walod

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by walod 10y ago
I think that people who are creative have to know the history and repertoire in order for their brain to make the new connections to make the new thing, but I think that creative leap when your brain makes those new connections is not somet
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by walod 11y ago
Got any proof of a case where this happens? I'm using it to redirect to https:// and it redirects deep links to the right deep links, and nothing goes to the home page
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by walod 11y ago
Well, I relate to both this and the older 'bad correspondent' article immensely. I have struggled with this for at least 2-3 years now. The only times I can be truly productive (in music, programming or visual stuff) is when I fee
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by walod 11y ago
> "civilised world" is kept together by midddle- and working class people. Well, sort of. I think first you need technological innovation, and then the middle- and working class fill the labor to maintain that technology, but t
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by walod 11y ago
With WP I think it's a problem when people sell others pre-existing plugins and themes as their own work. I think a self proclaimed WP developer should at least know all there is to know about Theme development. That means they need to
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by walod 11y ago
When you say "information" what do you mean exactly? I can see information as a set of constraints that arises in the system due to how it evolves, and that those constraints enable structure to emerge, and that with the law of co
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by walod 11y ago
> Some people won't need your plan because they stay at low weight no matter what they eat. This is just not true. I find that the people who say that actually eat a lot less calorie wise than they think. Eat 4500 calories per day f
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by walod 11y ago
> “Periodically when caverns are empty you can actually shoot sonar images of the caverns,” says Corbin. “And that gives you a three-dimensional way of looking at them.” Some have interesting shapes, he adds. The outline of one chamber,
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by walod 11y ago
If the economy picked up there wouldn't be a problem. It's apparently better than a total crash, because the economy has to go on either way. The problem is what products and services can we make to make the economy grow again and
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by walod 11y ago
What I can't wrap my head around is the difference between "computation" and consciousness when it comes to intelligence. If intelligence is just the ability to receive the right signals and then output the right signals to r
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by walod 11y ago
Also I would argue it's much harder to lose weight with untreated apnea for a couple reasons. 1. you're constantly over tired, and working out or even walking when you've been woken up hundreds of times per night is hell. Som
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by walod 11y ago
Well if the trend is right, and continues, it means future generations will have to have education and a society that by default works in a critical thinking - always learning - always thinking kind of mode. This could be huge for humanity.
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by walod 11y ago
Doesn't anybody else find the "equality of opportunity" and other phrases way too abstract for analysis? There are many facets to how an economy functions and how individuals navigate it, and I think a proper analysis of the
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by walod 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by self-consciousness. On the one hand it can be processes for understanding oneself and modifying oneself to better survive in the environment, on the other you have the illusory "qualia" / subjec
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by walod 12y ago
What about the problem of distinguishing domestic vs foreign communications? NSA already minimizes American information, plus FBI doesn't have authority to track who called to or from the US to a foreign nation like Pakistan from what
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by walod 12y ago
It's not propaganda, it's a reasonable observation about the NSA's duties, and it's not meant to tell the whole story. The conspiracy types need to tone down a bit so that a thought-out and nuanced discussion can take pl
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by walod 12y ago
I really hope they get the accurate tracking and depth and getting objects to "stick" where they belong in 3d space correctly, without moving out of place or floating in a wrong way, with quick head movement. If they can do that,
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by walod 12y ago
It's also going into surveillance, warfare and predictive policing etc. I believe this is mainly because only big companies or deep pocketed individuals have real access, but there could come a "golden age" some time later wh
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by walod 13y ago
If you read the irc logs, weev and spitler's intent was obviously malicious. I think many things in this case are true at the same time. Oversentencing and prosecution yes, but how do you then prosecute someone like this? There was a r