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by waps 12y ago
By assuming they evolve in the same way they've been evolving since WWII. While it may not look like it in San Francisco, but there are huge groups in the country, white and non-white that are having quite a few kids. Not enough to mak
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by waps 12y ago
And the mistake is here : > Minitab calculates predicted R-squared by systematically removing each observation from the data set, estimating the regression equation, and determining how well the model predicts the removed observation. Li
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by waps 12y ago
Like everything on the web, there's multiple flavours, yet we're told it's "one platform". But here goes. I think you missed : 1) android https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/in
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by waps 12y ago
In my worldview sex is effectively the same as power. It certainly is for one participant in the event, but of course that goes for all interactions where power is a significant factor. All the more idealistic things, especially in youthful
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by waps 12y ago
> Hatsune Miku is far from erotic except to a specific subset of fetishists, At the very least she shows the potential for it. Besides. Google "actroid" and tell me you don't find those things at least a bit attractive ? &
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by waps 12y ago
That's assuming we'll find inhabited planets. Current research seems to indicate that we'd have to be quite lucky to find 5 terraformable planets (not supporting life, but could be if artificially managed) in a 10-lightyear c
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by waps 12y ago
There are 2 things that drive people in my experience. Wealth and power. If you close off one (e.g. by making people poor, or very rich, they go for the other one). If you do what capitalism does, and make real power very hard to come by, t
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by waps 12y ago
Have you ever met a few rich kids, who today effectively live in a post-scarcity world ? I am not saying there isn't anything but spoiled, cruel brats, but it's pretty damn rare (and the non-spoyiled ones tend to be the ones that
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by waps 12y ago
Well for one thing, they don't accept credit cards without giving you a really, really hard time about it.
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by waps 12y ago
I don't agree about the vicious conquerors. I would say that these people are efficient, which on one hand, yes, means efficient conquerors. But they also make sure their slaves actually survive and have a reasonable standard of living
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by waps 12y ago
> We can't make those smart robots visit cancer patients in a hospital, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tYwnqot6M > or serve me food while playing a violin at a restaurant at my tenth wedding anniversary, http:
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by waps 12y ago
That's true. However most people are just completely beside the point, because they are not capable of making real changes happen, and don't really care. Don't put in the effort. For 99% of San Franciscans, climate change act
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by waps 12y ago
> because allt he work they're qualified to do is done by robots Given what happened in all slave-based societies, and the obvious fact that these robots need general intelligence, why would this end differently than any of the slav
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Bitcoin investments illegal to sell in Belgium (dutch)(standaard.be)
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by waps 12y ago
It mostly makes things a lot harder on managers, in order to make things easier on employees. So it doesn't happen. Like anything else, clearly a little ease for the powerful is worth massive inconvenience of the less powerful.
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by waps 12y ago
> If you use Windows 8 you're vulnerable to talented crackers and governments. If you still use Win XP you're vulnerable to anybody. And government is essentially like management. Honesty: 0. Integrity: 0. Sanity: 0. That answe
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by waps 12y ago
I wonder when the first real such product will exist. Like any system that synchronizes by waves it can be modified by waves, probably much more than you'd be able to do through chemicals. So who will make the first heroine headband ?
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by waps 12y ago
Yes, but the issue people are taking is that the will of parliament/government was not absolute. England guaranteed they would do this, signed an international treaty, then refused to do it. Like today with Ukraine. NATO's primary
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by waps 12y ago
Languages that support algebraic data types have a much better solution. You can explicitly declare which types can occur and it can be "A or B". It's called ADTs and it's the real solution to these problems. http:&#x2F
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by waps 12y ago
Legally this is bullshit. You are not bound to any contract terms you haven't seen before you sign, whether or not the contract says so. Make sure to keep at least a mail where you ask for these documents.
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by waps 12y ago
Okay ... let's look at those 1400 years. Start of the Greek city states. Greece counts between several dozen to hundreds of religions. 500 year later, 3 big religions left. Roman republic + empire, starts out with hundreds of religions
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by waps 12y ago
> You mean religion of "tolerance", or "multiculturalism" ? You might want to read up on modern scientific theories on the subject. There is no need to outlaw that, as it cannot survive, except for very brief periods.
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by waps 12y ago
This is the sort of improvement you'd see if your program was fully IO bound.
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by waps 12y ago
And there is effective slavery in Saudi Arabia (though not in Iran, it's one of their high profile exceptions to islam). OTOH there is real slavery in Mali and several other Saharan islamic nations, so this "truly backward" c
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by waps 12y ago
No, he's saying you can't "download" a ZIP (or any other file type) from a (locally running) javascript app in Safari. Which is true.
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by waps 12y ago
> The ability to interact with and adapt to the environment is present in all of these creatures. Not a very useful definition as it is a basic property of all living creatures, and some non-living ones. I think it's clear that when
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by waps 12y ago
Mainly because design by massive committee doesn't work. It gets you supremely useless things like HTML5 canvas.
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by waps 12y ago
Euhm abstractions in Haskell carry lots of penalties. Haskell is generally a language that only makes sense if you buy the "sufficiently smart compiler" argument. Haskell's abstractions shouldn't carry a penalty, because
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by waps 12y ago
In my experience, mostly to guarantee you get a raise at the end of the year. At the six month mark I'd settle for a concrete promise doubling inflation (but not easily). Make sure to both ask what you're doing right and wrong and
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by waps 12y ago
C++ would be an absolutely fantastic language if it were allowed to start from scratch library-wise. But that'll never happen.

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