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JamesBlair

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    Comment #11633455

    >This may change if charisma starts to be perceived as the key to winning. So, in other words, this submission is a survey of the people who don't want Trump to win?

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    Comment #11513046

    Using node.js, telsa coils regulate an internal blockchain economy by forming self-assembling carbon nanotube based deep learning networks, breakthrough for self driving flying car…

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    Comment #10276352

    They also don't give a damn about the old flag at all, which really is the problem. My parents had a flagpole and they never once flew the NZ flag on it. I think a little patriotis…

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    Comment #9941184

    >we wish to ensure we can provide a fair playing field for all participating players By restricting access to performance enhancing drugs to those who have the connections to get a…

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    Comment #6421661

    Except that the exact phrasing is "useful Arts", which refers to documenting technical skills like manufacture and craftsmanship. The original legal climate with regard to fiction …

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    Comment #5949616

    That's a really misleading rhetorical question. Attic actors wore masks and were expected to melt into their roles; what would you say if an Attican asked you "How many theatrical …

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    Comment #4541317

    Ah, that's unfortunate.

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    Comment #4540847

    As someone who knows someone else's PIN: if they're too inconvenienced by making the payment themselves and don't realize what security it's meant to offer, they'll be quite conten…

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    Comment #4540834

    Which bank are you with? One of the few things that annoyed me about NBNZ was the utter lack of security with setting the pin and online banking password.

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    Comment #4250446

    What makes you think we will get said trade deal with the US?

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    Comment #3633589

    The AI was not let out of the box, and you're saying that it wouldn't convince you? This only sounds like an argument that Eliezer was right in not posting his logs.

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    Comment #3632081

    Somewhat recently, someone attempted it with the intention of reposting the log. However, he failed: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9ld/ai_box_log/

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    Comment #3593737

    The design causes far worse bugs than that, for example: you can stop a falling block's progress just by holding down left.

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    Comment #3499860

    Wouldn't the browser cache the request?

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    Comment #3491533

    Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279225

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    Comment #3459138

    And there are no contact details, so we can't even tell them that their page is broken. edit: Taking a gamble on emailing the registrant.

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    Comment #3395420

    Although I am probably not the intended audience of your message, I can't agree with the sentiment. Akrasia has to have a reason, even if it makes no rational sense, and all my bel…

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    Comment #3390294

    > > Also, there was a moment when someone was submitting content and it appeared under my nick "bpfh". > Thanks. Those two security issues are fixed now. You fixed one way of nickn…

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    Comment #3389957

    They seem to do it no matter what they charge.

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    Comment #3371856

    So how is Linux From Scratch working for you?

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    Comment #3369127

    Relevant reading is Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice , which makes this insight as obvious as it should be.

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    Comment #3362822

    I still don't get why we can't retract and change votes.

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    Comment #3327125

    My main concern was forcing payment processors to cut off organisations from their income. I don't know anything about the ITC, as I am a foreigner, but it seems that they are more…

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    Comment #3326664

    Much like software, it will limp along.

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    Comment #3279340

    50% is an understatement according to wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1 ]. As an aside there's something about the article saying that it required…