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by iwr 16y ago
The proper term is "resimulants" or "resimulated persons" (from Charlie Stross' Accelerando )
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by iwr 16y ago
Good penmanship, by the way (date: 1988). Do young kids today get to practice their handwriting much? Good stuff so far: "By evoking the need for deep conceptual hierarchies, the automatic computer confronts us with a radically new intelle
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by iwr 16y ago
What does it mean to be a "scientist" in the US? Is it strictly a person in academia who is in the pursuit of research grants? Does it also include private sector researchers and engineers?
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by iwr 16y ago
I once wrote a brainfuck interpreter in assembler which would run at boot time. It's Turing completeness closer to the machine. But the internet already thought of that and crazier things: http://www.masella.name/technical/BF-CPU.pdf
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by iwr 16y ago
There are only two camps in this debate: cut taxes (to grow the economy and increase gov revenue) vs. increase taxes (to directly increase gov revenue). There is almost no talk about the underlying problem: spending.
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by iwr 16y ago
This is a momentary media phenomenon, like the stories about Obama around the time of the elections. That said, it would be nice to have a way to filter out duplicate stories posted at the same time.
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by iwr 16y ago
"The largest public works project undertaken in the state in 50 years" The sheer size and scope of the thing will make it vulnerable to corruption. The costs are probably understated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig It's sad that you
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by iwr 16y ago
What particular piece of software would you want or need but can't afford? Nowadays there are complete F/OSS development stacks and tools available.
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by iwr 16y ago
Correction, "10 million rules"
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by iwr 16y ago
Doug Lenat keeps saying that inteligence is "one million rules", throw enough structure at something and it may come alive :)
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by iwr 16y ago
http://www.norc.ro/street-view/ was way ahead of them (since 2008) Also available for Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary. Also, in 3D.
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by iwr 16y ago
I'll grant it that the hero here is Bradley Manning, who should really receive more support.
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by iwr 16y ago
The claim is that Assage is selling some of the secret documents on the side instead of making them public. Is there some proof to that?
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by iwr 16y ago
Your laptop may be marginally safer from irrecoverable theft (if the thief doesn't bother to reinstall the OS), but it becomes vulnerable to the LockItTight service. They are, after all, getting a live feed of your location and keystrokes.
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by iwr 16y ago
The idea is that the Singularity would be a point in time where the totality of human expert knowledge would be insufficient to comprehend what an AI (or an AI-designed AI) would be capable of comprehending. If we think human-level AI is po
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by iwr 16y ago
True enough. Still, I fail to see the similarity between Lieberman and McCarthy in this context.
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by iwr 16y ago
McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists. He may have been wrong about who exactly was a Communist or wrong about his methods, though.
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by iwr 16y ago
What furthers US interests furthers Good; the US is Good and its purposes noble; the US acts for the Good of the world and disagreement with the US is Evil. As a democracy, Americans elect their officials. As leaders of a force for Good, th
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by iwr 16y ago
So the Air Force can get "Other OS"
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by iwr 16y ago
"The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home" Does that mean sex with a second woman while "she" as in "the first woman" was asleep, o
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by iwr 16y ago
An older story: http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/mandelset/mandelmonk/mandel... n.b. The OP picture looks more like a Julia Fractal.
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by iwr 16y ago
Is there a framework where you can use Prolog as a web development language? Server and/or client-side.
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by iwr 16y ago
If he is (perhaps secretly) deemed an enemy combatant, he can be held indefinitely in custody without having any charges against him.
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by iwr 16y ago
The DCG functionality of Prolog is very nice. I used it to write a crude XML parser just days into learning about the language. http://pastebin.com/sUpPd5jb
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by iwr 16y ago
Is this correct: in Sweden it is considered "rape" (by the male) if there is no condom involved?
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by iwr 16y ago
It (the witch hunt) has begun...
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by iwr 16y ago
It would only be fair. I'd like to see someone try to pull the same kind of thing with NY Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel etc. as they were doing to wikileaks. It's much easier to go after Assage and his organization.
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by iwr 16y ago
Nothing would be stopping ISPs from adding one or more non-ICANN DNS servers in their resolution chain. In fact, independent ISPs may do just that if they're not explicitly banned and there are a set of standards standards in place. DNS is
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by iwr 16y ago
There is a history of (non-rap) songs featuring the expletive in titles or lyrics: Beautiful South, Don't Marry Her Fuck Me Lily Allen, Fuck You Very Much and don't forget Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently
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by iwr 16y ago
In other words, a Soylent (Green) transportation network.

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