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I say the hackers of the world should hold a "burn a koran" day in protest. I am so sick of Islam pissing on freedom of expression. We need to fight back.

This is not trolling here lol but I honestly do not understand what the big deal is here with SOPA. Surely it is good to stop people from pirating DVD's, etc.? What I am missing he…

And Hiroshima bloody well deserved it too, as everyone knows.

This controversy to me seems eerily similar to the so-called "SCO Wars" when the SCO Group defended her intellectual property rights against looters like IBM and Novell. This act w…

What a horrible article. Whoever wrote that was some sort of Amish anti-technology fruitcake. Fuck him.

I have commented (at length) on this earlier, so don't have much to add. But a further thought did occur to me: JavaScript has "loose typing", that is, one is not taught the differ…

Here is my blog article I wrote on this travesty. (Available here: http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-civic-decay-of-u... ) I am not a pugilist for the sake of it, but whe…

My response: http://blogkinnetic.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-civic-decay-of-u...

Airbus could easily be the most unsafe major airline in history. No surprise when I read this article that it said this happened on Airbus. Those things have a nasty habit of rando…

Like others, I wish I had read "The C Programming Language" earlier than when I did (probably did not get to it until my mid-20's or so). However, I am really glad I read "The Road…

I live in a van down by the river.

Seems like this is something like P = ((N * M) - (N + M - 1))/K but haven't tried out too many cases.

It is not playing God to hunt to get the resources we need, like, say, hunting buffalo for their meat and fur. That is just survival. We need the whale oil, so hunting them is no m…

Whaling needs to be brought back. Sperm whales are prevalent once again, so controlled harvesting of them should be possible just like hunting deer or anything else. This creates j…

Any way to tell if this is legit or not?

Say I live in a set, set_1, that has some property p_1. I can think about other sets, like my own, say, set_n, with similar properties for those, say, p_n. I am confined to set_1 s…

With due respect, cryonics won't work. Why? Because "I am a strange loop" as Hofstadter would put it. We are NOT the code. We are the code execution. Think of the human subject as …

Baruch dayan H'emet. This is very tragic. Nothing else to say. Rest in peace.

Hi - I can relate to this post because I also have an on-again, off-again, "pipe dream" of doing solo work. I really have one big "passion" and that is machine learning - genetic a…

The K&R textbook is still my programming "bible". I don't use C on a regular basis, or at least as not as much as I'd like to, but still refer to it, even so. IMO, people should le…

What a wonderful story. Just when I thought I had shed all the tears I was going to shed over this over this past week, it just all comes right back. He was a legend, but also a go…

As long as it is not pay-pal. The company I work for, which shall remain nameless, had much of its staff "cannibalized" by pay-pal. One manager of mine mentioned to me he turned do…

Recently, I had a thought that it would be fun to create a non-profit focused on AI or "artificial life" research, focusing (loosely-speaking) on evolutionary approaches such as ge…

Hi - I wrote a "blog" post (if that is the correct term) some time ago, about the P versus NP problem - unfortunately, my mom and siblings (who generally are the only ones who read…

Max Tegmark's 4-level Multiverse solves the issues discussed in this article. For Tegmark, the physical world does not emerge out of the Platonic world, rather, the physical world …