jmcmichael

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by jmcmichael 11y ago
> It makes sense that US Intelligence is spying on foreign entities -- that's their job. By your own standards the NSA by isn't doing their job, as they have been shown to be spying on US entities.[1] > Foreign entities are
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
I suspect people in their 40s will have far more potential sources of cash for funding a startup (personal savings, personal connections, wealthy friends), so probably wouldn't consider ycombinator a very good use of their time. So the
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
> ...whatever business model I pick. Would it be a good thing for society to allow you to pick a business model where you blare your music from loud speakers and then pay large burley men 50 cents to collect 1 dollar from anyone within e
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
On the other hand, many times deep principles can be discovered and validated when they reveal unusual correlations between previously unknown-to-be-related systems.
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
Then what do you call it then when voting becomes merely a method of manufacturing consent instead of reliably reflecting the will of voters?
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
> Government doesn't have any external force keeping it in check. Voting. If that doesn't work, revolution.
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
Yeah, I think researchers in physics are more open to non-reductionistic theories. For example check out constructor theory: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-meta-law-to-rule...
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
Here is a short review of the book: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrei-sorin/soft...
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by jmcmichael 11y ago
I would call reductionism and logical positivism the baseline assumed perspective in much of science - definitely in biology, the field with which I am most familiar. So they're very much alive and well in science. As far as philosophy
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
Yeah, it appears that stevia would likely have similar effects, as it has been suggested that tasting sweetness causes an spike in insulin without a corresponding bump in blood glucose levels, leading to an excess of insulin[1]. What causes
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
A PDF of paper quoted, 'IPFS - Toward The Permanent Web (DRAFT 1)', may be found here: https://github.com/ipfs/papers/blob/master/ipfs-ttpw/ipfs-to...
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
The difference is that when the intelligence community discovers a hole in US-produced software, they will keep it to themselves to exploit the computers of individuals around the world in various operations of dubious value and/or leg
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
"A programmer’s pipe-dream is to write code, and be able to use it repeatedly with little effort. It’s expressive because you write in a way that expresses what is needed, and it’s reuse because.. well, you’re reusing. What more could
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
There's nothing preventing the inputs required to keep the drones going - power generation, parts, repair, etc. - being automated exactly the same way as every other facet of our economy is being automated.
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
If you really want to push your body to its limit, try a Bikram yoga (or any hot yoga) class. I was in pretty good shape when I started and it took me almost 6 months before I could even attempt to complete all the asanas (and about the fir
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
What has happened to me the more I meditate is the discovery of these two basic ways of interacting with the world. The first stance feels very familiar, it is the me that spends most of its time: 1) judging the present, e.g. "How does
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
Graeber probably spends more time analyzing the effects of various philosophical/political/economic systems on individual and social behavior than most people. I'm not familiar enough with the totality of his work to directly
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
The interviewee, Davide Graeber, is considered to be one of the leading figures of the Occupy movement so probably does not believe that a solution to this problem lies with the confines of modern capitalism. He identifies himself as an ana
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
One alternative to antibiotics that may work, but will have a tremendous difficulty in clearing the regulatory burden for approving new drugs and medical procedures, is bacteriophage therapy.[1] Nobody's going to fund or approve this i
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
The process to win Randi's prize is not science, it is public relations for the ideology of elimination materialism. Science is the testing of a hypothesis by applying an instrumental injunction to reality, apprehending and analyzing t
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by jmcmichael 12y ago
Bill Moyers and Krugman discussed Piketty's book on his latest show: http://billmoyers.com/segment/preview-what-the-1-dont-want-y... This link was posted to HN yesterday briefly but was then deleted.
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
> All the hyperbole about how this is somehow unique is really getting old. The big news is that the most powerful people on the planet are now using the same script-kiddie techniques against the rest of the world, in secret, without ove
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
> Really, how does that work Mikko? You don't even have a copy of any malware to make that statement. Simple: every process running on a system is a process that can be exploited, especially those processes that involve network comm
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
I've switched from using fish oil capsules to eating sardines as they are quite high in Omega 3 (around 1g per 3oz), low in mercury, in no danger of overfishing, and relatively cheap.
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
I assure you we have artisinal grilled cheese here in St. Louis as well: http://www.bigcheesestl.com/
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
Is it possible to ship stuff (laptops, cellphone maybe) via FedEX or UPS, internationally, and have it arrive at or near the same time/place as your destination w/o having to wait for it to clear customs? I had considered this but
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
I don't think that someone as apparently smart as Haim is spent a year of his life troubleshooting an API call. There's got to be more to it than that.
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
> 1) The myth of the HFT geniuses. Myth? The finance industry, where the HFT folks are near the top, pays epic salaries for the smartest people. They do this to hire the best and the brightest, and would not continue to do so if it did n
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
The whole point is that these 'smarter strategies' are only smarter because they are exploiting arbitrary API conventions, not smarter because they improve the utility of markets to society in general. Which is a tragedy, because
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by jmcmichael 13y ago
It's not the impact on the individual who's defaulting that is the kicker, it's more the effect on the originating bank and the parts of the financial system that packaged up that loan with others of its type into financial p

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