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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>What does it cost us as a society when a generation loses those skills? This. This is a lot to do with today's society. We don't seem to appreciate the problem at all. People just think that they can throw some money at so
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>>And the failure mode either sounds dramatic (like a jet engine coming apart in the spin cycle) and/or the machine starts putting brown grease onto the clothes, making people believe the problem is not a simple one. Great insigh
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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Phone Catches Fire on IndiGo's Singapore-Chennai Flight(ndtv.com)
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I am happy Oracle is losing this battle (edit: or at least feeling the heat), one sort of personal reason is that they have killed/crippled many open source projects. Other reason, they are gaining money mainly because there are enough
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>>The prof congratulated him on his lateral thinking. May be this is lateral thinking to some people but it's actually changing the problem and not solving the original problem. I can always to pretend to solve the problem by jus
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>I get that you are freaked out by some passages in the Quran and believe that it is making believers less tolerant, less worthy, less whatever you wanna have it. But if you look at it without any values the Quran is 'just'
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This in itself doesn't prove anything. Compared to what it's harsh and high? e.g. China may have harsher sentences and lower crime.
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>>Do you have any evidence that reality conforms to this theory? Do you have any evidence that reality doesn't conform to this theory? Not a counter-question just for the sake of counter-questioning; I am sincerely interested in
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Can you please elaborate a little on "complex system collapse" concept? I couldn't get it. The Mayan example given here by someguydave shown some kind of system collapse. Is a similar thing that terrifies you or what?
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>>3. If there is problem of understanding we embrace the opposite as a being of equal value with the capability to contribute and grow. We realize that we don't yet know everything. That we even can't know everything because
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Most liberals, I guess, were ignoring the problem you have described even during the Brexit. [1] I recall this Sam Harris piece [2] in this respect. [1] most liberals are forcing the natives to tolerate even the intolerances that the immigr
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by tmptmp 10y ago
This is good. I hope Google puts this book (which the author has made freely available now) [1] also in their results. This way, if a relatively highly educated person (e.g. a person with university degree) searches something related to ISI
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Good article and great advice. But I wish to make a qualification to the statement: To tell "someone" they're wrong, first tell them how they're right and make sure that the "someone" is not a psychopath or soc
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Thank you also for the openness. >>But before we stop without reaching a conclusion - I have one more question: What would you need me to say or do for you to believe that my approach is actually worth trying out? I'd like you to
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>>So it seems like you try to view this situation through the lens of game theory and approximate the situation to common prisoners dilemma game. You are choosing the strategy of don't cooperate because you simply can't see
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>>Any argument you make, a fundamentalist will reject because from their point of view you are the fool... and they have a point, you simply don't understand their reality. And why should they change? Are we doing so much better?
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>>2. The very foundations of religion are generally about questions that we with the human condition are by design not very likely to answer conclusively. How will you ever show that there is no God if technological progress is likely
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Any organized religion is based on some scripture(s). e.g. Islam is mainly based on Quran and Hadiths. Generally, discussions/debates regarding any inconsistencies or ridiculous statements found in the scriptures is prohibited by the r
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This article is full of personal bias and seems to have been written by a person who doesn't understand how technology progresses. I know there is some truth to the criticism of current tech-startup scene in SV. Most startups are witho
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>I didn't know who Carl Malamud was an hour ago, but he is close to being one of my heroes now. This. Real heroes seldom get the publicity they deserve. Truly amazing and (a heart rending story for me). >>That’s something
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Two Israeli teens arrested for running major DDoS service(theverge.com)
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SpaceX explosion: Elon Musk seeks crowdsourcing for troubleshooting?(csmonitor.com)
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by tmptmp 10y ago
To stretch the "whatever happened to good old days things mentality" a little bit further (in the pure devil's advocate spirit): whatever happened to preparing a meal for oneself the way you see a person is doing in this vide
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I can see a point to what you are saying. Dams can result in 1000s of deaths, but they already help millions to survive. >>Are dams ever a good idea? Yes, I guess, without dams the developed nations would not have been so developed ei
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>>The second argument is the one I always hear around the mathematics department: mathematics helps you to think clearly. I have a very low opinion of this self-serving nonsense. In sports there is the concept of the specificity of sk
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>>This isn't theoretical, because we already see soap and other easy to fence goods used as exchangeable assets. How about scaling it? Do you wanna carry a lorryful of soap/cigarettes to buy an iPhone or how? One odd person
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On a slightly light-but-not-so-light note: A brain surgery can result in worse still: like, surgeon performs a surgery, makes some mistake, the patient is alive and gets up and goes home, but due to the surgical damage caused becomes a se
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Yes, but you can use noscript [1] and it works fine then. [1] https://noscript.net/
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In the broadest definition, a sensor is an object whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment, and then provide a corresponding output. [1] If we follow the above definition given on the Wikipedia then some important and
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A very humbling experience, great videos and great efforts. I wonder, how many years (centuries) might have gone into inventing, discovering and perfecting even this "primitive" technology. Not to undermine his efforts, but this g

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