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by maeon3 15y ago
Make it Bluetooth to uplink to the smartphone so it can tweet your arousal levels based on time and map GPS coordinate. Also id like to track 50 other metrics about my body and wetware without me thinking about it. I should get this, write
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by maeon3 15y ago
The words "Conscious" and "unconscious" to describe thought states is like trying to cram an array of ints into a boolean. I always saw my mind as a collection of states ranging from "Front and center, obvious when I'm wide awake" to "myst
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by maeon3 15y ago
When solar becomes cheaper than the alternatives, the propaganda machine can only slow the adoption, not stop it. The entities that consume large quantities of electricity are mostly unaffected by IQ lowering media transmissions.
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by maeon3 15y ago
While we all get stripped searched for water bottles, the pilot is sending commands to the airplane with the same network as the passengers. byebye laptop NetBook smartphone cellphone.
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by maeon3 15y ago
That sounds like there would be a high probability of one shard obscuring another shard, or a shard not settling in a diagonal position.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Yes, the cotton pickers will need to be forced to go to high school and learn something that hasn't been automated. To the argument that this can't be done, take away their food, they will adapt. Mercy can be used in exceptional cases. I
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by maeon3 15y ago
The notion of weak artificial intelligence hurting the economy by taking away jobs is a complete misunderstanding of the situation. To understand why, you need to read and understand the parable of the broken window: http://freedomkeys.co
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by maeon3 15y ago
Reminds me of the great toilet paper shortage of 1973. After a popular evening talk show host made a joke that there was an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States. The next morning, 20 million viewers bought up all the toilet p
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by maeon3 15y ago
The 250k/year is to keep these best of breed programmers from leaving. No doubt their email inboxes are completely spammed with job offers. It's capitalism, supply and demand. If Google could get away with paying them minimum wage, they
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by maeon3 15y ago
The frequency of swearing increases as you descend the ranks of society down to the lowest levels, down to the floor where you have drunken hobos sleeping in their own filth on the side of the road. Where profanity is the most common. I su
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by maeon3 15y ago
Nets and insecticide are high maintenance, insecticide requires routine work to re spray and nets have to be prepared and fiddled with and they dont protect you when you are focusing on a book in your hut. This tech, assuming it can run for
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by maeon3 15y ago
Read Joel's epic post here describing the phenomenon: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html The 'dead sea effect' is caused by this phenomenon: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d... Hiring manager
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by maeon3 15y ago
I'm not sure why people beat themselves up so much for not passing a candidate filter where teams of people select a candidate from a list based on various criteria and instinct. It has been mathematically demonstrated that these processes
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by maeon3 15y ago
The solution for destructive brainwashing media machines is not to disrupt them, I believe the solution is having an extra emphasis in school and during parent-child interaction that teaches them the scientific method in the reasoning proce
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by maeon3 15y ago
You can take the human out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the human. We are social creatures, cultivate strong and loose relationships. Happiness shared with other people is happiness multiplied.
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by maeon3 15y ago
The Bozo Explosion, and how to prevent it: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html#axz...
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by maeon3 15y ago
Looks like the Italian Mafia is trying to control what can and cannot exist on the Wikipedia. Wikipedia is doing exactly the right thing, two things, exposing the ramifications of the legislation, and pointing a finger at organized crime t
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by maeon3 15y ago
The next Real war will have a large component of disrupting the enemies internet. I say we take all the black hat hackers that are in prison now, and put them in rooms where they try to deface websites, crack into databases, control satelli
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by maeon3 15y ago
Part of the reason why half of America is morbidly obese is not because the food is cheap, but because the food triggers endocannabinoids and you literally become addicted and suffer withdrawal symptoms from food that is quite literally kil
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by maeon3 15y ago
Could I patent basic problem solving skills and then sue someone who uses them to solve problems? Where will this madness end? I want to patent the process of using analogies to teach others. Everyone everywhere must cease thinking becaus
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by maeon3 15y ago
Good thing we bailed these guys out...
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by maeon3 15y ago
I want a program that will take a set of unit tests, and create a program that takes a piece of code and evolves it until all those tests pass. And I want to be able to guide its evolution, prompt it to use certain technologies in certain p
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by maeon3 15y ago
I heard that onstar has a near perfect track record for returning stolen vehicles. Is this true? And if so isn't a certain level of privacy breach necessary for this kind of success?
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by maeon3 15y ago
Making friends can be turned into an algorithm for processing inside the programmer mind. Read this 2 or 3 times and do everything it tells you to do, and you'll have people going out of their way to be your friend. http://www.amazon.com/L
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by maeon3 15y ago
Arrest these evil-doers, copying information and defacing images. In other news, why is the FBI suffering from such a shortage of willing hackers? More hypocrisy after the break.
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by maeon3 15y ago
Well, if it does hit you, it will probably be going faster than the speed of sound so you won't have time to realize what happened. Will there be a gps coordinate updated somewhere to find out of this chunk of metal is going to take down a
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by maeon3 15y ago
I always thought it funny that the spirit of copyright is to cultivate and encourage innovation, but instead it is being used to create fire-hoops to jump through to create innovation. When something that is designed to help actually causes
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by maeon3 15y ago
I've grown the most as a programmer literally kneeling or standing behind the shoulder of programmers with 5 to 8 years more experience than I had. Those hours I spent in that position was more beneficial than hours sitting in expensive cl
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by maeon3 15y ago
In 10k years, in the year 12011. the human race is going to be extinct one way or the other, either we all kill each other over resources or we advance way beyond biological and physical barriers, I hope someone finds this clock and thinks
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by maeon3 15y ago
Additional ideas to consider: 1. Human stem cells will reproduce indefinitely without aging in a controlled environment. 2. Some turtles live 200 years, do they have a different DNA aging and cancer management program? 3. I thought aging

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