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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
There's no use in blotting out meaning. You can get more precision and (as he does) make a point as to the inadequacy of a concept - by establishing degrees. It's been done for ages in philosophy.
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
(edit window passed) These seem unusual because of the assumption that these were exclusively nomad lands. Take that away and agriculture/irrigation/livestock of some kind seems a lot more likely and a lot less mysterious. There i
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
I wish they'd list the coordinates. I think I found some formations, searching for the "swastika" near Urpek village. In the upper left corner there is a bunch of green dots similar in size to the ones in the square, etc. The
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
How about: 1. turnover? 2. materials toxicity? 3. living conditions? 4. any way to enforce that what you see as fair practices stays that way once you scale way up?
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Life on Earth may have begun 300M years earlier than previously thought(theguardian.com)
89 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|30 comments
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
The practical difference is that heavily marketing in this area can be a good thing for privacy. The more it becomes a "core value", the bigger the backlash from having failed at it publicly. It's a start. Edit: To clarify, I
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Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It(scientificamerican.com)
93 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|61 comments
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US Navy limits 'whale-harming' sonar in Pacific(bbc.com)
1 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|0 comments
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A Whale of a Win(medium.com)
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Hopping Through Time with Ursula K. Le Guin(huffingtonpost.com)
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
Re: "claiming that things that compute are somehow categorically different is an appeal to magical thinking" - This is not the case. The distinction that's being made is one of perspective and purpose, i.e. implementing metho
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No ‘Puppy’ Love at Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards(blogs.wsj.com)
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
Nice of them to allow you to be legally responsible for sharing your contacts. With them.
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The $800M Family Selling Art Degrees and False Hopes(forbes.com)
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
It's been a pet peeve of mine, until i started looking at it as just another nag screen.
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No-fly list uses 'predictive assessments' instead of hard evidence(theguardian.com)
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
The bit about tradition is true. Some of the worst pizza I've had was in italy, right next door to the best pizza I've ever had. Once made the mistake of telling this to an Italian.
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Google gains billions in value as YouTube drives ad growth(reuters.com)
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
You will find more info in the WHO press release here http://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/mtct-hiv-cuba/... (under "note to editors" some, but there is a separate document menti
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Cuba first to eliminate mother-to-baby HIV transmission(theguardian.com)
148 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|27 comments
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Did Watson and Crick Really Steal Rosalind Franklin’s Data?(theguardian.com)
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Maidan, Caliphate, and Code: Theorizing Power and Resistance in the 21st Century(ctheory.net)
1 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|0 comments
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Boxed CEO pays for his workers' kids' college tuition(money.cnn.com)
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Taking Care of Digital Dementia(ctheory.net)
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Moog Music Gives Employees More Control(nytimes.com)
76 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|5 comments
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“fuck you all” – Uwe Boll(youtube.com)
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Avago to buy Broadcom for $37B in biggest-ever chip deal(reuters.com)
190 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|89 comments
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by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago
There's an important extension that isn't clearly visible, which is the commodity aspect. When there's an established market for an artist, the financial success (see headline) is a necessary signal that the artist's mar
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Bankrupt RadioShack aims to sell 67m customer names and addresses(theguardian.com)
2 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|0 comments
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Game on: what happens to video startups that make millions on Kickstarter(theguardian.com)
1 points by wrongc0ntinent 11y ago|0 comments

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