ObviousScience

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by ObviousScience 11y ago
So it's not sexist if men and women are different, as long as it's "immune system functions" and not "statistical behaviors at work"? How did you arrive at the distinction?
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
You're at the oldest edge, and you were 25 when you had your first child. If the oldest of the group had to have children under the median, then only those who had children young have them already. Looking at millenials with children i
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I think you slightly misunderstood the GPs point: we should care about the dangers, but we should teach them to autistic children in concepts and ways they understand, and focus on teaching them how to emulate those behaviors, rather than s
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> The patents are, but their ownership does not have to be. I disagree. It's important that people be able to determine whether the patent is in use or held by an NPE that's obligated to license it to people who want to impleme
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Your guess about the connotations is correct.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I think you just said no, but included a recipe to do exactly that. My fear is your fear, I just phrased it more generally, while what you said is one of the specific forms making such an insane AI could take -- and reflects the insanity of
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
The story "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" is about two computer systems set on opposite sides of a war, and driven to extremes until one of them became self-aware, the birth of AI, and ate the other computer system. It then p
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
You can file as a not-for-profit social purposes organization (to incorporate at the state level) without electing to take on IRS non-profit status -- you just need to pay taxes still.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
For the record, I looked at the Wesnoth codebase in college, so my opinions are outdated (by 5+ years) but not unfounded. Rather, I'm merely repeating why I didn't help then, instead of particularly why now, which is a much more b
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Isn't Battle for Wesnoth looking for C++ programmers to maintain their codebase? It's not that I don't have significant programming skills myself, nor that I don't work on side projects, nor even that I don't really
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> I don't think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it'll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and prosecuting when necessary) is how you do that
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I suppose my point is merely that I believe there are colorable arguments to bring forth to hold both WB and their lawyers accountable for these antics, if you look at the text of the law. Like many legal arguments that haven't been he
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> 17.c.3.v A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. While it's not under perjury, WB is lyin
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
WB failed to properly certify that they made a best effort at truth: their machines fundamentally are more error prone than they could be, and thus WB didn't spend a reasonable effort on ensuring veracity of their claims. More specific
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I generally got excellents on performance reviews for my brief, entry level stint at Big Corp. I still felt demotivated by the whole process, because it was a forced ranking of the system that wasted the whole teams time to say what everyon
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
My point, since you missed it, is the instrumenting a "war on warez" in the style of "war on drugs" or "war on terror" is a joke, and should be disregarded as just the talking point of someone with a different
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> I'm not sure if you're actually this dense or just trolling. What good can involving the police, after the fact, in a situation where nobody was harmed do? People who do one reckless thing such as this demo are likely to do o
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Yes, we need a war on warez to go with our wars on terror and drugs, which have been rousing successive, having driven both of those social ills to extinction.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I actually think that marketers have simply gotten better.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
This is simply a perspective on systems engineering. My argument would be that part of the system is always down, the question is which part and how long, and how that impacts the system performance on the whole. AWS services work well if
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I'm just saying that you omitted a major component, as no one would argue that the trade-off in engineering time isn't one of the main cost-benefit components of considering AWS (as we can see here, where it weighed in at a substa
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I don't believe maintaining a high availability system with proper checking is less than 3 hours a day of work, or ~10% of someone's time on duty if we're talking around the clock. So we're talking about $75,000-90,000 a
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
To be honest, I think OpenBSD is ahead on some fronts (research on security mechanisms, for instance), but the reason that I tend to use FreeBSD is that it actually works with software packages. So the computers are based on FreeBSD (which
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I just want to comment that I only clicked on the article after reading your comment about the original title, and I feel that the edited title less accurately reflects the material. You added your opinion to the title, rather than leaving
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
...then what? I'm not sure what problem you think you're solving here: the existence of a queue suggests that they're slightly over capacity in cars, and thus something like Uber would still have to rotate the fares between t
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
But his analysis applies even to highly technical users, for whom the problem is clearly not understanding. The reality is I had an argument about why we should be writing down passwords at work, because the projected security benefit of pr
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> If Firefox doesn't integrate with search, users will not find it useful, because they are so used to using google.com and so forth. This is a particularly weak case, because what's really needed for this feature at the brows
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Historically, the binary blobs provided as "browser integrations" are both major attack vectors and used by market leaders to exfiltrate inappropriate data under the aegis of "they didn't opt-out of our totally optional
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> It's quite similar to other browser integrations. "Online advertisements with active content aren't shady, almost all networks use them!" Except for course, what you said it's identical are a notoriously shady
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
The OPM leak is a good example of why we shouldn't just take their word for it that they can keep things secure -- they leaked everyone's personal details and security clearance interview details, why would we expect them to do a

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