsung's C-Labs) seems to be a bigger one.
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by hodwik 10y ago
If you corrected for economic class, you'd certainly still see the same thing -- a culture of literacy improves lifetime earnings. At least anecdotally, I grew up rather poor (single mother household, working as greenhouse manager, 4 k
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by hodwik 10y ago
And the firmware hacking levels of Stockfighter will be out soon. Apparently they're just waiting for the beta testers to beat the last two levels.
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by hodwik 10y ago
>"we are stuck at this set level of happiness." Relevent HAPPYish scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWcB_xuBSM
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by hodwik 10y ago
I think they have just as much experience and technical know-how as their contractors, but have neither the funds or the go-ahead to implement this stuff themselves. For example, Obama signed an executive order requiring the DoD to use elec
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by hodwik 10y ago
Exactly, this isn't so far off from tape drives which most orgs still use.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Huh? I learned scrabble from a professional player 15 years ago, and at the time he said this was the default strategy for all serious players.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I think a lot of debugging activities end up laying the framework for new features, so it's unclear how to separate the two.
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "hilarious that the supposed harbingers of this "collapse" are staunch members" You must not be very well versed in history then. That's pretty much where it always comes from.
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by hodwik 10y ago
The personal autonomous car is just the first, simplest version of the autonomous vehicles. It won't be long before much smaller, short-distance, rentable systems come out -- self-balancing cycles that convert to cycle-trains, and so f
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by hodwik 10y ago
How are conservatives on HN supposed to talk about what we perceive as psychological hangups and failings of our subculture, if you're going to simply cast them as snark/unsubstantive when you don't agree with them? It's
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by hodwik 10y ago
Companies will eventually learn they'll need to accept Ruby/JS/Python in their stack to get this new swathe of cheap labor, and you'll see these devs slowly transition towards enterprise.
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by hodwik 10y ago
In my experience, children (and most people) just conceptualize infinity as a very large set, just as they perceive a tire a "circle", and think a square drawn on paper is made up of "lines". It requires years of thinkin
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by hodwik 10y ago
Sales & Marketing - Feith Systems (Philadelphia, PA) Read out to email in my profile.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Any time you have operating systems running in a test of this kind, you're dealing with the same thing, a difference in work done the longer the test runs.
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "If 'palette' was used id read it as misspelling." Thank goodness we finally have an authority on the subject to tell us what to believe.
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by hodwik 10y ago
India would be better off arming women with handguns. The threat of getting shot dead is a much more serious disincentive.
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by hodwik 10y ago
From Merriam Webster: "(2) : a comparable range, quality, or use of available elements <a rich palette of tones and timbres> <a palette of flavors> " http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa
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by hodwik 10y ago
Palette would be the word usually used in this case. As in, an artist's palette. Palate would be wordplay or typo as parent suggested.
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "People with higher I.Q.s were less content when they spent more time with friends. Psychologists theorize that these folks keep themselves intellectually stimulated without a lot of social interaction, and often have a long-term
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by hodwik 10y ago
The stance of "caution and respect", as you put it, is not without its perils. If we accept that animals are conscious, the amount of laws we'd have to put in place to protect them would very likely have lasting detrimental i
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "What if rats, cows, and pigs all turn out to be well past the hump of vivid awareness, such that killing them really is extinguishing a life quite similar to a human's?" Or what about the opposite? What if consciousness
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by hodwik 10y ago
> "Being conscious, in my mind, is the ability to observe information and change your mental model of the world based on it." Neural networks aren't conscious. Consciousness requires that a locus of ego experiences sensati
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by hodwik 10y ago
Argentina is signatory to both the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants and the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which is why Monsanto felt safe importing. Argentina is now going back
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by hodwik 10y ago
Shipping companies have international legal obligations to make sure they are not transporting illegal wares. This has been settled international law for a hundred years. Argentina is ignoring their obligation to support intellectual proper
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by hodwik 10y ago
By that logic we should let Lenovo purchase one copy of Windows which they then install on every machine they export to the US. Then, not only will customs not help Microsoft shut down the pirating of their OS, but Microsoft won't even
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by hodwik 10y ago
If you don't like Monsanto's work, don't pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties. It's really very simple; if you don't uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model,
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by hodwik 10y ago
I didn't say it's just digging and pecking. What I'm contending is that the conflation of complex behavior with intelligence is anthropomorphization of the worst kind. 1. We are aware of very complex systems that are definite
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by hodwik 10y ago
Ravens are just better programmed for obtaining difficult to access food (makes sense, see insects). Compare human and goldfish intelligence according to whom better understands tiny currents and you'll find the goldfish wins every tim

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