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by summerdown2 11y ago
Absolutely. And I'd like to strengthen the point you made even further. It's not just standard practice alone - it's the law. For example, from principle 8 of the data protection act: Personal data shall not be transferred to
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I remember reading an interview with either Dunning or Kruger at one point. They were really disappointed that everyone had used their research to point fingers at others. In actual fact, the authors had hoped the real value of their resear
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by summerdown2 11y ago
The thing is, technological advances can be exponential, too. Moore's law is one example, but there are others. Here's a quote from Ray Kurzweil, who's a leading exponent of this idea: > "People declared the Human Gen
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Yes, the 2015 La Ligua winners, Copa de Rey winners and current European champions have indeed just lost a single match. I'm not saying they're invincible, just very good.
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I'm not sure how this applies to football (soccer). As far as I can see, Barcelona have the most superstar team in world football, and are winning everything. The next two teams with the most superstars (Madrid and Munich) are winning
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by summerdown2 11y ago
oops, sorry. For some reason it isn't giving me an edit option, so thanks for your correction.
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by summerdown2 11y ago
For writing fiction and simply how to use words effectively: The way to write by Joan Moat http://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Write-Ted-Hughes/dp/0140272704/ For understanding computer networking, Computer networks
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Aye. I just wish it were different. Incidentally, I've just come back from the Netherlands, where the rather excellent Rotterdam Museum of Customs had a series of quite nicely inquiring exhibits going into exactly why we pay tax and al
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Thought so. Also this shouldn't need pointing out, but I did answer at least one of your questions: > You do realize they're still taking your money by force, don't you? ... with the response: > How do you intend to hav
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by summerdown2 11y ago
How do you intend to have money without a central bank? Should we all swap gold bars? What if I have a different view of the value of gold/bitcoin? Also, I'll play along if that's what you want. > You could just build a ro
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by summerdown2 11y ago
> I'm saying taxation is extortion, and just as immoral as when a mafia does it. This is a ridiculous comment. I realise the social contract has broken down somewhat in recent years but if you can't see the difference between M
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Security is balanced against cost in a risk-based assessment. One of those factors is certainly bad publicity and lost sales, and that might actually be a fairly small number. But there are still other ways to weight the argument in favour
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I was with you until this sentence: > As technology improves, communication becomes more human, and this is great. It's certainly arguable that communication has changed form, and that more approximates to looking at a person. But l
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Interesting, because my experience has been exactly the opposite. I used to read so many web articles via rss, but that's reduced month on month since the death of Google Reader. One of the main reasons is that I've found it hard
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by summerdown2 11y ago
It seems to be a meme without a lot of evidence attached. However, the one paper I did find appears to refute it: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801.long I think that some ideas gain traction because the
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Actually, reading the comic another poster put up here: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2339.html ... I think I've managed to get my head round it. Or, at least form an initial model. It's like the old puzzle of
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by summerdown2 11y ago
> I'd be really interested in developing an agreed dialog about this. Will you send me an email? I've sent you an email, as requested. From the sound of it, though, the answer to my puzzlement, is that it doesn't apply to
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I think the problem is there's mathematics on one hand and my experience of the real world on the other. I either didn't do any set theory, or I've forgotten it. So it looks just like squiggles on the page to me when I try to
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by summerdown2 11y ago
Why not, assuming you make the spheres big enough? Let's say not gold, but a moon. I mean, let's do a thought experiment with superhuman tech and a big enough sphere that atoms are small enough to make the slices right. I guess I
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I am very much not a mathematician. I took physics at university, but that was 20 years ago. The mathematics here is beyond me. So, I realise I'm probably confusing theoretical mathematics with a practical science. But, still. If this
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I do find it a pity security organisations like the FBI and NSA are interpreting their remit so narrowly focused on the "attack" side of the role, rather than the "defense" side. It's probably a consequence of the e
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I get your point, and it's a very dramatic and low statistic. But still, just taking the US, if all 320 Million people live for an extra 3.3 years, that's 1 billion total years of life given to people. A lot of books could be writ
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by summerdown2 11y ago
I'm not a doctor or neuroscientist either, but from what I gather it is indeed significant. It potentially makes the link between the brain and the body chemically study-able. Up to now there's always been the assumption of a brai
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by summerdown2 11y ago
The paper can be found in Nature here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
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Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System(neurosciencenews.com)
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by summerdown2 11y ago
There's still a lot of area available for solar power that doesn't involve getting rid of plants, though. Deserts, house and car roofs, for example.
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by summerdown2 11y ago
My problem with Facebook is that whenever I do something I think my friends would be interested in, I actually do take a photo and upload it to Facebook. Then, Facebook filters all my friends' feed so only 50% of them see it. All I wan
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by summerdown2 11y ago
How do you feel about disabling javascript by default, and making things click-to-play? I ask because I think the line between "advert used for site finance," and "drive-by malware" can sometimes be blurry. For example:
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by summerdown2 12y ago
I don't think they expect anything in particular. It's just a sad fact that the transaction is asymmetric. It may take you a while to read, but it costs them very little to send you spam, and there is apparently a non-zero convers
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by summerdown2 12y ago
> I support the author and what the bank did is just absolutely wrong and outrageous, but I just want to clarify that this is not a freedom of speech issue. I don't agree. In US terms, "Freedom of Speech" appears to be fra

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