sametmax

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by sametmax 8y ago
At some point, new ads the system can't block will surface. The adblocker will become less and less useful, and Google will have no incentive to improve it. There is already a big difference between even existing adblockers. E.G: some
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by sametmax 8y ago
We could already, and we probably did, fake video to start wars. The tech just make it easy for everybody, but state actors have been manipulating pictures for a long time.
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Or breaking somebody's life buy making the perso do something bad, and make the family stumble upon. The potential for manipulation is huge given how many people trust pictures. I know that I don't distrust most pictures I see.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Even when people know the source is not to be trusted, it still influence their judgement in some way. E.G: we all saw the close shots used journalists to magnify a so-so event and make it newsworthy. Yet, when seen one, many still consider
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by sametmax 8y ago
The problem is that there will be a window were people will trust video while it is not trustable and it will be abused.
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by sametmax 8y ago
We litteraly calls all the games genre based on the concept of last man standing a "battle royale". So if you take a battle royal theme scenario, and you used kids, and you make it a politic mive, of course it will ring a bell...
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by sametmax 8y ago
I think the best description have been given of the smell and taste is "it is a mix between a banana and a camembert" (a french cheese). Like Joe's use to say: "Custard, good ... jam, good ... meat, GOOD!"
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by sametmax 8y ago
Great, can you email me at lesametlemax on gmail ?
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by sametmax 8y ago
> The overall incredible ignorance around nuclear is staggering. If you ask the average person how many people have died as a result of the Chernobyl incident, they’re usually going to estimate high by orders of magnitude. Downplaying it
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by sametmax 8y ago
"Your link doesn't work with firefox" sounds indeed really bad.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Jumping on the opportunity to have somebody who knows about those things. I used to have a huge garden, and made a compost by barely dumping anything organic on a big pile. It worksed great: low maintenance, never one problem, plenty of com
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by sametmax 8y ago
Thanks to adapters, you can plug an american fridge in a french socket. I'll still buy the one made for the local electrical system.
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by sametmax 8y ago
The first time I worked in a NGO, it was a Gates mission. We had a very small budget, under $100k. The mission was part of the Millenium Village Project, and the various entities adhering to MVP were managing our money. The Gates foundation
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by sametmax 8y ago
> We've never had this many people completely distracted by consumerism. Those are not opposite. We never had that many people.
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"We use the weight of a hammer to hit nails" "What you are describing is gravity, it's not the same thing"
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by sametmax 8y ago
Here is HN for you: if you don't agree with somebody experience, ask the person to provide a study.
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by sametmax 8y ago
More like one field of engeenering then. Because they are other ways to apply philosophy.
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by sametmax 8y ago
>Often the language is chosen because it is the only option like JS for web, or it is the best option for the project. For example, you are doing physics and you need a general purpose language that is easy to write and handles gigantic
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by sametmax 8y ago
That makes it sound like a PR piece.
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by sametmax 8y ago
Religions, because of their nature, are used to motivate behavior, hold jugement and organise communities. Since behaviors, jugments and communities are subject to dispute, it's only natural people will attack their source and motivati
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by sametmax 8y ago
When I read deep religious thinkers works, I find that those questions are only easily answered by those who didn't scratched the surface. The honest ones are full of doubts. People use religion for the purpose of getting easy answers,
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by sametmax 8y ago
Exactly. Besides, I fail to see how exceptions are the problem in there. > Exceptions are hard to notice No. In Java they are easy to notice. In Python we have a dynamic language, so there is no safety net for that. It's a limit of
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by sametmax 8y ago
Maybe you can, maybe we just don't know how. Several religions include "mastery of one self" at the top of their list for hapiness. Whether it is possible and how is another question. Meditation, for example, is advertised as
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by sametmax 8y ago
It's hard to pinpoint a definition for religion. Does that imply some kind of practice ? Does that imply veneration ? Does that imply you hold something sacred ? Does that imply you have dogmatic principles ? Does that imply you have a
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by sametmax 8y ago
> I think modern society suffers from a lack of life philosophy No, we never had that many people reading philosophy, trying to practice some kind of vision or another, asking questions and the like. I think the current tendancy is a sym
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by sametmax 8y ago
Another problem I can see with such systems is that it will enforce the statu quo. But the best doctors I met were the one taking the risk to give me controversial advices, and options to choose from, including the well known ones.
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by sametmax 8y ago
No, I never, ever look at the source of the problem nor the solution. I've used vim for 15 years, but I don't have time for this, so I don't customize anything, and if somebody has a problem, the person is responsible for fix
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by sametmax 8y ago
That's because security doesn't bring money on the table for most products. People are ok with their private life being violated, they don't mind discreet censorship or mass monitoring. Since we make money with those users, a
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by sametmax 8y ago
Even if you are very good at vim, it's still debatable. The thing is, vim forces you to do a lot of stuff that the machine could do for you. E.G: you need to remember states and how to transition between those states. Plus the human mi
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by sametmax 8y ago
Well, I'm sure it can't be worse than debugging a code using == instead of ===: at least you can look at the implementation :)

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