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by koide 14y ago
The point is that the iPad has already broken ground. And that truly innovative and groundbreaking things are yet in the drawing board.
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by koide 14y ago
You can also try to distance yourself from the goals. Goals do not define your life or who you are, they are only things you want to do. That way you can say, "Everything IS perfect or close to it now. By the way, I'll bump up my revenues 1
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by koide 14y ago
You actually read manuals?! Thanks for the pointers, I have read some myself, but I'm in the search for new ones.
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by koide 14y ago
I agree. Although I think that the right combination of parenting and schooling can take a child much further than good parenting and bad schooling only. After all, the children spend lots of time at school. By the way, care to share a list
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by koide 14y ago
I read somewhere I cannot find right now that bcp is faster than SqlBulkCopy. My experience tends to match this, but that very well might be due to other factors (network, wrong coding, different default values between SqlBulkCopy and bcp.)
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by koide 14y ago
For really massive data inserts, bcp is the way to go. In general avoid bulk insertions in code, if at all possible. If that's not an option then go for SqlBulkCopy or other similar approach.
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by koide 14y ago
What I don't get about all this fuss is: Who is forcing anybody to learn about anything? Free learning resources are huge empowering forces that are just starting to get a decent scale (see coursera.org, udacity.com.) It doesn't matter at a
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by koide 14y ago
Exactly! I just realized so when I wrote the "going further" part of the previous answer :-)
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by koide 14y ago
I fully agree that the copy will rightly believe it's the original, and for all practical matters to the rest of the world he can very well be considered an original, if he can at least communicate with the outside. But this just doesn't
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by koide 14y ago
In abstract, philosophical terms, it might not be. Even in policy terms it's probably not (other than it might be cheaper to store people in SANs.) In practical, day to day terms, of course it is! My own instance of self doesn't want to cea
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by koide 14y ago
You avoided the question, what would you prefer? There would exist two (or n) instances of you, with a shared history, but no shared present. Maybe you posit the question is moot because the concept of you dilutes at the point where a cop
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by koide 14y ago
I and my copy are the same only in the instant the copy is made 'alive', the second after that we will not be equal, and every second that passes we will diverge more, unless there is some kind of metaphysical connection. The virtual world
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by koide 14y ago
It's very rational for you to avoid privileging any single one of my copies, but for me it's very rational to privilege my own instance. And likewise, I wouldn't care which one of your copies thrive, but I would expect that you would
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by koide 14y ago
I'm aware people can understand that, but it's certainly not as easy as the properly formed words. I used that technique to make sure my point was carried across.
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by koide 14y ago
Yes, but it will create a new sensation of identity on the copy, which would be equal but separate to yours. That's the gist of the point. See my other answers around this subthread.
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by koide 14y ago
It could be duplicated, but then it would be a copy and not the one you currently have. I expect you can easily imagine this by picturing your copy uploaded to the simulator while you live and then running the simulation. Whatever the copy
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by koide 14y ago
But then it would be a whole new sensation of identity of the copy , not the existing sensation of identity.
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by koide 14y ago
I will read what you suggest, but perhaps you can illustrate how would the sensation of identity will transfer from the physical body to the digital body? Because your example does not explain it.
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by koide 14y ago
Let's imagine you run the simulation when you are still alive. Are both copies you? Wouldn't each copy believe it's a full consciousness and not half a consciousness? Assume you do a regular (or even automatic and continuous) sync between t
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by koide 14y ago
I could imagine how a suficiently advanced machine could simulate one or more consciousnesses. What I can't imagine is how you, the person sitting in front of the computer will somehow wake up in the computer. I can only see copies waking u
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by koide 14y ago
The claim to the identity is not the issue, the issue is that the person who got copied will die and experience that death. The existence of a copy does not make the original person to resucitate or otherwise keep perceiving and thinking. T
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by koide 14y ago
Release early and often. The prolbem ocrcus wehn exprsesd tghins are had to undrestnad, or the idaes pooryl tghought out.
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by koide 14y ago
I love to imagine how the phrase "But since this system was introduced system" was coined by TNW's journalist :-)
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by koide 14y ago
What are those languages and how do they integrate nicely into the declarative mindset?
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by koide 14y ago
I agree, microORMs are the right solution if you are trapped in the mainstream. I'm a very happy user of Dapper.