rymith

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by rymith 14y ago
Imagine a silicon brain that we create that is 10% more capable than our brain. It's nothing astounding, but it's smarter. And it has access to all knowledge within seconds. So this brain is able to actively comb through that information
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by rymith 14y ago
You're a little unclear as to why it's called the singularity. It means a point so drastically different that we cannot predict what the world will look like after it happens. However, should a planet still exist on the day after this occ
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by rymith 14y ago
Well, that statement was a lot more correct even just a few years ago. But we're starting to get a much better grasp on it. In the past 10 years or so we have learned more about how the brain functions than in all of human history. It's
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by rymith 14y ago
I honestly haven't used mutt in a while, but I used to have a lot of issues with it. I should give it another go.
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by rymith 14y ago
Are you kidding? Because I don't want to be a jerk, but you cannot have possibly thought that through.
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by rymith 14y ago
You are missing a fundamental key difference. There is no profit in reaching the stars. Besides that, there are also no barriers that come close to the issues with the Physics and energy requirements of space travel. Unlike a warp drive
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by rymith 14y ago
I get the new iMac this week, and I'm taking my current windows machine and turning it into a homebrew Steambox tomorrow. I'm using an Ikea dresser thing http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/90179927/#/601799... as the box (with th
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by rymith 14y ago
Oh, you mean the way we did so with wolves to create the thousands of dog species that exist today. By this absurd logic, all dogs should go extinct.
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by rymith 14y ago
Well, no, it's Fair Use. It's a legal defense, but since a news site would be hosting their own content, and editorializing, they would be be able to claim safe harbor. So a DMCA takedown would be effectively ignores, and followed up in t
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by rymith 14y ago
Although a defense, Fair Use would certainly allow news organizations to publish those images without concern.
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by rymith 14y ago
How would you make that case? There are plenty of restrictions on free speech as well as freedom of the press, which is far from absolute, and is most certainly regulated.
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by rymith 14y ago
Thanks to google killing free Google Apps accounts, I won't get a chance to use this. It's really sad because this is exactly what I was looking for.
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by rymith 14y ago
Yup, because here in Canada, we're a horribly oppressed people, and have no hope of ever gaining true freedom because we don't have guns. Please.
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by rymith 14y ago
Because of the whole elitest nature of svblte, I actively go out of my way to ignore it. When the 'cool kid' in school doesn't want you to be in his group, you don't mimic him and try to be like him. You say fuck 'em, I'm going to do my o
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by rymith 14y ago
I sleep 6.5, and usually I do not use an alarm, this is just my natural sleep schedule.
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by rymith 14y ago
No, the GPL does not allow for further restrictions. The App Store doesn't care.
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by rymith 14y ago
It doesn't seem to be working very well. I googled tit (it's a bird) and the only birds that showed up were of the human variety, sans tops.
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by rymith 14y ago
Absolutely, as we see from the numbers, most iPhone apps aren't making a lot of money, so $400 + $100 for the app store access is simply dumb for an indie dev. Miguel is a very smart man and completely clueless at the same time.
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by rymith 14y ago
You're kinda unclear as to what the LTS stands for, aren't you?
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by rymith 14y ago
Gods and simulators are very equal in my book. The key isn't that I don't believe in either (though it's true that I do not), it that both constructs (god and simulators) being completely absent from any interactions with the human life in
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by rymith 14y ago
What would be the purpose of a simulation with so much pain and suffering. Where children get raped, flayed, abused, etc... And don't give me any of that matrix crap, that was only to make a flawed concept make just enough sense that you
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by rymith 14y ago
Were they Playing Demon Souls? I get pretty violent playing that game. Granted, I can easily kill every person in a far more violent game and frolic down the street. So I think the quality of the game, the users experience with games, th
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by rymith 14y ago
I suspect it ensures you authorized the app to be on your phone should any liability, or other legal issues arrise. Buddy downloads OKCupid onto your phone, Wife sees OKCupid and files for divorce and takes everything thanks to pre-nup. M
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by rymith 14y ago
I agree, but I also said this when the rumour came out about Apple getting into phones. Cell phones were cheap crap back then with no margins. I really don't think it's a completely 1:1 comparison, but Apple does tend to surprise me occas
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by rymith 14y ago
I'm not only morally okay with the concept of all human knowledge being accessible by all humans freely, I'm morally not okay with restricting access to any human knowledge. It comes down to the arguments of privilege, class, race, and reg
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by rymith 14y ago
Not even a little accurate. I live in the great white north. Most Canadians live within 300km of the 49th parallel. Once we take out this southern belt, it means you have a country the size of the United States with about 10 million peop
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by rymith 14y ago
Perhaps, I don't know. That's why I'm curious.
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by rymith 14y ago
Yea, I like Archlinux a lot; it's been my favourite linux distro for a while now.
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by rymith 14y ago
I'm curious how this differs from an outdated paper map.
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by rymith 14y ago
Right tool for the right job. If I want to select all the pictures of my niece out of a folder of bad snapshopts, then a gui is a nice tool. The command terminal just can't browse images very well (at all). If I want to grab the source f

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