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by thunk 16y ago
> Is shaping the singularity the same as averting human extinction? If the singularity itself poses existential risks (this seems obvious,) and if extinction is inevitable without a singularity (this seems likely,) ... The answer is
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by thunk 16y ago
I took issue with the claim that shaping the Singularity is "the world's most important task" when there are so many extinction-level threats that already exist . It seems arrogant and presumptuous to claim the number one spot for a hypoth
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by thunk 16y ago
The only limit is your ... 5-10 MB localStorage database.
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by thunk 16y ago
> SIAI is tackling the world’s most important task -- the task of shaping the Singularity. The task of averting human extinction. We aren’t the only people tackling this, but the total set is frighteningly small. Forgive me, but this
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by thunk 16y ago
"The demoscene" can also refer to the largely overlapping subculture of tracker [1] musicians. There're a few well known electronic artists still using trackers today, like Venetian Snares [2], Bogdan Raczynski, and enduser. [1] http://en.
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by thunk 16y ago
Aww, man. I wanted it to pan out and show the whole mural at the end.
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by thunk 16y ago
Fuck. Yeah. This makes me really happy.
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by thunk 16y ago
What, like "blackwoodHolt"?
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by thunk 16y ago
Max Klein . It's in the title, Duh!
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by thunk 16y ago
Really? I can excuse just about anything if it's really a joke. I would so not want to be held accountable for the literal meaning of my friends' and my typical banter.
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by thunk 16y ago
Well, I'll borrow your phrase: They're charging people to see ads. They can have it one way or the other, but not both. It's the same reason I can't abide advertisments at the movie theater. The value that the Times creates is a little like
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by thunk 16y ago
Well, just to be clear, my point isn't that the NYT doesn't create value -- they absolutely do. My point is that the paywall won't work. It's a band-aid at best when they need a tourniquette. The only thing they'll achieve is to further rem
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by thunk 16y ago
> I'm fairly certain they'll make more money from the paywall fee than the ads for a given user. And I'm betting the paywall will never go up. Eight months is a long time. But this is all hypothetical. I suppose we could take it to lo
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by thunk 16y ago
The NYT online does make all its money on advertising. The current reality is that we are the product. > Most of the investigative journalism that has a national impact seems to originate from the New York Times and the Washington Po
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by thunk 16y ago
Partly because the news isn't the product, the audience is. And partly because it's too annoying. It'd be just another thing demanding attention. Unless their journalism magically becomes way more valuable to me, I'd just leave. There's a
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by thunk 16y ago
This is the crux of the issue. Where's the line between email and Facebook? "If you don't want it public, don't put it on the web," they say. But that's way too simplistic. Webmail's on the web, and we (and the law) certainly have different
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by thunk 16y ago
Just took a look and: Yup, same here.
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by thunk 16y ago
Others say UNIX is a game.
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by thunk 16y ago
Sooner than you may think [1]. And we all have printers in our home, but even now go to specialty shops for our more exotic or higher volume jobs. Why would it be any different with 3D printing? And since, in this vision, they'll also be st
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by thunk 16y ago
That's precisely where Radio Shack should be focusing its effort. They should outfit their stores with high-end 3d printers and fabrication machines and retool themselves as a sort of Hardware Kinko's. Some one's going to fill that niche R
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by thunk 16y ago
Clay Shirky's first comment is interesting: "If I was going to start a news business tomorrow, I would start a news business designed to produce not one new bit of news, but instead to aggregate news for individuals in ways that matter to t
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by thunk 16y ago
I think the problem as it currently stands with hiring your own copy editors and marketers and cover artists etc. is the enormous amount of time you spend essentially replicating what publishers already do. That's a lot of time spent not wr
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by thunk 16y ago
Wow. That is gorgeous . You've just made me really excited for the future of the web.
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by thunk 16y ago
http://i.imgur.com/HXwEK.jpg
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by thunk 16y ago
_Accelerando_ available here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... Go. Read.
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by thunk 17y ago
Rice cooker. Rice-to-water ratio 1:1.5 for white and 1:2 for brown. 15-20 minutes for white and 30-40 minutes for brown. Throw in vegetables and/or fish for the last 7-10 minutes to steam. Season to taste. I like teriyaki sauce (with tons o
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by thunk 17y ago
The latest in a series of internet retirements and disappearances. Private forums are on the uptick.
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by thunk 17y ago
Definitely
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by thunk 17y ago
Long walks (to gather my thoughts), greenery (creativity) and tea (productivity).
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by thunk 17y ago
All of Sherlock Holmes Glasshouse by Charles Stross

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