sweetjesus

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by sweetjesus 10y ago
What they should do is turn off the spectrum a bit each year ranging from the top frequency down. That way people can adjust, stations can move on the dial, and there is no cold turkey. In the US this might mean I could hear my favorite Top
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
if their goal was to reveal what they were doing to the world, this is a fine way to go about it and build some anticipation and get a PR splash. if their goal was to train the best go-bot, they could have had it play not to win but to go d
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
Unless you're talking about the Nuremberg Rallies, you've got your history screwed up: "just following orders" is NOT a defense against war crime accusations, and punishing those who commit war crimes "trying to get
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
> is insulting much as if Premier Xi in China started having friendly chats with the governor of Hawai'i or Alaska while publicly pouring scorn on DC speaking somewhat loosely, actually there is no "much as if" in this s
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
when I read it it wasn't clear to me either, so I looked at what was written and saw that the fractions on the right side were clearly getting smaller and smaller fast because each successive denominator consisted of the multiplicatio
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
> With Trump elected, Europe is turning to itself for its defence... wait, what?... Europe wasn't paying for its own defense before Trump, because why, they just liked the US presidents?! Was it something about them, or were they
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
imho his TL;DR is better than yours, but your improvements could be made to his. In my education we was taught that in science and business, the abstracts should tell the whole point of the story; the "spoiler" should not be saved
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
an anxiety disorder can increase the difficulty of making decisions, appearing as a trait like "perfectionism"
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
from 2008... as the market has been up and to the right almost the entire time Was there a time that the market did not go to the right since 2008?! Where's Dr. Strange?! something learned during the recent campaign was where Donal
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
well, not only is it true that--(if a sentient AI is possible with nothing more than software...), but also if you assume that we don't lose our enthusiasm for building simulations of ourselves, and for helping our little sisters with
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
this calculator nicely illustrates an insight that I feel gets lost the way most people learn and reteach some simple CS concepts: "two's complement" is not a different system for arithmetic that includes a "sign bit&quo
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
more memorably (ha ha you'll see what I did there) for the majority of people here, Jay Forrester invented core memory which revolutionized computers of that generation. Prior to core, memory schemes were bizarre and klugy, like storin
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
next week: looks like mk4p hasn't showed up... time for somebody to break in and feed his puppy?
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
my point was not about where emotions or thoughts or logic comes from, nor do I think that's particularly relevant to the "My subconscious is a better developer" idea. My point was that conscious thoughts are (1) the result o
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
fwiw, I was describing in layperson's terms what is going on in the brain, in response to which, you are being too reductive. It's like you're telling a chemist to stop talking about what we know about chemistry because it&#x
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
I'm too late to edit my own comment, so I reply: Haidt's video "keynote at American Psychology Assn" is a very good succinct presentation too. synopsis: how left wing people need to be a little more open minded wrt right
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
look up Jonathon Haidt videos on youtube, I think it's one of the TED talks. He talks about moral psychology, and conservatives do not rank significantly lower on empathy. Conservatives do rank higher on several moral scales that liber
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
You seem to have nothing to say on the topic of emotion, except that the 1000's of people who study it in universities, clinics and hospitals around the world have nothing correct to say... I am certain that your emotions on the subjec
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
100 years ago, the proponents of the "plum pudding model" and "ether" were still alive and kicking. Good science takes time, and must account for all the evidence. Psychology won't be reduced till we achieve "c
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
This is going to be difficult to accept probably, but fwiw here's the gist of what modern psychiatry has to say: the brain is not divided into conscious thought and unconscious thought; rather, all the brain's work takes place unc
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
They stole the data !? What did the phone company do when it no longer had the data for their phone books?! ooooh, you mean they made a copy which the court ruled was ok to do. Your post is good (but your link is broken, please go steal
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
I don't think PP worded his point as clearly as he could but I think he meant something more along the lines of "a small list of free books that is vetted for quality is much more valuable than a big list of many more free books t
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
PP said there was no evidence that the preponderance of the voters hold those views, and you respond with what PP called "the mainstream narrative", so you two aren't really talking about the same things; it's as if hi
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
| and now reside at Microsoft I always wanted to hear Jesse Jackson say, "You say Mi-cro-soft; I hear Jim-Crow-soft"
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Why are cellular data tablets more expensive than wifi-only tablets?
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by sweetjesus 10y ago
I send this message to the current YC batch this afternoon: Don't Read The Zen Stories - Zen-sama