t2015_08_25

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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Well at least they might be able to do this if Connecticut were to secede from the United States. Not sure if you're from the U.S. or not, but we have a Bill of Rights which was originally intended to protect states from the federal g
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
They haven't handled the transition to new media and values properly: 1. Their magazine: Almost all magazines have been replaced with websites. Their website dramatically undersells their content. Look at it, really. It's basi
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GoDaddy's Quest for Respect Led to an Improbable Partnership with MIT Media Lab(fastcompany.com)
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
That's the thing that kills me - or almost did last month... [ 1 ] People are delirious about self-driving cars, but even the simplest automatable task of stopping when something is in front of you is not only an option, but an expen
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
i agree. i just wanted to raise the imagery of being a prosecutor in jail. if they're hostile to child molesters, imagine what they do to prosecutors! yowza.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Hmm yeah your example makes me think of fast-food as an analogy. That is to say, there may be applications of sensing that benefit corporations financially, but don't help their users... Imagine an automaton that provokes couples into
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
The prototypes I saw in person a few years ago were actually surplus automated potentiometers :) They were DC motors with gear reduction and a spool, with light steel wire coiled on the spool to slide the pot or the "3-d pixel" b
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
That is one perverse set of constraints. Give me a few 1980s-vintage robot arms and I will outperform this system in any category except entertainment value. Robot arms once held great entertainment value and this system will become old me
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
This picture shows what's under the table: http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Projects/2013...
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Wow, thanks for the downvotes, everyone! Maybe I'm simply in the wrong community? I thought some intelligent discussion would be welcome, but let's try this: Go driverless cars! Microsoft Bad! Google Good! Javascript Javascript
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
This is interesting to listen to, b/c Eno is well-known and has some interesting observations and ideas, but as far as his main idea, that art is play, he seems tragically unaware of the sexual implications of "hair styles, boob j
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
It's got nothing to do with deceit or skimming, it's power . There is no fraud, it would be simply taking advantage of people beyond the amount of value that I would be interesting in providing. Your allusion to a market that
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
I like the cut of your jib. I've been considering buying rental properties to supplement my income, but something deep inside somewhere, based on living close to people well below my income level as one of a 4-unit building, prevented
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Ah you're right. Thanks. That was driving me crazy. I should have learned by reading substantive comments found elsewhere. This one below, for example, struck me as exceptionally substantive and now I can see why it hasn't bee
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
So what on Earth is objectionable in my comment? I speak from a moderate viewpoint, to take the study seriously, but not apply it blindly, apply my own small amount of experience, and get downvoted to -4? Did this offend anyone? Please ex
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Fascinating results, I would only caution people before taking this article's results to apply to "all" women. IME, approximately 10% of women desire employment success way more than the others.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
> remove sources of income that people find relevant in exchange for ads that some higher up in marketing thinks relates to its users. Yes, that's a move toward integrity and away from endangerment and excess income. If "some h
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Which problem spaces are you working in btw? I've been doing medical, microwave radio, infra-red LEDs, bike light LEDS, music instruments, architecture and some other small stuff.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
yes. bsder's comment should only be taken to represent his own reality. As an embedded firmware developer for 18 years, I've seen every project has its own constraints, just like most engineering. Design constraints on microcont
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
> It seems intuitive that a violent individual would be attracted to violent games. The aggressive people I encounter outside the bars in my town seem to be sports fans and weightlifters, not video game players.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
from the link, emphasis mine: "In 2013, 230 academics and scientists signed an open letter stating their objection to the claims being made by the APA, calling them “misleading and alarmist”."
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you assume that because the author said 'he' that he projects that gender onto the author, as opposed to not actually knowing and choosing his own gender, as is common, or choosing a random gender, as is c
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Great list. How about teacher Julie Amero, whose browser was apparently hijacked, possibly while students used it while she was out of the room resulting in students seeing nudity briefly and uninentionally [1] [1] https://en.wi
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
> How difficult was it to not suspect it anymore? Excellent observation. It's really about people conditioned to follow scripts. These people were missing the "de-escalation script" in which a teacher laughs, puts their h
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Yeah I hear ya. Basically, anything anyone says is a mere model. Saying we think in graphs is...great... in as far as it helps us to use graphs as a model for thought. And it may help us get far, or help us accomplish someone else's
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Kindly consider my words - I'm not insulting technology, I'm pointing out corporate greed: The proportion of self-driving cars that have hit people is already greater than the proportion of human-driven cars that have hit people.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
And i'm saying they will hit kids, just like the Volvo hit the pedestrian.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
This implies that self-driving cars will be programmed with a morality superior to that of evil humans. It may be possible to program them that way, but what gives us faith that the profit-seeking entities who control them will allow them
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
I like it! Probably needs some categorization, b/c it's hard to control whether people will barter sewing for cheeseburgers or C for javascript, etc. But a great start, keep going.
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by t2015_08_25 11y ago
Yup and their human rights and pollution records are excellent, too :) </s> People forget that civic leadership is a requirement for running a country. Just like managers have to "herd cats," politicians have to herd

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