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by pofilat 8y ago
And was allegedly plagiarized from QDOS. https://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/software/286148-the-rise-o...
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by pofilat 8y ago
Parent is downvoted but I recall it as an epigram (and I agree) but can't find references discussing it. Users wouldn't tolerate WordStar and Pac-Man today.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Priests felt the same way when the masses learned to read.
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by pofilat 8y ago
That's interesting.... + and * theorems correspond between logic and arithmetic, but taking ^ as implication generates theorems that are true in logic but not in arithmetic. (The truth table of implication is clearly different from bin
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by pofilat 8y ago
Does natural deduction scale beyond first-order propositional logic with a small number of variables? It seems to me that it would have bad exponential blowup, checking all the cases.
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by pofilat 8y ago
My calculator watch worked perfectly for 50 years on that "wrong" assumption.
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by pofilat 8y ago
You seem to be confusing Zuckerberg with Facebook, Inc, and ignoring that Musk is both 13 years older than Zuckerberg, and that bringing 4 billion people onto the internet is "interesting". Musk cares about sci-fi things like goin
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by pofilat 8y ago
What do you think Zuck does in private? We learned about what Kalanick did, and Cuban and Trump make no secret of their lifestyles; but heard no such things about Zuck.
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by pofilat 8y ago
You can't walk into McDonald's and buy an introduction to Silicon Valley investors, and a depth chart of Harvard CS grads employees. Facebook was one of a dozen competing social networks, and they won largely because of Zuck'
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by pofilat 8y ago
In the article, "boring" just means poor. Zuck has his sins, but anyone who thinks Zuck is "boring" is crazy. The guy learned Mandarin as an adult, to make a business deal. That's more hustle than selling hot dogs
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by pofilat 8y ago
How is he different from the others? Changing the world by selling products at a loss and making it up by avoiding sales tax?
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by pofilat 8y ago
> he's still probably one of the ten smartest people in the tech industry. That's absurd.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Palmetto is the highest achieving public school in Miami-Dade county. It's no Bill Gates's Lakeside School or Zuck's Exeter, but it's where everyone in Dade County public schools who cares about academic excellence sen
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by pofilat 8y ago
What does China have to lose?
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by pofilat 8y ago
EVs use regional power, including hydro, solar, and wind. A significant improvement over gasoline. EVs charge mostly at night, so the balance out daytime A/C use to produce a more stable power draw.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Increasing emmissions standards make EVs more attractive. The incentives are aligned.
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by pofilat 8y ago
If you use the car the way tests use the car, the performance will be the same. The trick is you can't complete your daily driving needs by driving the way the test does.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Yeah, it's not a "cutting edge security feature", it's quite the opposite -- it's decades old Luddite security: "unplug the device".
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by pofilat 8y ago
A military invasion is performed by the military. No one here is blaming the servicemembers.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Google is building consumer Android phones with Huawei, not weapons.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Why do I care what color are the jackboots? Why do you say China is wearing jackboots?
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by pofilat 8y ago
Why do you think the tech in question is for classifying militants vs civilians, vs just classifying humans vs trees? AI wishful thinking is not helpful.
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by pofilat 8y ago
The USA employees are also there just to support the main business. So? Some offices only exist because an influential individual wanted to live in that location. Do you think Google is largely in Mountain View because they have a deep alle
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by pofilat 8y ago
Green joined Google a few years ago. michaelochurch will explain how the foxes had long since taken over.
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by pofilat 8y ago
How is drone warfare keeping us safe?
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by pofilat 8y ago
FDA didn't claim the advertised medicine was counterfeit, only that some companies in the industry ship counterfeits. Anyway, yeah, I'd assume that the individuals who don't want to build for the military don't want to b
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by pofilat 8y ago
So? The Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight a few years later. The (negative) dividends of US militarization are still being paid.
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by pofilat 8y ago
The US won WII not because our military was super powerful (though that helped), but because most of Germany's technical geniuses defected or deported or were deposed/killed. Chinese in large part flee China when they can. Foreig
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by pofilat 8y ago
Why aren't any representatives from the 99.9% of humanity invited to these meetings? Many (most?) would prefer a more democratic sort of world leadership.
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by pofilat 8y ago
Jared Cohen is the driver behind YouTube censorship and making Google/Internet an arm of the US government's propaganda effort. Schmidt has been trying to push his way into world politics as an unelected guru for about a decade.

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