JamesBlair

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by JamesBlair 10y ago
>This may change if charisma starts to be perceived as the key to winning. So, in other words, this submission is a survey of the people who don't want Trump to win?
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by JamesBlair 10y ago
Using node.js, telsa coils regulate an internal blockchain economy by forming self-assembling carbon nanotube based deep learning networks, breakthrough for self driving flying cars powered by hybrid thorium/solar roadways.
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by JamesBlair 11y ago
They also don't give a damn about the old flag at all, which really is the problem. My parents had a flagpole and they never once flew the NZ flag on it. I think a little patriotism is deserved: NZ is a pretty good place to live. We do
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by JamesBlair 11y ago
>we wish to ensure we can provide a fair playing field for all participating players By restricting access to performance enhancing drugs to those who have the connections to get around the screens that the ESL end up using to try and ca
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by JamesBlair 13y ago
Except that the exact phrasing is "useful Arts", which refers to documenting technical skills like manufacture and craftsmanship. The original legal climate with regard to fiction was heavily pro piracy. Not even Charles Dickens m
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by JamesBlair 13y ago
That's a really misleading rhetorical question. Attic actors wore masks and were expected to melt into their roles; what would you say if an Attican asked you "How many theatrical technicians do you remember?" Something more
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by JamesBlair 14y ago
Ah, that's unfortunate.
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by JamesBlair 14y ago
As someone who knows someone else's PIN: if they're too inconvenienced by making the payment themselves and don't realize what security it's meant to offer, they'll be quite content to hand the card and the PIN to someone they trust.
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by JamesBlair 14y ago
Which bank are you with? One of the few things that annoyed me about NBNZ was the utter lack of security with setting the pin and online banking password.
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by JamesBlair 14y ago
What makes you think we will get said trade deal with the US?
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
The AI was not let out of the box, and you're saying that it wouldn't convince you? This only sounds like an argument that Eliezer was right in not posting his logs.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Somewhat recently, someone attempted it with the intention of reposting the log. However, he failed: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9ld/ai_box_log/
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
The design causes far worse bugs than that, for example: you can stop a falling block's progress just by holding down left.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Wouldn't the browser cache the request?
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279225
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
And there are no contact details, so we can't even tell them that their page is broken. edit: Taking a gamble on emailing the registrant.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Although I am probably not the intended audience of your message, I can't agree with the sentiment. Akrasia has to have a reason, even if it makes no rational sense, and all my believing in "stop doing [unimportant things] and start doing w
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
> > Also, there was a moment when someone was submitting content and it appeared under my nick "bpfh". > Thanks. Those two security issues are fixed now. You fixed one way of nickname duplication, but so long as you allow arbitr
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
They seem to do it no matter what they charge.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
So how is Linux From Scratch working for you?
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Relevant reading is Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice , which makes this insight as obvious as it should be.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
I still don't get why we can't retract and change votes.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
My main concern was forcing payment processors to cut off organisations from their income. I don't know anything about the ITC, as I am a foreigner, but it seems that they are more at risk for being manipulated into a position where they do
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Much like software, it will limp along.
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
50% is an understatement according to wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 ]. As an aside there's something about the article saying that it required 10 generations of breeding that makes me think that this
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
I haven't tried to crack Steam games, but I don't have any difficulty pirating Steam exclusive releases. Admittedly the few times I did pirate Steam games it was about price (as in I didn't want to commit the money while not knowing any
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
> And making it harder for businesses to discern between people who wanted to be in business and those who were 'forced' into it, also harder which will make those businesses less efficient at employing folks. It was my impression that
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0033291711002480
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
A naive question: we have a lot of wealthy people sympathetic to the idea of a minimal government, why aren't they buying legislation that prevents this blatant corruption?
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by JamesBlair 15y ago
Same question here from a non US resident. News of this law makes me ill, yet I see nothing I can do to help.

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