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by return0 9y ago
> This was a needed move. > We are entering a brave new world with cryptocoins as they reach the mainstream. You can't have both. decide
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by return0 9y ago
you re going way off topic . this is about AI discoveries which in retrospect were found to have been discovered by neuroscience. you 're complaining that a potential theory (which is only partially supported by evidence) might one day
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by return0 9y ago
I am curious why there is so much talk about deep learning and math. In my country calculus was part of high school curriculum as well as a hint of diff eqs. DL theory is very undemanding in terms of math (cf quantum algorithms) and if you
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by return0 9y ago
Apparently philosophers have pondered on the matter, it's called the multiple realizability problem.
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by return0 9y ago
this is not a case that happened
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by return0 9y ago
> neuroscientist say: "why didn't you talk to us 15 years ago? We could have told you that!". Interested to hear about these. I can honestly not remember any.
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by return0 9y ago
We don't usually switch to a new technology unless it's > 120% better than what exists today. The cool factor will not be enough for practical adoption.
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by return0 9y ago
You are already looking at the future of optimized infrastructure, as people have always moved homes to where the jobs, commerce, schools are. I think the're s a certain balance point. If everything is delivered, people will just sprea
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by return0 9y ago
They should know nobody falls for that
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by return0 9y ago
That's a valid model if there are very few readers. The number of paying visitors is probably monotonically increasing with the amount of content. Maybe medium has created a model about the critical mass of paying readers to sustain th
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by return0 9y ago
You even incentivize readers to read more. What's not to love?
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by return0 9y ago
No scientist ever lost any money from their paper being pirated. It extends access to people who previously did not have it. In fact it would be immoral to shut it down at this time.
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by return0 9y ago
A directory of opensimulator virtual worlds ("open source second life") http://opensimworld.com
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by return0 9y ago
Another masterpiece by the guardian
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by return0 9y ago
To what extent is voting fraud an issue in the developed world and why is Nytimes upset about it?
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by return0 9y ago
Things like these don't belong to a corporate forum like HN
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by return0 9y ago
That could be the case. He certainly is a smart person and would have known that this was bound to be the course of things.
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by return0 9y ago
Google might have set a trap on itself by aggressively pursuing "affirmative" policies. They are now being sued by both sides.
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by return0 9y ago
People have a reason to make that distinction. You are not bound to see humanitarian aid for expats anytime soon. Also, i dont think it's a term reserved for westerners. What do you call a rich saudi who currently lives in miami, an i
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by return0 9y ago
Wasn't that his plan from the start? He probably played it well, apart from the fact that maybe he shouldn't have circulated his concerns using the company's internal tools, he could have written a blog post.
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by return0 9y ago
Why so? Do the owners provide any value?
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by return0 9y ago
Learning the knick-knacks of strangers you dont know in the slightest FOR A PRICE is a weird feeling i have with airbnb. It feels intrusive, and it's creepy, but we don't admit it because it's convenient. This is the wrong wa
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by return0 9y ago
There is a race?
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by return0 9y ago
The academic world has missed some decades of advancement of communication. In a world where all published science is open for meta-processing, the burden of validating science would shift to search engines. There would be search engines co
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by return0 9y ago
The Noah's Pirate Ark that will save all of humanity's knowledge from unreliable publishers.
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by return0 9y ago
> When a smart contract goes wrong, there are no fallbacks. Like others have suggested, there is a fallback just like in other systems, it's just not formalized - yet. The difference is that in government there must always be a fall
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by return0 9y ago
Cryptocurrencies offer the opportinity to test the waters with new models. If we go by the thinking "keep what works", society would have never changed. I agree that they have big failures to show, but i think it's still earl
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by return0 9y ago
Again, the question is who you trust, and that remains a moral choice, not an objective, empirical choice. Some people don't trust a government elected by only half the population, for example. Some others may prefer to trust an elite
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by return0 9y ago
> something is very wrong with your system To be clear, neither of the two situations is "more moral" than the other. In the end however, the question remains: who you trust. Governments have resolved the question long ago (by
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by return0 9y ago
Great, what i asked for: think for me before I do.

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