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by wbhart 10y ago
New Zealand law has a principle known as natural justice. It's a term that refers to the right to a trial that is fair when considered in totality, and the right to have a judge that is not biased. It was argued by Dotcom's team a
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by wbhart 10y ago
I watched quite a bit of the actual trial, which was livestreamed. The judge frequently pointed out that he knew his decision would be appealed, no matter what it was, and that it wasn't at all clear how to rectify the problem that the
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by wbhart 10y ago
"... and the 1.0 is just a "when it's ready" situation" The Julia developers have communicated very clearly for more than a year now their timeline for 0.6 and 1.0. Expect Julia 1.0 this year [1]. [1] https:/&
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by wbhart 10y ago
"the formation of the Julia Computing group has made Julia's development a bit of a walled garden". I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I can see, Julia Computing is not rich enough to take over development of the lang
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If they can neither be proved true or false within the system, that means their truth or falsity can be added as axioms to the system and a contradiction will never be reached. So I can assume them to be true or false, and develop perfectly
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by wbhart 10y ago
I didn't downvote, but just a minor nitpick, it's modular arithmetic, not modulo arithmetics.
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I had read that the spinal cord of monkeys and the small hole through which it must pass, does not permit the many nerves that are required to control the speech apparatus with sufficient accuracy for intelligible speech. I was surprised to
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by wbhart 10y ago
It's not a proof of anything, so it can't be adapted to the reals. Specialness has no rigorous mathematical definition, and certainly the second non-special number is not special, even if the first is. But more mathematically spea
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by wbhart 10y ago
There's about a thousand different ways the authors could prove they did the work. Many are listed in the actual post. Unless you did all the work yourself, didn't apply for a grant for it, kept all your work quiet from your colle
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by wbhart 10y ago
It's not at all difficult to prove copyright infringement of a paper submitted for peer review. The editors will have a copy of the paper and its submission will be date stamped in the peer review submission system. That's simply
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by wbhart 10y ago
Peer review is done for free by other academics, not by the journal publishers. The fact that the published journal is not free is unrelated to the peer review process, which is entirely academic.
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An interesting question is what volume of earth could they move in the allotted time with this equipment. In the live feed it looks like they are making the hole wide, rather than deep though. It would be fun if they accidentally dug up a m
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by wbhart 10y ago
It seems to me that a meteorological expert system is conscious by that definition. I find that dubious.
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Can't the same argument be used to show that consciousness is a whole bunch of things that it clearly is not. Just arguing that consciousness has certain attributes and it shares those attributes with something else, doesn't make
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by wbhart 10y ago
What possible proof could Assange offer to convince everyone that he is "in control of Wikileaks"? And why should/would he do that for you personally. There's probably a thousand people demanding Assange offer proof of t
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by wbhart 10y ago
If you start going looking for evidence that you are right about this, you will keep finding it, due to confirmation bias, and you will never let the conspiracy theory go. The only thing which I think is reasonable to suspect at present is
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by wbhart 10y ago
In the first minute of the video, he is asked about "this final week of the election campaign". Also, he refers to the following Podesta email that was released on October 10th, which is quite clearly more recent than 46 days. Thi
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by wbhart 10y ago
I'm sorry, but can someone explain to me why this would not be accepted as proof of life? He is asked questions in the first minutes of the interview and gives answers about events that happened this month. Isn't that conclusive?
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by wbhart 10y ago
The first minute of this interview should clear this up quite quickly. Julian Assange has certainly been seen alive recently, and certainly much more recently than 46 days ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4
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by wbhart 10y ago
Here is an article [1] in the Mail Online which appears to give a possible explanation for beaks on dinosaurs. From the article, I can't quite figure out how they reached that conclusion. But it is at least a possible explanation. [1]
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by wbhart 10y ago
Observing gravitational waves is not really the same as observing individual gravitons. It's unlikely we can observe gravitons with any equipment we can actually build.
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I don't think I am. Entanglement and nonlocality are the best illustrations of the concept. Rather than spacetime being like a fabric, or an actual thing, it is defined only by relationships. This allows particles to be entangled witho
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by wbhart 10y ago
I'm not sure that the idea here is that spacetime is made up of particles, but that it consists of nothing more than (mathematical) relationships between fundamental bits of information. In a sense, the only things that actually exist
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by wbhart 10y ago
http://www.themastertheorem.com/ It's a puzzle solving website. It isn't updated very regularly nowadays, but all the old "Theorems" are still there.
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So Microsoft finally have an AI that can "wreck a nice beach". Along with text autocompletion, we are all set for a decade of irritating miscommunication.
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Wouldn't it be easy to intercept 4G, e.g. by setting up a fake 4G cell. Anyway, their previous tweets state that contingency plans have been enacted, which surely implies they've set up something alternative.
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The article itself states that Assange is alive and well. The issue is his internet access and what this portends, not whether he is alive.
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Extradition is a process that involves an extradition court and a right of appeal. There is absolutely no way they are bundling Assange onto a plane without Wikileaks screaming blue murder. This is highly unlikely to be credible.
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by wbhart 10y ago
If recreations of Julian Assange's room in the embassy (from memory; photographs are not allowed due to embassy rules) are correct, then Assange uses a wireless router just like the rest of us.
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Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume Long recently noted [1] that the embassy has problems with internet connection and telephone and that it was their belief the connection was being interfered with (hacked). It is very likely Assange

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