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by yk 13y ago
Actually I like to quote Lenin on this precisely because he is a vanguardist. So the argument is essentially, that even the driest ocean is still pretty wet.
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by yk 13y ago
Marxism is a society where there is no state, so it will not structure society. Lenin on the topic: It was solely against this kind of “abolition” of the state that Marx fought in refuting the anarchists! He did not at all oppose
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by yk 13y ago
Not sure if this is what you meant, but assume you are showing a picture of a programmer to someone from the past. One hundred years ago, the person would probably recognize a computer as some kind of type writer, and from his background th
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by yk 13y ago
I would not rule out that they have a way to build tools, assuming for a moment they exist. So earth technology is closely related to fire as a energy source. ( During the early development for smelting.) But this role could be filled by bl
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by yk 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. Thing is, I already spend thousands of hours to learn the querty layout. ( And qwerz layout, but thats not very different for the argument.) To gain any advantage from another layout, I would need to spend hundreds
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by yk 13y ago
Since you can execute the log-log files, you can built a automated test system directly into them. So you can have unit tests which quickly expose any problem. ( I am mostly convinced that this way lies madness, but on the other hand...)
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by yk 13y ago
Apparently the NSA is a intelligence agency. [1] So they are probably not that blunt. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa
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by yk 13y ago
Since cars get at least as often updated as routers, what could possibly go wrong? Seriously, with Android entertainment systems, GSM and Bluetooth for convenient wireless attacks and a government mandated connection between these and safet
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by yk 13y ago
The problem with > She cited new research urging that children be identified based on their genetically predetermined educational abilities and then put in separate schools that could be used to foster different kinds of learning. is, we
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by yk 13y ago
Because thats a job for kill.
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by yk 13y ago
Sadly, portability trumps everything. The thing is, most people will never experience a identity theft. But most people will want to lock in to some service from a friends computer at some point. So immediate experience, as opposed to analy
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by yk 13y ago
Yes, malware. EME creates a nice standard compatible way for bidirectional communication with arbitrary servers, for native code run with the privileges of the user. ( By now there is at least a security considerations section in their stan
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by yk 13y ago
Just posting this to HN for the pure nonsense value of the idea. ( Also some enterprising person may start to sell virtual drones to the DoD.)
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U.S. Intel: Osama Bin Laden Avatar Could Recruit Terrorists Online for Centuries(wired.com)
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by yk 13y ago
> consciousness is a macroscopic, emergent feature So far everybody agrees, but if you try to define emergent you get into trouble. So is consciousness weakly or strongly emerging? Is there something special about qualia? So far, to the
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by yk 13y ago
In one of the crypto talks at the 30C3 the speaker mentioned that quantum computers are actually a greater danger to ECC, because of the smaller key sizes. ( I think this sounds plausible, but I am not an expert.)
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by yk 13y ago
Apart from the first paragraph, I agree. I do not really understand why you accuse me of presentism. Perhaps because you got my argument precisely backwards. I was commenting on your entire paragraph 1), not only on the quoted part. And wan
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by yk 13y ago
More abstractly speaking, WWI was the breakdown of a alliance system that guaranteed peace in an earlier era. On this level, there is certainly a lot more going on since the end of the cold war, than between the crowning of Friedrich-Wilhel
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by yk 13y ago
Dust of your trusty C64, then you have plenty of time to get yourself some coffee and pull the plug, before the audio starts to play.
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by yk 13y ago
Perhaps he did not have a career to speak of. He was a assistant professor, so perhaps he needed something big to get tenure, or leave anyhow. Edit This is a comment about the state of the educational system, not an excuse for forging dat
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by yk 13y ago
We have seen a lot of deregulation in the past decades, and I do not think that the experience suggests that more capitalism is the way to go. So the OP's argument seems to be, if we just deregulate even more, then - contrary to experi
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by yk 13y ago
For the argument, see Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy .
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by yk 13y ago
So basically you are saying, that capitalism can not tolerate people who cheat out of their self interest, but if only we had the "Austrian New Man" to build a society on, it would work wonderful?
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by yk 13y ago
2001 EU Parliament Report: Echelon Global Private and Commercial Communications Interception System [0] 10.5.1. Strategic industrial espionage by the intelligence services After the end of the Cold War, intelligence service capac
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by yk 13y ago
Sadly this is the way of online forums. You always need to run from the trolls.
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by yk 13y ago
Yes, you could be a brain in a vat. This sentence is false, since you do not have any basis to refer to a vat. This is simply the same as talking about pointers in java script. Either you are not talking about pointers, or you are
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by yk 13y ago
There are two things, one is the definition of a probability and the other is unitarity. Unitarity is observable, that is closely connected to the information content of the system, and if memory serves to the evolution of the normalizatio
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by yk 13y ago
I am not entirely sure either, what they mean by hologram. The problem is, that holographic principle ( or similar) can mean different things depending on the context. But in string theories, it is sometimes the case that lower dimensional
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by yk 13y ago
The article is correct. The nit from grandparent is, that it uses some outdated language. So if you do not look to closely in special relativity, you will find that the mass quite often appears together with the Lorentz factor, which descri
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by yk 13y ago
The Xbone is always on and has a unblinking camera eye. And the worst part is, I am running out of 1984 jokes.

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