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by onnoonno 12y ago
TNG serves all of Schleswig-Holstein now? I thought this was a Kiel-only thing?
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by onnoonno 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_madoff The world (of warcraft?) economy.
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by onnoonno 12y ago
By pure chance I just spoke to the guys who made it at Maker Faire. Very cool project. They told me they have the full system running with zero binary-only blobs. I think that alone can be quite a selling point nowadays...
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by onnoonno 12y ago
I wonder whether this could be a manufactured opinion to an extent? I mean, we now know that online forums are subverted and socially engineered to keep 'bad opinions' down. Add to that the still persisting mass media with known e
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Hehehe ... and what is a belief in a higher being, that cannot be proven to exist, commonly called? :-)
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by onnoonno 12y ago
According to Wikipedia, this is not true anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hvdc 'Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted as about 3.5% per 1,000 km, which is le
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Angus Kennedy: The vital importance of being moral(spiked-online.com)
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Yes, I know that I am all over the place :D That's why I said its mostly based on 'gut feeling'... I guess I am just trying to figure out what part of my world view is coming from myself and what from others.
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Here is a observation I have and a question for the HN crowd: Recently, I think I picked up a lot more articles in the tech circles, on reddit/HN/slashdot etc. that talk about the borders of mental illnesses, the question of the v
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by onnoonno 12y ago
What I find especially interesting is why we think that these metaphysical concepts make sense. We do not only seem to think 'it makes sense', there seems to be an actual _emotion_ connected to it. We like it! I mean, we look at e
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by onnoonno 12y ago
I am curious: Is there a difference in the problems that show up with regards to the country that people look at?
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by onnoonno 12y ago
That's only proven reserves, though. Thorium right now is in basically no demand. Given the extremely high energy density of the fuel, A LOT of ores will become economically extractable. It might not be 64ky, but >1ky seems to be ve
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by onnoonno 12y ago
^^ This. I know I am there for my friends and I know that they are there for me. That already gives me a feeling of connectedness. I do not need to see them on a daily basis.
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by onnoonno 13y ago
But is the wealth they inherited the problem - or rather the abuse of power that comes with it? If you agree that it is the abuse of power: Does this need additional complexity to address - or is it simply something to be addressed with (ta
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by onnoonno 13y ago
> Until we crack compact, high yield fusion, I doubt we will make much progress in realizing our space-faring dreams. What about regular, fission nuclear power?
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by onnoonno 13y ago
... and in the meantime, the systems of thought (as I tried to argue in my other posts) that are erected to hide these basics behaviors will become increasingly intricate and complex and hide this very fact that people are people in increas
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Nicely said. I don't know why you are downvoted :D
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Is it a good idea to assume non-rationality in policy, though? As I also wrote in my other post, I think one can easily argue that 'more informed policy' that 'accounts for human's partial rationality' actually crea
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by onnoonno 13y ago
That might all be true. However, the question is not discussed in a vacuum. It is discussed in the context of policy, seemingly often used as a core premise. Thus the question remains: What kind of policy one exactly wants to base on '
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by onnoonno 13y ago
> 2. Human beings are not rational. I think I now heard this meme/statement/mantra/whatever way too often. Sorry. First of all, I fundamentally do agree that this is the case. Deep down, I cannot fully figure out my emotio
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Well, but I think we have to figure out what and whether we can do something about it (inequality), how much, and for what cost (cost in the non-economic sense). I think the observation that power accumulates in one way or the other, capita
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by onnoonno 13y ago
> Gold (or other physical commodity) backed shares can be centrally issued by each holder of gold I am a bit confused. My impression so far was that something like this would be commonly seen as a decentralized scenario?
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Cool! As feature requests are piling up here: I would like to be able to switch the machine/backend. Optimal would be a drop down menu to select -x86_64 -x86 -arm -mips -or32 -avr and so on. Yeah, I guess that requires a couple recompi
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Yes. But for example, the amount of nuclear fuel that is extractable is enough to power us for >>1000 years, even if it would be used replace all other forms of energy. Such as using nuclear to make artificial gasoline. I think that w
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Not exactly the same, but when they started I found them to be impressive in delivery speed, Berkeley/Oakland: http://spoonrocket.com/ (I am not affiliated in any way)
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by onnoonno 13y ago
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm I think his ideas about us humans are brilliant. Still are very relevant. We didn't change. I believe Nietzsche turned out to be extremely far-sighte
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by onnoonno 13y ago
OTOH, I am spending more and more of my free time at the local hackerspace. Talking to people and combining computer with real world stuff. Also, manual work. I have the impression that there has been/there is a society-wide phase tran
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be thinking in terms of utopia/dystopia or good and evil. If there is one thing about us, it is technology marching on. Maybe we're just slowly being converted (or converting ourselves) into the borg. And i
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by onnoonno 13y ago
Thank you! I was going to write something similar. I think a real 'superior' AI must be able to follow all the various philosophical ideas we had and 'understand' them at a deeper level than we do. Things such as 't
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by onnoonno 13y ago
I think we should figure out what we mean by understand. Do you mean modeling 'the human brain' on some level and building abstractions? Those abstractions are exactly that - abstractions. They are not the thing itself. Do you thi

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