tsbertalan

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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   I don't understand. What you call "crowdfunding" I'd just call "subscription", which is how all journalism was paid for until fairly recently. You're really arguing that openly corporate-funded "journ
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   Astroturfing.
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   If it's cheaper and better-quality (which are certainly not given), then I don't think you could really call it "unfair". At least, in the moral sense, that it would be better for society. If the overriding governmental
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   Even better than bringing all corporate taxes down to the lowest rate; force tax havens to bring the lowest rate up to something reasonable. A global economy demands global rule of law. Then, yes, market forces can be used to direct corpora
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   Wasn't the danger of encountering devices (somehow) programmed to act differently in a regulator's test regime than in daily use one of the points made in the article? (Actually achieving this in the gas pump situation is left as
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   Paper-crumpling is nonlinear. Maybe your complaint is rather that paper-crumpling is "only" a topology-preserving diffeomorphism?
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   by tsbertalan 9y ago

   At least in the Kuramoto model, it's a little more complicated than the OP makes it sound (but not much). Step 1 is more like "if you see a flash, bump your clock closer to midnight." Specifically, an ODE is given for firefly