lawpoop

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by lawpoop 10y ago
I don't think it mocks the notion that something has been lost along the way. Instead, it seems to say that there are many ideas of what the "one true essence" of Burning Man is, and each of those "essences" have be
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> The mops, when properly squeezed, produce liquid capital, i.e. money. "liquid capital" -- such a sublime, apt description/definition of money. Surprised I've never encountered it before, in awe of its simplicity and
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Also the human nose is very oily. Ever hear people mentioning "powdering their nose"
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by lawpoop 10y ago
In fact, that's literally what every GUI is. The graphics system just represents ascii characters. Hell, even a terminal is basically the same thing!
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Your summation is not true; all they've claimed to have done is create a quantum encryption link, which means that if someone tries to eavesdrop on it, it will garble the message for both recipients. There is no FTL communication.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
1 seems valid, but 2 and 3 don't seem to be a reason applicable going back the past 16 years. That would be a kind of vaporware argument if we would have had to have waited 16, 10, or even 5 years for NN improvements over JPEG 2000 to
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by lawpoop 10y ago
About the half serious part, I don't think that an entangled RNG could transmit any information.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
How do you revoke the keys when a machine a compromised? Log in to each service and remove it when you become aware?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Presently no, unfortunately :( If we did that would be a huge breakthrough, for more than just deja-vu research ;)
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Related: A man with HIV and cancer was cured of HIV infection when he received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor who was HIV-immune: http://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2015/02/timothy..
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by lawpoop 10y ago
EEG doesn't really show that much about what's going on inside the brain. You are going to want an fMRI for that. Someone once compared an EEG to holding a stethoscope up to the outside wall of a factory, to get an indication of l
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by lawpoop 10y ago
If I understand this properly, how do you use the same identity from two different machines on a service like github? If they only allow you to upload one public key per account, then you aren't able to use that account on both your de
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Is self-replication a requirement for life? I don't know if there is an "official" definition, but how would you define life, without that? For instances, rock crystals grow, and fire uses energy. Would you consider thos
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This is a theoretical idea for how a cellular membrane might form in this environment, but the membrane isn't the key part of life-- it's the self-replicating molecule, which they haven't modeled. The RNA World theory posits
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Given that set of criteria, I wonder how many good projects there actually are out "in the wold". I would suspect that a small percentage of all projects undertaken are good, according to these criteria. Yet I can't help but
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Not that strange as one cannot saw a digital entity.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Yes, as a mathematical object, that is true. But any symbol we render in the physical world is going to be finite. Drawing a straight mark and calling it an infinite set of points isn't really different from drawing a sideways 8 and ca
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by lawpoop 10y ago
As a layperson, I don't know how you could represent infinite sets, unless you just pick a random, finite symbol.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I get this, but it seems to me that the simple converse is that we just happen to presently have the optimal amount of free time, which I don't think is true.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I don't claim to be able to make an ideal criminal legal justice system. But I do think we can make improvements, this being one of them. Why do you think the rest of the first world has outlawed capital punishment?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
It's just for me-- only the ones I'm trying to memorize ; )
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by lawpoop 10y ago
That's a critique of the current state of our legal system, not whether the death penalty is just in the case of a wrongly convicted innocent person.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Probably because what we're taught as programming is imperative programming, then moving on to OO, etc. If we were taught FP from the start (we, broadly speaking), then people would probably be fans of FP. It's funny how SQL is a
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by lawpoop 10y ago
If someone is wrongly imprisoned for life, they have a chance of getting out. If someone is wrongly executed, there is no way to fix that.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I made a thing: https://thimbleprojects.org/smlefevre/102167/ Bash cheat sheet-- keyboard shortcuts for jumping and deleting words
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I wouldn't say "strife" but perhaps "challenges". I think things like a wander-year, self-initiated long-term projects, like starting a business, writing a program, building something architecturally, making a short
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by lawpoop 10y ago
This is untrue for rats: they are very curious, intelligent creatures and need intellectual "stimulation" such as areas to explore, toys to play with, etc.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
My wonder is, is it an effective way to help free them, when one doesn't take the psychological ties causing the problem into consideration in the first place.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I've wondered if dolphins speak to each other (assuming that they do) in a serial flow of abstract symbols-- words, like we do, or if they use their sonar to project 3-D 'holograms' of objects and shapes to each other. Maybe
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Are any of the people taking a hard line here ("She owes him nothing!") actually children of abusive parents?

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