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Really? Because not even the Kurzweil (who numbers among the more optimistic where this is concerned) agrees with that timeline. http://www.kurzweilai.net/singularity-q-a

> Also, be sure you're in a dense urban environment. Why?

It's just a superstition. I give demos all the time, and I hate it when I do a test run and people tell me how awesome it's working. Tell me afterwards, you'll jinx it if you tell …

That's a very important distinction that the "easy-mode" metaphors don't really take into account. A good word for it is "intersectionality" (though please note that many people wi…

"such as yourself" I take a fair amount of offense at this statement. I am stating that, given that the word "freedom" is commonly being used not as a word, but as a political catc…

Can we stop saying things like "more freedom"? Freedom is really poorly defined even to an individual, and tends to lead to sentences like "they hate our freedom". You could very w…

Read any of these. Especially the first one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626878

Who judges if the essay is good?

Running this on the client side would require a C++ compiler in javascript, right? I don't know much about web dev.

If I just got really freaking lucky with my predictions yesterday, then there's no reason to imagine I would get really freaking lucky again. Over time, my average accuracy would b…

The point is that a lot of the time immigrants who received Anglicized names did so not because they chose to, but because they happened to get an immigration officer who gave them…

That's a little unfair. I work at an 30-year-old engineering company with the most market share in our field. If my company goes down, that's probably because someone did something…

Good compile-time dispatch is a relatively easy in C++, but damn-near impossible in C. There are actual legitimate reasons to use C++.

Not everyone works in webdev. Some people do embedded development, and use a reasonable subset of C++.

We use way more information than just binocular disparity to construct our stereopsis. Since we extensive experience in our environment, we can use relative sizes of known objects,…

Why is ITER not real fusion research? And by "set up" do you mean intentionally, to hold back fusion research? If so, by whom, and why?

"C developers tend to think on micro-optimizations and Assembly level before writing any line of code, even when it doesn't matter at all for the problem being solved." Um, citatio…

I'm not sure that either side is exactly lacking in money or political power. One of the characteristics that many of the tea party members share is a skepticism with regards to cl…

The EFF is a good place (unless I'm wrong, if so, someone let me know). https://www.eff.org/work

Nothing, and I'm not sure what the "correct" representation would be. However, I do not believe the representation we have now indicates a field with an equal barrier for entry for…