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by planck01 8y ago
The Semantic Web is dead. It was never really something. Even the regular decentralized Web has mostly died. It was replaced by mega corporations' walled gardens. 95% of content is in there; in Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, You
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by planck01 8y ago
For the same reason as why biologist spend a lot of time studying E. Coli, fruit flies and mice (besides being interested in them in themselves). It's because those organisms are similar enough to humans, but still a lot simpler to stu
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by planck01 8y ago
Interesting rebuttal from someone in the field (who is actually quoted in the paper): http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/no-negative-masses-...
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by planck01 8y ago
I worked on the Semantic Web. It has so many fatal flaws, that I am amazed in hindsight that I didn't see them back then. Berners-Lee was successful with the Web because it was not an academic idea like Nelson's and Engelbart&#x27
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by planck01 8y ago
Well, he was wrong. And he admitted it in 2010:"Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler ... Now, whenever I think I know what's happening, I temper my thoughts: Might be wrong, Cliff ...&
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by planck01 8y ago
A pet hypothesis of mine: I think consciousness comes from our evolved brain capability to simulate and predict the behavior of others for the purpose of recognizing if we are conned. Consiousness then is being able to apply this capability
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by planck01 8y ago
The topic is interesting, but the story didn't contain what I was looking for. It doesn't describe how the manager was awful and how it was improved, nor how it was measured that things improved. Actually, the rather non-connected
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by planck01 8y ago
So.. Java will slowly die.
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by planck01 9y ago
Google bought Waze quite some time ago. Did you know that? I see maps and waze slowly converging.
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by planck01 9y ago
Netflix also works in Firefox on Linux since almost a year or so.
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by planck01 9y ago
I am obviously very skeptical about these kinds of claims, especially if extraterrastiality is claimed. There is nothing in the article supporting this and there are so many extraordinary events that have had to occur for this to hold. From
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by planck01 9y ago
I don't see any sexism in this story. Some people just are rude and there are assholes everywhere. What the author describes is a group dynamic going sour and alpha behavior. Everone, male or female, will experience this at some point
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by planck01 10y ago
That's right. People can't stand the idea of freeloaders that don't have to do anything and get everything for free, while we are working hard to pay for their stuff. Even if this hardly happens, the thought alone scares and
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by planck01 10y ago
The surveillance laws are introduced because of increasing terrorism. It is hard to see people as enemies of humanity if what they try to do is prevent mass killings of islamic extremists. Obviously there are dangers of going towards oppres
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by planck01 10y ago
I am not sure if basic income works. But I am certain that assuming everyone is lazy and won't want to work if they don't strictly need to for survival is not how people work. Market-oriented thinking seems to assume this. But I t
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by planck01 10y ago
I don't think immigration is the main reason people have anti-eu sentiments. More problematic is the forced integration of diverse cultures and diverse economic backgrounds who don't speak the same language. Also there is a lot of
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by planck01 10y ago
Immigration (actually refugees) went up massively in 2015 and 2016 because of what happened in syria.
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by planck01 10y ago
> Releasing it? Why not. Governments hack each other to get an edge. Sometimes to just know what is going on, sometimes for silent diplomatic 'cheating'. And if they think they would benefit, I am quite sure its not above Putin
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by planck01 10y ago
I am Dutch and tall too. Way taller than my parents. However, I always suspected it has to do with things like growth hormone in meat instead of fresh food.
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by planck01 10y ago
The elephant has a bigger brain, but it also has a much larger body it has to monitor and control which takes brain power. The sperm whale has an even bigger brain, and an even larger body. It all comes down to the relative brainsize /
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by planck01 10y ago
Minecraft is many orders of magnitude less complex than our universe. We could be in a simulation, but then the parent universe would be orders of magnitude more complex and we would not be a significant simulation of a civilization's
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by planck01 11y ago
I suspect that the proof against would be along the lines of: 'The theoretical minimum computer for simulating any 1 particle at realtime is at least X particles big. If it would be 1 particle it would not be a simulation. If it would
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by planck01 11y ago
>That means that would justify the persecution of the world's Jews and the general anti-semitic sentiment of the mainstream during that period? Of course not. But they were persecuted. But the point is: Muslims are not. So your opin
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by planck01 11y ago
That is one similarity between Jews and Isis Muslims, they both claim a country based on their religious texts. I don't know what you try to frame as 'Zionist terrorism'. I am not a fan of many Israeli actions, but as far as
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by planck01 11y ago
>Seems like the Muslims of 2015 are basically moving to the position of the Jews of 1915. Except that the Jews of 1915 were not blowing up, mas-murdering nor terrorizing people, nor were they waging war on non-Jews. Also, Jews were prose
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by planck01 11y ago
> secularists brought us the most violent conflicts in history They didn't do this 'because of secularism' and that's a big difference. They tried to replace religion with other dogma's en use the religious contr
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by planck01 11y ago
There is no or hardly any aggression against muslims in the western world, except by other muslims. Most aggression is the other way around.
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by planck01 11y ago
> Because 'Muslims' are many, and terrorists are few. The same holds for fascists. Fascists terrorists are driven by their ideology, which in itself can be evil and wrong. That many adherents to an ideology are not violent is
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by planck01 11y ago
The article shows that the Fermi paradox is even more mysterious than some thought, because we will probably not be the civilization in this universe or galaxy that is 'in front' as we are not early but average. However, something
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by planck01 11y ago
You can read more about that here: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-independent-group-d-wave-quantu... Scientists claim is that a previous positive comparison was unfair because, "problems designed to run well on the

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