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by pluma 9y ago
Sound familiar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
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by pluma 9y ago
> It is possible this can help save lives. Please don't fall for this rhetoric. The technology helps killing people, not save lives. Saving lives means preventing people from being killed. You can't prove any of the drone strik
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by pluma 9y ago
> An obvious one was at the time of WWII. If the clever people had refused to work on weapons, things would have finished up potentially a lot worse for mankind generally. There is still debate about whether the use of nukes was at all j
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by pluma 9y ago
Wait, what makes you think the US is using drone strikes against "real" war targets? The targets of most drone strikes aren't a formal military, they're "militants". The problem isn't finding locations to
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by pluma 9y ago
The problem isn't identifying targets. The problem is not killing civilians. Increasing the confidence of identifying targets may actually make things worse by allowing to justify drone strikes that would otherwise have to be called of
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by pluma 9y ago
We're not talking about killing imminent threats for self-defense. We're not talking about bombing military targets in a legal war. We're talking about remote drone strikes against poorly defined "non state actors",
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by pluma 9y ago
The alternative is not doing it. Do I really need to spell out why drone strikes are already ethically questionable? Improving automated recognition will not reduce civilian casualties, it will only help justifying the strikes because inste
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by pluma 9y ago
The Chinese room argument builds on the premise that there is a meaningful difference between "simulating" intelligence and possessing it. If you "execute" the program manually, you may still not understand Chinese, but
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by pluma 9y ago
Everything[0] has a physical manifestation. A computer program has a physical manifestation on its storage medium. [0]: Let's not argue about whether it makes sense to say that abstract concepts also have a physical manifestation. Prog
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by pluma 9y ago
So viruses are data but living things are code. Viruses are just malicious data that exploits unintended behavior of the code to replicate itself. Of course all code is just data. It's similar to how it's difficult to argue whethe
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by pluma 9y ago
I was going to joke it's about medium sized things but size is not a reasonable distinction (neither absolute size nor number of "parts") and you quickly run into the problem how organisations (i.e. groups of humans acting to
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by pluma 9y ago
Higher res maybe, but it still looks amazingly fake: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7549/?category=amateur... I guess what's messing with me is that it just looks so smooth, which life-long exposure to
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by pluma 9y ago
Situation in Germany is pretty similar. I've never seen a bayonet mount in my life, I think. Also our flats don't come with lightbulbs either. Every German who has moved flats a couple of times thus owns a few barebone lamp socket
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by pluma 9y ago
True, but much like other things in that category it's another reason I'd never want to live there. He mentions using the afterburner on a highway. This is an accident waiting to happen. Who's to say he'll never make a m
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by pluma 9y ago
Don't get too hung up on the $50k number, I just picked that at random because $50k in currency is a large enough stack of cash to be considerably harder to conceal and transport than a watch. This was a few years back and he (understa
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by pluma 9y ago
A few years back I talked to someone involved in the business of international sales and procurement of luxury watches. Although there are a few genuine collectors, most of the business seems to be in aiding money laundry and dubious financ
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by pluma 9y ago
What blows my mind is that Saturn in that image looks almost exactly like it does in the intro to Star Trek The Next Generation, which I always chalked up as bad CGI.
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by pluma 9y ago
But how big is it in terms of Belgium?
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by pluma 9y ago
To be clear: in practice there are three ways to use inheritance in JS: 1) Prototypes with constructors using the "new" keyword (ES3+): function Foo (name) { this.name = name; } Foo.prototype.hello = function (
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by pluma 9y ago
The class system is a bit hit and miss. In practice you will be fine if you're using classes and you will be fine if you use prototypes but you should avoid mixing them directly. Strictly speaking, there is no essential difference beca
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by pluma 9y ago
The comparison of the JS output is not entirely fair considering it's likely trying to generate ES5 compatible JavaScript and thus "emulating" classes rather than using the built-in classes available in ES2015 and later. The
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How We Wronged Neo4j and PostgreSQL(arangodb.com)
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Well, I'm a Linux user and I strongly disagree. Looks like opinions are indeed like a certain posterior orifice.
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by pluma 9y ago
In fact I think teaspoons are reasonable for those if it's something you'd prepare at home. Faster to measure with a teaspoon than using a scale or measuring cup, I'd think.
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by pluma 9y ago
> I do not count a clause buried in a terms of service as informed consent. Neither do EU courts. I guess this "feature" is only available in the US?
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I think the most important part is this: > * Assuming you could stand Wave’s interface, it’d still be useless unless the people you wanted to communicate and collaborate with were also using it. Wave was intended to completely replace ex
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by pluma 9y ago
Ironically YouTube showed a Udemy ad to me before this video. So I guess at least he got paid indirectly by Udemy, even if it's a negligible amount and unrelated to the content they infringe upon.
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by pluma 9y ago
The German phrases ( Ameisenlaufen , pelzige Haut ) seem odd. As a native German I've never heard of them and there's a grammatical error in the second one (it's cited as "pelziges Haut", the grammatical gender of
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by pluma 9y ago
> Even ISIS was formed in American prisons. This is probably what's getting you downvoted. This seems like an extreme claim that runs contrary to common knowledge but is presented without any evidence. Do you have a source for that?
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by pluma 9y ago
You're assuming the only point against private prisons is that private prisons have resulted in ridiculous sentencing for petty crimes. The US incarceration rate is ridiculous and you know it. Even if the share of violent offenses seem

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