joshes

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by joshes 16y ago
Theatrics and stunts, as you put them, can help to raise awareness for causes. Even if he is not quite harmed by his actions, that does not mean that they were for nought. I imagine many who read this article or otherwise heard about this s
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I know it's not a programming book but I do feel that it is a definitive, landmark computer science book: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter Just a wonderful narrative of so many related topics across computer science, mathemati
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by joshes 16y ago
Potentially destructive? Yes. Sometimes a broken, corrupted system needs a bit of destruction to be set in a better direction. Whatever Assange is sitting on must be damning, considering the way this is unfolding. I am intrigued to see wher
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by joshes 16y ago
I've been waiting on this since I got my iPad back in June. Needless to say this was an unexpected little surprise to start the week.
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by joshes 16y ago
A similarly potentially offensive remark that I feel is possibly in the minds of many Generation Y-er's right now: The over-indulgent, hypocritical, self-entitled remnants of the Baby Boomers have done a great deal to derail the future succ
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by joshes 16y ago
> This optimal system of social and political order emerged in the English-speaking world, based on property rights and the representation of property owners in elected legislatures. I'm not sure this is a fair statement. To me, refer
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by joshes 16y ago
I was coming in here prepared to make a remark that the new structure of this society necessitates a balancing act of and/or trade-off between an expanded flow of information and solitude but your post pre-empts this argument by suggesting
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by joshes 16y ago
I am aware you are being facetious... But by questioning why he voiced his argument, you validated his argument and thus the reasoning behind it. Your question, posed as such, answers itself, in a way. What beauty.
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From what I can tell, the loss of functionality has been entirely on Facebook's side to this point. Right?
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For Boris and Natasha: Boris places the ring into the box and locks it with the padlock. He sends the locked box to Natasha and it reaches her unharmed. Natasha receives the box and places her own padlock on it without removing Boris' padlo
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by joshes 16y ago
Sadly it appears as though the only legislation which unifies both sides of the political aisle (be it in favor of or against a given piece of legislation) is that which is completely asinine and backward. The seemingly basic bills are inev
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by joshes 16y ago
Of course the students blamed the professor: they've been taught by example throughout their lives that the proper reaction to fucking up is to point the finger at everyone else. An incredible lack of personal responsibility is a growing pr
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by joshes 16y ago
The United States is quickly becoming a police state. It's downright shameful and it's propelled by a combination of over-zealous, vote-seeking politicians and, most frighteningly, citizen apathy.
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by joshes 16y ago
"At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. That's a simple explanation, and the point is that people really don't have to understand how computers work. Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet
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by joshes 16y ago
Haskell. I feel as though it is a language that I would really enjoy, regardless of whether or not it fits a niche with my research interests. Some languages just have that feel about them, I suppose.
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by joshes 16y ago
The fact that numerous law professors were rebuffed speaks to the growing anti-intellectual sentiment at the highest reaches of this nation.
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by joshes 16y ago
A bit off topic, yes, but does any one else cringe when they read the phrase "computer hacker" in a major news publication? Just, ugh.
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One could argue that he was an elder with respect to his field at that time.
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This takes us back to the problem of emergence ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence ), something that AI researchers, entomologists, economists, et al. have been struggling with for some time.
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I fear that society at large will not really get past this denial you speak of until we have a humanoid type of AI, something that the standard, non-science oriented person can look at and say, "Wow this is uncanny ." It will need to be sh
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by joshes 16y ago
We have the Higgs Boson to thank for this.
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I always thought that it was because the palm of the hand was more sensitive than the back, but the finger theory is much more sensible.
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Well when TSA agents across the nation begin to undergo a wave of gruesome mutations, we will have our answer.
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I would argue that it's also a smart bet by Zappos in the sense that just such a gesture on the part of management is appreciated by the employees, as well as the public. And besides, the screening process for new employees probably filters
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by joshes 16y ago
"These experiments have shown the power of the link-up of 140 computing centers around the world known as the Grid which processes the vast amounts of information that ion collisions produce." I wonder if there is any sort of distributed, v