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by indrax 15y ago
Truly bad things can happen. There is no rule that we can't go extinct accidentally . http://lesswrong.com/lw/uk/beyond_the_reach_of_god/ Edit: Removed Internet psychoanalysis.
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by indrax 15y ago
>You can ask Mac apps to behave like iOS apps, which is what Lion’s Automatic Termination feature does, but it has to be opt-in. Virtualization could enable you to run a legacy app, stop its processing instantly, bring up a new app, and
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by indrax 15y ago
The easy solution is to segment easily deduplicated data from 'private' data. Perhaps sufficiently deduplicated data doesn't count against your quota. (as amazon does with music)
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by indrax 15y ago
Can someone explain the timing of these switches? Jobs resigns, Arrington resigns, CmdrTaco resigns, Reddit is spun off, and now this. (did I mis one?) Is there something about august/september? Is it just my personal filter?
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by indrax 15y ago
Hack is orthogonal to legal. Hack is orthogonal to personal gain.
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by indrax 15y ago
>to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in search of a particle that likely does not exist would have been wasteful This is infuriating. A negative result is a successful experiment. Don't hamper efforts to fund science with the argument
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by indrax 15y ago
in 2031 your secure communicator and your [lethal] personal drone will be the same device. You will talk into the headset of your nokia murderator.
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by indrax 15y ago
I believe horrible pre-installed software is the responsibility of the hardware manufacturers. If it were Microsoft doing it, they'd also do it for purchased copies.
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by indrax 15y ago
Honor is always about doing things you don't have to, or not doing things which you could do.
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by indrax 15y ago
I cant stand libertarian equivocation on the meaning of 'selfishness'. If your 'ethics' is predicated on not putting a high personal value on the wellbeing of others, you are the problem. If your 'selfishness' is seeking the fullness of y
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by indrax 15y ago
They don't have to be stronger than the mob, they just just to be stronger than the next shop.
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by indrax 15y ago
What's the 6th word on the 3rd paragraph of page 89?
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by indrax 15y ago
You might have better luck in online debates if you argue against the actual points made, instead of whatever that was.
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by indrax 15y ago
Web search is the same way. This sounds like a lot of meta-level confusion.
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by indrax 15y ago
This is an inefficiency of the market. You must have some level (perhaps not rigidly set) of inefficiency at which you would conclude that some type of government regulation would make the market more efficient. Otherwise you'd accept any l
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by indrax 15y ago
My favorite part is where they think they can solve the problem by solving the problems.
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by indrax 15y ago
Other times when people get their houses ransacked while on vacation, we don't have a flap of stories about the post office leaving mail in the mailboxes. A criminal decided to use AirBNB to find an empty apartment and provide cover. It is
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by indrax 15y ago
I thought this was going to be about a method for destroying pigs in structures by accelerating birds through the use of an elastic or spring-loaded device.
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by indrax 15y ago
Reminded me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge#Early_origins_of_th...
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by indrax 15y ago
The interesting thing is that they're not asking for innovative ideas about spaceflight, which you might expect from DARPA. They're asking for ideas on optimal management and alternative funding for big long term projects. Spaceflight is
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by indrax 15y ago
>trans-humans If they care, they'll fix it.
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by indrax 15y ago
Depending on how much of your income it represents, you might consider giving it to employees as part of their compensation. They might convert it, but might get better value looking for things they need. (Their demands will be more diverse
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by indrax 15y ago
Unfortunately similar calculations apply to Hitler's urine.
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by indrax 15y ago
"Read the Sequences."
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by indrax 15y ago
> when the applicant submits citizenship or identity evidence that is insufficient or of questionable authenticity So the vast majority can stick with driver's license and birth certificate. I think this is overblown.
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by indrax 16y ago
Clearly the universe is fine tuned by an intelligent designer who likes stable bicycles.
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by indrax 16y ago
With a Truecrypt partition you could show them your insignificant bitcoin wallet, and only go back to your regular bitcoin wallet after they leave. True this would currently require a lot more security consciousness than most people have, b
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by indrax 16y ago
That big "e" in that color is giving me a bad association.
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by indrax 16y ago
It's not "tin foil hat" it old news that's just being ignored. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html Tin foil hats wouldn't be quite as silly if mind control rays were real and already used in the field.
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by indrax 16y ago
Assume a spherical spoon...

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