wsgeorge

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by wsgeorge 8y ago
That user talked about "liability"
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That's funny. I'm not familiar with the US, but are costs not disclosed at all until after they're incurred?
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
> Why not support the underdog that actually cares about your privacy and liberties, ... I don't think many people use products because of their politics. They use what works for them. Chrome seems to be doing so extremely well, des
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
> in sub-Saharan Africa while excavating the site of Akrokrowa in Ghana. Article never says if this is modern Ghana or the Ghana Empire. Elsewhere it uses "Nigeria", and then goes back to talking about Akrokrowa being near the
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
I had a similar thought when trying the phone number field. I immediately thought "hey, this is what I've been keeping away from Yahoo for years..."
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
The history of France right after the revolution invalidates this. Napoleon happened. And there was a restoration of the monarchy for a while.
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
I quit FB and Twitter nearly 4 years ago. Now I waste that time on WhatsApp, reddit and 4chan. I figured the problem was more with me than with the media I was consuming.
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
Hah, this is my exact experience! Anytime someone's painting the big picture, I'm running it through my head to see how feasible it is, what may go wrong, etc. While relevant, I find that predisposition limiting...
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
Source on this?
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
Believe it or not, the other 49% also suffer from these "gender roles".
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
Yes, so long as the government's actions ostensibly align with their own values.
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
> That said, I would be very surprised if we discovered anything with as much practical use as say, quantum physics or electricity or thermodynamics. History keeps proving that we will.
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
Yes, I was thinking about this blog post yesterday, wondering how I could find it. Perhaps my favourite read of the year.
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
> No Christians that I know are angry about that. They will only be angry if they found those depictions disrespectful/mocking. Perhaps a few will like to point out the inaccuracy. But most Western art has depicted angels with only
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by wsgeorge 9y ago
Finally, and thank you!
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> There is no conceivable way that terrorists threaten our national existence/security. This statement surprises me. Especially your talk of casualties. I think you miss something important about "terrorism". It is far mor
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
I don't see that happening. Because someone is going to want to keep their guns, just in case.
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How does Firebase initialize on Android?(firebase.googleblog.com)
1 points by wsgeorge 10y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> Really, if they wanted to merely transition to USB-C, they could have included 2 new ports, and 2 old ports. No need to eliminate the old USB ports in just one generation. This. Dropping all the old ports was a step too far, I think. I
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
I only speak for myself when I say it's something I would love to have at my disposal. Seeing my colleague intuitively reach out to the screen to use the Android Virtual Device when we're discussing something convinced me it was a
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> It may be necessary to achieve Ives (well documented) dream of a screen that covers the entire front edge-to-edge. Source on this? I didn't know this is what Ive wants to achieve, but it's something I've assumed every de
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
I haven't looked into this myself, but your definition of "libertarian" fits exactly with my concept of an ideal government: one that's sole purpose is to protect the freedoms and dignities of all those within its jurisd
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The Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy(bloomberg.com)
7 points by wsgeorge 10y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> and we all agreed, without a doubt that their is no substitute for human contact it depends on the context. Slack is replacing human contact for me, today, because I've decided not to show up at work since I can communicate (somet
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
What I find about most of these pieces of advice is, they really just come down to common sense. Not that it takes anything away from the value in there, but I've long given up chasing advice.
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
Exactly. This happens when formal definitions of these "common things" are absent, or ignored in the argument. He's genuinely right in calling out naive conclusions about the brain based on current computing.
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
Definitely. The metaphor breaks down at some point. > Another difference is that there is no machine code for the brain. There isn't some set of primitive instructions programmers could target to instruct the connectome. We don&#x27
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> Wouldn't it be more useful to accept that we're always trying to explain the world in metaphors and find tools to separate the good metaphors from the bad ones? Absolutely. I completely disagree with Epstein's conclusion
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by wsgeorge 10y ago
> This article argues strongly that our present computer-based metaphor is likewise off-the-mark Well, it is a metaphor, so, by definition, off the mark. The article only does well to hammer home the fact, as does the OP (at least, early
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On the Analogy Between Mind/Brain and Software/Hardware (1992)(massline.org)
40 points by wsgeorge 10y ago|34 comments

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