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by toohotatopic 6y ago
OCD is not a coprocessor, a system enhancement, but a virus that is taking cpu time. It's there for a reason, but which is not evolutionary selection.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Wait till we have the first moon bases and there will never be a new moon again.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why do we have to go? The big question is: What is awareness? That awareness is wherever you are. No need to go to outer space. However, once you can create awareness artificially, you can send it into space, without human time constraints.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Which part of the terms does it violate?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
From google's perspective, I would assume that it is much like MS allowing software pirating: It doesn't matter if you watch the ads as long as you don't watch the ads on youtube. Google needs your preferences more than they
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
How can Twitter destroy the idea of Vine? Twitter can destroy Vine.co, but why is there no competitor with the same idea? The moment they had shut down vine.co, a new site with the same idea could have gone life and absorbed all the users.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke su
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>People don't know what their packaging is made from or who it's made by. They have no way to verify it prior to purchase, and even after purchase, it would take an expert to identify. For food, you can't change the game w
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why does it not work?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Flowers and free love, just the other side of the coin: >4. The Malthusian trap, at least at its extremely pure theoretical limits. Suppose you are one of the first rats introduced onto a pristine island. It is full of yummy plants and y
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
The article explains that the prices go up because the carriers rise prices so that the steaming services have to follow suit. What this doesn't explain is why the market accepts those prices. Why is there such a demand for the carrie
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
"YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99"
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," [1] I guess ancient is used to mean before 500BC because it has always meant that. It's a Roman word used by them to reference the time before them. As
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Why do phones need the clipboard at all? There is a 'share with' infrastructure. Why not explicitly send copied data to the desired app directly instead of storing it in a central place?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>TheSpiceIsLife Does it? Don't you hone your perception and you are able to taste subtle differences instead of getting a kick from its novelty?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
In that picture, there is a cat eating mice and a bird eating frogs. If you look close, it's not just peace and harmony. The nice thing on the internet is that you don't have to listen to the indecent people. It's just that F
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
With proper MVC design, why can't they make a new design optional or at least make the old design accessible like old.github.com?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Then you have a signed key but you still have to implement the crypto algorithms.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
This comes with the assumption that everything worthwhile to learn is interesting. Having boring stuff to learn has its own merits. If everything is fun to learn, how do people learn to learn? Or rather: How do they learn to find the intere
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
If there is 10x to be made outside of Twitch I am pretty sure content creators will organize and create their own streaming platform. They know who is who, it takes some weeks to get everybody on board and then Twitch has a serious competit
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Shouldn't there be a market for a tough auditor? Now a healthy company has a hard time convincing investors that there are no hidden problems. With a tough auditor, you could gain more trust and thus cheaper interest rates.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>Any tech that would have had half the resources poured into it would today be the incarnation of skynet. Java?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Microsoft wanted to establish a Windows phone platform where phone manufacturers pay license fees. If they had finished Nokia's Maemo with a Windows graphics framework and given away the operating system for free they would have had a
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
1Tbyte for $1-$0.5, that gives you 30Gbyte per day. At $5 resale, there's some room for profits. If I am not mistaken, that's 10 hours of video streaming in excellent quality per day.
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
>They might have the current technology, but no ability to advance to newer technologies. How much needed are further advancements? Aren't we reaching the limits of shrinkage and clock speed? Computers can be used for years because
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
How about the east coast?
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
I have edited my comment shortly after posting and added a paragraph. In short: Birds need to develop feathers. How would a dinosaur be bound to its parents? It's the other way round: hatching from eggs means being able to fend for on
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Like cpu and programs, the mind is one thing, culture the other. Would it be possible for dinosaurs to have something like human culture? Children are attached to their parents for years to learn culture. A bondage that to some extend is fo
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
You can do a Leonardo and write from right to left [1]. How do Arabic writers use fountain pens? Do they write with their left hand? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#Journals_and...
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by toohotatopic 6y ago
Like Santa Claus, things add up.

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