stavrianos

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   by stavrianos 17y ago

   Mammoth might be delicious . How can we know unless we try?
2. 212.▲
   by stavrianos 18y ago

   get out of debt in three steps: 1- don't go into debt 2- spend less money 3- earn more money No? Really?
3. 213.▲
   by stavrianos 18y ago

   Of the math textbooks I've used, two've been good enough to keep so far: Linear Algebra: http://www.amazon.ca/Linear-Algebra-Applications-CD-ROM-Upda... Calculus: http://www.amazon.ca/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-Tools-En... on the mo
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   by stavrianos 18y ago

   I submit that hacking is also more art than science. Way more, even. Can't go blaming my garden-variety social anxiety all on the left hemisphere, after all.
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   by stavrianos 18y ago

   If you believe in an uncopyable soul, a teleporter like that about would be a way of creating actual, honest-to-god P-zombies. Fun! On the other hand, if you don't, then it doesn't seem like it's such a big deal. Diaspora, by Greg Egan, has
6. 216.▲
   by stavrianos 18y ago

   kinda kills the story I know, but while we're copying anyways, you'd think that they could just replenish the ship with copies of the original crew?
7. 217.▲
   by stavrianos 18y ago

   I imagine that wars in a general sense are more driven by larger socio-economic forces than by any kind of sustained moral disagreement.
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   by stavrianos 18y ago

   even if the number did come sliding out of his ass (not meaning any offense, I really don't know if you've sources or not), I think it's a good guess that there's a non-trivial demographic in that situation
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   by stavrianos 18y ago

   I'd love to ditch facebook, except that the only reason I'm there is still true: that's where my peeps hang. Some people, that's their only online presence. What I'd like to see is a transparent layer in/out that could "export" these peop
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    Consider also the example of a cuckoo's chick. These things obviously have no "training". Genetics is the only thing they have to work with. And they "convince" doting mother birds to feed them extremely well (apparently, so well that othe
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    I don't think it's obvious that something having "intent" is distinct from something having a sufficiently complex cause/effect memory engine.
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    What this is really for, I think, is retinal-tracking input for the disabled. If it's not there already.
13. 223.▲
    by stavrianos 18y ago

    Reductionism is a bad thing when you reduct away useful or necessary information.
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    Pretty spiffy, but is there an application? Massive storage is all well and good, but I don't know of anyplace where it's a limiting factor. Consumer harddrives seem far more likely to keep going to solid-state, I think. Is there some indus
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    Seems to me that there are two ways it could go, depending on how you take the question. If when all the tech disappears the resources reappear, I'd say it doesn't take too long at all. Maybe ten years, maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand, bu
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    by stavrianos 18y ago

    I may well not be getting something here. It seems to me that money, at the core, isn't a true representation of wealth. Obviously economics is not zero-sum in terms of wealth, but isn't it supposed to be zero-sum in terms of money? Certain