koanarc

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by koanarc 16y ago
It's a neat idea in theory, but a lot of smart, well-meaning people have tried it, and that's rarely what you get.
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by koanarc 16y ago
Heh, I'm not suggesting institutional anything. Precisely the opposite. I'm saying that in the bigger picture, welfare and subsidies and coercive interference in general hurt more than they help. E.g., aid to North Korea might keep impoveri
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by koanarc 16y ago
It might not be the world we want to live in, but that's life. Natural selection is the name of the game. It baffles me that people think social development can be somehow exempted from evolutionary processes. Call it callous or compassionl
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by koanarc 16y ago
Yeah, but...who uses Opera? ...I kid, I kid! In all seriousness, though, a widget on a browser with a chronic ~2% usage share is one thing. The exact same thing available on any standards-compliant browser is quite another, wouldn't you say
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by koanarc 16y ago
Wow. There have been a lot of cool canvas demos to date, and these are certainly on that list. I am stoked for the future of the internet, guys. Stoked as the dickens.
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by koanarc 16y ago
"It's all about being able to better use the resources at your disposal as a species to gain an advantage." Of course. I'd prefer "efficient" to "aggressive", though. True, the literal definition of aggressive does fit, but seems to imply i
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by koanarc 16y ago
I can agree somewhat with your first paragraph, but "ourselves" is rather nebulous. I'm not in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, and if I were, I certainly wouldn't identify with the men who sent me there. There are 6.8 billion of us, which makes it
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by koanarc 16y ago
So we should not speculate at all? That's a rather dull outlook. I certainly agree that our dataset, re: "life as we know it", is horribly limited. Likely to the point of uselessness. But hypotheses are the foundation of any science, after
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by koanarc 16y ago
This is a valid point, and I'd take it a step further. Not only are we not well suited to speculate on the nature of life "at large", we're even less suited to speculate about the nature of intelligent life (whatever that even means). On th
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by koanarc 16y ago
That's good advice. For anyone interested in taking it, see "How to permanently delete your Facebook account": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703
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by koanarc 16y ago
I whole-heartedly support this notion. Monopoly money should look as such.
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by koanarc 16y ago
"why trust them to understand any other complex subject?" Because politicians do a great job, re: managing the economy, protecting social security, foreign relations, IP law, education, not inflating costs of all things medicinal, and just
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by koanarc 17y ago
Cool beans, thanks for posting this. Hopefully they determine the exact location soon -- I'd buy a ticket right now, but I'm bike-/bus-bound, so that could turn out to be a bad idea.
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by koanarc 17y ago
>> The BBC is NOT a government body. It IS state funded, yes, but it is a separate entity with a board a charter and lots of non-governmental oversight. >> there is a difference between tax funded and government owned. Okay,
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by koanarc 17y ago
>> But it's worth considering Actually, my entire point was that people considering these things need to stop considering them... >> sorry to keep picking on the US - but they are the worst offenders by far Fair enough. I'm
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by koanarc 17y ago
>>The thing is the model gerally works good here in the uk I can agree that some good programming has come out of British public television, but I've been given no reason to think this is necessarily a result of (or in spite of) it
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by koanarc 17y ago
I'll let you in on a little secret about tax-funded television: you're paying for it. The difference? If you don't like what's on cable, you can stop paying for cable! Neat.
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by koanarc 17y ago
Thanks for the PDF, looks like a good read. First let me disclaim that I am by no means a crypto expert, and perhaps I am actually way off base here. I'm not suggesting that Gmail could revolutionize popular use of encryption overnight. Wha
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The Extended Mind [1998](consc.net)
3 points by koanarc 17y ago|1 comments
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by koanarc 17y ago
Absolutely, but I don't see why it couldn't still manage public keys for verifying signatures and encrypting outgoing mail. Your private key could still be handled locally. Hell, even if they left signing and decryption (the parts you'd nee
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by koanarc 17y ago
Over a year ago they were experimenting with this, and still no results? Not very encouraging. Has anyone since seen any evidence of further developments in this area? I've never noticed these features when receiving signed mail. I had alwa
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by koanarc 17y ago
From the second page of the article: http://www.fastonline.org/images/manuals/Aquaculture/Aquapon...
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by koanarc 17y ago
You had me until: "Nixon, the criminal, sure looks saintly now." I adjusted for hyperbole, but still. Maybe it's only because my generation's closest ties to Nixon are via Hunter S. Thompson's popular invectives, but I don't know of anybody
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by koanarc 17y ago
Amusing: the fact that the author uses images to demonstrate the intended results of each example. Less amusing: after bemoaning the "(awful) state of standards-compliant browsers," 3 out of the 5 tips rely on proprietary/non-standard css.
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by koanarc 17y ago
From the Aptera website's FAQ: "The Aptera 2 Series vehicle (electric and hybrid) will range in price from $25,000-$40,000 depending on options and powertrain." But whether or not that fits one's definition of 'affordable', I couldn't say.
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by koanarc 17y ago
I think you and scotty79 are both right, actually. On the one hand, I agree with the sentiment that the US Government (at the very least on a Federal level) has deteriorated to a point that it actively prevents itself from being repaired --
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by koanarc 17y ago
Not quite. Placebo response: "I think this will make me better, so I get (or feel) better" Nocebo response: "I think this will make me sick, so I get sick" Interesting (if somewhat anecdotal) article on the nocebo response in relation to vo
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by koanarc 17y ago
If a 7.0 magnitude quake hit Maricopa County, AZ, and a sizable percentage of the local population was buried alive, the otherwise abominable cops there might act like human beings, too, under the watchful eyes of the rest of the world. Fro
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by koanarc 17y ago
Less than a month ago, I had never even heard of Lady Gaga before. Ever. Then I read a nearly obsessive review of her on a social networking site. Then I noticed her showing up on last.fm profiles and other music websites. Then I started se
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by koanarc 17y ago
My thoughts exactly. As fascinating as all of this iTablet hubbub may be, I'm more interested in the attempts to one-up it that are sure to follow over the next ~5 years. For starters, considering Google's growing stake in the mobile market

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