Electro

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by Electro 18y ago
I've seen some of those videos before. I believe the chimp was called betty, but nevertheless, they gave it/her make up and it started drawing on itself using the mirror as a guide. Another clip showed it immitating one of the handlers putt
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by Electro 19y ago
Three problems: 1) Wikipedia has far more information than a normal human, thus it would surpass human-level AI. 2) Compressing wikipedia into one persons mind would create a schizophrenic AI that's likely to kill people or die in a fit as
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by Electro 19y ago
All this shows is that College professors spend an absurd amount of time doing IQ tests compared to Truck drivers. The scientists who came up with the baseline work to study IQ found that correlating it to intelligence was vehemently disgus
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by Electro 19y ago
I believe that's one of the greatest things of telling Thunderbird just to read the article and not add in any comment feeds. I don't want to read comments, unless I want someone elses opinion. I read a blog for the writer not the readers,
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by Electro 19y ago
Agreed. I have no problem with government subsidising businesses to help get them off the ground, because a lot of the time it helps them grow to the level of competing quite quickly; except French farming. However, no corporate group can e
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by Electro 19y ago
I have a simple solution: get a girlfriend. I now wear nice shirts that apparently compliment my skin tone (who knew?), I wear layers (apparently very sexy) and I now have $300 shoes. I've never owned $300 shoes in my life. Once you have a
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by Electro 19y ago
NEC also make standard monitors, I really don't think they'd give a crap which one you buy. It isn't a study of NEC performance versus Acer or anything, it's just Standard Vs Widescreen and they make both in the same factories so I don't se
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by Electro 19y ago
My Dell's an Inspirion and was top of the line, on par with a MacBook Pro. It weighs like 5kg (vs a 1kg LifeBook) and is anything -BUT- a mobile computer. The battery lasts 2 hours with internet, 3 hours without. Not to mention, with upgrad
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by Electro 19y ago
From what I've learnt of business in France, it appears to have a lot of anti-competative laws built in. From talk between British Ex-Pats living out there, it appears most see more benefit working outside the law than in it. I talked to on
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by Electro 19y ago
That's pretty cool, although the writer pissed me off in the beginning by likening it to Frankenstein, and not his -monster-. A slightly crazed scientist who gets chased to the arctic before his death isn't really much to fear, the big thin
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by Electro 19y ago
It's not the Golden Retrievers fault it's coded to retrieve every piece of crap that hits the ground.
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by Electro 19y ago
I think the point is to be a successful company and not get sued. Getting sued is patently moronic, and being proud of it is more so. Wal-Mart is being sued for 11 billion (and growing), and they make 11 billion profit. If Wal-Mart doesn't
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by Electro 19y ago
I think the effects must be weighed. Is it wrong for a molecular biologist to take drugs if it means he can invent a cure for cancer in 5 years instead of 20? I believe one person should be allowed to do whatever they want with their body a
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by Electro 19y ago
I completely disagree. It's shoddy and inefficient to wait for a problem to arrive. Imagine if the guys at Google just sat around waiting for their server to kick the bucket before they fixed it; they'd be out of business. Problems aren't m
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by Electro 19y ago
Whilst I think he makes a point that communication differs through the ages. My parents turn their phones off at night, one time when they had to pick me up from the airport they got the date wrong (+1 day on the flight time) and because of
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by Electro 19y ago
If you could mount a powerful cell phone repeater it would be more valuable than an Aerostat as whenever a cell tower is taken down, you simply need to fly one or more over an area to cover it. They might even be a cheaper more efficient wa
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by Electro 19y ago
I heard whale song, and ocean sounds now thinking of it, is supposedly good, however I've never bothered to try it. I'll have to find somewhere to get it that doesn't charge $20, it'd be cheaper to go to the ocean myself.
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by Electro 19y ago
That's one of the newtonian problems yes as time is essentially irrelevant you have one amount of energy 1 second after the big bang as you do 1 second before the end of the universe. However, you can fix this problem. Causality won't be vi
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by Electro 19y ago
Go for instrumental music, it doesn't activate the part of your verbal part of your brain. Essentially to hear singing (or talking) your brain mimics it, however when you're trying to read/write you've got two processes and only one process
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by Electro 19y ago
As far as I understand, dark matter and dark energy are capable of being explained by us botching our calculations. You see time in the universe is predicted on an archaic model of the universe where density is equal; this doesn't take into
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by Electro 19y ago
The reason people think there are time travel paradoxes are largely because people think "going back in time" actually moves time backward. If you know the position of every atom in the universe you can predict the future and the past, and
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by Electro 19y ago
From what I've experienced, that's pretty much how any creative person works. When you're on a roll, you don't want to waste it. I'm like that myself, I've done a 36 hour 'shift' before because I was on the damn biggest idea of my life -- s
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by Electro 19y ago
If my Dell battery lasted more than 2 hours then I'd be at a higher risk. The other problem is that I live in England, I've seen it rain with a clear sky before. In a couple of years when I'm free from English weather, then I'll start buyin
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by Electro 19y ago
My god, my sarcasm detector just exploded! And I spent years building it.
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by Electro 19y ago
I multitask, in fact I'm completely capable of doing two seperate things at once without a problem. Although they have to be different tasks. It's psychologically proven that you can't do two things at once using the same area of your brain
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by Electro 19y ago
I believe it's good and bad. It's dumb to outright ban pretty much everything, but I believe Apple should control everything that's put on their phones. Phones can be forced to make calls through open bluetooth links, I believe it would be
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by Electro 19y ago
Personally I would. If it peaks my interest I will look, I'm not interested in "low rate mortgages" or "win a free(*) iPod". I own an iPod and I have no interest in owning a house, which is why I now own Adblock Plus and Flashblock. I hardl
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by Electro 19y ago
If you've got untreatable cancer then yeah you should be forced to disclose. However cancer invokes more fear than there is actual risk, if I get skin cancer its 100% treatable, some forms don't even need treating because its merely a skin
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by Electro 19y ago
Ironically, fixed prices means people are able to afford to buy more music and help the less popular artists earn more money. Incidentally it also makes the more popular artists easier to hear and thus more popular. Control or not, Jobs' fi
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by Electro 19y ago
I'd agree, it has a feel of an ulterior motive on behalf of Jobs. However Flash is awful, I haven't noticed a marked improvement in 5 years. The only reason flash keeps working is because processor power is improving on par with Flashes imp

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