inherentFloyd

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by inherentFloyd 7y ago
Let's do a little experiment: >"As we've seen around the world in recent years, social media can be a major forum for terrorist sentiment and activity. This will be a vital tool to screen out terrorists, public safety thre
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by inherentFloyd 7y ago
I am not from India, but you do understand that the party that has majority control over India, the BJP, is a blatantly Hindu Nationalist party? I would argue this makes them even more entrenched in nationalist politics than here in the US.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
>Mr. Dawson unspooled a series of far-fetched hypotheses. Among them: that iPhones secretly record their owners’ every utterance Yeah, but that's true.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
>Here in Montreal you can get a ticket for leaving your car door unlocked. Here in the US you get robbed when you leave your car door unlocked. Kind of a punitive measure in its own way.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
Surveys are also a voluntary release of private information? What's your angle, NYT? HMMMMM. I have to wonder if the US government is starting to look at China's technocracy as an example.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
Good point, but it's still pretty stupid/hilarious.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
Aw, it was the 18th century: they lost kids all the time.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
The point of "I, Robot" was to show how these laws can lead to dangerous results if followed to the letter, and their inherent contradictions. I agree with the author: applying the Three Laws to actual AI research and engineering
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
I have never done anything in Rust. Are there any benefits? Any drawbacks?
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
How? It's still censorship.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
It's good to see the UK finally turning into the authoritarian dictatorship Orwell knew it could be. Good for them!
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
>Maxwell Technologies Specified, Controlled, Tested and Guaranteed Oh no.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
Why do you want ads at all?
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
Power corrupts, man. Simply hiding behind a monopoly doesn't really absolve a company of wrongdoing simply because a monopoly isn't wrong. Also, in your example, Coke definitely has a monopoly on the cola market, even if it doesn&
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
The comments on this article are nuts.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
This has to be satire. Most of these are terrible and I'm pretty sure the fibonacci indentation originated on /g/.
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
There was a fascinating article posted to HN a little while ago about Ithkuil's creator's relationship with its users. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
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by inherentFloyd 8y ago
https://rwtxt.com/public/list I love that feeling when something collaborative is brand new and everyone is testing the waters.