thehotdon

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by thehotdon 15y ago
Here's a possible implementation of your idea that could help get the ball rolling. 1. Get a group of wealthy investors to select a well-known director and film that they would like to support. Ideally the people in charge of the creative
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by thehotdon 15y ago
If you intend to make money from your novel, it's your responsibility to find a way to capitalize on it. Obvious approaches include collecting funding/reservations in advance or asking for donations after the fact. If you release a digital
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by thehotdon 15y ago
You seem to be making the inaccurate assumption that both the law and its enforcement are logically consistent. This might seem reasonable if you are a mathematician or engineer who is used to working with formal specifications and precise
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Exactly! Why would anyone want to live forever in a human body, when they could just build themselves a kick-ass robot body instead.
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Software really is sort of a special case though. Most of the problems you mentioned are at least partially caused by the constraints and resources of our physical environment. However, the complexity of software is almost entirely genera
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Yes, and that's how it should be. Mathematics, including algorithms, is not patentable.
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by thehotdon 15y ago
I would say you're probably right about work experience being much more relevant. However, if you went to a very prestigious school, you might want to put it at the beginning for two reasons. First, the education section takes up relativel
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by thehotdon 15y ago
if ... 1000 dollar fine else if ... 5 months jail else if ... capital punishment else if ... licence suspended else if ... 3 years jail, 20000 dollar fine // handle a few million more cases else you're innocent
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by thehotdon 15y ago
There's a man in the clouds jiggling us around with puppet strings, obviously. And the man in the clouds, well, I guess he's controlled by a mystic turtle in outer space...
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Well, the hip ones, at least.
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Sam is such a great guy. I'm sure he donates all of his earnings to charity and doesn't own a single luxury, so he's definitely qualified to judge how "yuppies" spend their money. On a slightly darker note: He sure seems proud of himself f
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Marketers do nothing to "make the product better". They pump exorbitant amounts of money into advertising, thereby increasing the final price paid by customers without increasing product quality. Furthermore, they use these advertisements
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Are you allowed to break into other people's property and use weapons to enforce your own system of rules on them? Nope. Are you allowed to lock people in a cage for decades because they do something you disagree with? Of course not. Is t
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Animals have very strict rules and regulations about the sacred act of rubbing genitals together.
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Wait, did you just say that seriously? Plaintiff: "There was a dead-body in the toilet, but the defendant has been regularly flushing, thereby destroying the evidence and proving his guilt." Judge: "Well, if you say it, it must be true!"
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Eropple: As is likely apparent, I am of the opinion that the thief should be forced to make good on her damages. They are not illusory damages; _someone_ will be made less than whole if the thief is not expected to provide compensation. And
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by thehotdon 15y ago
The light bulb was invented? How do you know Edison didn't just dig the first one out of the ground and tell everyone he invented it? Before Edison discovered the first light bulb, would it have been impossible to build one? Were the mat
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Well, it's not just a difference in optimization goals; it's a difference in methodology. Evolution optimizes by using heuristics and stochastic search--piling crap on top of crap, and obfuscating into oblivion. Engineering optimizes by fin
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by thehotdon 15y ago
Engineering beats evolution, every time.
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by thehotdon 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if facebook just "borrows" the idea and implements it on their own. They would have a significant advantage due to the lack of API restrictions.
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by thehotdon 16y ago
Or more generally, everything is mathematics.
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by thehotdon 16y ago
Notation is a solved problem. Math got it wrong, Lisp got it right.