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by ryusage 14y ago
I don't think so. Passion, in this context, generally means an intense motivation and desire to engage in some activity because it gives you some kind of enjoyment. Since people usually get much more enjoyment from an activity they've maste
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by ryusage 14y ago
You're right that his use of the internet wasn't new, but I think you're seriously downplaying the significance of this. The difference is, before now, the record companies could still say, "Sure, that internet stuff might be really useful.
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by ryusage 14y ago
I think the point she was trying to make was that, while global warming gets a lot of attention from governments and media, it won't matter much if we're all killed by drug resistant infections in the next 10 years. In other words, she's sa
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by ryusage 14y ago
I'd be really interested to find out how prevalent this is. I personally know one person who claims to pay someone in India about 10% of his own salary to do his job for him. Anyone else know someone that does this?
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by ryusage 14y ago
I did at one point organize my FB friends into groups like Family, Close Friends, Acquaintances, Distant Friends, People I Know From That One Club, etc. If I were going to use this, I'd probably just filter it to use the Close Friends group
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by ryusage 14y ago
Looking at the wikipedia page [1] for this journal, not only do they have a bad reputation, but they have a bad reputation for publishing papers about precisely this topic. The general consensus seems to be that the papers' evidence have
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by ryusage 14y ago
For Watson, probably not "trivial", no, but also probably not a hugely expensive undertaking. It really depends on how the system works, though. Something like an artificial neural network would be impossible to manually prune like that; th
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by ryusage 14y ago
As to that, I have no idea. However, I would argue that the video is absolutely fair use even without the captions. Ignoring that its status as a critique is not strictly necessary for it to be fair use, the video would still be a critique
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by ryusage 14y ago
Awesome! I just saw their paper from the trafficwaves site a little bit ago and was curious what this would really look like. I like their point that a car suddenly slowing down is not really to blame for the jam, but rather an inevitable t
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by ryusage 14y ago
> This past summer, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I even screened the remix for the US Copyright Office at the 2012 hearings on exemptions to the DMCA. Afterward my Buffy vs Edward remix was mentioned by name in the
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by ryusage 14y ago
Reminds me of an interesting site[1] I came across a while ago, in which the guy argues very convincingly that traffic jams occur as waves, which are started when even a single car does something to cause the car behind them to slow down (a
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by ryusage 14y ago
True enough, but it's still not the place for stupid pun threads.
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by ryusage 14y ago
True, they may not disappear completely, but they definitely get filtered out over time. And imagine you're 25 years old and someone wants to bring up old, explicit photos of you at age 15...they would immediately open themselves up to some
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by ryusage 14y ago
I think his point is more that the phenomenon we're seeing here is something that's happened forever, and we've really never "solved". The cause is exactly the same, and the effects are similar in nature. They're just dramatically amplified
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by ryusage 14y ago
This isn't reddit.
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by ryusage 14y ago
To be fair, that only leaves 10 hours a day for the person to do anything else, and presumably 6 - 9 of that is sleeping. Optimistically, that leaves 4 hours a day to do things like eating, grooming, chores, job hunting, etc. So the extreme
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by ryusage 14y ago
Absolutely. I only mentioned it since you were talking about CS classes, which are often taken with an aim towards a programming career.
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by ryusage 14y ago
For what it's worth, in my experience with programming jobs, no one really cares what your credentials are. Obviously, some places will, but you absolutely could get a job on skill alone. When I've been involved in hiring, no one paid much
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by ryusage 14y ago
So you just set everything on facebook, etc. to be public? I guess that's one approach. Personally, I'm always aware there is a risk that the things I put online will be publicly exposed at some point, but I treat it like any other risk: I
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by ryusage 14y ago
> That said, I've always thought it an interesting philosophical question of if we don't have free will and our paths in life are somewhat deterministic, it really puts a damper on our legal and moral systems to a degree. I was just thi
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by ryusage 14y ago
Am I the only one who finds it strange (or even slightly disturbing) that this is essentially an after the fact live-blog of the event? For those connected to this school, I can understand wanting information and not wanting to wait. For an
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by ryusage 14y ago
Exactly. The other factor, obviously, is that you have to already have that $5000 and be able to part with it for a while. It doesn't matter that you get it back if you don't have it in the first place.
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by ryusage 14y ago
True, but if project creators don't promise completion as part of the pledge reward, then they don't assume so much risk.
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by ryusage 14y ago
That's where the "sense of humor" comment comes in.
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by ryusage 14y ago
I've never thought about that last point, but it makes a lot of sense. If it's the difference between getting most of the money or none of it, and the creators can afford to make up the difference, then in a lot of cases it might be rationa
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by ryusage 14y ago
Apparently Kickstarter's terms do state that project creators are legally responsible for fulfilling their pledge rewards, though. If those aren't fulfilled, then backers are entitled to refunds from the project creator (at least as far as
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by ryusage 14y ago
If the police are sophisticated enough to track illegal activity to this guy's IP address, then they ought to be sophisticated enough that they will also perform some digital forensics on his computers (not to mention, smart enough that the
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by ryusage 14y ago
This is exactly correct. I work in a midwest city which I'd consider small/medium sized, and my entry level salary five years ago was only around $20/hr (which, as a single guy with a low cost of living, seemed like a lot). The most I've he
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by ryusage 14y ago
I really think this is one of the bigger hurdles of bitcoins. Whether it really is secure or not, the infrastructure around bitcoins just doesn't really seem like it is.
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by ryusage 14y ago
You're correct. Their voting system uses proportional representation, in which each party receives a number of seats proportional to the percentage of votes they received. Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Netherlands#Pol.

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