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And they should, the value of the dollar is relative to the total in the economy. I suspect, because the question was even asked , the participants read into the study as a question of economics. I would have done the same thing. Assumi
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The units aren't the same. The shorthand for the units is the same. A dollar of market cap is very different from a dollar of GDP , like a cubic meter of lead is different from a cubic meter of air. What we're talking about i
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The CTBTO already said they saw it: "At 01:30:00 (UTC) on 06 January 2016 the CTBTO's monitoring stations picked up an unusual seismic event in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The location is very similar to the
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It's bidirectional, that's the whole point. If it was unidirectional it would be no better than standard radio.
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For most sensors throughput is not the problem -- it's distance, and power consumption.
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So Sematech and Tata's LoraWan plan in India is vaporware? They claimed successful tests, and said their network is open to testing end-to-end by IoT developers. This is a serious question, I just moved most of my stock portfolio into
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"For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Will
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A contemporary aesthetic that the fools in our art departments crafted in the 1960s under the guiding hand of the CIA. I'm not saying Iran is failing for not purchasing better art (that's a different discussion for a different tim
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I believe strongly that to conquer the hearts of nations like Iran we must show them the depths of our humanity. Unfortunately, I suspect these works do just the opposite, grounded more in western Nihilism than Humanism. I have to imagine o
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If sentience isn't the requirement, where do we draw the line on AI? Do we have to treat dead things nicely?
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One of them we know to be sentient. We can't be so sure about lions. I'm not talking about higher-order intelligence, I'm talking about sentience -- the ability to experience. It is rather simple now to find a program that wo
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Because one of them is sentient.
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Right, this is the same principle as weather vs. climate predictions.
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To be honest, I don't actually think calculus solves Zeno's paradox either, I was just using it for the sake of the argument. I'm of the opinion that Achilles and the Tortoise is solved by there being a smallest distance, a p
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We had a rush of scientific breakthroughs 100 years ago. I believe we will have more. That experimentation in physics has slowed down to 18th century levels doesn't mean science is over, it just means the low-hanging fruit is over and
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Buffet doesn't like what he can't value.
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Read this critique on Reddit this morning. Thought it was interesting. Sharing here: "Ah, this misleading derivatives stuff again... In two steps: Firstly, I'll use as an example something called an interest rate swap. If you have
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You have to pay extra for the poison. This is libertarian land, dude. NOTHING is free, even poison.
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I didn't claim my language was "straightforward", any term we use will carry bias. That's how political language works. "Investment" automatically biases you to think that said spending must have a net-good re
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Has to be sarcasm. People who actually believe that wouldn't say "politicians", they'd use some other euphemism, because they believe in some abstract trustworthy organization that's always being hampered by those d
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p { font-weight: 100; }
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You don't simply model information in an OO language, everything is an object, you're supposed to model your domain. I don't reach into the employee class and "get" the employee ID so I can do something with it. Th
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I've found that most people who think Java is overly OO are actually writing procedural programmers, who use objects as ornamentation. It is fundamental to OO that implementation details are not exposed. Accessor methods are, by their
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Better program in Assembly then.
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Wouldn't you need much more than 10Mbit/s before the lens, if it's getting compressed down to 10Mbit/s after the lens? That is, unless you're talking about injecting that data directly into the optical nerve.
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There will still be jobs for "configurers", who define the inter-field dependencies and so on, in support of the business logic. As it gets easier to make these forms the amount of logic in them will increase. Your job will be to
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> "I know two video editors (people not things) that create trailers for block buster movies and they do it on a mac laptop using final cut." I find that hard to imagine. I'm running a pretty powerful desktop, and I was ha
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And more popular with the public. You tell the public you're banning something they don't really use? Fine. You tell the public you're doubling police forces in a time of strong anti-police sentiment? Good luck in the next
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Thanks
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This is why text-based games are king. One dot release and we're seeing a mountain of new features. I've always dreamed of getting together a big budget to make a text adventure (e.g. Zork) of incredible scope, both in depth and &

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