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by scoofy 15y ago
Tim Wu wrote a book about this, The Master Switch; essentially the big conglomerates have a good thing going and would rather bury their new technology, since they already have a good thing going, than take a risk on new tech. Wu calls it "
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by scoofy 15y ago
I'm sorry, but i find this 'solution' to happiness rather myopic. I'm not saying it can't be helpful (it probably is), but doubt it's a cure. Now, generally speaking, for those of us that are well educated, entirely employable and rather we
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by scoofy 15y ago
Whenever i read much of this anti-carb stuff, i'm always concerned about how different carbs affect the body. Taubes always blames the whole lot, but people like Lustig distinctly go after fructose. I get that carbohydrates probably affect
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by scoofy 15y ago
Philosophy is interested with the very edge of knowledge and learning why and how we can know about it. Perhaps you forget not so long ago the philosophers Frege, along with and Russell and Whitehead. These guys were trying to create a logi
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Are DDOS attacks after a political victory a threat?
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by scoofy 15y ago
Am i wrong or does 'Well here's what Godel proved: There's no way to really know whether or not any theory is consistent.' completely ignore Gödel's completeness theorem for first order logic.
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by scoofy 15y ago
Whoa... Meta
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by scoofy 15y ago
This doesn't take into account the payoffs of some sort of moral sentiment that may be valuable to the CEOs. Not all payoffs are monetary.
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Game theory would suggest that, since SOPA opposition is in part a coordination problem, one person arbitrarily picking a day may be all it takes to get multiple groups with similar interests to organize.
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by scoofy 15y ago
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , by Steven Pinker, was my favorite.