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by sevenless 10y ago
I've been wondering when neural networks might be able to compress a movie back down to the screenplay.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Or just live underground. There should be zones at around room temperature not too far off the surface. Colonizing Mercury makes more sense than colonizing Mars. Much more abundant energy, reasonable gravity, plenty of water at the poles,
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by sevenless 10y ago
Hitler got some of his worst ideas from the Eugenics Institute in California. Such as 'humanely' gassing undesirables and 'genetic defectives'. Eugenics, from Galton on, was considered progressive, enlightened, 'sci
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by sevenless 10y ago
Why not put the city at a pole?
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by sevenless 10y ago
Why? Video game economies are already bigger than many real world nations. If enough of us live in the video game world, game labor has value.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Already happening: WoW gold farmers.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Enjoyed > Some aspects of communication are likely to prove more challenging, Hinton predicted. “Irony is going to be hard to get,” he said. “You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don’t get irony either. Compute
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by sevenless 10y ago
Anything that behaves like an object, would be the obvious answer. GUI elements, things in games or simulations. More abstractly, an object's a namespace with persistent properties, so for something that has a persistent, possibly muta
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by sevenless 10y ago
I've heard there are two kinds of jobs: the kind where you shower before, and the kind where you shower after.
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by sevenless 10y ago
This is the same question as 'What values should we impose on society?' And that is an irreducible conflict. It's politics. Programming a computer to perform a task is a powerful way to reveal hidden assumptions. What the pro
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by sevenless 10y ago
If your lifestyle basically consists of stuff you could do for free, like cycling and internet, does that mean you're wealthy? The trouble with this definition is that your lifestyle changes with your income. If I were making millions
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by sevenless 10y ago
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
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by sevenless 10y ago
This is the problem with democracy: the people making the decisions often aren't those who are affected by them the most. It's how you define the demos . It's unjust for Americans to vote on policies that make the difference
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by sevenless 10y ago
Some of us don't think humans are less deserving on account of which side of a border they were born. Agreeing that free trade did somewhat hurt the American worker, America's loss helped lift hundreds of millions of people elsewh
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by sevenless 10y ago
How about engineering a society that is a bit kinder to everyone rather than inflicting poverty on anyone? It's also unjust for the 'burger flippers' who make your food to live in poverty. We need creative types. Artists, mus
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by sevenless 10y ago
I think you're saying the problem is that the camera is pointed straight at you, and you're taking this as having the intention to film you. But phone cameras can have a wide angle. You can film people without pointing the phone
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by sevenless 10y ago
Sonar or lidar is a great idea if it can be made really small and not use much power. Simply, don't include a camera, and make it obvious there's no camera - make the conspicuous bit transparent. You don't need a camera for m
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by sevenless 10y ago
People walk around with their cellphones out, and you aren't complaining. Any of them could be filming you. Nor are you punching CCTV camera operators (I hope). I always considered Google Glass could've been a success, if they&#x2
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by sevenless 10y ago
You are right that the ideal gas law doesn't describe real gases but it can be a reasonable approximation for some applications, even at fairly low temperatures, provided the density isn't high.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Upholding an unjust law is not ethical. The right thing to do is repeal the law. It is absurd to say refugees and fruit pickers living on next to nothing are cutting in line, as though they are in an equal position to German mechanical engi
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by sevenless 10y ago
My impression is that it's largely down to who they think gets those handouts. The perception that the face of need and poverty in the US is principally black, has always driven conservative opposition to 'big government',
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by sevenless 10y ago
The nation-state is founded on the ideal of a sovereign state for a specific ethno-cultural group, and immigration fundamentally contradicts this. However, that is not a reason to oppose immigration. Mass immigration in sufficient volume wi
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by sevenless 10y ago
I think it's more that, they are systems that model what we know about gravity and light , just taken to an extreme point where light can't escape. That speculation is where the notion of black holes came from in the first place.
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by sevenless 10y ago
Yep. Unfortunately, in some respects, we are the bad guys, our foreign policy is unjust and evil, and billions of people, including a tiny fraction who turn to terrorism, do have quite understandable grievances. Is there a peaceful way for
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by sevenless 10y ago
It'd take a dictator to fix the USA. I think I could do it, but it wouldn't be peaceful.
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by sevenless 10y ago
It's kind of true, though. Compared to other developed nations, the US is a country that doesn't care if you get sick or die. It's about as social-Darwinist as it gets. SF is even much more liberal than the rest of the countr
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by sevenless 10y ago
I want to say that being homeless can be really bad for your mental health in its own right. I spent two months homeless and living around hostels a few years ago. The feeling of having nowhere to go home to starts to gnaw at you. You feel
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by sevenless 10y ago
I've never seen any city with a homeless population like San Francisco's and I've been to much poorer places. Side by side with the artists and web developers is a parallel tent city, and it seems to have a lot of mentally il
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by sevenless 10y ago
Comparing a company to a colonial empire is a bit silly unless you're talking about the East India Company. I don't believe Facebook has its own warships yet.
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by sevenless 10y ago
It feels inevitable we're going to end up spraying sulfate into the air to keep cool, because that's by far the cheapest solution to global warming. It also doesn't fix any of the fundamental problems. Maybe a sign of (rather

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