tokipin

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   by tokipin 13y ago

   Obama's calculus there probably involves the fact that drones can accomplish things without putting our soldiers at risk. not that i'm taking sides here. i don't like drones either. here is a recent speech the president gave
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   besides ending the Iraq war, he's done a lot of stuff that is somewhat subtle. off the top of my head: a concerted and sustained nuclear arms reduction effort[1], and the specific way he handled the Libya situation[2]. still it remains
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   lmao @ woodrank
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   which, on something of a tangent, is why i think government has a critical role to play
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   we should go the route of the Three Amigos' Amigos Amigos Amigos strategy
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   this is not excuse. i write like an idiot that never graduated grade school regardless of whether i'm pecking on a phone or on a keyboard. much to learn you still have
7. 217.▲
   by tokipin 13y ago

   yea but like, maybe he could just change his name to Tony Falcons? a mafia gangster would be proud to have that name
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   whaat. where the creep pride http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0
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   by tokipin 13y ago

   ... in exchange for a system without even the pretension of accountability
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    i don't think it plays out like this in practice, for the reason that a government has to at least pretend it's for the people and there's at least some measure of accountability. the alternative is very, very different and I
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    this is well done
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    "guns" are just part of the guns-gods-gays social trifecta. it's reactionary language joyfully kindled by gun manufacturers. the "second amendment", etc is an appendix for the sake of politics
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    you've opened my eyes to a method of getting quick downvotes when i need them, like for when i try to keep my karma at 666 and some ignorant do-gooder thinks he's doing me a favor by upvoting one of my comments
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    i think it's James Cameron that sets the standards
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    by tokipin 13y ago

    NOOOOOOOOOO Spongebob and Avatar: The Last Airbender are like the 2 singular reasons for a Netflix account. i'm going to have to reconsider reconsidering reactivating my account
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    pretty sure this has prior art in Avatar
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    that reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo in the full talk, the speaker goes on to mention that some monkeys who were receiving the good reward would refuse to accept it until their counterpart was also gi
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    there's probably a lot of examples of knowledge in animals that is passed from generation to generation, like say the knowledge of how to crack open nuts with rocks we definitely have something most animals don't, but that something may be
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    Exactly.
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    if it wasn't drones it would've been something else. everything in the senate is filibustered by default, quite literally. there isn't anything special about this case except the drone issue itself
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    This. The energy output of the Sun is legit ridonculous. Something along the lines of 1 or 2 all the energy ever consumed by humans since forever s per second.
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    i think this comes down to how different people perceive the world in very different ways... ways much more different than we realize. for example, here[1] Feynman talks about being able to count verbally in his mind while reading , but be
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    my theory is that subvocalization (or this sub-signlanguaging) is actually a 'memory-query' aid that the brain uses. the subvocalization of a word is a key, in addition to the printed key, that lets the brain rapidly conjure the meaning fro
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    i just got a genius idea. what if Google just declared the entire world as Google!
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    A factoid about brains: we can attach a given type of input (say, visual input) to any one of a variety of brain regions X Y Z, and each such region is capable of learning that type of input. But these regions are unlikely to all be similar
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    I'm like this too. It's awe-some power, but the downside is that serializing my ideas into language is, in the words of Bjork, "like trying to put an ocean through a straw." It's extreme enough in my case that I often sound completely retar
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    then we could take the next step(s) and build a translator!
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    since you say it that way, i think it's true that Blizzard would create a StarCraft MMO long before it would create a Halo MMO
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    by tokipin 14y ago

    on the other hand, maybe it shows how much confidence/love the developers have for the project :)
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    Mathematica Minecraft(mathematica.stackexchange.com)

    8 points by tokipin 14y ago|0 comments