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by satori99 9y ago
I don't see any trends in that direction right now. The institutions of both western democracies and most other societies have proven themselves wholly ineffectual at curbing any of the vast overreach by both intelligence agencies and
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As depressing as it may be, I don't really see a way out. The genie is out of the bottle now and any successful revolutionaries will also have an overwhelming urge to use this technology to cement their power. Benevolent AIs may be an
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I think the Mongolian Derby should take the top spot in any list of the wildest horse races. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Derby
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If no-one is willing to pay for their 'content', then it isn't worth anything anyway. The Internet did just fine without corporate advertisers running the show and tracking everybody for years.
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> This dream would be the single most destructive thing to happen to the internet Hyperbole much? That statement is just rubbish. Personally I think it would be the most constructive thing to happen to the Internet. Hell, maybe even soci
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by satori99 9y ago
I have never had a FB account. The very idea of having my personal data, keyed by my real name, and managed by an opaque advertising company has always seemed like a shitty proposition to me. However I do use reddit daily.
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by satori99 9y ago
Many people eat the fish in Sydney Harbour too. Despite being warned not too. Sydney's ocean beaches are often closed to swimmers because of pollution. Sydney disposes of its sewerage via deep ocean outlets, and this can often make the
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by satori99 9y ago
Don't fish for dinner near big cities in Australia though. It can be just as bad as anywhere else. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-16/health-warning-over-fi... http://www.fishingworld.com.au&#x2
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by satori99 10y ago
Not to mention, it's all rap. There is plenty of quality instrumental hip-hop that deserves a mention. Entroducing (1996) by DJ Shadow remains one of my all time favs. I believe it may even have been the very first album composed entir
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by satori99 10y ago
I think there is a fair bit of truth in this. There is barely a week that goes by here without a news story about some company or another grossly underpaying and/or mistreating immigrant workers in Australia. In some cases they are sup
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I am also an Aussie, but I have a sister who is a permanent resident in Singapore, and owns a house and a business there. I have spent plenty of time there, and have met lots of western ex-pats who have found success there. But the immigran
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I think he is referring to In-Ear Monitors .
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She was recently portrayed in the film 'Hidden Figures', right? I haven't seen it, but it looks quite interesting.
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by satori99 10y ago
So is computer . It too, used to refer to a person, rather than a machine. (albeit a long time ago). http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=computer
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by satori99 10y ago
UHT milk is not popular at all in Australia, except in motel room mini-fridges. I find the taste to be almost, but not quite, entirely unlike milk. Particularly when used to make a flat white coffee. I would put up with a long walk to a sho
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by satori99 10y ago
I had one of these connected to my Roland electric piano in the early nineties. I was amazed to discover I could connect it to my PC's soundblaster ISA card via its joystick port with a MIDI adapter cable and have an amazing soundtrack
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by satori99 10y ago
Also, the Netflix prize data set was used to identify individuals from only a handful of movie ratings. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf
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Meanwhile in Sydney, I'm sweating it out @ 45c (113F) in the middle of a heatwave like never before.
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by satori99 10y ago
You are incorrectly replying. I don't think he mentioned his sister. That was my anecdote. I don't think advertising is tantamount to rape. Rape IMO, is one of the most heinous crimes a human can perpetrate on another. But I do
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Maybe not, but it was the first result of many when I searched for "Adnix". It's not their content either. I did not compensate the site, and I don't feel bad about that at all. I did, however, pay Carl Sagan for it many
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by satori99 10y ago
Well said. I have nothing but contempt and loathing for the advertising industry. I think they ruin everything. I also quit watching and listening to commercial broadcasters, and even quit working for one. I have a sister who is a successfu
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by satori99 10y ago
The github project page has a bit more info than the threejs.org website. It is a relatively small JavaScript library for creating and rendering 3D scene graphs in a browser. It enables you to code while thinking of scenes and the objects w
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by satori99 10y ago
Three.js is a lot of fun to play around with, though I tend only to use its web editor to test my content for errors. It's really simple to use Three.js using only vanilla JavaScript. This is one of my recent experiments[1]; An animate
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> [...] people have made demands on my free time simply because I previously gave them that same gift to help make Python, as if the gift of my free time is in perpetuity A long time ago, I worked for a radio station as an audio engineer
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The show is reasonable (as are the novels) but the SyFy channel has a bad reputation for some truly awful television that they are only just starting to recover from. Having said that, it is the only current sci-fi show that gets the physic
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> Does it work on Windows? > Of course not. It works just fine on Windows 10 with WSL.
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I'll probably get a visit from the Australian Secret Tourist Police for saying this to foreigners, but the danger is way overstated. The last person that died from a spider bite was in 1979. Snakes and spiders mostly just want to lef
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Backspace has been the Windows Explorer shortcut for backward navigation since Windows 95. I use it all the time both in both Explorer and Firefox. And have never ever accidentally deleted text when trying to navigate, or accidentally gone-
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Australia is by far the smallest country (23M) to make-the-grade in recent times, and its almost entirely because of efforts in or on water.
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I live in a constitutional monarchy. But my Queen and her family don't even live in my country, and she is rather more attached to the one she does live in. I'm sure she chooses what is "best for the country", but it&#x2

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