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by veridies 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but I'm horrified by the idea of ever creating consciousness in machines. Imagine we built a piece of software that could feel, and built controls for its emotions. I can't imagine it would take long before so
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by veridies 10y ago
I know this is off topic, but I really disagree about the quality of broadcast TV. Hannibal and The Good Place are both beautifully shot, very distinctive, and highly ambitious, and both came out of NBC. Speechless is on ABC, and while it&#
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by veridies 10y ago
I would actually recommend against it. I saw it in 2D IMAX, and there was enough shaky-cam that the giant screen just felt disorienting and a bit nauseating. I don't think Rogue One is well-suited to that kind of environment.
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by veridies 10y ago
It's a progressive charge. If you have more money to spend, a lot of the time you'll end up spending more on desserts, drinks, etc. Then you pay a greater amount of money for the service. If you have less to spend, you'll buy
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by veridies 10y ago
First of all, while BBT may sweeten the track, it is still filmed in front of an audience; people really do laugh at the jokes. It doesn't work at all in part because the actors pause to let the laughter subside, and if you watch witho
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by veridies 10y ago
This is off topic, but I recently watched Hornblower, a late 90s British series based on Forester's novels. It was surprisingly good, and it has basically the exact same setting as the Aubrey/Maturin novels. I'd definitely re
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by veridies 10y ago
To enforce a minimum wage, you have to guarantee that people actually get paid at all . So in general, unless you're running a non-profit, you will have a really hard time legally with unpaid volunteers. If you don't mandate wage
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by veridies 10y ago
Related question: where can I buy real truffles? I've had them in the past, but I have no idea where I can buy them from, online or in person, that I can trust the quality of. Anyone have any leads?
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by veridies 10y ago
And if the artist had bought that storage, and then the storage company said "oh, we burned all your art for a terms of use violation," the artist would be rightly outraged. Sure, he's not paying, but Google doesn't ask
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by veridies 10y ago
Do you have any recommendations for Turkish shows? I'd be interested in seeing them.
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by veridies 10y ago
"Happily" may be an overstatement. I'm a Prime member, but some of the more recent changes have felt like they're designed to cheat me out of what I payed for. From "add-on items" (designed to avoid having to p
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by veridies 10y ago
Student protests are absolutely not censorship. They're a "more speech" answer to statements that the protesters find offensive. If you disagree, fine, but trying to shut up protesters because you think their actions amount t
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by veridies 11y ago
This is what Spanish and Italian do normally. "Mi chiamo" and "me llamo" both translate to "I call myself." Other languages probably do the same, but I'm not qualified to speak about anything else.
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by veridies 11y ago
This seems like a very good use case for BTC, or some other cryptocurrency. One of the reasons micropayments are so hard to do is you need a payment processor to transfer the money, and authorizing the payment and coordinating it is a big p
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When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But(nytimes.com)
1 points by veridies 11y ago|2 comments
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by veridies 11y ago
He might be suggesting that Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina are to be lauded for having an educational system that doesn't end up leaving half of the population behind.
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by veridies 11y ago
They actually address this in the comic / show: Light wants people to know he exists. He wants to be seen as a god with the power to smite evildoers, which requires being known to exist. Simply killing criminals covertly wouldn't
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by veridies 11y ago
That reminds me of Borges' story, The Library of Babel . It concerns a library which contains every possible book. Many great books would be contained within, but it would be impossible to differentiate them from books that devolve in
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by veridies 12y ago
There's also the issue of quality; most free streaming sites have much more heavily compressed video than a good torrent. And you don't have to deal with ads on a torrent.
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by veridies 13y ago
Another thing I really love about Dominion (from a purely aesthetic standpoint) is that the cards are, like chess, mostly archtypical. It doesn't have any of the sort of fantasy or sci-fi lore that permeates a lot of tabletop games an
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by veridies 13y ago
What can the government do with seized BTC? They don't serve any purpose as evidence, obviously (since all the transaction info is public record). Can they be auctioned off? Sold?
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by veridies 13y ago
The situations aren't exactly analogous. All reddit had to go on was a photograph, whereas xoJane's userbase were told the story by someone directly wronged by this guy. (At least as they perceived it.)
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by veridies 13y ago
It would be kind of ingenious to publicly reveal a false character count. (A little paranoid, though.)
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by veridies 13y ago
I never said there was any net harm; quite the opposite. Nuclear power is incredibly useful and relatively good for the environment, but there is the risk of meltdown. While it's a net positive, there are still issues that should be
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by veridies 13y ago
The present is better (for humans) than the past. But that doesn't mean that everything is better. When I go to Safeway, and have to go through a self-checkout, I do feel less connected to the people around me. When I order deliv
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by veridies 13y ago
> 95% of the stuff he released was not needed It is my personal opinion (and the intent of the FOIA and laws regarding classification) that everything should be released unless it is damaging, which almost nothing Manning released coul
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by veridies 13y ago
I specified Ars Technica as an example because I don't think Hacker News is bad here. In fact, I think HN's discussion about this issue has been great. Whether or not the "LOL" "J/K" happened, the joke
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by veridies 13y ago
It's bizarre to see the number of comments on places with normally great discussion (Ars Technica being a prime example) who talk about how this kid should "only" get community service or a small fine. He made a joke. An obv
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by veridies 13y ago
They do, in fact, seem to accept bitcoin: https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate#dbitcoin
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by veridies 13y ago
> At least with something like cancer you can tell for sure whether you will live or not or for how long you will suffer Not even close to true and immensely insulting to claim.

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