mikec3010

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by mikec3010 8y ago
Isn't this very similar to what Tipper Gore's group tried in the 80s to censor rap and "hard rock" artists ? "Oh! We need to block this harmful speech. Think of the children! "
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by mikec3010 8y ago
You're assuming I'm wrong. Show me where kids are taught to count starting at zero.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
That could also be gate keeping. The fewer people who want a slice of the pie the better.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
True, after they learn a programming language. I meant when we're children and taught to count, we don't start at 0.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> for a computer and how it functions And what about for a human and how it functions? Are humans here to make computers' lives easier or vice versa? Humans think from 1...N inclusive and this is the source of a litany of bugs when
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> a musician can provide...experiences This is how my dad made a living his whole life, playing upscale weddings in a string quartet. The barrier to entry is fairly high, though. Violins and such require a decade or 2 of practice. And un
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by mikec3010 8y ago
My first endeavor with asyncio felt worse than a beating with a wet rubber hose. But it was a character building experience to really get up close and personal with the asynchronous model and I can definitely see its advantages over imperat
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by mikec3010 8y ago
It's already regulated. They are forced to say "paid for by the committee to elect". The public airwaves are regulated by the FCC. There is no reason to pay broadcasters to prevent some candidate from becoming elected.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Reminds me of the fallacy that Autonomous vehicles need to be absolutely infallible, when in fact they only need to have fewer fatalities per mile than humans.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Nets would work to arrest and capture the drone, but to stop it you could probably get better results with a confetti like shot of something stringy and sticky. I bet long thin cotton or nylon thread would quickly tangle in the propeller, a
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by mikec3010 8y ago
But that's not uniquely a drone problem. Aren't modern mortar shells wicked accurate?the trigonometry that governs them has been known for centuries.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Make negative campaign ads illegal. Elections are votes FOR a candidate, not votes against someone.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I wish there were a way to dispel the tricks the media and politicians use to divide us such as religion and abortion. There are countless other issues that affect us, but many voters only care about 1 or 2 issues. The "polarizing iss
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Could you store electrical energy this way more efficiently than pumped hydroelectric? Like make a capacitor the size of a wastewater storage tank?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
What happens when $14bn in short interest tries to buy simultaneously?
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I'm waiting for the next generation ad blockers where a cloud based html rendering engine renders the image of the page to a frame buffer, crops out the article or pictures, compresses them, and sends it to my device. Hell, you could d
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> . How in the hell does Samsung, a device manufacturer justify inserting ads over content thats not even theirs? Earnings growth for shareholders. Something-something-"advertising revolution/innovation".
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by mikec3010 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with burning a renewable resource. You're still at net 0 carbon emissions.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
There is no pretense that a non-fossil fuel vehicle must have an energy density >= oil for it to be a viable alternative. A bicycle doesn't carry any energy at all and yet many people use them in place of a car.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
The solution isn't magical. The mechanism is explained in the article. Also, it doesn't promise to solve climate change, only to limit the output of methane pursuant to California regulation.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me says they broke it on purpose to encourage users to migrate to azure or onedrive. Even on 3+ghz CPUs with multi-gbps SSDs, copying hundreds of little files on my win10 OEM pc was painfully slow. I suspect the A
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Yeah, it's broken. You will get matches for one letter, but not for 3. It's ridiculous.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> why would anyone be a fan of such an aggressive company? For all their faults, they brought personal computing quality out of the gutter and actually gave a fuck about UX. To this day, you can't even reliably search for local fil
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by mikec3010 8y ago
My position is that CS is a bunch of proofs about Turing machines which can be implemented in transistors which are productions of our mastery of physics. You could try to say the same thing about psych being implemented by neurons, but it&
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by mikec3010 8y ago
I missed the last sentence where he said he went with a competitor
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Depends entirely on your definition of "wrong".
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by mikec3010 8y ago
The "definition of science" isnt up for debate.
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by mikec3010 8y ago
> due to lower interest well, follow the money. why would they sell you a product that makes them less money if they have a material reason to deny it? Think like an insurance company: if you have a technical reason to deny paying a c
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Psychology is one of the few sciences that isn't directly traceable back to physics (In fact, I can't think of another one). They use the scientific method, but when dealing with personalities and human behavior there are plenty
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by mikec3010 8y ago
Not sure if its the same thing but I think rx radios have an "IF" - internal frequency, which could also be disrupted if it wasn't shielded.

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