neumann_alfred

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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Why yes, thanks for asking.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Oh wow, I think I'm falling in love with a language. http://www.ainewsletter.com/newsletters/aix_0503.htm#loglan http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Play/lojban.html
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
I'm not an entrepreneur, but I have a tendency to be rather open to random people, and generally I think they appreciate it a lot. Everybody has bullshit friends and knows how to be a bullshit friend, it's just not everybody dares to be an
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Anything she accomplished went nowhere? One has to be complete fucking career whore to entertain that thought for a second, otherwise it's a non-sequitur; anything she accomplished was accomplished, period , and the only loss you can compl
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Especially considering the recent and mostly positive reaction to the clever "hack" of selling fake facebook girlfriends, haha? It's almost as if we like our bullshit constant, in-your-face, and without any apologies or interruptions whatso
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Armchair psychiatrists without any reading comprehension whatsoever on the other hand, those have all the answers..
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
I hesitate something like that to be instantly apologized away. We all fall down, we all make mistakes. Learn from those mistakes instead of trying to just get by. Have you even read the article? Here's a quote: "please know this is not a
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
If people don't think about the implications of their choices, then that's not the fault of rants, and anything you might suggest to change the situation can all be done while ranting. As Weizenbaum said in an interview I listened to a wh
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
I know attention spans and principles tend to morph into some crazy shit in the perception of those who are not as blessed with them, but this one I haven't heard before.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
It may not be YOUR narrow definition of open and connected but clearly they are deriving value from connecting and sharing with their friends and family. And that is relevant how, exactly? Even if it was: 6B people are NOT using it.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
It's not really that scary that you notice something that seems off to you, everybody has that. But how do you confirm your "gut feeling"? It's not like you hire the people you dismiss in that manner to see if you're proven wrong, so what m
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
"A boot stamping on a human face — forever."
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Complaining about Facebook being a walled garden is a valid point. But complaining that it's doublethink is not. Okay, so there's more openness and transparency within that walled garden, and that's why it's not doublethink, gotcha. "Op
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Not having much of a thought either way doesn't exactly count as disagreeing in my books. And even if that wasn't true: the arguments matter, not the amount of people that hold a certain opinion.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
"Making the world open"? Facebook doesn't even offer RSS feeds, so thanks for the chuckle. "Making the world connected"? The world is connected anyway, introducing middlemen into it makes it arguably less connected, that is, it introduces m
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
One glance at her GH profile reveals several well-used open source projects, including a neural network library and a bayesian classifier. Thanks so much for pointing that out (and thanks Heather for writing it :P)! I would have missed it
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
I don't want anything posted on my behalf unless I say so Maybe they know that. Maybe it turns them on? Just consider people who grope, or even rapists. They know their victims don't want it, and in presence of physically fit people who p
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
This assumes that lower production costs lead to lower prices; instead of higher profits for select few individuals. I also don't see how being unemployed frees people up for something more worthwhile to do.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
To resist a temptation you have to have it in the first place; people who don't have certain temptations don't really get to judge those who didn't resist theirs. And then there is the fact that "temptation" and "aspiration" are both equall
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
It's impossible to really measure how and how much something achieves in the long run. Not that I want to compare this defacement to that, but just to point out the impossibility to measure such things: does the photography of James Nachtwe
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Graffiti prevents you from looking at the bleak, clean surface. And this has already been cleared up, while graffiti often requires more then a few keystrokes. Graffiti can really destroy surfaces, and they will never be as before. Then the
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
To me this is just graffiti. Yeah it's vandalism, that's the point, and I'm not sure if I wanted to live in a world completely devoid of it. "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin t
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
I decided to try the same. It's been ages since I last played Minecraft, and I have frankly no idea what other apps I'm using might be using Java; the only way to find out is to uninstall it. It's not like I can't install it again if I need
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Also see George Carlin's rants about business men (and women with shoulder pads who repeat the worst mistakes of men) ^^
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
And I'm saying that's based on culture more than nature. One can't suppress women more or less worldwide for millenia, then say "equal rights, voting rights, go! " (in some parts of the world), and then take time shortly after, without l
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
WTF is a "natural gender split"? This is a cultural problem, and that culture like to hide behind a supposed nature which in large parts really just is learned behaviour, resulting from that culture.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
You can't really answer those questions for Wikileaks, so why even pretend you can.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Only if "because I do it" is their one and only argument for "always do X". Which it rarely, if ever, is.
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
Surely there's something here for everyone: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
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by neumann_alfred 14y ago
As long as a limit of 2GB is okay for you, you can have both the privacy and the "trustability": https://spideroak.com/faq/category/privacy__passwords/

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