codeshaman

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by codeshaman 11y ago
Very interesting ! I guess it's possible to use a MIDI synthesizer instead of the physical piano to achieve the same result ? All that's needed is the conversion from the voice spectrum to notes/chords... The added advantage
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Well, then I guess it's not a law, is it ? If we called Moore's "observation", then it wouldn't feel so tragic?..
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by codeshaman 11y ago
#51-#54 have practically the same combination of colors on the flags...
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> disparaging everything other people enjoy I think you're always overgeneralizing everything...
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by codeshaman 11y ago
These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat. Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex. Whatever thing th
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by codeshaman 11y ago
True, mad love is a beautiful experience, maybe the most powerful and satisfying thing that can happen to you. I have been lucky to have experienced it once and now, 8 years later we still have it in us. Of course it doesn't manifest i
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by codeshaman 11y ago
- Hey John, wtf ? Why are the lights out all over the country ? - No idea, the president's database server is down... - And where are the autonomous tanks flying to ? - Access denied... - Oh crap, not again..
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by codeshaman 11y ago
It may also decide that it's necessary to reduce the population by implementing social purging, starting with the people who disagree with this decision. Purge everyone who doesn't agree with the purge. 150 milliseconds later, la
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Nuclear apocalypse ?
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Good! There's too many of us already. 6.8 billion phones today means 6.8 billion pieces of high tech garbage a couple of years later, leaking all kinds of toxic shit into the water, plus 6.8 billion new devices manufactured while diggi
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Maybe the depth of knowledge in the AI field wasn't the only reason why he was chosen ?
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I know I'm not alone thinking that psychedelics might just be the solution (or key to finding solutions) to a lot of humanity's issues, including climate change, fundamentalism, war.. And it's easy to understand why - because
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Of course it makes no sense - it's a paradox ! But that argument is always a nice touch (and a down vote magnet) - it pisses people off because it makes them feel guilty for reasons that are beyond their control. But you can think dee
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Why do you think I don't accept other people. By all means, be and do what your heart desires. I just think it's unwise to throw $600+ on a piece of experimental tech which is cumbersome to use and makes you look like a "me t
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I'm totally indifferent to the Apple watch and what it has to offer. I don't need it and I don't want it, even if they gave it away for free. When I see people wearing an iWatch - here in Spain it's usually the tourists
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by codeshaman 11y ago
That. We still don't know what long-term exposure to highly condensed, highly customized information does to our brains and social systems as a whole. For example, there are signs that social network users are actually unhappy - in oth
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by codeshaman 11y ago
All that you said is true. But that which you control, controls you back with equal force. While it is assumed that the state of the stock market reflects outside reality, it is in fact both ways - the state of the stock market affects and
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by codeshaman 11y ago
"... millions of trades a day". What is that ? How can that be the reflection of what's going on in the 'real' economy ? I interviewed at an HFT firm once and they were doing kernel-bypass networking, latency measur
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by codeshaman 11y ago
One added word entirely changes the rationale of "life is short" for me. "This", meaning "current". Add the belief that there is another (form of) life after this one and suddenly the equation changes: This lif
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I know about it, but I've also seen somewhere that they kind of distanced themselves from the "dark market" idea when they got funded by Union Square Ventures and Andreesseen Horowitz among others. It might be the solution, I
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Yeah, I guess, like all "countercultural" revolutions, the dark markets ran out of steam a bit. So did Bitcoin. But the paradigm has shifted. Dark markets are possible. We now know a lot about the risks/benefits of such marke
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I did it 10 years ago. I left on day 7. Overall, I'd say the experience was very interesting and unique. When I managed to sit in the same position for an hour - I was ecstatic. I was also sweating profoundly and the pain was unbearab
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I bet this art is not dying, but actually flourishing like never before. The sheer amount of information in the form of websites, books, videos and so on should be a pointer. I mean just google "mental math tricks".. It's tru
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by codeshaman 11y ago
The system (capitalist or communist) determines to a great extent all kinds of curious behavior in people. Like reporting numbers. In communism, people are incentivized to inflate the positive numbers and deflate the negative numbers, becau
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by codeshaman 11y ago
> I wonder how many years until software production will reach the level of maturity where we don’t just fix bugs but, If Google tried to figure out why the hard drives fail in every server, how many years before we could type McLaren
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by codeshaman 11y ago
>The billions we waste on these products, assisted by the poorly regulated but rich and powerful vitamin industry should be spent on proper healthcare – and people should be educated to go in the sunshine and eat a diverse range of real
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Here they are, McLaren start-up sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGV9Qu6-7Oc
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by codeshaman 11y ago
I see one of the requirements is a Windows computer... So for a Mac user like myself, that $599 would include a good $1k+ for a Windows PC ? Nevertheless I'm very excited about this tech, although I will not jump into it just yet.
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Great words. But I think it's already too late. The genie is out of the bottle and it's already doing it's darker things in many parts of the world. One of the great things about technology, is that it knows no boundaries. Bu
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by codeshaman 11y ago
Imagine if Stasi had unrestricted access to the databases of Facebook or Google.. What state could they have built ! Oh no, those days are over - people have learned their lessons and it can't happen again! If you didn't smell the

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