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by maxander 10y ago
I don't see a byline for the article, so I can't Google to see what sort of connections to the UK real estate industry that the author has. Oh well.
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by maxander 10y ago
One might counter that in a truly diverse and moreover free nation, a citizen should be allowed to identify as they please.
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by maxander 10y ago
Regarding what prompted the post, its probably not coincidence that the subject of liquid helium pumps came up in a Worldbuilding Stack Exchange question earlier today: http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/7
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by maxander 10y ago
That depends on what exactly you mean by "damage" and who you mean by "the USA." He definitely and admittedly broke the law, though. If he's delivered to American shores the best we could even hope for him is that
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by maxander 10y ago
Perhaps he didn't even want the data. "Hey, they're just going to toss this terabyte harddrive? What a waste!"
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by maxander 10y ago
Imagine- MS pushes out a driver update where the drivers are dated to the actual day they were produced, causing them to necessarily and simultaneously override all custom drivers on every Windows box on the internet. That's not a feat
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by maxander 10y ago
That China has decided to talk with them rather than squashing all Bitcoin traffic outright is best sign I've seen for Bitcoin in awhile.
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by maxander 10y ago
I've often thought about coding with a touchscreen and stylus- could be the best of both worlds. But though applicable hardware exists, such an IDE still doesn't, as far as I know.
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by maxander 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what languages are you using when you do this? As a primarily Python and Haskell writer, I have no idea what you're talking about with this "unchain your mind from syntax" stuff- though I guess that in Pytho
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by maxander 10y ago
My halfway informed interpretation, just from the abstract- it turns out that modern image-recognition networks are capable of learning labels randomly assigned to sets of random images, which means that it's still mysterious why they
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by maxander 10y ago
It could be interesting to check against a set of random seeds or random player lists. It's not entirely implausible that the algorithm is "correct," but that implementation details not covered by the spec mean that, e.g., g
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by maxander 10y ago
So by a "tremendous boon to cryptocurrency mining" you actually mean completely disastrous to all known cryptocurrencies. It will be interesting to see if someday the prospect of effective quantum computers has a definite econom
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by maxander 10y ago
Its an imprecise and catchall term, but not entirely untrue. A good example of "processed food" is refined grain (non-whole-wheat bread, etc); there, various outer layers and components of each grain are milled out, leaving just
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by maxander 10y ago
Before November 2016 it was easy to be complacent- there was a sense that people with more power than us were doing the right thing to fix any given problem, so our own contribution felt less urgent. We don't have that now.
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by maxander 10y ago
Not really; essentially all DNA "really does" is code for RNA, which in turn codes for amino acid sequences that fold into proteins. As long as the RNA and amino acid libraries are the same, it's just representing the same s
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by maxander 10y ago
Obama's version of the move wasn't great either, but it's not nearly a direct comparison; he temporarily shut down immigration from one country directly in response to a known and immediate threat, for a set and predetermined
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by maxander 10y ago
If Musk can get the permits for this sort of project in any reasonable time frame he's even more of a genius than we thought. I suspect , however, that the main objective for this plan is to get in with Trump and his apparatus. If Mu
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by maxander 10y ago
Not the low-end market, no, cars require a bit more technical expertise than handbags. But I imagine you'll find that there are cars 2/3rds the price of any given Ferrari model that have roughly the same level of performance, fro
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by maxander 10y ago
As other answers have essentially already said- because Ferrari is a brand, and past a certain price point brand names often matter more than the physical object. Its the same in cars as in designer handbags. The opposite question is equal
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by maxander 10y ago
Could you provide a reference? What I've heard of monastic life sounds relatively actve- a complicated schedule of chores and prayer and other obligations, all in different places. It's hard to inagine that goes with the sort of
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by maxander 10y ago
If there isn't some compilation or review article along the lines of "all serious failure modes encountered in autonomous vehicles since 2005-ish," there should be.
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by maxander 10y ago
Likely in the hopes that the story won't be as big a deal when she's actually released, and won't receive as much attention from potentially dangerous people.
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by maxander 10y ago
It's definitely the right thing for the VR market, and probably for people in general, but it doesn't help those working for Valve in other areas when Valve's VR tech goes to making other companies rich rather than raising th
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by maxander 10y ago
So people at Valve gave away tech, and then got hired by other companies to work on that tech, presumably for stacks of money? Leaving others who happened to be working on less lucrative subjects their a prestigious but lower-paid position
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by maxander 10y ago
It sounds like a very roundabout way of raising taxes on the European tech industry. The part about establishing liability rules is certainly an important thing for lawmakers to be tackling about now, though. > "The US, China, Kore
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by maxander 10y ago
But who is being the pedant? The owners of the account, or Instagram, or the unexamined cultural norm?
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by maxander 10y ago
From the article: > Once out of the telescope, the data is going through a new, almost automatic data-processing system we’ve developed. Of course, they don't go into detail (instead making a very odd analogy to a bread machine), bu
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by maxander 10y ago
It could be any number of things- insight into the history of smoking ads, the bygone culture of advertisement copy as poetry, or the bit about the "poetry of industrialism." But if you can read the words "BUT just among ours
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by maxander 10y ago
So it sounds like the idea is, make Trump look so bad that no possible future blackmail material could possibly match what people already think about him. We could take it further- grab your tinfoil hat! What if the reason Trump was allowe
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by maxander 10y ago
The government collects and organizes the data, but presumably there's no Chinese government website offering citizens access to this database. Who exfiltrates the data and sells it? Corrupt officials is an obvious answer. Or hackers

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