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by restalis 12y ago
I don't know why you're being down-voted for this. I wanted to stretch it further, to "there are still good [pick your choice] in there, see? no problem, move along" as a ridiculous apology that may pop up even if 99% wo
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by restalis 12y ago
The more I think about the Turing Test, the more flawed (or hackable) I see it. What if instead of improving the computer I go the other way around and I put a disabled human (like an autistic or something) behind the curtain? This may cert
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World's longest highway project, from Europe to USA(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by restalis 12y ago|0 comments
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by restalis 12y ago
It gives a glimpse on the rate of change around us, and out there in the world. This big picture is fascinating to behold at, for many people.
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by restalis 12y ago
What's interesting is that beyond that "record coldest" spot in the Northern Atlantic, there are still "record warmest" places in the Arctic Ocean, north of Europe. If the temperature in those places was supposed to
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by restalis 12y ago
What difference will the darkness make? I only read about this 10000 lux of natural light exposure scarcity. Don't we get the needed darkness by sleeping?
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by restalis 12y ago
"If enough people adopt children and then encourage those children to adopt when they're older, it could easily outweigh genetic effects" And that will only provide a more fertile ground for proliferation of a specific kind o
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by restalis 12y ago
"it's probably more about being picky" Yes and... not only. Being picky is only natural. Being unrealistic about it is more of the issue here.
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by restalis 12y ago
"Are they more likely to find a partner as they get older?" Even if not, it's still a good thing to hope for. It is a psychological effect that gave birth (no pun intended) to a market. After finally acquiring wealth in excha
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by restalis 12y ago
"I agree with you in that I don't care, myself; but I don't think it's fair to judge the people who do care." And through natural selection, those kind of people (who care, that is) will dominate the human genetic p
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by restalis 12y ago
Hardware development is well, harder than its software counterpart, true. For one, it's about what that article said about the costs involved, although I don't fully agree on the suggested costs per iteration, as the testing can b
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by restalis 12y ago
RISC-V or lowRISC are only some of the many projects available out there. I think you may find http://opencores.org/projects interesting.
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by restalis 12y ago
Although I agree with a lot of what you said, I perceive the last part, your post-scriptum, to be a little bit distorted. The Renaissance had many sources. One of them was the massive intellectual immigration from the crumbling Byzantine Em
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by restalis 12y ago
A lot of comments here take it on a political level, even if the discussed considerations are (mostly) technical. (I am personally touched by a few points in there and I understand the temptation to go that way myself.) The reasoning behind
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by restalis 12y ago
I might be punished for this, but it has to be said. First, I agree that learning can be a challenging process and helping someone may make a difference between a drop and an accomplished person. But then, I wonder your friend finally compr
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by restalis 12y ago
"I own nothing and everything is a «service» somehow" You got it right. You happen to be "serviced" with a knowledge that is owned by someone. For a while already you had to agree on all kinds of EULAs all the time, in w
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by restalis 12y ago
If you as publisher are claiming the ownership of some content (by enforcing various restrictions upon its users, through DRM or just by imposing an agreement on which you can hold later) even after it was downloaded, then you are very clos
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by restalis 12y ago
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is nothing but a political agreement of the powers that dominated at the time of its publication. My thought (and I admit I may be wrong about it) is that the only state of matters worth having is o
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by restalis 12y ago
"There's no biological reason why I should care about the passport of a man I have never met, any more than I should care about his race or tribe or religion." Actually you should care, for a lot of reasons. Your presumptio
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by restalis 12y ago
"If someone posts more than two lines of practically any curly-brace language as one line, it's illegible." "...you can pull it into an editor ... but it's a huge waste of time..." Well, I know it may sound a l
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by restalis 12y ago
My two personal cases when I may have doubts about things covered by "science" label: Imagine a scenario with an imminent public risk that can cause social disorder. A science related risk. The people in power can order the scient
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by restalis 12y ago
"The obvious way to implement this is to expose the raw flash to the OS and put an abstraction layer into the OS that does what the drive firmware currently does so it can be used with existing filesystems." It may or may not work
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by restalis 12y ago
From a moral point of view, this is actually how it should be done. But the thing is, for one it is easier to get money from someone who has it than from someone who has not. Then there is also a nasty political debate hidden in there, abou
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by restalis 12y ago
The USA's education system of student debt is also addressing another important problem - quality leakage to a foreign country. Think about it, Brazil (or any other country with a similar system) invests heavily in training its bright
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by restalis 12y ago
"the concept of arcology, which combines architecture and ecology" The first things that comes out at word deconstruction are "arc" (bow, curve) and "logos" (science), which suggests some kind of discipline on
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by restalis 12y ago
The instances where a company does business with a government are not that uncommon. It is kind of stepping outside the pure commercial domain into being partly a public sector entity/institution. Considering the stakes of public infor
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by restalis 12y ago
So far we are like amphibians, bound to live at least partly on the Earth surface under natural skylight, or risk health consequences. If this light proves to be natural enough for human eye in the long term, then this may be an important s
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The artificial skylight(sciencedump.com)
1 points by restalis 12y ago|1 comments
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by restalis 12y ago
Actually, the fairness of the trial should be a given, and the lawyers should be merely additional parties whose role is to assist the defendant's handicap of lacking the needed professional law knowledge. Lawyers are not something tha
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by restalis 12y ago
"Elegant, efficient, and effective code beats any argument." The scary thing is, I know people who firmly believe that, even when the argument is on code correctness.

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