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by joeyo 17y ago
It sounds you we're pretty much in agreement and you just find memes annoying in some contexts. No argument there. I wouldn't look for them to go away anytime soon, though. If anything I'd expect things to get considerably "worse" in terms
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by joeyo 17y ago
I may respond to more aspects of your comment later, but I wanted to make a few quick points. > They've always been fast. Yes, and now, I'd argue, they are even faster. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any good studies about mem
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by joeyo 17y ago
Part of it is that memes transmit so rapidly now to a pretty large percentage of internet users thanks to Twitter, Facebook and friends. All the old ways to transmit memes (irc, SA, chans, ytmnd, etc) are still active too, but the lag time
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by joeyo 17y ago
It is indeed epic. The aesthetic of Anonymous has always strongly reminded me of William Gibson's Panther Moderns. I don't know if that is just an example life imitating art or Gibson being prescient, again. http://everything2.com/title/Pa
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by joeyo 17y ago
At least they didn't use switch/case. Can you imagine forgetting to include a break between case statements?
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by joeyo 17y ago
> This avoids archeology on historical versions. It's not really your main point, but the idea of revision control archeology is a really a great analogy.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Next thing you will be telling us that no Egyptians drink alcohol either...
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by joeyo 17y ago
According to the original paper, they needed a 17 Tesla magnet to lift a 10 g mouse. I'm not exactly sure how to extrapolate that, but if it's linear it seems like you would need on the order of 100 kiloTelsa to lift a 150 lb person.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I think we are arguing at cross purposes here. I'm not arguing what we call evolution doesn't lead to machines very different from the ones that we might chose to engineer ourselves. Rather, I am arguing that, as far as I can tell, I could,
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by joeyo 17y ago
Ah, yes, we have arrived at the problem of being fundamentally unable to be sure of the nature of reality. We don't know if our sensors are reporting to us the "true" nature of the world and we don't know if our brains are reporting to us t
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by joeyo 17y ago
An example of something that joubert is referring to is the fact that photoreceptors (rods and cones) in the human eye are actually located behind the retinal ganglial cells, nerve fibers, and capillaries. So light has to pass through a l
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by joeyo 17y ago
My advice, if you are considering a PhD, is to pick your school based on your potential research advisor more than the department or the school in general. Contact him or her before you apply and tell them your plans of study and research
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by joeyo 17y ago
Ok, but how is a constructed object and a ... (randomly? naturally? what ever word you want to use) evolved object quantitatively different? One could follow all the steps involved in getting a human from his evolutionary ancestor to his cu
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by joeyo 17y ago
We don't know for sure that machines are not currently capable of experiencing qualia. We don't know that machines cannot ever be capable of experiencing qualia. We don't even know if animals experience qualia, and if so, which ones. I don'
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by joeyo 17y ago
The problem is you have to believe what the computer tells you when it says it has consciousness. (In the same way that I have to believe you when you say you have consciousness).
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by joeyo 17y ago
Is that actually a quantifiable distinction? Does how something is constructed have any affect on it's properties? (assuming equivalent precision of the tools involved) Building a car by hand versus building one with a modern robotic asse
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by joeyo 17y ago
If it is authoritative, then you would expect it would (eventually) get linked to, no?
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by joeyo 17y ago
> Building a scheduler that doesn't scale to an 8-CPU > system seems like madness to me, given the very > predictable trends in desktop hardware. Even if that is true, it might make sense in other settings. On linux
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by joeyo 17y ago
Spelling is obsolete. I don't even attempt to spell search queries correctly much of the time anymore. As long as you don't get caught by an accidental heteronym you are good to go.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I haven't actually gotten to it yet, but Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren has been on my to-read list for quite a while.
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by joeyo 17y ago
I've pretty much switched to chrome for all daily browsing, with the exception being on Linux, where the builds don't yet handle flash as well as Firefox. With that said, I'm missing two features that I've become accustomed in Firefox: 1. c
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by joeyo 17y ago
This is nonsense. If it's as contagious as it's purported to be then washing your hands and staying home when you are sick are precisely the things that you should be doing. These simple measures have a real, measurable impact on public h
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by joeyo 17y ago
True, but don't discount the importance of interpretation of results.
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by joeyo 17y ago
At least you can pedal in the shade!
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by joeyo 17y ago
It's not a bad theory. Interestingly, there is evidence of inputs into the brain reward system that operate independently of sweetness and that perhaps directly encode metabolic value: Rodents that lack the ability to taste sweetness prefe
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by joeyo 17y ago
I am reluctant to upvote any haikus that employ plagiarism.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Cell phone hardware is a commodity to a first approximation already and that will become more and more true as time goes on, Apple's attempts notwithstanding. I can't speak to Google's plans and motivations, but Android already has been por
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by joeyo 17y ago
Given that Android is open source, why does it need to make money exactly?
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by joeyo 17y ago
Save the bones and skin for making stock.
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by joeyo 17y ago
Or how about a wikipedia mirror that doesn't propagate deletions? That way when an article on wikipedia is deleted, the mirror simply displays the last available version.

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