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World's Largest Carbon-Capture Plant to Open Soon(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
I posted a new thread w/ the NYT link [1], [2] because it had this helpful tidbit: A congressional investigation this year found that the website changed some of its adult classifieds to conceal the fact that the advertisements were f
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C.E.O. Of Backpage.com, Known for Escort Ads, Is Charged with Pimping a Minor(nytimes.com)
9 points by themgt 10y ago|3 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
Thanks! edit: a major question (if this is legit) is why the Clinton Foundation had so many internal DNC (or is it DCCC?) docs on their server ... edit 2: I think main conclusion is, this is just rehashed DNC docs, not from the Foundation.
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by themgt 10y ago
Anyone have the full 820MB file want to put it on BitTorrent?
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by themgt 10y ago
Yep, mostly agreed. I think if you squint a little, it's possible to see how real non-deterministic "choice" can bootstrap itself out of QM. Do we have a theory describing how? No, but such a theory would inherently upend the
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by themgt 10y ago
I feel like a lot of the replies here are missing what's actually a quite subtle, thoughtful argument: The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz made the point vividly in 1714. Perception or consciousness, he wrote, is “inexpli
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by themgt 10y ago
For reference (this post is clearly mimicking the format): https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/donald-trump-pepe-the-fr... and: http://i.imgur.com/Pe27DXI.jpg My best explanation for Pepe is sort of a
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by themgt 10y ago
This comment is a great microcosm of what's gone wrong in the US food supply. "Peanut butter" doesn't by definition require any ingredients other than peanuts. Want some added salt for flavor? Sure! This is America thoug
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by themgt 10y ago
Everyone can have their own opinion regarding how many rockets and African internet satellites and Tesla drivers and astronauts are worth risking to push technology as far as fast as Musk can. What's harder to argue, I think, is that M
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by themgt 10y ago
Every time I read an article like this (the "I am certainly not writing this to defend Hillary Clinton, [but let me use the piece to subtly defend Hillary Clinton]"), I check the author's professional associations: Nat Meyse
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by themgt 10y ago
While it might not be perfectly encompassing, I would generally consider a "robot" to necessarily use some form of Turing Machine executing software to control its movement.
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Fitter, dumber, more productive(newstatesman.com)
1 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
I find it amusing in the Business Insider version [1] of this article "managing others" features at the least-susceptible to automation end of the chart. This appears to belie an oversight, that automation job loss is not just abo
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by themgt 10y ago
I find "nice to look at" and "easier to understand" tend to converge over time. Elixir pushes me to expand my mental maps a bit more than Go, but once I grok it the code reads much more coherently and concisely. Go to me
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by themgt 10y ago
I am more and more on board with the Lee Smolin "singular universe" concept. To me it's very analogous to the Darwinian revolution in biology. Physicists are still pre-Darwin, unable to understand why the universe looks so &q
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by themgt 10y ago
> In at least some cases, Hampton Creek lumped in expenses related to buying its own products with wages paid to contractors, according to five former workers. All five said money they were given to buy jars of Just Mayo were treated as
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by themgt 10y ago
What seems to me obvious if one looks at: a) the age of the universe b) the age of the earth c) the age of life on earth d) the age of aware-enough-to-look-at-stars-and-wonder-about-aliens life on earth Is that life itself is relatively &qu
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by themgt 10y ago
That week was fraught, as it was the week of a major conference that we were working with. It was the first time we were displaying adverts on someone else’s site through our system, but we couldn’t trust Simon — we had no guarantee that h
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by themgt 10y ago
I've been trying to follow the developing human origin story (as a layman) for while now. It's hard to overstate the importance of the elephant in the room here, which is race and variation within the human species. There was a hu
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by themgt 10y ago
This has seemed to me for a while the right approach (gravity from quantum mechanics, vs. quantized gravity). Can anyone speculate on the discovery of "gravitational waves" - i.e. in a quantum mechanical description, what are grav
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by themgt 10y ago
This article is good at encapsulating the increasingly dire science and urgent need for immediate action. What can you do? Educate yourself, educate all your friends and anyone else you talk to, vote for politicians who take this seriously
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by themgt 10y ago
No, the problem is you've replaced code-is-contract with an insider-run Politburo who decides to put referenda up to a vote with their preferred choice set as default and propagandized to the community from the top-down. I have long th
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Stick a Fork in Ethereum(elaineou.com)
250 points by themgt 10y ago|183 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
> Two countries, China and India, hold approximately one-third of the entire human population alone, with 1,318 million and 1,312 million people, respectively. The United States of America is third with 302 million. This sort of "br
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by themgt 10y ago
It's just kind of crazy to me the amount of DAO-specific lines of code that have been put into apparently Mist and Geth, e.g. just search "DAO" on these links [1], [2] How many many man hours have been spent on introducing a
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by themgt 10y ago
I lived in Rochester, NY and got a 20 hr/week job interning at Kodak in the slide film research department during HS in 1999-2000. I remember on one occasion my boss, a mid-level executive (head of new slide film research? something li
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by themgt 10y ago
If you've ever looked at the underlying code of "LXC" it's basically a bunch of spaghetti scripts that utilize cgroups. It was awesome for its time, but it's really not something worth supporting in 2016 vs. the new
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The Radical Plasticity Thesis: How the Brain Learns to Be Conscious(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by themgt 10y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 10y ago
What makes Elixir a sort of "perfect storm" is the combination of a battle-tested, corporate funded, philosophically correct language model and VM (Erlang/BEAM/OTP) combined with a syntax (Elixir) that's both beauti

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