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by hopler 8y ago
They are stronger at thinking -- higher IQ for pattern matching, problem solving, and creativity. Better ability to remember something after just one or few exposures, and recognize it when it is hinted at indirectly. Better ability to visu
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by hopler 8y ago
Quanta does that intentionally, as clickbait to generate popular interest in their mathematical aricles that don't actually have applications. It's a scientific embarassment. Nature's magazine/blog does it to.
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by hopler 8y ago
Yes but what the law says and what law enforcement can prove are two different things.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's interesting that YC's moneymaking model is to take small companies and turn them into big companies (by growth or acquisition) that pg claims are bad. Is YC a knnowing scam to soak dumb money, killing the supposedly wonderful
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by hopler 8y ago
That's a basic AI research center, and it's hiring people away from other projects they could be doing in China.
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by hopler 8y ago
Bad wars are a standard part of history education, from the Trail of Tears to Jim Crow to the Spanish-American war. People are willfully ignorant.
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by hopler 8y ago
So it's not the way it must be, if the existing insane laws are repealed.
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by hopler 8y ago
You can buy things that are illegal in your jurisdiction. Remember that the point if cryptocurrency is to enable finance in the absence of good government. It's useless if you like your government.
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by hopler 8y ago
Email is mostly a scam, but you don't notice because you don't run your own mailserver and you have spam protection from a legitimate provider, and for now there is no direct way to transfer money via email.
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by hopler 8y ago
Having a free tier of service is not a new concept.
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by hopler 8y ago
So you also prefer art, food, clothing, software, and housing created by hobbyists?
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by hopler 8y ago
Because the content is desirable.
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by hopler 8y ago
If ads are a valid funding model and payment is a valid model, why wouldn't both together be valid? What matters is the total price, now how it is broken down.
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That's fine. A quote isn't the original speaker's data. It's the quoter's data.
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by hopler 8y ago
These are elementary school / candy wrapper style jokes, not Dad jokes.
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by hopler 8y ago
Can you expand on your subtext for the nonexperts?
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by hopler 8y ago
Many people who are experts in one field like economics assume they are experts in all fields including medicine.
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by hopler 8y ago
7 is discounted 15% and 8 is discounted 25%, and they aren't so old.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's not a problem with the 7 per se, that's a problem with Apple's exploitative pricing strategy blocking a trivial engineering/marketing option. The glass back thing is a matter of taste, sure, but caring what materi
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by hopler 8y ago
That's still 2+ years longer than a non-iOS phone would stay current.
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by hopler 8y ago
Ether is an independent absolute entity, and other objects move relative to it. Per GR, spacetime is an embodiment relations between objects, not an independent absolute entity.
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by hopler 8y ago
Why would you say Apple, whose main business was an extensive traxk record in creating, promoting, and selling next generation technology, that their major investment in a new field was blind speculation? In contrast to Microsoft whose bu
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by hopler 8y ago
My passion is for utility
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by hopler 8y ago
That sounds like "life your life in analysis paralysis, and never decide to actually do anything"
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That's not history vs political science, that's academic research va public policymaking.
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by hopler 8y ago
You just equated the world's governments and general public to cranks.
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by hopler 8y ago
People line up at elite food trucks for social occasions.
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by hopler 8y ago
Register a domain name with mail forwarding and use wildcard aliases to forward all mail on your domain to your real mailbox.
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The government would make self-protecting cases higher priority than issues that affect citizens
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by hopler 8y ago
Remember that State Secrets have a long history of being used to cover up government incompetence and prevent victims of the government from seeking justice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds

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