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by _Y_ 15y ago
Well they are replacing scientist(or lab assistants) and doctors, who is to say any human endeavor can't be automated?
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by _Y_ 15y ago
That seems to be the right way to fight these things, if those that have been abused as children are against this law, then this law isn't to protect the children, but to simply push it under the rug.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I don't they are so much coming back, as they are probably moving to some other country (e.g. India).
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Wait there was a xkcd comic about that: http://xkcd.com/605/ Speaking of 'necessity as the mother of invention' were there any research on how to increase birth rate? I remember something about Russia increasing it's birth rate, but I don
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Why should we stop online piracy?(newscientist.com)
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I'd say he was probably going for more uniqueness factor. Lack of care of capitalization, shows just that - lack of care and possible desire to break the norms. You would be right if his goal was to impress someone but I doubt that was int
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by _Y_ 15y ago
You can call it a heuristic or a guideline, but I consider them essential. Perfectly rational agents without empathy can commits massive acts of evil trying to achieve their goal. Or as the proverb says "Road to hell is paved with good inte
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I'd like slightly disagree. I do think more people needs to be analytical but without empathy and morality all hacker qualities would be rendered meaningless and pointless. As a hacker without empathic skills I could pick any goal and ruthl
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by _Y_ 15y ago
It may or may not be. It's not false but neither is it true. Strictly logically speaking. And in a sense both can be considered as different pleasures - eating derives joy from taste and painting derives joy from fine craftsmanship.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I doubt it. If evolution really needed death then why does an immortal jelly-fish ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula ) exist? Granted their final life stage is a polyp which creates a new young medusa, but there theoretica
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I'd like to see him explaining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect or how Gary Kasparov was beaten (well tied at first) by a computer. I mean did Gary got really dumber in span of a year or so? I think the reason people somewhat er
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I'd say plethora is wrong at least in US. Ridiculous retroactive copyright extensions would be my main gripe (though I doubt Grooveshark has any works that are about to become public domain). Or creative accounting that makes artist indebte
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Or how another cheap "Yo dawg" joke started.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Sorry to nag, but how is outputting to LLVM bitcode not interpreting? You are taking source code and turning it into intermediate form (i.e. LLVM bitcode), no?
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Indeed I also quite liked his RSAnimate talk on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Why waste bombs. If you can create wormholes at arbitrary locations just teleport piece of a star into a planet.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
"Let's link to a internally consistent version of Groups that doesn't look like the old familiar one..." Fixed it for you.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I doubt it will be that drastic. I'd really like to see how this plays out. I get the feeling like the Zenith of USA has passed but overall I could just be that my info sources are libertian/biased.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
There will always be unknown things and things to achieve! There is still nuclear fusion, computer brain interface, genetic engineering, inhabiting other planets. Figuring out how universe works, if there are other realities, etc. My person
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Correction: automation can replace doctors and researchers (which principally work with their mind). http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090402-robot... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/131697.stm
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by _Y_ 15y ago
I'd like to address your WoG example. Firstly there are two types of pirates. Those that don't have the money to ever buy, those that have money. The first (and arguably largest group) will NEVER be your customer. These are people that can
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Umm, I'd say Scala is to Java what C# was to Java. It cleared some things at expense of come other things. Overall it's pretty cool language (I rarely use :P).
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by _Y_ 15y ago
What does cons operator mean? Concatenation? Constructor? Other than hello world I haven't done much Scala.
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Didn't Stephen already linked to Fantom :P (which is quite a coincidence since Fantom uses Hg as it's DVCS of choice).
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Disclaimer I like Fantom and it is my language of choice. That said, I agree he (Stephen) for every fault he finds Scala finds a way to recommend Fantom. That strikes me as dubious. Nevertheless I find this statement: > Scala is light
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by _Y_ 15y ago
Heh to a Java programmer, the answer would be - everything. Here are my thoughts on it. - I get val myList is some sort of list... - Seems to be a list of Strings. But what is ::? - Nil means list is nullable. Wait is one of the parts