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by polarix 12y ago
Ah, I see, the indexed set is much much smaller with primitive police report technology than it could trivially become under an automated surveillance regime.
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by polarix 12y ago
What's the current status of the Mill project? Is there a proof of concept compiler / emulator? What's the bootstrap strategy to get things rolling?
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by polarix 12y ago
Every cop you walk by is already recording you, in a forgetful, hostile, and potentially hallucinatory medium.
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by polarix 12y ago
E-prime feels more difficult than the exercise hinted at here, namely, removing all trace of first person identity from one's communications. (Though years of intermittently practicing the latter might have had an impact here...) Combi
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by polarix 12y ago
Google is not the only company investing in self-driving cars, so there will almost certainly be a market for purchasing them as well as merely renting. Uber has a proven customer base and elegant transition strategy. It should be an intere
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by polarix 12y ago
I would hardly consider negotiating with authorities "being loose with their money"...
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by polarix 12y ago
How are premiums calculated for this kind of insurance? Are there software insurance tiers based on code & systems inspections?
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by polarix 12y ago
Thanks for the reminder.
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by polarix 12y ago
Anyone want to compile a plain text version of this?
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by polarix 12y ago
> But corporate America has become so parsimonious about paying workers outside the executive suite that meaningful wage increases may seem an unacceptable affront. In this environment, it may be easier to say “There is a shortage of ski
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by polarix 12y ago
Clarifying the class of physical phenomena which are considered legally able to hold copyright does sound like a foundational inquiry. But I would not have expected a donation to Wikimedia to be put toward it.
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by polarix 12y ago
Would this even be legal, given fire codes?
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by polarix 12y ago
Seems a bit premature to vote on the bill before reading its text, eh?
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by polarix 12y ago
Thanks for leaving a comment here indicating the change. This should be standard behavior, if it's not already.
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by polarix 12y ago
Only if you take the romantic view that the civil war was fought over slavery, instead of over states' rights. Or perhaps if you define freedom precisely as that which you fight for in the name of America.
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by polarix 12y ago
The difference between a court of law and a court of force.
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by polarix 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers Seems like walmart and the Chinese energy companies are the only private employers of >1m humans.
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by polarix 12y ago
It's also, unfortunately, deeply harmful to humanity. http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2014/06/28/in-defense-of-face... > by far the most likely outcome of the backlash Facebook is currently experi
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by polarix 12y ago
The assertion that this study refuted was that too much positive bias in a filtered source of information causes negative sentiment. Reducing said positive bias had heretofore unknown effects. The attempt was to learn, not to negatively inf
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by polarix 12y ago
Presumably they have a deliberate maximum counterparty risk.
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by polarix 12y ago
And who pays the lawyer?
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by polarix 12y ago
It doesn't have to be the original. In most of his writing, the refs have been content-addressed (hash). It's fascinating to see him backpedal to location-based addressing (URL) here, given the extent to which he's railed aga
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by polarix 12y ago
Say we do consider all suffering mental illness, what then? Surely not all suffering precipitates PTSD, but why not make the broader category of mental illness categorically equivalent to unnecessarily prolonged suffering?
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by polarix 12y ago
It sounds like this is a side effect of the "at-will" employment model, then. Do any venture firms' threat models account for this by promoting contract employment all the way to the top?
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by polarix 12y ago
Imagine trying to implement the Steffen proposal. Everyone has to be in exactly the right position in line for their seat. You'd essentially need to number the seats in the preflight lounge and loosely enforce seat numbers at that poin
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by polarix 12y ago
Why is taking antibiotics relevant to this effect?
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by polarix 13y ago
Macroeconomically, it is true that the resource, human, and energy costs of the internet sum to the integrated time discounted expectation of future returns for communication sources (advertisers). This does not preclude the possibility of
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by polarix 13y ago
Why increase consumption taxes? Why add friction? Wouldn't it be better to tax the assets at rest -- real estate, property.
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by polarix 13y ago
What about when a permanently-pending comment is deleted? Does that satisfy the conditional? Relatedly, can there be a case to ensure that pending comments can always be deleted?
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by polarix 13y ago
Well, until you start looking seriously at existential risk. Then you may realize how many orders of magnitude more humans will be helped with similar probability by spreading to new habitats. Page lacks not "Empathy" itself, but

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