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by summerdown2 9y ago
> > Freedom originally meant that you could deal with whoever you wanted on whatever terms both parties could agree on Please could you provide a time and place in history where this has ever been the case?
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by summerdown2 9y ago
An artificial womb is also one of the steps required to bring back the mammoth. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170221-reviving-woolly-mamm...
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by summerdown2 9y ago
Is there a short summary anywhere of recommendations for life style changes that do benefit the fight against dementia? I don't have it currently, but I must admit the older I get the more the prospect concerns me.
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by summerdown2 9y ago
I agree with you a bit. But I also think there's a danger in assuming every anecdote is a data point, which is best expressed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo (Short video with Richard Feynman)... tl;d
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by summerdown2 9y ago
> If you're in a class, you will soon hear the overused phrase "The plural of anecdote is not data". > You can out-smartass them by replying "Actually, it is". I don't think it is. The plural of anecdote
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Tech and the fake market tactic(medium.com)
1 points by summerdown2 10y ago|0 comments
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> If you're looking for inspiration in places other than the commercial sphere, much interesting work on digital ontologies has been emerging from the EU in recent years. This sounds interesting - do you have any recommended reading
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by summerdown2 10y ago
Users perceive the app store as giving a level of curation and security. If it became a list of "all Mac software that exists," and one of those turned out to be dodgy, Apple's image would take a real hit. Also, what would li
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by summerdown2 10y ago
Mike Monteiro on the importance of a contract: "Fuck you, pay me." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> 1) Private entities must pay for speech they disagree with on their private platforms and in their private conferences even if that opposing speech causes them to lose the funding that allows for them to pay for it in the first place.
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> If we're not seeing it, it's probably because we don't want to. This is the big problem for me. I have struggled with Facebook for years because I really do want my friend's unfiltered feeds. In the end it just beca
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by summerdown2 10y ago
There's precedent for something like this in the UK, and it's not a happy one. There was a moment in history where landowners who had a lot of sitting tenants on land realised they could make more by converting them into large she
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> Is absolute security really something that anyone desires from a general purpose instant messenger? I think the problem is that security is an ongoing conversation between the government and the people. My guess is that most people, if
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> Consider an "individuals" example: I am a better cook than the average fast food worker, and I am also better than them at building databases. So why don't I split my time between my office and the fry vat? And why does
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by summerdown2 10y ago
The difference I see is that I'm not personally at risk from someone chomping down on fast food. But I may well be at risk from someone driving unsafely.
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by summerdown2 10y ago
That's impressive, but the invention of sawmills didn't need to wait until the industrial revolution. I've just come back from The Netherlands, which had massive uses in wind powered technology in the 1500's, including w
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by summerdown2 10y ago
My biggest issue is the lack of control over routing in general. I've several times been in the position where all routes on the navigation device pass through the road in front of me, yet I'm sitting in the car looking at a road
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> It's weirdly taboo in liberal American journalism to suggest that one's industriousness might be a major cause of one's economic status. One way to see if industriousness is a major cause of economic status is to look at
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by summerdown2 10y ago
You don't think there should be laws over obscenity, terrorism or monopoly ownership, then? The reason I'm asking is that if a Facebook user decided to send out full instructions about how make a pneumonia virus with home dna equi
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by summerdown2 10y ago
> Medication is fairly inexpensive and if I have major surgery, I will only be out a couple thousand (the cost of a laptop). I suspect that not everyone would think this is a small amount of money. From this article: http://ww
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by summerdown2 10y ago
An alternative way of looking at it is that societies do better when they make full use of their resources. Saudi Arabia has long been criticised (by lots of people, but particularly relevant here) by economists for the way they keep women
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by summerdown2 10y ago
This is actually one of the things AI is currently being developed for, and may not be that far off. Again, it won't be reasoning as we understand it, more a set of state tables that allow inferences. But people are definitely trying t
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by summerdown2 10y ago
I think this might just come down to a difference in directors. A few years ago, when Aaron Sorkin and Joss Whedon were making blockbusters, no-one would have complained about the lack of dialogue. Certainly I can remember lines from Whedon
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by summerdown2 10y ago
There must be more than two alternatives, though? Surely we can have a 21st century economy to match 21st century challenges? I don't know what that might look like yet - but I think we will know in a decade or so. Currently there&#x27
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Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode(theguardian.com)
57 points by summerdown2 10y ago|12 comments
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by summerdown2 10y ago
Although I expect my government to have a greater obligation to its own people than those outside it, I also would prefer (sadly not expect) them to take a longer-term view than "what suits the situation at the moment." If putting
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Except that the comparison isn't: 320,000 people dead due to traffic fatalities over 10 years. vs 350 people dead in terrorism over 10 years It's: 320,000 people dead due to traffic fatalities over 10 years causing little p
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I think maybe you need to read the book. Your question is the essential topic it deals with, and the author comes down heavily on fear being a net positive in those life threatening situations. One example: a girl is being chatted up by a g
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by summerdown2 11y ago
The difference in mortality rates between teenage drivers and middle age drivers suggests a number of factors, but one that springs to my mind is that the teenagers don't have a fear level that reflects the danger accurately enough. Ed
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by summerdown2 11y ago
My understanding is that adblockers work by removing known third party app sites from loading items on a page. If that's true, what would stop a website from proxying ads, so they appear to come from the website rather than the third p

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