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by epi8 12y ago
Really? Because not even the Kurzweil (who numbers among the more optimistic where this is concerned) agrees with that timeline. http://www.kurzweilai.net/singularity-q-a
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by epi8 12y ago
> Also, be sure you're in a dense urban environment. Why?
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by epi8 12y ago
It's just a superstition. I give demos all the time, and I hate it when I do a test run and people tell me how awesome it's working. Tell me afterwards, you'll jinx it if you tell me before. It doesn't actually work that
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by epi8 12y ago
That's a very important distinction that the "easy-mode" metaphors don't really take into account. A good word for it is "intersectionality" (though please note that many people will define intersectionality as
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by epi8 12y ago
"such as yourself" I take a fair amount of offense at this statement. I am stating that, given that the word "freedom" is commonly being used not as a word, but as a political catch-phrase with multiple, often contradict
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by epi8 12y ago
Can we stop saying things like "more freedom"? Freedom is really poorly defined even to an individual, and tends to lead to sentences like "they hate our freedom". You could very well argue that freedom means absolutely
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by epi8 12y ago
Read any of these. Especially the first one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626878
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by epi8 12y ago
Who judges if the essay is good?
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by epi8 12y ago
Running this on the client side would require a C++ compiler in javascript, right? I don't know much about web dev.
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by epi8 12y ago
If I just got really freaking lucky with my predictions yesterday, then there's no reason to imagine I would get really freaking lucky again. Over time, my average accuracy would become the mean of the distribution. On the other hand,
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by epi8 12y ago
The point is that a lot of the time immigrants who received Anglicized names did so not because they chose to, but because they happened to get an immigration officer who gave them an Anglicized spelling on Ellis island.
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by epi8 13y ago
That's a little unfair. I work at an 30-year-old engineering company with the most market share in our field. If my company goes down, that's probably because someone did something illegal, or entire economies of multiple countrie
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by epi8 13y ago
Good compile-time dispatch is a relatively easy in C++, but damn-near impossible in C. There are actual legitimate reasons to use C++.
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by epi8 13y ago
Not everyone works in webdev. Some people do embedded development, and use a reasonable subset of C++.
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by epi8 13y ago
We use way more information than just binocular disparity to construct our stereopsis. Since we extensive experience in our environment, we can use relative sizes of known objects, atmospheric blurring, occlusions, we can move our head and
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by epi8 13y ago
Why is ITER not real fusion research? And by "set up" do you mean intentionally, to hold back fusion research? If so, by whom, and why?
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by epi8 13y ago
"C developers tend to think on micro-optimizations and Assembly level before writing any line of code, even when it doesn't matter at all for the problem being solved." Um, citation, please? Speaking as, you know, an actual C
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by epi8 13y ago
I'm not sure that either side is exactly lacking in money or political power. One of the characteristics that many of the tea party members share is a skepticism with regards to climate change (or global warming), and the tea party has
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by epi8 13y ago
The EFF is a good place (unless I'm wrong, if so, someone let me know). https://www.eff.org/work
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by epi8 13y ago
Nothing, and I'm not sure what the "correct" representation would be. However, I do not believe the representation we have now indicates a field with an equal barrier for entry for a man and a woman who have the same skill se
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by epi8 13y ago
I didn't say it was discrimination, in the same way that the conference under discussion is not discrimination. However, have you ever been to a tech conference where, say, a quarter of the attendees were women? I haven't. What I
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by epi8 13y ago
I don't know about the person to whom you are replying, but in my opinion, in this case, two wrongs make a right, if you can call hosting a conference aimed at an under-represented group a "wrong". Sure, in a perfect world, w
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by epi8 13y ago
So, I understand your intent, I suppose, but a think a more pragmatic viewpoint could be beneficial. Sure, this conference is aimed at women, but many tech conferences are predominantly aimed at men, simply because that's the largest d
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by epi8 13y ago
Maybe taking siestas with his wife was his passion. Or maybe catching a million fish with machinery isn't as exciting for him as catching one himself. Maybe he had self-actualization up to here . Formally, you are making assumptions a
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by epi8 13y ago
A "horseless carriage" may be a bit of a contradiction, from a certain point of view, but we don't have a strict definition of what is and what isn't a carriage, so it's not particularly misleading. We have a very s
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by epi8 13y ago
I dislike him because of his stated, explicit bias against LGBT folk, and his frequent rants about the "gay agenda". True, I think his Mormonism motivates these things, but many if not most Mormons feel differently (I have no idea
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by epi8 13y ago
I'm not doubting, but why?
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by epi8 13y ago
I think you, GP, and the author are in violent agreement. All three of you, in my understanding, have made the same point.
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by epi8 13y ago
That's... not true. The question is "how likely is there to be an electrical fire in the Tesla, given that it has crashed (or is crashing)" not "how likely is there to be an electrical fire". It's easy enough f
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by epi8 13y ago
Any idea whether this depends on the projection used to get the map in the first place? I mean, the "straight lines" are really curves that lie in the boundary of the Earth's surface, unless I'm missing something major.

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