robbrown451

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by robbrown451 4y ago
Cool! It isn't surprising that someone thought of it before me!
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I wonder if some sort of cryptocoin/blockchain alternative could be created, that would be harder to shut down. It would probably have to be based on having an elected council (with an odd number of members) signing off on the outcome
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Usually that is one click to correct, which works for me. I often search for things I don't know how to spell, typically a proper noun, and often specifically because I am trying to figure out how to spell it and that is the quickest w
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Something like that is about as key to using the web as anything. I've used quotes on searches to get an exact phrase since, what, 1995? The fact that has been broken for a long time and now fixed is absolutely worth top story of the
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by robbrown451 4y ago
You don't even want it to spell correct? That's pretty extreme. My 8 year old thinks I'm old fashioned because I don't just talk to the google lady casually like she is my friend, when doing a search/asking a questi
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I like the way you think.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
My thought exactly. Far more dangerous is to allow them to inject it into your veins rather than fling it through the air.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
At the very least, the dragonflies should be cyborgs that can be centrally controlled and can build cyborg components. I'm pretty sure the Imagineers are already on it.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
They need little robots/drones to scout about at night for larva and kill them. True, this will take a lot of robots. But that's ok, since during the daytime when the guests are there, the robots can go back to the fab shop and ma
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by robbrown451 4y ago
So what is the benefit then?
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Whether people read the guidelines and whether they follow them are different things. Sorta like with speed limits.... people can be well aware of them, but if they aren't enforced, only some subset are going to obey them. And that sub
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I'd suggest it is part of the natural evolution of discussion boards. Some go there more quickly than others. When people act badly, and get away with it (without having the post quickly hidden, all the way to them getting banned), the
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Ok, so you are saying a cat isn't sentient? And yet, most would agree that a cat can feel pain, but a machine can't. I think most people would object if the Google engineer said "I think this AI is every bit as sentient as a
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"Sentience I guess I would call awareness of self or something along those lines." Is a self driving car aware of itself? Surely within its logic it represents itself as a vehicle, while also being able to logically represent othe
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Well what I drink today isn't nasty, since I add milk and sugar. :) I guess all that may be true, it just isn't interesting to me. I'm happy with what I drink. I don't care about loving black coffee.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Maybe, but I just don't like black coffee, and I'm pretty sure I've had "good" black coffee. Too acidic and bitter. I guess you could say I "just don't like coffee," but I do like it with cream and su
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by robbrown451 4y ago
I'm an advocate for the middle ground. I get store brand whole bean coffee (1) , and grind it and use a Mr. Coffee. Then put sugar and milk in because black coffee is nasty. I see no value to obsessing over perfect coffee. I have frien
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by robbrown451 4y ago
now I kinda want to try
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I was slightly disappointed at the heavy use of sprite sheets (which seems less than "pure" css), but after looking closely there would be no way to get the gears right just relying on css transforms (i.e. rotation) because of the
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Geez I'd just cross the street to avoid the situation rather than go to that kind of effort.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
It was far more than 8 feet away. And if it wasn't, they could easily step back and keep filming.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Then it would apply to a lot more situations. The problem is that the only reason people are that close is that they are recording. If they try to say "no one can be closer than 8 feet" that complicates things considerably.... I m
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by robbrown451 4y ago
How do you arrive at "free circulation" being a "basic human right." I've never heard that. Seems pretty common to not necessarily be allowed to go anywhere you please just because you want to. Maybe it is an extre
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by robbrown451 4y ago
That's kind of the logic of a cheating spouse: "hey, if they don't know, they aren't harmed." Or for that matter, someone who spies through a peep hole at hotel guests. Sure, this is less serious, but I don't a
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Over time this should result in speed limits adjusting to how fast people actually drive, rather than it always being assumed that people drive faster by 10 mph or whatever.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
It does not assume an infinite market, it just assumes a larger market than your example. Everything still applies if you just adjust the numbers downward or upwards to match whatever particular market you are speaking of.
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by robbrown451 4y ago
The reason things tend toward free in software... at least consumer software... is that capitalism is really optimized for things that have significant marginal cost. Over time, supply and demand tend to cause the price to approach the marg
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Sure. I mean, you can. I live in San Francisco and as often as not, walk to the grocery store. But it's a pain carrying bags around. Not everyone in the world is going to be ok with that when they are used to just packing a bunch of ba
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by robbrown451 4y ago
Trains and subways don't get you from anywhere to anywhere. They are incredibly expensive and take many years to add new lines, disrupting all kinds of things in the meantime. And they often take way longer to get you places. My time h
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by robbrown451 4y ago
"all of this time and money wasted on driverless cars has been a complete failure." That's quite a stretch. If you think the money would be better spent elsewhere, ok. But to call it a failure is silly. Personally, I think dr

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