indrax

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by indrax 12y ago
>If we may suggest a next version of the project: have a drone follow you automatically, blasting its camera feed to the Rift wirelessly. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sqdr/hexo-your-autonomo...
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by indrax 12y ago
This is a good example of how adding a restriction can give you freedom.
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by indrax 12y ago
Experimented, I'm not sure I made it to 'helpful'.... https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll#q=conway%27...
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by indrax 12y ago
You're right, but now I'm wondering where the article got a 200M valuation from...
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by indrax 12y ago
>The SEC estimates that it would cost $39,000 in fees to accountants, lawyers, and the funding portal to raise just $100,000, and more than $150,000 to raise $1 million. Those are insanely high capital costs—companies would be better off
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by indrax 12y ago
>Had the backers received company stock instead of company T-shirts, they would have seen close to a 1,000 percent ROI. This assumes Oculus would have sold 100% of its shares at a $2 million valuation, and then still sold again for $2B a
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by indrax 12y ago
Price (and the possibility of future price changes,) is just one aspect of control in walled gardens. There are good reasons some people want to steer clear of any vendor lock-in. If there can be comparable open implementations, I'll u
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by indrax 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, but your argument is terribly flawed, and has been answered thousands of times. * You give no justification for rejecting powerful AI * Many AI projects use robots in development * An intelligent agent does not n
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by indrax 12y ago
Evidence is not proof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem It could be that none of his bad situation is the result of his preferences, but his situation shouldn't be ignored either. You have
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by indrax 12y ago
If it's that bad, you need to take that as evidence that your attitudes of sex lead to problems, not the advice to have fun.
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by indrax 12y ago
You shouldn't have to engage in combat against your appliances, even if it's easy to win.
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by indrax 12y ago
If anyone knows their identity and suspects the canary, then disappearance or death would hint strongly at the canary being true.
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by indrax 12y ago
Math has right answers, but there isn't anyone to tell you what they are. Most of the time you're doing math for real, when you get an answer the next step can't be to check the authoritative answer. The next step has to be s
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by indrax 12y ago
Would you apply that reasoning to Snowden or Manning? Is there no duty from a promise of secrecy? Is morality tied to certain organizations? What if the motivation isn't atonement but self-interest?
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by indrax 12y ago
>if they're so smart, why not learn some social skills? If I learned social skills with the same abilities that made me smart, I wouldn't use that knowledge to interview, I would use it to build an AI. The comparison is invalid
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by indrax 12y ago
>It comes from electrochemical reactions in your brain This isn't an explanation. None of it answers the interesting questions. How and why do computers work? Well they are made of atoms and run on electricity. They do useful work a
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by indrax 12y ago
Maybe not obvious errors, but we have learned things since SL. Minecraft hit a sweet spot of getting ordinary people to actually build stuff, it that aspect Minecraft is a better preview of the metaverse. In retrospect the learning curve fo
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by indrax 13y ago
The relationship between MS and apple is complicated, but old . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC
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by indrax 13y ago
Possibly related: http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html >Run it and be amazed how much your disks/raid/OS lie. ("lie" = an fsync doesn't work) >It seems everything from PATA consumer disks
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by indrax 13y ago
Nice slope you're standing on.
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by indrax 13y ago
Of course you can't prove breaking and entering if that is not what was done. "Can't be secured" means only that they want a large space free from scrutiny without paying to properly secure it. This is like legislating t
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by indrax 13y ago
Now you are making a false dichotomy.
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by indrax 13y ago
This seems to be trying live communication with the server, but all you really need is to load a bunch of previous playthroughs and overlay them. This should make gameplay a lot smoother. Then after each death, upload a record of the keypre
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by indrax 13y ago
>"Our decision to open a new datacenter" is really "We've located servers in Singapore". Did they locate the servers in singapore? No, your 'truth' is also non-literal. What matters to customers is th
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by indrax 13y ago
Only if the saved time is used for something other than parental interaction. It is unlikely that spelling lessons are optimal bonding.
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by indrax 13y ago
Legacy browsers sure, but deciding whether to add DRM to HTML presupposes a browser that plays sound according to the standard.
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by indrax 13y ago
This is GNU/Linux/Ubuntu disambiguation and customer support problem. There needs to be separate organizations to package and distribute this data and make apps for it. (A web map project will have different needs than an offline
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by indrax 13y ago
We didn't use nukes in Vietnam. The value of the Motorola's patents may be in keeping Apple and Microsoft from using their strongest patents.
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by indrax 13y ago
I agree with your interpretation, but bitcoin eliminates that kind of fraud, while requiring you to protect against theft.
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by indrax 13y ago
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.sht...

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