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mathiasben
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Comment #17557536
the only teenager interviewed for this story was doing just that.
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Comment #17466082
thanks, will read this.
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Comment #17465916
the idea of creating a pre-determined program which will be followed is limiting. creating AI will require methods we can't yet conceptualize.
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Comment #17464713
As long as software is composed of primitive language derived statements and "functional" logic (IF, WHEN, WHILE, DO, GOTO, etc...) AI will remain a fantasy.
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Comment #17417782
It's the concentration of wealth causing this as the economy is being bled dry. the fix is to restore the progressive tax code, income in excess of $5M/yr taxed at 99%. not rocket …
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Comment #17285521
* Things that can't be shipped - gas stations https://www.trybooster.com/ https://filld.com/ http://www.startyoshi.com/ https://www.gasrevolution.net/ http://www.fuelmeapp.com/
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Comment #17188938
Certainly during the biggest period of US wage growth ushered in by the Internal Revenue Act of 1954. Income in excess of $400K/yr taxed at 90% ensured that businesses invested as …
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Comment #16701976
yeah! here ya go - https://jsnes.org/run/Tetris%20(U)%20 [!].nes
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Comment #16546114
I'm convinced it's the changes in the tax laws at the root cause of this. When income over $400k/yr (5 mil in todays money) was taxed at 90% there wasn't the incentive to screw ove…
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Comment #16525395
these failing pensions are largely due to mismanagement, properly managed these retirement vehicles work as intended. unfortunately in the current climate a large company or even a…
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Comment #16422486
Income in excess of 5 million a year taxed at 90%.
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Comment #16319917
What's the make and model?
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Comment #16282662
Aren't there PGP clients available through the app store?
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Comment #16266028
I don't know how to explain that still.
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Comment #16261018
there's tracks on the runways at Andrews air force base.
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Comment #16260970
that makes sense.
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Comment #16260963
it's faint, indicating it may only be one or two users who tracked their activity there, but it's there.
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Comment #16260915
this is what I see when I look at the south lawn https://imgur.com/DslRELO
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Comment #16260669
the more I look over the heat map the more I think that there's always on data being tracked out here. there's NO WAY this is just running and cycling routes.
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Comment #16260640
there's tracks from what looks like the Bermuda-Newport yacht race.
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Comment #16260637
look at the whitehouse lawn in the heat map, there's what looks like data from someone walking the yard.
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Comment #16260521
What activity would generate the tracks in the middle of the ocean? As I understand Strava whenever I switch it on it tracks my activity at that moment until I switch it off. Looki…
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Comment #16259983
that was my assumption as well, but examining the heat map data leads me to believe that certain always on devices are contributing data, are fit-bits constantly supplying coordina…
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Comment #16233492
in American it's target is people who will die alone and the objective is cleaning up financially. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderl...
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Comment #16016421
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...