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by msg 17y ago
This is an old program of the philosophers. Can you, even in principle, find the language at the back of reality? Can you eliminate all ambiguities when you refer to ordinary objects? Are we all talking about more or less the same things? H
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by msg 17y ago
I would not look to what societies spend energy on as a definition of value. There's a wisdom of crowds, but there's a folly of crowds too. If your perspective focuses on English, then yes, you can notice lots of e.g. sociolinguistic and ge
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by msg 17y ago
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis would tell you differently. The very ideas that you can hope to have depend on the language you use to interpret the world. Lose a language, lose a perspective. This is also one of the things 1984 is about.
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by msg 17y ago
I had an interesting talk with my coworker (fellow engineer) from China. He had just been back there for a month, so I asked him what people thought about the whole Google thing. At first he explained that he thought most people wouldn't ca
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by msg 17y ago
I don't think your genome going public is mostly in danger from nefarious ne'er-do-wells collecting your skin. But there will be mass data breaches from stolen laptops or social engineering scams at these sequencing/medical record companies
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by msg 17y ago
Somebody needs to get on top of appropriate encryption and anonymization for this area. After all, there's nothing I want more private than my DNA sequence (against health insurers, if no one else), and nothing that is less anonymous than s
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by msg 17y ago
Not mute. No. It's called a moo point. You know, like a cow's opinion.
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by msg 17y ago
Or a deeper question, are the publishers making your friends' lives easier by doing it first? Do your friends read thousands of self-published books to provide you with recommendations? Or is all their action applied after the mainstream pu
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by msg 17y ago
The main benefit I receive from publishers is filtering. Even the worst publisher printing unbelievable shlock is light years ahead of the garbage in the publishing anteroom, the slush pile. With that, the greatest blog post on publishing o
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by msg 17y ago
It doesn't have to be safe. It just has to be safer . You wouldn't tell this guy to learn to day trade or go into real estate. He's not going to buy savings bonds or open a money market account. He's not going to put it all down on gold. S
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by msg 17y ago
There is no author, only a text. If Jon Stewart acts like a media critic and promotes integrity in journalism, his motivation is an implementation detail. Asking if it is all just an act is an easy way not to meet the argument. This is why
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by msg 17y ago
Maybe he meant that war is always evil, even if it is the lesser evil.
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by msg 17y ago
I meant, by staying out of the market, the author is losing out on e-reading only. But this doesn't mean not reading, just because the mobile phone is a crappy reading platform. It just means carrying around a paperback. I see why you might
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by msg 17y ago
I'm in Seattle also, and I only lose 3G on my T-m G1 when I'm underground in the bus/light rail tunnels. YMMV?
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by msg 17y ago
A lot of e-reading, that is. Reading continues as it has for centuries... I sympathize with his point of view. The smartphone market, the netbooks, the tablets, are all changing so fast that you have to settle for second best if you want to
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by msg 17y ago
George Graham reviews AAA for NPR, and always includes a note about the dynamic compression at the end of the review. Highly recommended if you like this genre. http://georgegraham.com/reviews.html
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by msg 17y ago
As far as YouTube's bandwidth bill goes, it is probably low, as discussed a couple months back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886109 I wouldn't deny that the Microsoft seems to be improving the Xbox from the customer's point of view
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by msg 17y ago
I think you think I want to destroy the upper class. I don't. I just think that FU money should be taxed more heavily than regular money. When Warren Buffett's janitor pays a higher effective tax rate than he does, something is wrong. But t
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by msg 17y ago
Read the GGP, it refers to punishing the rich to help society. I was pointing out that if you see taxation as a zero sum game of winners and losers, then of course someone will always be crying that they are being punished. The rich and the
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by msg 17y ago
This is better: All time box-office adjusted for inflation. http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm Gone with the Wind #1, Star Wars #2, The Sound of Music #3. Titanic #6.
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by msg 17y ago
I don't know, but I bought Orange Box for TF2, and was surprised to find Portal lurking in there.
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by msg 17y ago
Rands in Repose: Incrementalists & Completionists http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/08/05/incremental...
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by msg 17y ago
Then do you punish the rest of society to bring the rich up? You can go around in circles here. My opinion is that no matter what you call the oligarchy of corporate wealth and public influence that runs the United States, you can't call it
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by msg 17y ago
9. I saw it on Imax at 7:00 on Friday. I definitely recommend seeing it on Imax first. Some of the characters are pretty cardboard, and the theme doesn't really get to the depth it should. Also, calling it a low-gravity world doesn't excuse
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by msg 17y ago
Funniest line: "First proposed by Bruce Salem on the discussion site Usenet..."
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by msg 17y ago
"chartjunk"
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by msg 17y ago
Sorry hristov. I meant to upmod but my giant thumb hit the down arrow on my mobile by mistake. Unfortunately there is no way to undo my erroneous vote.
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by msg 17y ago
The goal is just to design the right game, then hopefully the right behavior will just sort of plop out of it. Google has a similar problem regarding SEO. Their search engine is a game for SEOs to play. If they can set up the game well enou
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by msg 17y ago
Houben has since proven able to answer yes-or-no questions with slight movements of his foot. It’s a tremendous accomplishment, and raises the chilling possibility that, as estimated by Coma Science Group leader Steven Laureys in a Monday
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Google Gives A Slightly Crippled Maps Navigation To All Android Users(techcrunch.com)
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