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by justinpaulson 9y ago
"regulated to death"? Hyperbole much? You make it sound as if regulations have no goal other than to limit the growth of industries. As if the wellbeing of the people and the planet have nothing to do with it. The main reason othe
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Good Technical Lead, Bad Technical Lead(medium.com)
5 points by justinpaulson 11y ago|4 comments
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It's Preschool Open House Season, Motherfuckers(medium.com)
1 points by justinpaulson 11y ago|0 comments
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Because they brought the case to the supreme court. If 12 year olds and incestual couples want the right to marriage then they need to also bring that case to the supreme court. They didn't just decide to make this decision, they are
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
No, my argument is that we don't understand it, therefore we can't assume that our simulation is anything close to the same process.
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Firstly, I never said my opinion was humble. Secondly, a good argument is not a proof. We have such a limited understanding of our own emotion and cognition that it is impossible to say that we have proven anything about how compatible emo
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
I think there are far too many assumptions about how the body works and the laws of physics (both of which we are far away from completely understanding) to say that the mind is equivalent to a Turing machine.
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
But that simulation still ignores a certain qualia that has grown from our existence. There is something else happening that we don't understand and I think it is a bit short-sighted to assume that we can simulate it, definitely not n
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
I was mainly commenting on the OP's position that the author was 'not trained in CS'. Here is a list of things I believe that the human brain performs outside of computation: The irrational motivations that take us over when
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Except the author does in fact have a BS in CS. IMO, the brain does far more than performing computation. Sure humans were once "computers," but our ability to perform computation is not a valid argument to that computation, or
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Not OP, but in 25 days of water fasting I lost 30 pounds. 196 -> 166. I gained about 15 lbs back within a week after I stopped fasting, then settled in the mid 180s. I did not measure body fat percentages, but I could tell I was losin
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Only water. Tap water or bottled water, not distilled for me. Other than that I ate nothing, no vitamins or electrolytes or anything, just water.
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Did you find that you got light-headed when you stood up too fast after 14 or so days? I fasted for 25 days (water) and found that I would get a little bit light-headed if I stood up from a seated position too fast. I also found that I wo
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
It is true that old code is not necessarily bad code. However, HVAC system controls have had very large improvements in efficiency over the last 30 years. HVAC systems are the single largest use of energy in a commercial building and the
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The Negative Split: Avoiding Burnout(justinpaulson.com)
1 points by justinpaulson 11y ago|0 comments
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
If you want to do real engineering and solve hard problems, stay in school. If you want to build a flashy media app or a social network, drop out. There is much more depth in an engineering degree than you get from just learning a language
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
"You don't always make friends being right." Or maybe your attitude is clouding any articulate argument that you may be presenting. The reason TED works is because how you present your message is a large part of how successf
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What Verizon Really Wants with AOL(justinpaulson.com)
1 points by justinpaulson 11y ago|0 comments
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
It's your lucky day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsaES--OTzM cut to 0:55
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
I'm looking forward to when all of the self-driving cars will be so good at avoiding accidents that you can just take a manually-driven car and blast down the center of the road at 10-20 mph over the speed limit and watch all of the se
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
Posted this on HN a couple days ago but I don't think anyone saw it: http://justinpaulson.com/posts/0bb97847af7e2123f6173361 tl;dr: Robots and AI will not be built as separate entities, but will instead be incorpo
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We Will Become the Robots We Fear(justinpaulson.com)
1 points by justinpaulson 11y ago|0 comments
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
The pre-owned prices don't look too bad, considering the standard Tesla package that is usually reserved for luxury cars: http://www.teslamotors.com/models/preowned Also, the Model III should be more affordable as
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
You created a bimodal distribution because you only talked about two types of people. Some people start later in life, but have an incredible talent for programming. Some people start early because they really like programming, but never
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
I think there is a lot more granularity in abilities than you are accepting. Like the article discusses, there are many different skills that make up "programming." These include writing code, architecture, data structures, comm
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
On this same subject, I would just make the boxes on the very first page editable so you can just play with it right away. After reading the description at the bottom I spent a few seconds trying to manipulate the text boxes on the front p
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by justinpaulson 11y ago
This is entirely my problem with dropbox. I can't even use the desktop client on my Macbook Air because of the terribly limited space, and my Macbook Air is where I want to be able to use cloud storage the most. What is the point in c
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by justinpaulson 12y ago
This reminds me of using oth.net to browse ftps for tracks in late 1990s. I used to burn custom mixes for friends in high school back then before napster exploded and everyone had a burner. On a 28.8 or even 56k connection it was an amazi
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by justinpaulson 12y ago
Being a subsidiary of a company that does exactly what they are advocating against is an endorsement of their activity.
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by justinpaulson 12y ago
This is quite a hypocritical post from a company that sold out to Facebook. I guess money > values.

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