mindviews

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by mindviews 18y ago
I know of some folks in NYC who do this for a living - they use trained dogs to scare flocks of geese away from parks, courtyards, etc. Mostly for "aesthetic" reasons (read: geese poop a lot). I'm not sure how long the geese stay away aft
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by mindviews 18y ago
Maybe I do something unusual - I pick a completely random seed artist in an genre I don't usually listen to. Then I do the Pandora rating voodoo and before very long I've got a channel I like. I've had good luck finding new classical and
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by mindviews 18y ago
Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com/ ) Create a station with a seed artist and then it suggests other music you might like. Rate each song played and pandora will refine the suggestions.
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by mindviews 18y ago
I like this idea for personal projects (er, experiments) as well. I have a list of side projects I work on, but new items get added much faster than existing ones get done. A lot of times the list feels like a burden. A mental switch fro
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by mindviews 18y ago
An acoustic device that produces high-amplitude waves at the resonant frequency of the human cranial cavity: head goes pop !
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by mindviews 18y ago
I think you mistook my comment as an argument against Libertarianism - it was not intended to be such. My point was that people oversimplify both the implementation and the analysis of Libertarian principles. A system with many, many free
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by mindviews 18y ago
This is a more important point that I think most people realize. The classic "flaw" in Libertarian thinking (both among self-described Libertarians and those who criticize it) is neglecting higher-order effects. The prisoner's dilemma is
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by mindviews 18y ago
Douglas Hofstadter wrote a book after GEB called "I am a Strange Loop" that deals pretty much exclusively with the ideas of self and consciousness. This is far and away the most compelling argument for consciousness being an emergent prope
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by mindviews 18y ago
Don't forget you can add an empty constructor constraint in c# generics. public T AssignLiteItem<T>(ArchivingItem archivingItem ) where T : Item, new() { T myITem = new T(); myITem.ItemReference = new ItemReference(archivingItem.Id)