teeja

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by teeja 13y ago
Great, provocative thinkpiece. I'd add that considering the number of expensive flops this summer, the audiences' responsiveness to the massive CGI-spectacles and remakes of recent years might be beginning to wane. To make film No
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by teeja 13y ago
One man's hobby is another man's addiction.
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by teeja 13y ago
Unless it's one of those rare Pyrex mason jars.
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by teeja 13y ago
Seriously, I'd almost live in a tent to work there.
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by teeja 13y ago
Hah! Looks like the Independent is tired of envying the Guardian for all the free publicity they've been getting! And I also learnt it's okay to use 'learnt'.
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by teeja 13y ago
"Wow, Catullus, thanks for the chariot ride ... the last time I had to run for a day and a half and .... Recedite! excreta caballus!" "Wow, beaming to the surface is so much faster than that goddamn shuttle. And ... hey! This
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by teeja 13y ago
I got my definition of what Propaganda is from Ed Bernays. You might do the same.
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by teeja 13y ago
Exactly. Which is probably only apparent to people who RTFA.
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by teeja 13y ago
Apparently a couple of people are unhappy at my suggestion that WSJ is sometimes a propaganda arm of the USG. I just wanted to re-interate that suggestion, and invite those people to learn some history. But only if they're interested m
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by teeja 13y ago
The advice given to radio DJ's might be helpful: you're not talking to 100,000 people. You're talking to one or two people. In this case they're all sitting in the same room, but you can still pick out one or two who app
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by teeja 13y ago
Revolutionized the film industry, yet lets internet comments get to him. Really. I feel for the guy. But this stuff is nothing new, that's how it works when you do revolutionary stuff. Look at what RCA did to FM inventor Edwin Armstr
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by teeja 13y ago
The person who framed this propaganda piece was skillful enough that I think s/he could get paid more working for the Louvre.
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by teeja 13y ago
Consider the strength of an AI that could know you and your tastes, ideas, interests and concerns very well, continually scan all communications it could access, and continually keep a list for you of the top-ten things you might want to kn
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by teeja 13y ago
Seems clear to me that banning an IP address is nothing more than a ban on that IP address. The user could conceivably go to a library and use their IP to access the site. Since that's self-evidently a non-productive approach, the on
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by teeja 13y ago
I think you're right. Lots of that kind of resistance amongst us humans. (Climate-change denying e.g.) As my sainted grandmother's graduation card put it: Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, a
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by teeja 13y ago
Challenge accepted: I wasn't able to tease out a number more specific than "up to twice as efficient" here http://jalopnik.com/5490236/the-nuclear-warhead+equipped-ekr... but it might be decipherable in
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by teeja 13y ago
From what I've read, the hunter-gatherers still on Earth have to work about 2 hours each day. For everything. Of course they don't have all the fancy toys. Or the worries and medications. Running away from an existence you've
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by teeja 13y ago
How unfortunate that no physical recording of this meeting exists. At any rate, "For the kind of mind possessed by the moth which eats that paper literature is absolutely non-existent" is a superb representation of the difficulty
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by teeja 13y ago
It's a very small space, with no apparent facility to handle not just #1 and #2, but severe gastric distress. The other passengers then get to look forward to up to 25 minutes in that closed space. There's no stewardess, no way to
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by teeja 13y ago
Wikipedia didn't have to be so reasonable and visionary as it is. ... participation in the creation of 'the human story' is a right that can’t be dictated by authorities. I'm happy to give Mr. Wales credit due for cons
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by teeja 13y ago
pfft. Javascript timers are more accurate anyway. Nyah nyah Mozilla.
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by teeja 13y ago
First of all, when you get a 'unique', turn off javascript, then go back and click the 'Test Me' button again. You'll see much of your 'uniqueness' go away, and many boxen say 'no javascript'...
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by teeja 13y ago
What we call intelligence seems to be heritable to an extent, and we do all share instincts and even Jungian archetypes. All suggest that we each arrive with a "mother matrix" of experience-patterned structure (not just repeating
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by teeja 13y ago
Apart from science, which robots can do however slowly, I see little value in "Going to Mars" - even if we were prepared, which we're not. No air, no water, no plants or animals, no fuel, plenty of radiation (on the trip and
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by teeja 13y ago
That's certainly one reasonable way to interpret what's going on.
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by teeja 13y ago
Dear Google guy: better give it up, you're only digging your hole deeper.
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by teeja 13y ago
How many? ALL the smart people. As for the dumb ones, they're storing their passwords on a sticky-post. Or using Chrome.
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by teeja 13y ago
Actually that might remove some of the grunt work for experienced editors. It's a lot easier to prettify existing data than to do it all from scratch. There's a lot more to advanced editing than "learning simple patterns&quot
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by teeja 13y ago
It is a very good start, and it's good that it's a clearly labelled 'beta' option. It -might- eventually make doing cites easier (especially ones that involve minor changes in existing cites), but already anyone who come
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by teeja 13y ago
This WSJ article from 12/12 explains in some detail where TOR came from and what it was supposedly developed for. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732467720457818... "Created in part to hide the o

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