cicada

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by cicada 15y ago
I need to clarify: * Evidence doesn't mean prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Also, given the sorts of arguments in other matters in the public sphere, and the numbers of adherents, I think you do not realize just what can succeed. 9/11 truth
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by cicada 15y ago
For all RMS knows, this advice could be alexey's way of manipulating him into working against what he values. If alexey is honest in his sincerity, he could reiterate his points more strongly with evidence. 'It looks like a crazy marginaliz
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by cicada 15y ago
The report is Media Piracy in Emerging Economies , website at http://piracy.ssrc.org/ where the pdf is available under a "Consumer’s Dilemma" license.
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by cicada 16y ago
A Google engineer should not expect to get a helpful response when he asks the Google search engine for advice on building a better Google.
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by cicada 16y ago
The qualitative and quantitative improvements from the flynn effect and the population increase reflected back on humanity as a whole, not the creators of the industrial revolution. This is why we've got accelerating growth, but it's also w
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by cicada 16y ago
Confusions like this are the reason why I favor the intelligence explosion flavour of the singularity ( http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools ) -- there's no confusion as to whether we've already had one. The industrial revolution, whi
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by cicada 16y ago
FTR: Lichess does this, visit http://lichess.org/friend
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by cicada 16y ago
This is nice. I was a little saddened that the replay and analyse option after games did not actually analyse games, but with the export I can download the games into my favourite chess engine and have it analyse the games for me. [edit: no
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by cicada 16y ago
Shouldn't there be a debate about the technical merits of the idea? I want my libraries and tools to make unwise things hard to do, and the wise easy and obvious. It's a framing issue, one that I think Marco's right about. But I'd like to h
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by cicada 16y ago
The first 144 digits of the fractional part of pi sum to 666.
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by cicada 16y ago
The solution seems obvious now, but the problem had to be framed that way to get it. I can only speak for myself, but this had not occurred to me before reading the article. I suspect that it would be the same for most -- considering that p
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by cicada 16y ago
It's really annoying how all the pictures are on an angle.
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by cicada 16y ago
http://www.mediafire.com/?yzu0w5xnmkk
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by cicada 16y ago
Anyone who wants to mirror can try downloading the video from http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth....
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by cicada 16y ago
It was too long. For instance, I missed that quote which I would have replied to: What exactly is meant by letting the system fall apart? The economy is the system that keeps you fed . You as in yourself. As in your family. As in your frie
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by cicada 16y ago
I'm not surprised by some of the observations. Windows software, being mainly closed source, has forced the platform to address compatibility and exotic configuration problems more thoroughly -- even sometimes to its detriment. First though
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by cicada 17y ago
The ethical concerns about the Milgram experiment are too varied to go into much detail here (if you're interested, http://books.google.com/books?id=U44OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193 ) but the short, relevant, version is that the psychological im