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901.
by themgt 12y ago
I strongly disagree; Hofstadter is far more ready to admit that consciousness is a real phenomenon, causally relevant phenomenon, not an illusion, e.g. "who shoves whom around". Whereas this guy is buying wholesale into the idea t
902.
by themgt 12y ago
Well this sounds like a healthy relationship!
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by themgt 12y ago
He wanted the ability to claim 4th amendment protections on his server while simultaneously denying that it was his server. For the government to tell him he can't have it both ways in fact seems almost the opposite of Kafkaesque
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by themgt 12y ago
Their youtube video is a good intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWs8L4xnUM
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Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed(latimes.com)
4 points by themgt 12y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 12y ago
I will stop being concerned about Ebola as soon as I start seeing this log-scale graph start bending down hard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Evolution_of_the_2014_Ebol... And note the WHO already did bend the curv
907.
by themgt 12y ago
Crude oil actually has peaked (note the chart including shale/tar sands/LNG), it's just that the demand has been offset both by the ongoing global recession and the growth of other sources. However, I still have a hard time s
908.
by themgt 12y ago
Yeah, it's absolutely nuts to hear that the copenhagen interpretation is still taught in universities, because it's such a desperate attempt to avoid admitting this truth of how fundamental QM is to reality.
909.
by themgt 12y ago
“Every program attempts to expand until it can speak HTTP. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
910.
by themgt 12y ago
Well according to the language, if you simply wrote a tweet saying that "Facebook patent US7827208, 'generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network' is riduculous and overbroad" you could then
911.
by themgt 12y ago
I'd be curious if they tried this study with xylitol. I chew xylitol gum for dental health and from my understanding it's not thought to contribute to metabolic problems in reasonable quantities: http://en.wikipedia.org
912.
by themgt 12y ago
I really see the strong, immediate pushback against this idea as mainly an attempt to calm the lay audience. Ebola has been airborne in other species before, and it's very nearly airborne in humans - this is certainly not a virus like
913.
by themgt 12y ago
This strongly suggests that anything hosted on Tor should be done through some sort of (ideally plug-n-play, hardened) NAT+hypervisor/container system such that the service itself can never, ever know its real external IP. Such a syste
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by themgt 12y ago
I find it amusing the plant they have pictured looks quite possible to be a San Pedro cactus. Office happiness indeed!
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Did a SanDisk board member donate $2500 to the Ferguson police killer?(twitter.com)
2 points by themgt 12y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 12y ago
This is a great example of how technology can amplify existing inequality, because the voices that speak loudest are the ones who already have power. 186 people have so far been killed in this conflict. All of them in Gaza. Creating this si
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by themgt 12y ago
If this is the Dockerfile [1] and he's not mounting a volume in, then he's running the Postgres data dir on a btrfs snapshot vs. probably ext4 w/o Docker [1]: https://bitbucket.org/davidkerr/docker/s
918.
by themgt 12y ago
His blog: https://d4l3.com/blogs/darthclue
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by themgt 12y ago
The really interesting question is the implications for future precedent/innovations. The ruling says "But this difference [Aero's technological setup] means nothing to the subscriber. It means nothing to the broadcaster. We
920.
by themgt 12y ago
This might make for some interesting reading: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.0958.pdf
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by themgt 12y ago
Could you describe how you actually intend to version the database in any sort of technical language? There are existing methods of doing RDMBS versioning and I don't know of any that have tried using git. If you want to do something t
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by themgt 12y ago
That is almost all due to medical, not nutritional science - antibiotics, better surgeries, pharma, etc. Nutritional science has been an abysmal failure for decades and is barely beginning to relearn many things "nutrional science&quot
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by themgt 12y ago
You know I've had a hunch for a while there must be something to these "detox" diets where you just eat a bunch of carrots or whatever. I think it's increasingly clear collateral fasting is the answer. The gimmick is &qu
924.
by themgt 12y ago
It's a fairly sad and ironic the way Socrata and some others in the open gov space are building proprietary/closed source products. Socrata has of course talked up their "Open Data Server, Community Edition" which they a
925.
by themgt 12y ago
A much better comment to link to would have the grandparent, by Greg Wilkins from Jetty, who gives a lot more substance and context to the debate: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014AprJun&#x
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by themgt 13y ago
I'm much more productive with 10 hour work days. Get in the zone, write a shit-ton of code, and then get back to reality. Three or four 10-hour days sound a lot nicer than 5 6-hours.
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by themgt 13y ago
First off you're I believe incorrectly using g rather than r in your "how volatility changes things" section. Secondly you seem to be assuming not only that r will be more volatile than g, but that it will be so much more vol
928.
by themgt 13y ago
Is looking at the examples giving anyone else a headache? It's like the software blur falls into some kind of uncanny valley for reality.
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by themgt 13y ago
Right. How many people would be in here saying this is a free-speech issue if he had donated money to support a law against marriages between people of different races? It is absolutely about human rights, and I applaud the community for dr
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by themgt 13y ago
If your liver starts filtering toxins on the other end of a two-hour period of clinical death with no metabolic activity, then are simple liver cells really what comprises a liver's function?

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