glorkk | 7 years ago | on: Carlo Rovelli on the ‘greatest remaining mystery’: The nature of time
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glorkk | 7 years ago | on: Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
What is an iLamp?
glorkk | 7 years ago | on: European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future.
Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can't be enforced. Torrenting copyrighted works is a criminal act, and yet torrenting has never been easier after years of efforts to shut it down from all sides.
glorkk | 7 years ago | on: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that without fundamentally changing the way the website works.
glorkk | 7 years ago | on: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
That sounds a lot like the "heavier than air flight is impossible" quote from 1895.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Generating $32,000 in 30 days selling a crypto-filled USB stick
Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Learning to program is getting harder
Please don’t hijack the horizontal swipe. It is for going back/forward in navigation histoey, not switching between articles on your website.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: How much did you save by nót buying Bitcoins? ;)
Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: How much did you save by nót buying Bitcoins? ;)
Good for you and your nephew
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Leap: An Online Community for Women
> the measurable advantage men have in the tech community
I’m sure if it is “measurable” you can provide some numbers?
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Leap: An Online Community for Women
A group does not “want” anything. Innovation comes from exchange of ideas between individuals, not from arbitrary groups living behind walled gardens.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Leap: An Online Community for Women
A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Any phone but iPhone X, according to this Sprint salesman
Another website that obnoxiously interrupts my music to autoplay a video ad. Last time I open a link from “cnet.com”
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax
> Bitcoin and cryptos ought to be banned for good.
Serious question: how would you go about “banning” cryotocurrencies? The most you can do is close exchanges which would make crypto harder to acquire and liquidate.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]
Why these two governments in particular?
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives
A paywalled article is completely useless for most people.
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains
> Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude
And who should be the arbiter of what constitutes a “moral and ethical attitude”? You?
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Coinbase down for maintenance
Not really... websites regularly go down when they are under a load they cannot handle
glorkk | 8 years ago | on: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
You realize that national debt, corporate debt and personal debt don’t work the same right? Countries can go on paying only the interest on their debt forever.
And how would the US finance this massive debt repayment? The only ways are to sell state assets, cut services and raise taxes. I’m not sure the population will be happy with these measures.
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This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory.
We need to accept that human minds are limited and technology is meant to extend them. Science has advanced considerably due to computers despite the appearances.
The way out of the current “impasse” is through even more technology. We might not be able to solve all the mysteries of the universe without intelligence augmentation or superintelligent AI.