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by yarou 10y ago
The end of biological life can be disconcerting, frightening, and tragic. But I truly believe we are on the cusp of an era where one's biological features - genetics, characteristics, phenotypes, etc...will no longer limit them. "
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by yarou 10y ago
You didn't answer the parent's comment, though. The answer is that the cost of electricity is greater than running this game, even if it's run in the background. It's irrelevant if you live in a dorm or your parent'
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by yarou 10y ago
Why stop there? Why not install a video camera on every street corner, in every home, and deep packet inspection on every network hub? Panopticon seems really nice in theory, and it's easy to support if you think you're the watchm
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by yarou 10y ago
No, they didn't. He works at Apple.
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by yarou 10y ago
They're used quite extensively in GPS/positioning.
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by yarou 10y ago
When I lived in NYC, I thought the NYPD were bad. Then I moved to SF and got to experience the wonderful treatment of the SFPD. Can't wait until my lease is up (another 5 months to go) so I can gtfo.
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by yarou 10y ago
Google is not the only player in the self-driving car market (or soon to be market), though. There's Tesla, GM (with the Cruise acquisition)...heck even @geohot's startup comma.ai is also tackling the same challenges. I highly dou
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by yarou 10y ago
And how do you propose we fix that, and more importantly, does your solution scale?
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by yarou 11y ago
When I was a youngin' browsing BBSes in the 90s, I remember distinctly encountering a text guide to "the art of disappearing", essentially getting off the grid as Stephen Fry mentions. It involved a whole bunch of seemingly p
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by yarou 11y ago
How about multinational corporations that answer to nobody and are staffed by the top psychologists in the world to subtly manipulate the masses? Is that a "conspiracy" in your eyes or merely reality?
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by yarou 11y ago
We are headed to a dystopian state so quickly it's not even remotely funny anymore. The only thing I will say is resist them - resist the status quo and fight back against authority. We can fight back with tools like cryptocurrency, or
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by yarou 11y ago
Containment as a foreign policy led to extremely bad outcomes globally, as did colonialism. It wasn't just SK treating it's citizens poorly, it was the vast majority of second and third world countries that had a history of coloni
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by yarou 11y ago
Was South Africa really a democracy under apartheid? Or the US under Jim Crow? Or Turkey currently? I don't think you can be considered a democracy if you are at war with half of the people within your borders.
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by yarou 11y ago
I'm struck by how hopeless the average person appears to be in these pictures. You can see only sadness and despair in their eyes, it is truly quite tragic.
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by yarou 11y ago
He forgot the last slide - find new job working minimum wage at Starbucks when the tech bubble collapses and parasites like me are no longer needed.
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by yarou 11y ago
Hot, I give this fantasy 10/10
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by yarou 11y ago
Yeah, the board members all fit into "ideas guy" archetype. AKA a useless moron that doesn't contribute to the end product in any way, but still takes all the credit for it.
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by yarou 11y ago
This is really neat. Has anyone tried using machine learning to compose music with this?
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by yarou 11y ago
And by giving up you are furthering their power without accountability or oversight.
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by yarou 11y ago
Interesting. You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.
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by yarou 11y ago
I really miss DriveNow in SF and the South Bay. It was really convenient if I missed my shuttle in the mornings, or if I had to come back to the city on the weekends. One more reason to ditch SF and move to Seattle I suppose.
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by yarou 11y ago
Hosting the server itself is not per se illegal (well, maybe it might be; alternative Battle.net servers were given C&Ds back in the day), but you still need a game client to extract stuff like map and vmap data from all of the game fil
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by yarou 11y ago
Care to elaborate on your reasoning? The people playing on Nostalrius aren't suddenly going to switch to the latest expansion, so there's literally zero incentive for them to go after it.
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by yarou 11y ago
To be clear, I'm fine with data mining my emails to find certain features for analytics or data science purposes. But my point is that you, as an individual, should be the gatekeeper to all of your information, private or public. Now,
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by yarou 11y ago
Material wealth is only one form of wealth, the least gratifying and the most transient in my opinion. I'd argue that the parent who has a daughter that adores them is the rich one. That being said, the conundrum becomes whether one sh
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by yarou 11y ago
Are you okay with someone reading your biometrics? How about using that data to determine if you're eligible for medical coverage or not? Or using your email example, what if somebody used that information against you in your next inte
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by yarou 11y ago
Sure, but we have this nifty thing called Occam's Razor to immediately prune far fetched explanations, like someone secretly being a space lizard from Nibiru.
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by yarou 11y ago
I think it'd be great for geographically distributed teams as well. Having a surrogate or "virtual avatar" with accurate facial capture for meetings is definitely a use case for business VR developers.
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by yarou 11y ago
That's horrifying. Is there any way to disable the GC and manually manage memory? I don't remember if the C# spec supports this, because it's been years since I've written in it (and Mono didn't exist back then).
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by yarou 11y ago
That sounds horrible. But it's not as bad as SF, where the SFPD shoots first and asks questions later. Edit: why the downvotes? I can provide an innumerable amount of sources.[0][1][2] [0] http://m.motherjones.com/polit

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