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by yarou 11y ago
The sad thing is that in this day and age, independent content creators don't have their copyrights respected, while megacorporations patent troll and abuse our broken intellectual property system. The only solution that comes to mind
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For the most part, the US is still income-segregated. Detroit is the classic example, where the city houses poor, often dark-skinned inhabitants while their lighter-skinned counterparts live in the surrounding suburbs. The greatest irony no
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Turkey actually has a lot to gain from supporting ISIS. For one thing, the Turks are traditionally enemies of the Kurds, who want to establish their own state within Turkey's borders. So it's not surprising (the enemy of my enemy
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That doesn't have anything to do with religion. Everyone has an existential crisis in their life, and desires to become a part of something greater than themselves. The traditional institutions in Western society that promoted this sen
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This reads less like a technical overview of Netflix's stack and more like an advertisement for working there. I'll give you my two cents on the matter. Netflix spins a great narrative and ideal -- the rose-colored "meritocra
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It truly is an exciting time to live in. CRISPR in particular looks promising for editing human embryos, and we may be on the cusp of a post-cancer world with CAR T-Cell Therapy. One of my coworkers, who has the same cancer as my deceased f
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What's truly amazing is the emergent properties of nature that lead to natural structures such as this. It makes me wonder if we can create cellular automata made from materials at a nano-scale to mimic this process. Then you're o
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This is probably one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read. Nobody owes you anything, and based on your comment, it's clear you need an attitude adjustment and a new perspective. You should probably work on yourself before p
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I may not have been clear in my earlier reply, but I am not really talking about inflation. Rather, I am providing an example that demonstrates the futility of expansionary monetary policy when an economy hits the liquidity trap. I agree th
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There is a country that is the poster child of fast and loose monetary policy - Japan. No matter how many rounds of QE, the Japanese economy has yet to grow in real terms. [1] This is further exacerbated by the fact that the younger generat
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Members of the Roman Imperial Legion were known to engage in serial rapes and murders in the lands they occupied. There is a calling for this type of skill set, and the exact role is that of a soldier. As there haven't been many wars i
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Deep learning and neural networks are quickly becoming the fizzbuzz of AI. I'm surprised nobody talks about topics such as simulated annealing and genetic algorithms. AI is not just limited to deep neural networks.
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Whomever is responsible for this should be blacklisted from receiving funding in the future. This is a really scummy move, and the person behind it should be publicly humiliated so that they understand the error of their ways.
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The dystopian society had an incentive to have a placated and numb society, in a Brave New World sense. I would argue that Makishima is the true hero in the story, because he is "awake" while others are asleep.
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You're forgetting two really important conditions: completely closed borders and hyper oats. I doubt such a system would work in practice, because the vast majority of people are likely asymptomatic like Tsunemori and Makishima.
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I don't think anybody is complaining that aesthetic preferences are derived and shaped from pop culture. Rather, it's important to understand what subconsciously influences people, so one might make sense of the seemingly counteri
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The harsh reality of our society is that as your earning capability increases as a male, your pool of potential partners increases dramatically. I don't buy the whole (no pun intended) "get a hobby, start improving yourself"
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I think that Homejoy was a thoroughly rent-seeking enterprise, rather than a disruptive technology startup. Frankly, I failed to see (and still fail to see) what was disruptive about their process. They were essentially competing in a close
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I wouldn't go so far as to say the fear of being downvoted leads to groupthink. I mean, why would you care if someone disagrees with your comment? That really wouldn't lead you to self-censor. Unless you had something important at
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Wired really has dropped in quality, publishing articles that state the obvious and do little to advance critical thought. Perhaps it is a sign of the times that the lack of original content has led to content-mill-esque pieces that aren&#x
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That assumes that these hypothetical beings are made of matter and not pure energy. It could be that these beings are energy "parasites" that consume energy directly from stars. They may even be an artificial intelligence that se
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While they are prematurely speculating about intelligent life, it certainly warrants further investigation. Given that the Atlantic's target audience is lay-people, of course they would play up the "extraterrestrial" hypothe
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Why would you care what some anonymous person says about you on the Internet? I've been called sand n---er, paki, etc, but that's just ignorant people being ignorant. I'm sure some of the people I interact with on a daily bas
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Monogamy is a meme that has been propagated to preserve property rights and rules of inheritance. To make moral judgements of artificial constructs is invalid. Human beings, specifically women, are hypergamous. So the most logical regime is
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The irony of your comment is that most ad companies play the victim and moralize how blocking ads is akin to murder. Ad targeting has evolved alright, but not in a way that has helped consumers one bit. It's become an arms race to the
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You may not see it that way, but the negative experiences of your life have probably taught you more, influenced the core of your personality, and made you grow more than the positive ones.
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I'd argue that Marxism is tangential to philosophy proper. It has more to do with political economy than dialectical materialism. If you want that, you should read Hegel.
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Sure, but a rich person is also a person that is rich. Their calculus in determining a potentially "ethical" decision is much different than, say, a developer struggling in the former eastern bloc. People rarely ever operate in a
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This is doubly true of "smart devices" and IoT in general. It's a two way road, as demonstrated by the "hacking" of the latest Jeep Grand Cherokee[0] model. [0] http://www.wired.com/2015/07&#x2F
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Not so long ago, societies were structured to foster intellectual curiosity. Now, they are structured to kill any form of innovation. Just because you live in a broken, intellectually devoid capitalistic society, doesn't mean that&#x27

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