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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I blame Mad Men and "The Carousel" for making it more possible to sell companies stuff like this.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
No. They always have options. They choose not to take them, but they have the options. Not accepting responsibility for those choices is the 100% guaranteed way to make sure it keeps happening.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
You can, but you'll have no idea what you're actually getting. It may or may not be LSD, and it may or may not be mixed with something else. You ideally want to develop a trusted source, probably through someone you know
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
An interesting thing about OCW and some of the moocs is that they allow us to see what different schools are like, to some extent. Even with the semi-watered-down versions of classes from Stanford and MIT, I definitely feel those schools in
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China asking Chinese public for proposals for module on next lunar probe(planetary.org)
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
The odds are very good that people start discussing things like pregnancy in Messenger at the same time they start googling symptoms. Public posts aren't all FB has available.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Sure, but training them for an economically viable life is certainly higher priority than a so-called well-rounded education.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Plus $20k with remote allowed can go waaaaaaay further than $20k and must be in SV.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Very cool! I had no idea that information was there! Time for a new project.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Which later became a real-life DARPA Challenge (solved). http://archive.darpa.mil/shredderchallenge/ And, come to think of it, a variation was in the novel Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
He also spoke at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston in 1989. The only time I got to see him speak in person.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
No. Not in any way.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I recently got a SDR (software defined radio) USB dongle, and playing with the data you can pull off the radio spectrum feels like my youth with my Color Computer and assembly language somehow. There's plenty of hobbyist code out there
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
That's not the point under discussion. The rationalization here was that the work was already done, so why shouldn't it be free? It's a silly rationalization and I'm pointing that out.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
You don't have a need to watch current TV shows. You really don't.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Neat. Does that apply to cars and houses and food as well? The work has already been done and paid for, after all.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
They do have minimum income, though it's quite low. "Further, in your new job Udacity guarantees that your gross income from such job will be in excess of your cost of tuition (pre-tax) within a 3 month period following job placem
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
The OPEC sovereign funds have their fingers in about a million pies. The elites are gonna be fine. What that means for the arab in the street is a different question.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I'm curious how you arrive at the conclusion that using software to help you win a game means it's not a game of skill. That's like the definition of self-contradiction.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
The key fact here that in fact you cannot invest $2 wisely.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
And depending on how you define Greater Los Angeles, the population is 2-5 times 3.8 million (which is just the city proper's population).
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I'm not so sure half of data forensics isn't already quackery.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
48, freelance. Is that what all us 45+ programmers become?
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
I'll make it explicit then. It's easy to say that "as a society" we should protect someone else from their behaviors. It's different when someone else ("society") is telling you not to do things. Which o
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Dodging the question. Given that you're a human being, I'm sure you also have problems that affect your partners and children. So, which of those should we protect you from? As a society, of course.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Which of your behaviors should we protect you from? You know, as a society.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
"It's not so much a rise of evil as a rise of nonsense. It's a mass incompetence, as opposed to Skynet from the Terminator movies. That's what this type of AI turns into." That's the danger. I think Lanier is a
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Amazon has set up drone delivery research centers in the UK and Israel for just this reason.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Reading your link, it's not so much a matter of public vs private schools as it is whether or not they receive public funding. And the vast majority of private universities do.
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by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Who specifically do you imagine they could sue?

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