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by nooneelse 14y ago
> And I do hope that science can be held to a slightly higher standard of objectivity than the general economy (maybe that's too idealistic?). Doesn't sound to idealistic to this science-oriented engineer. With the field of scientometr
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I'm actually a bit curious why we haven't yet seen any reports of organized crime related hits using cheap drones and explosives.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Or his non-science-fiction speculations on such matters in The Transparent Society . ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society )
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I think some sort of concept of "attention-condition" levels could and should be applied. These would be like "def-con" levels, but labeling the readiness of one to switch attention, instead of readiness to engage in military action. Sayi
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I think having a fake display would be taking it too far. However, having a frame that puts an extra battery and/or the 3G chip & antenna over on the other side would make it nicely less visually lop-sided and have functional benefits.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
So far the Arms Control Wonk blog hasn't said anything about it.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
It doesn't matter what a penguin says, I won't understand it any more than a talking lion.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
What percentage of traditionally funded ventures of a similar type ship on time according to the the initial plan? Isn't knowing that vital to understanding the results of this study.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Well, in one sense, I agree. Make sure you know what each line does on its own. But sometimes a single line doesn't make sense, in a larger sense, without something that comes later. So you have to have some tolerance for not understandi
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Similar to having a bag with lots of different people's hair and skin cells to dust over a crime scene.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Laser Squad Nemesis is a great game. I remember spending too many hours learning and trying to properly implement the lessons of The Grenadier’s Bible.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Another such video from this year: http://youtu.be/Y6ZuZuB4tfM
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by nooneelse 14y ago
One could trace it back to monastic traditions born during the early middle ages. James Burke makes that point in one of the later Connections episodes in the first series.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I heard recently that there is a new translation which is rather good for the modern reader. ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperors-Handbook-Translation-Medi... ) I think I heard about it on the excellent "History of Philosophy: Without Any
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I'm actually rather keen to get one. I guess the appeal for me is A) a neat toy for particular occasions, and B) personal ideas of using less-subjective feedback for understanding and controlling myself toward goals. But I want to see som
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Indeed, and we are probably facing new selection pressures. Such as the propensity toward addictions to substances our ancestors would not have had ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/28/painkiller-add... ).
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by nooneelse 14y ago
> The Asus transformer was the next big step, I think. Again, keyboard and touchscreen, but this time a 19 hour battery. If it allowed dual booting it would be perfect. I'm a fan of the Asus transformer too. One benefit from the keyboa
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Analogy time. If one left a partisan alone with unsealed boxes of ballots, I would think they would be considered spoiled (correct me if I'm wrong). I agree with you that leaving the electronic ballots in a partisan's computer with no mech
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by nooneelse 14y ago
The DRM could embed something analogous to a watermark in unseen parts/layers of the physical structure printed, like in the particular path used to fill in some layers. A recording of the stepper motor commands would still have that infor
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Also, the trap question could easily have the opposite "right response" as it does in the post and still be defensible as something important to learn about a candidate. Another interviewer performing the same test sequence might want to s
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Hmm, Aristotle has some very hard-reading bits. Especially without someone/thing there to put together the contexts, or to let you know you can skip over the truly boring bits to the next bit of meat when the bogging down gets heavy into o
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by nooneelse 14y ago
It can't just be pattern recognizers at every level of the hierarchy of abstraction/organization anyway. I mean, eventually, after I process inputs and come to understandings of them, I also produce patterns, sequence them, compare them, p
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Seems like they could get 100% of the ambiguity reduction they are probably going for with the "no renderings" rule by requiring that any renderings have a standard label. Some very noticeable and tasteful diagonal bar saying "Rendering" a
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Only way I can read that comment as anything but shameless self-promotion (or, more generously, over the line entrepreneurial-delusion) is if they intend to morph their using of social status to get things into being whuffies.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Well, there is at least one good thing about having only smaller businesses. They are more governable by nations, unlike transnational corporations. Since power-aggregations, like motors, tend to need a governor for stability of the overa
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by nooneelse 14y ago
That pushes the issue back into the older question, given a nation's worth of people, what type of dividing lines best group them into sub-populations for the purpose of representation. That is, why lines in space vs lines in income, or to
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by nooneelse 14y ago
I quite like the way these phones look too. Nokia, when they try, does a good job on such things, I think. It is just that nothing about them looks organic at all. So it is absurd that someone kept using that term for them.
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by nooneelse 14y ago
But if ants could and did paint little ant-paintings and murals, I bet someone would be collecting said paintings. Also, some website would have people arguing about the nuances of them. If aliens are to us as we are to ants, they might n
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Organic things like trees and such are well known for their smooth glass surfaces and straight edges. Be careful if you put one of these phones down in a park, you might lose track of it among any nearby sticks. :) This goes beyond distor
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by nooneelse 14y ago
Putting things another way, some people seem to be under the odd misapprehension that "privately owning a piece of land" is tantamount to sovereignty over it. When in actual, complicated reality what one really buys when one "buys land" is

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