theblackbox

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by theblackbox 17y ago
triedness kills
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by theblackbox 17y ago
I do think that this is indeed closer to the pointy end of the stick when it comes to the ethical concerns of medical research, both for the trials involved and the implications of the technology. The first I am more than willing to pay - I
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Nanoparticle gel helps rebuild brain and bone matter in rats(msnbc.msn.com)
15 points by theblackbox 17y ago|16 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Hmmm... would have expected a discussion about the motivations for such a change, as I see it this is just cult worship (coupled with groupthink down-modding for even voicing an alternative opinion).... I expect more from this community (cu
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't worship at the feet of the all mighty Oracle? I gave up noticing changes on google years ago when they went through a particularly dense spate of "Google" image mods for everything from International Talk-Like-
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Alternative working spaces (shedworking.co.uk)
3 points by theblackbox 17y ago|0 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
> Just thought I had to defend my comments as something more than simply a "ohhh, terrorist'll get ya" pokey stick. Ha, I think we're broadly in agreemant but I'm tending toward pessimism, the above is a reference to Alex Jones which I
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Flatbed scanner camera hack(sentex.net)
27 points by theblackbox 17y ago|3 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
I think my point is often overlooked. I'm not denying that there exists sustainable economic models for the "legal drugs trade", such as tobacco and alcohol, nor am I forgetting this in my hyperbolic critique of the legalisation of the "i
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Just found some interesting stuff about the decriminalisation of illicit drugs in Portugal in 2001, seems to be doing them a great deal of good. But there was mention that NO country has ever rationally considered legalisation as this w
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by theblackbox 17y ago
This (subsidised legal crop production) was suggested by Columbia in the eighties as a way to curb cocaine exports, the response: We don't make deals with Terrorists...
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by theblackbox 17y ago
So it's just a quirk of a hacker's mind that puzzle solving (and possibly peer admiration) is addictive? My reasoning being that we all KNOW that it is not good for ones health, but those that can access flow/"the zone" do so to burn bright
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by theblackbox 17y ago
okay so to take this further, what motivations are there for breaking the "natural sleep rhythm" that are prevalent in the world of creative entrepreneurs (hackers) but not so in the "rest of the world" You gave the exact answer I was expec
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Why does this community have a minor obsession with sleep? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Seems a little overly pretentious, but also got some good resources on there.
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Young Entrepreneur resource(retireat21.com)
1 points by theblackbox 17y ago|1 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
This seems the eternal problem for anyone wanting to break the ice and get onto the hacker wagon. I've been isolated for years trying to build up my hacker credentials, until I eventually gave up. What coding I could learn was taken from bo
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Call for ethical debate surrounding use of "killer robots"(news.bbc.co.uk)
18 points by theblackbox 17y ago|30 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
I don't doubt he is heading the way of the Intelligence "fusion" centers[1] and some form of interrogation. This is an absolute shambles and shows just how inept and yellow the UK home office are. Not only are they going to hand this guy
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by theblackbox 17y ago
True. I remember reading about the pressure being put on BBC's commercial arm by the British press due to the vast sums of money it can rake in. The problem being that license payers have paid for this, and so should be considered shareho
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Yeah, I reckon it's a step in the right direction. But I have often thought about why the BBC hasn't embraced new media in an attempt to project the corporations aims onto a much higher plain. Their whole "bytesized" revision gumph was a he
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Thought this was an interesting tack given the highly publicized Associated Press dohicky and the decline and fall of printed media
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BBC to open online news archives to commercial press(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by theblackbox 17y ago|5 comments
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Can news (information) be monopolised?
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Another simply awful British company on the back foot at the moment over human rights violations due to the mining of a precious mineral is Vedanta. They bought a mountain and planned to demolish it in the search for Bauxite, despite the fa
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by theblackbox 17y ago
indeed, I don't doubt that once we can do parallelism on par with the biological world in neural network models (which are probably already available or being researched) many of these studies will be thought of as ill considered funding st
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by theblackbox 17y ago
Similar "logic" has inspired a number of scientists to attempt to "decode" the background microwave radiation of the universe as it has the capacity to hold the first act of Romeo and Juliet (dunno how many bits of information that comes to
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by theblackbox 17y ago
When this discipline was first starting to kick off I remember a little experiment done to tap into and code the DNA of a particular strain of bacterium (probably similar to this E-coli). In doing so the playful scientists encoded the phra
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by theblackbox 17y ago
I always liked the similar one that has become (probably always was) an urban myth: Bee's can't fly... I wonder if CCD is confirmation that Newton was right?
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by theblackbox 17y ago
The point was ... not to guess their sentence (they said what it was). Ahh, I missed that! That makes sense in terms of the Avalanche Effect - cheers for the knowledge

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