rotrux

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by rotrux 6y ago
Patience and Compromise are your two new best friends.
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by rotrux 6y ago
A)Teeth are sorta like regular ol' bones 'cept they're on the outside of your body and their purpose is to grind things. B) You don't really need all of them to survive + evolution. C) Humans live a really long time now
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Metal Umlat(wikipedia.org)
1 points by rotrux 7y ago|0 comments
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by rotrux 7y ago
This piece is extremely readable. Kudos to the author.
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by rotrux 7y ago
This is a terrific article. Two thumbs up.
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by rotrux 7y ago
To help develop your capacity for empathy (which is a skill you can work on) I suggest actively envisioning situations from other peoples' perspectives. For example, say you have some delicate news you need to deliver to a coworker. Fo
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by rotrux 7y ago
AI thinks like a corporation in the sense that neither really thinks. One is misleading buzzword for modern computer-driven pattern recognition & the other is a legal label for a group of people trying to make money together. This premi
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by rotrux 7y ago
@paxys - Not sure what purpose you're referring to. Sure, purchasing them would defeat the purpose of making your own business card, but not the traditional purpose of having a business card that's cool & which doesn't im
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by rotrux 7y ago
Hey @rcarmo - So you're gonna sell these right? Bc I'll take way more than I ever previously thought I would spend on business cards.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Google maps is only profitable on the basis of advertising syndication & data collection. If you're not pumping google information about how people are using your map service or directing people to the sites of google's ads cu
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by rotrux 7y ago
People have been talking about this for at least a decade & I wonder when the shoe will actually drop.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Right - It is not clear how we can see something more than 13.8B ly away since it would take more than 13.8B years for signals of its existence to reach us. From our frame of reference, that would mean the emission started before the big b
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by rotrux 7y ago
The world needs more ways to navigate the internet is what it needs. An intuitive tool that helps me stay on track and/or helps me remember what the hell I did would be preferable. The mystery-box-that-reads-my-mind-then-poops-out-link
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Search Algorithms(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rotrux 7y ago|0 comments
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by rotrux 7y ago
I am confused. Executive Order 13884 concerns only the government of Venezuela & about 150 specific people/companies in Venezuela. Am I misreading this order or did Adobe? PDF: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-cent
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by rotrux 7y ago
> The fundamental problem which seems to be recurring is that the system is generally hostile towards consumer interests. I think you're really close, but have specified the inverse of the fundamental problem. The system is generall
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by rotrux 7y ago
The subject of this post should be changed to remove "impossible."
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by rotrux 7y ago
No dude youd end up arresting and trying people who do not deserve literally anything that was happening to them.
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by rotrux 7y ago
> "I wonder at what point similarities with past works becomes inevitable." This question gets at the crux of the problem; its answer depends entirely on "what are the atomic constituents of a musical work?" With cons
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by rotrux 7y ago
This is no longer news.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Right because that wouldn't become a massive problem at the worst possible time.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Possible link between aspartame and cancer. Possible link between non-sweet drinks and cancer. Possible link between enjoying yourself ever and cancer.
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by rotrux 7y ago
By this definition my air conditioning system is conscious.
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by rotrux 7y ago
> "If plants have no consciousness, does that make them any less worthy of care?" No it doesn't, but that's not what's at debate. The fact anyone needed to be told plants aren't conscious is kind of crazy. T
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by rotrux 7y ago
> "...our miliitary budget is just another cold war era echo..." - No, it's more complicated than that. You're ignoring all current geopolitics. > "...the ignorant notion that our public officials are moral ac
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by rotrux 7y ago
Agree. This is more of a 4th-ammendment "The right of the people to be secure...against unreasonable searches and seizures" issue. It would be like federally outlawing clothes to make sure no one in America has a gun. Also, and as
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by rotrux 7y ago
Forgive my webdev nievete, but what exactly is a Browser Engine, and how is it different from a browser? Is this like selenium? What's the use-case? Why is parallelism important in this context?
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by rotrux 7y ago
I think it's better to be unpredictable. Once or twice a year I like to throw my kids into a pit-maze, which I've been digging for the past several months, and fill it with various kinds of dangerous creatures and turn on strobe l
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by rotrux 7y ago
I can't figure out how to delete this. Pretend I didn't say it.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Gotta love posts with more comments than votes. Steve Jobbs was a visionary tyrant who miraculously knew all this shit. They better be listening.

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