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by lukev 12y ago
Except this argument has the exact opposite effect on anyone who already has conservative tendencies. "Oh, I would never send a sexually explicit photo. Sounds like this only affects perverts and liberals. Carry on, NSA!"
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by lukev 12y ago
First, this is a serious problem. Severe bullying is one of the better outcomes if you have unrestricted, anonymous localized trolling. Second, it seems like this could be easily fixed without compromising anonymity, using standard mode
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by lukev 12y ago
Bought it, pretty cool. The demo video shows notes contextual based on the current directory in a terminal. It isn't clear to me how to configure that to work - it doesn't seem to by default. Do I need to configure my terminal to
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by lukev 12y ago
Some clarifying notes, since there's still a lot of misconceptions bouncing around here and elsewhere: This is not a screen issue. Multiple people physically in the same room looking at the same screen see different things. The expla
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by lukev 12y ago
As another data point - in the Clojure space, I'm ranked right alongside Rich Hickey down in the 30s. For those of you who aren't aware, Rich is the inventor and maintainer of the language.
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by lukev 12y ago
At that point you've reached a point where humans are no longer the dominant economic players at all, and this discussion is moot.
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by lukev 12y ago
This is very insightful. I wonder however if his partitioning of the economy into "labor" and "capital" isn't a bit too black and white, though. In particular, it leaves out knowledge workers who are capable of impl
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by lukev 12y ago
It's easy to speculate that better solutions are possible, but noone has ever actually done it . React (used from a more functional language, like ClojureScript) is the closest system to the world you describe which actually exists. A
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by lukev 12y ago
#+clj (defmacro my-macro [] (cond (contains? *features* :clj) `(some-clojure-thing) (contains? *features* :cljs) `(some-cljs-thing))) If that was too verbose for you, you could of course write a `feature-case` fu
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by lukev 12y ago
One interesting thing is that progress very much happens by fits and starts, as it waits for the "lucky mutation" that will enable evolution to continue. For example, 0 Bedaaa Ceeici 6.07 1 Bocodo Bidobo 105.93 3 Aibebe Do
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by lukev 12y ago
For those of you who aren't familiar with Egan's work, I can't recommend it enough. All good scifi indulges in world-building, but Egan's is the most scientifically well-thought-out I've seen, as well as containing
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by lukev 12y ago
I don't know about Darren Wilson. My suspicions aren't relevant. Here are some quotes from people who gave him money after the fact: "Waste of good ammo" "He did a great job removing an unnecessary thing from the pu
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by lukev 12y ago
I automatically ignore any GoFundMe campaign, after they let the contributions for Darren Wilson continue. Even when donors were making explicitly, unambiguously racist comments along with their donation. If they had a policy of making no j
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More Power for Datomic Datalog: Negation, Disjunction, and Range Optimizations(blog.datomic.com)
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by lukev 12y ago
I can't believe so many people are rendering verdicts sans evidence that the FBI is wrong about this. Look, I don't trust the FBI completely. But as of this point they're the only people who have actually seen any of the pe
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by lukev 12y ago
It's remarkable to see a presentation presenting programmatic construction of HTML as a novel concept.
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by lukev 12y ago
Yes, and that's precisely why he's wrong.
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by lukev 12y ago
No, it doesn't. Kurzweil has been making this claim for the last decade based solely on the increasing speed of computers, ignoring the fact that we don't yet have any clue how general intelligence actually works. It doesn't
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by lukev 12y ago
All the non-board-state info of a chess game could be easily captured in, like, two bytes.
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by lukev 12y ago
In order for humanity to truly achieve an optimal culture [...]" You lost me here. Optimal by what metric? And making value judgements about cultures strikes me as a risky, risky business...
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by lukev 12y ago
But surely that's built into the structure of the legal system? People I do business with don't routinely defraud me of amounts too small to sue over: why can't the same legal reasoning apply to these cases?
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by lukev 12y ago
What is the likely outcome if a victim of civil forfeiture were to file a lawsuit against the law enforcement body for restitution, on constitutional grounds? Is that legally possible, or is there a precedent for this? Seems like the ACLU w
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by lukev 12y ago
I really want to agree with you - its easy to look at the command line and point out how it's suboptimal. Unfortunately, there's a dearth of real, better alternatives. There's a lot of ideas, and a lot of toy projects, but th
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by lukev 12y ago
I'm currently on a 100GB for $9.99/mo plan. The UI won't let me upgrade to the 1TB for the same price. Am I ineligible for the new pricing or is this a UX issue?
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by lukev 12y ago
Like I said, there would have to be some breakthrough physics here, like what "vacuum" actually means, or how dark dark matter is, etc. I'm just pointing out that there are a number of logically possible solutions that don&
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by lukev 12y ago
> Unless they believe the machine breaks some of the fundamental physics laws, the device must emit something. I presume you're referring to the third law of motion, but if so, you've mischaracterized it. Nothing in the laws of
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by lukev 12y ago
Well, I looked up a small handful of books I have been interested in reading next, and while all are available on Kindle, none are on the Unlimited program. Looks like I'll be giving this one a pass.
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by lukev 12y ago
More like an apple and a tomato seed.
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by lukev 12y ago
Yes. I'm not fluent in sign language myself so I can't explain them very well, but we got several examples of them in my linguistics classes in college. The most memorable one was a story in which a giant is talking to a small per
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by lukev 12y ago
It's easy enough to see who played better if you actually watch the game. There is absolutely no reason to build a "ficticious narrative" when the real narrative being streamed to every corner of the globe in realtime. I used

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