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by vtange 9y ago
This is the tug-o-war of influencer v. influencee. A machine that just tells-it-as-it-is might hold an advantage over one that willingly ignores some data to promote a different view of the world. Personally, I see more danger in people try
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by vtange 9y ago
You'll need proof about Japanese militarism. Many in Japan disagree with the country's rearmament [1]. Even Chinese people find Japanese people less nationalistic than they are in recent days [2]. Though for some reason they still
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by vtange 9y ago
Great idea. Site is hugged to death at the moment I think A quick issue that arose in my head is what happens if people turn away from ideas because they see it in the graveyard? Some ideas may have seen the light of day too soon...timing f
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by vtange 9y ago
Crew is expensive today, especially when compared to the 19th century when conditions were horrid and you could impress people into your crew.
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by vtange 9y ago
Your question makes the assumption that our current system qualifies as "small government". The filibuster is gone.. Trump is able to by executive order deport people and change America's course on the world stage.. Net Neutr
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by vtange 9y ago
Sometimes I wish the military could only start R&D projects for things they can find civilian applications for. That way we wouldn't need an actual shooting war to reap the benefits.
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by vtange 9y ago
Your last line pretty much answered your own question. Most small-government guys (myself included) distrust anything controlled by flawed humans with the power to target and totally ruin an individual at a whim. I personally hate the idea
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by vtange 9y ago
It's funny you end your comment with that remark on war... The Internet you mentioned at the top of your comment saw its roots as a DARPA project called "ARPANET". That's right, it was a Department of Defense project. Du
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by vtange 9y ago
I can't help but notice right now that Toronto's name has been increasingly pushed as some sort of "next tech centre" (well, many cities in the world want to be something like that). Can someone who's actually there
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by vtange 9y ago
This is something to keep an eye on, given the fact that Congressional district borders will be drawn using 2020 data.
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by vtange 9y ago
Doesn't everyone have their own hidden agenda? It's funny how most of the time people assume these things are nefarious, when each and every one of us see something positive coming out of our own agendas being achieved. I too read
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by vtange 9y ago
Reminds me of that one time when some students at UCSD protested against the university hosting the Dalai Lama for a graduation speech. https://qz.com/908922/chinese-students-at-ucsd-are-evoking-d... I've always f
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by vtange 9y ago
The problem is a lot can change if we going to give China nearly a century for political change. A lot of countries today are starting to look not to Western democracies as examples/role models of success but to China. Even in existing
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by vtange 9y ago
What if the tunnels themselves are congested? Wouldn't it mean a line of cars surface-side waiting for their turn?
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by vtange 9y ago
This assumes we let Mexico develop nuclear weapons and delivery systems while threatening China and Cuba with nuclear attack... for at least a decade . It only makes sense for threatened parties to develop defense if not retaliatory meas
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by vtange 10y ago
Isn't there inherent risk in centralizing / relying on one app for so many activities? There are already many in the West that try to avoid relying on everything Facebook or Google due to privacy/security concerns. I'm s
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by vtange 10y ago
Replace kitchen with what?
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by vtange 10y ago
So only Facebook would know the neutral votes. For everyone else, it's the two opposing sides/extremes.
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by vtange 10y ago
Like/Dislike is black and white by nature -> it will naturally divide people into red camp and blue camp. And those who don't vote are not heard.
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by vtange 10y ago
Does SpaceX have any real competitors in the private sector? Would be a bummer if people decided they were a monopoly of some sort and demanded a break up.
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Akamai Acquires SOASTA to Focus on Digital Performance(streetinsider.com)
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by vtange 10y ago
Out of subject, but I glanced at the title and kinda wished the name was "FreeDOM" :)
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by vtange 10y ago
http://www.popsci.com/our-savior-supervillain
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by vtange 10y ago
The comment lacks quotes for "sarcasm".
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by vtange 10y ago
I can see a lot of utility in this. Great job! Is this limited to generating palettes of 5 colors? Sometimes all 5 won't be needed, wouldn't that make the output a little less useful since the algorithm considers how each of the f
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by vtange 10y ago
This is a good article on that in a nutshell: http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/09/13/hostile-neighbors-china-... Lots of things have been happening between the two countries for a while now, not since 2011. As o
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by vtange 10y ago
As opposed to China? They don't say it, but they have basically ran a "China first" agenda for the last decade or two. Does China maintain a friendly policy toward refugees and minorities? Sure, they do enact policy for the e
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by vtange 10y ago
No, I just find it interesting how we only care about places we would inhabit. The parent comment suggested that asteroids are OK for unrestricted mining since it's, well, not a place people could inhabit and develop feelings for, like
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by vtange 10y ago
I wonder if we'll eventually see a day when people debate over the environmental consequences of resource extraction on Mars.
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by vtange 10y ago
Or if the employee made something that made a net-loss. We only hear the company knocking on the employee's door when the employee is earning a profit.

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