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Understanding the science is fundamentally different than being an expert on the subjects. I never claimed expertise, only that I can read the abstracts from both sets of journals …

Imagine a silicon brain that we create that is 10% more capable than our brain. It's nothing astounding, but it's smarter. And it has access to all knowledge within seconds. So thi…

You're a little unclear as to why it's called the singularity. It means a point so drastically different that we cannot predict what the world will look like after it happens. Howe…

Well, that statement was a lot more correct even just a few years ago. But we're starting to get a much better grasp on it. In the past 10 years or so we have learned more about ho…

I honestly haven't used mutt in a while, but I used to have a lot of issues with it. I should give it another go.

Are you kidding? Because I don't want to be a jerk, but you cannot have possibly thought that through.

You are missing a fundamental key difference. There is no profit in reaching the stars. Besides that, there are also no barriers that come close to the issues with the Physics and …

I get the new iMac this week, and I'm taking my current windows machine and turning it into a homebrew Steambox tomorrow. I'm using an Ikea dresser thing http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/…

Oh, you mean the way we did so with wolves to create the thousands of dog species that exist today. By this absurd logic, all dogs should go extinct.

Well, no, it's Fair Use. It's a legal defense, but since a news site would be hosting their own content, and editorializing, they would be be able to claim safe harbor. So a DMCA t…

Although a defense, Fair Use would certainly allow news organizations to publish those images without concern.

How would you make that case? There are plenty of restrictions on free speech as well as freedom of the press, which is far from absolute, and is most certainly regulated.

Thanks to google killing free Google Apps accounts, I won't get a chance to use this. It's really sad because this is exactly what I was looking for.

Yup, because here in Canada, we're a horribly oppressed people, and have no hope of ever gaining true freedom because we don't have guns. Please.

Because of the whole elitest nature of svblte, I actively go out of my way to ignore it. When the 'cool kid' in school doesn't want you to be in his group, you don't mimic him and …

I sleep 6.5, and usually I do not use an alarm, this is just my natural sleep schedule.

No, the GPL does not allow for further restrictions. The App Store doesn't care.

It doesn't seem to be working very well. I googled tit (it's a bird) and the only birds that showed up were of the human variety, sans tops.

Absolutely, as we see from the numbers, most iPhone apps aren't making a lot of money, so $400 + $100 for the app store access is simply dumb for an indie dev. Miguel is a very sma…

You're kinda unclear as to what the LTS stands for, aren't you?

Gods and simulators are very equal in my book. The key isn't that I don't believe in either (though it's true that I do not), it that both constructs (god and simulators) being com…

What would be the purpose of a simulation with so much pain and suffering. Where children get raped, flayed, abused, etc... And don't give me any of that matrix crap, that was only…

Were they Playing Demon Souls? I get pretty violent playing that game. Granted, I can easily kill every person in a far more violent game and frolic down the street. So I think the…