ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
After hearing about those parasitic brain bugs that you can catch from cats I started to wonder if conscious awareness could be merely the collective experience of some kind of bug we caught that has just hitched along for the ride and that
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by ktizo 14y ago
I really should have chased this further when I was looking into it 8 years ago. Is really easy tech, in principle. The sensors are cheap and easy to DIY and the signal analysis isn't too hard as long as you have the sensors aligned well, w
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by ktizo 14y ago
The hard work has already been done and it is easy to demonstrate the problem and the impossibility of telling 'good data' from 'bad data', assuming the system is cryptographically secure, as by definition a cryptographically secure system
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by ktizo 14y ago
Could just call it The High Country, given it's lack of mountains.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I used to have a darkened version of the hubble deep field set as my terminal background and currently have a satellite photo of martian dunes and one of those absolutely mental long exposures from the ISS by Don Pettit as some of my deskto
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by ktizo 14y ago
Pebble bed reactors are nice - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor But my major problem with most forms of nuclear is that from a geopolitical standpoint, if you are proposing a technology for clean global power, it has to by
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by ktizo 14y ago
Wait a few years before proclaiming it good. And keep a good eye on the water table. Everything has a downside, and this one might be more costly than you suspect. Might be fine admittedly, but the US is not doing this because it has found
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by ktizo 14y ago
Historically it seems reasonably common as it comes from a well used tactic during the days of privateers. It seems unlikely that the governments of the world would suddenly give up such an obviously useful tactic through some sort of singu
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by ktizo 14y ago
This might help you - http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
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by ktizo 14y ago
So, if the music has stopped, is now a good time to sell chairs?
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by ktizo 14y ago
The universe is much bigger than the internet and reference encyclopedias are still useful and popular.
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by ktizo 14y ago
It's not unethical to try to influence someone, even subconsciously, even by the choice of arbitrary design elements ("you start with 2 of 12 checked") -- as long as there's no deception. In the simple case this is usually true, but I do
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by ktizo 14y ago
A few clicks around just makes me wonder why no-one has presented the data any better.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Maybe if you were shoplifting occasional penny sweets. Was just meaning there has to be a limit to how far this kind of thing can be pushed without getting downright dodgy in and of itself, and outright psychological manipulation for profit
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by ktizo 14y ago
There's not been a good simple general directory since yahoo stopped being one. Search is one thing, structured reference is different. Though it is a much more difficult problem now and would need a completely different approach to achieve
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by ktizo 14y ago
If a coffee shop is doing this deliberately to manipulate you, is it therefore ethical to give the illusion of progress to the coffee shop in turn, by stamping a couple yourself?
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by ktizo 14y ago
I just wanted an image, no text as I live in a semi-transparent terminal most of the time This made me think of someone getting stuck living in an airport and writing this script because they miss the stars. Which is in no way relevant or
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by ktizo 14y ago
If a three axis magnetometer was used in conjunction with electrical nerve stimulation on multiple sites, you could have the full range of compass heading, local magnetic field density and ac field sensing. Which would be cool. This has pro
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by ktizo 14y ago
I'd say that with careful study you can have a pretty good clue about some of the near future, the difficult bit is knowing when that future is going to occur and in what order. So making long term plans is fine as long as you allow leeway
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by ktizo 14y ago
Yayy!.. Did they lose the war though?
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by ktizo 14y ago
B&N is stocking Amazon published books on their website according to the first article you linked, just not their physical books in the physical stores. And they are doing a blanket restriction, not picking through the contents of the b
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by ktizo 14y ago
I read it that the claim was that apple applies it's rules equally, which in plain reading wouldn't differentiate between a per submission and per submitter interpretation as it would be applying the rules equally regardless. I was just mea
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by ktizo 14y ago
My experience from the UK is that more kids can do 12 * 9 in their heads at the end of primary school than at the end of secondary. Possibly because by the end of secondary a good percentage of them are too drunk or off their heads on ketam
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by ktizo 14y ago
How can you claim to have evidence that apple applies it's rules equally based entirely off your own experience of the process? That makes no sense as an argument.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Every book store decides what they are going to sell. I am in this case amazed to find a book store refusing to stock a book on professional writing because the book contains details of other book stores that a writer might find useful, o
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by ktizo 14y ago
I wonder how ibookstore would cope with an accurate history of electronic tablet devices and their influence on book publishing.
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by ktizo 14y ago
A kind of sinking feeling seems to be telling me that the books lost that battle.
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by ktizo 14y ago
That's because it is often a separate case that is held against the property itself, so even if you are found innocent, your property might be found guilty.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Here it is - https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/
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by ktizo 14y ago
Given that this case required the cooperation of Hong-Kong police, they are now sort of entitled to. I would be very surprised if they do not at some point expect the favour to be repaid.

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