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Re:A Layman’s Intro to Western Classical Music on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:08PM (#16950408)
Schönberg was Austrian.
Re:Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse on Saturday January 27, 2018 @05:09PM (#16248377)
Anyone writing opioid epidemics only happen in the US is either poorly informed or is intellectually dishonest. I assume the second here, since this reads like contemporary agitprop.
Re:The impact of German Romantics on the artist on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @01:17PM (#13419731)
Hah! I'm not sure what the first recorded instance is, but the act of coming up with a definition is an act of inclusion/exclusion. [edit for clarity]
Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:31PM (#13132121)
Might be a good thing to resubmit and test out the detox effects :)
Re:Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit on Thursday December 08, 2016 @01:39AM (#13128825)
The sides the hexagon are slightly greater than the diameter of Earth.
Re:The Future of Privacy on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @06:10PM (#13119087)
Thanks, that was great. Found on his blog http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003_01_01_archive.htm...
Re:Show HN: Stop the Bullshit on Sunday November 20, 2016 @01:42PM (#13000335)
While I like the friendly notification/explanation, any tool targeting fake news should do a little better in establishing its own credibility. You want to persuade, not block. I'm not sure the dollar amount is enough. We see it in these very comments: show the user a sample of obvious falsehoods they published. This way you could probably come up with a threshold where you just give up.
Re:Why the World Needs WikiLeaks on Friday November 18, 2016 @12:47AM (#12984635)
Their motivations are irrelevant. Proving politicians are hypocrites is easier than finding metaphors in the bible. Their releases have undeniably been assimilated by one candidate using WL's credibility and flavor of scandal. WL went along with it.

"Troves" don't have signatures. Omissions and context matter. See the ICIJ approach.

Re:Why the World Needs WikiLeaks on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:56PM (#12984479)
Mind explaining the logic?
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you? on Monday October 03, 2016 @04:19PM (#12630967)
Source is clearly from experience. My experience agrees with his/her conclusion.
Hard not to get angry about a comment like yours. The WWW did have a founding philosophy, one that was as close as you can get to "open web" without having lived through the ad industry takeover.

Edit: Does someone actually need to point out what Tim Berners-Lee has been talking about for some years now? Or where the original "stack" comes from? Are we all either SV fodder or Stallmans now?

Re:AI’s Language Problem on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:28PM (#12256728)
In fact it is a very hard engineering problem, which doesn't exclude a "philosophical" one. There's a line of research surrounding anthropomimetic robots with the specific task of studying cognition, going back at least a decade.
NASA is definitely hitting its stride on the PR side, considering the date. Good for them.
Sapolsky is a brilliant teacher. Lots of his lectures on youtube, all worth watching.

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