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by nxzero 10y ago
Great...Grandchild-N: Never born because humanity never left Earth.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Everyone dies, including those who do nothing. * Grandchild-A: "My grandmother died on a mission to Mars." * Grandchild-B: "My grandmother died writing a book on how space will kill you."
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by nxzero 10y ago
Pretty clear people would volunteer to do missions that assume no return and possible curtain death - yet NASA instead decides not to embrace this and instead created posters for a "mission" to Mars that increasingly appears will
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by nxzero 10y ago
Makes me wonder for AI and robotic "life" what would be the best "habitat" for growth.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Quote is often credited to Einstein; being "simple" does not mean something is not complex, it means that there's no unnecessary complexity; being "too simple" means necessary complexity was remove. Basically means
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by nxzero 10y ago
"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Snowden was working for the American People" Who Snowden is/was working for really is likely not of much importance. What matters is what impact he had, which at least to me, is not that clear.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Anyone that expects anything related to "intelligence" to have logical explanations might very easily find themselves chasing tails.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Once got a coffee a day with someone new for six months; it was fun, but then again, really didn't have any expectations.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, all deaths are tragic, but increasingly feel that humanity does not have a good measure for priortizing its efforts. As an example, over half of those diagnosed with cancer are over 70 years old and 100s of billions have been spent on
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed in a car crash while riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr .
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by nxzero 10y ago
Only 5 people a year are killed by snakes, while tens of thousands are killed by cars. As for having 1000s of snake nearby, no, I don't think it would make for any meaningful increase in danger; I've seen someone go into a cave fu
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by nxzero 10y ago
There are are less than 10,000 venomous bites a year in the US. High school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year; and that's ONLY high school athletes. Sna
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by nxzero 10y ago
In the United States you have about a one in 50 million chance of dying from snake bite; five people die a year from snake bites. Cars alone kill 100k to million snakes a year; not to mention how many people they kill too. Please stay in th
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by nxzero 10y ago
Always interesting to me how much fear people have of wild animals. Rattlesnakes aren't dangerous and they're at 100000x more risk of being killed by a human than killing anyone.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Saying that "all" of NASA's research is being made available is a stretch given it's known they work on a lot of classified projects with the military, intelligence, etc.: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB&
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Since we already have symbols for all the sounds we can pronounce [in English]" English has 26 letters, but there are 40+ sounds; which is to say that there are NOT symbols for all the sounds.
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by nxzero 10y ago
30 years old (aka 1986) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto Primary Source: http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
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by nxzero 10y ago
Events are just mainstream now; unless there's a chance the FBI is going do a raid, likely nothing you're not going to hear about a day later on the net.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Correct, it would be hard, which is why if you we're able to figure it out, it'd be useful and hard to copy.
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by nxzero 10y ago
More like a kleptocracy.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Why not an app that sends messages when you're not busy?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, that's correct.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Agree, more comparable example related would be sound ordnance and freedom of speech. There are a number of laws related to endangering the public using light; for example, the issues related to lasers and airplane pilots.
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by nxzero 10y ago
As someone that follows lots of tech "trying to see the future" - to me Uber has the greatest hope of bring driving to the mainstream due to a number of factors. First, they have a lot of experience with litigation and working wit
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Our ability to trust each other has not advanced in parallel with the technology we have created" This is completely false given most employers have way more trust based on using tech to know what they're doing, whe
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "I'd give a good chunk of change to projects that I used if they had a crowdfunding page for their cryptographic audit efforts that didn't expire ever." What in USD is a good chuck of change? What projects? Thin
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by nxzero 10y ago
Article lacks any real valid argument for why outsourcing to contractors is an issue. Simple fact is that most wars do not need to be fought, so the idea that how they're fought matters is irrelevant; which is to say that I'm not
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by nxzero 10y ago
Arguing over if code being publicly readable makes the code more secure is obviously BS. Case in point, take code which is closed source, make it open source, and it magically does not become more secure. Security of code depends of the eff
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by nxzero 10y ago
Given only 40% of living Americans vote, and that it's likely 35-45% voted for the party that benefited from the fraud - that would leave a very small group of people to force a reversal. Again, possible that all Americans would reject

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