I wish google implemented captchas for sending me email.
How does that work?
Well, if you, the unverified person, wished to send me an email, Google would send an email back containing a captcha. If you solve the captcha, you would enter my "first-line-of-defense whitelist", and the e-mail gets sent to me. Needless to say: otherwise, your e-mail would end up in/dev/null.
Indeed. It is the task of scientists to actually make sure that every group is represented equally. If that is possible. And otherwise they should come up with conditions that are somehow fair.
However, I suspect that every new application requires the method to be applied differently. Also, for every new application, other attack vectors might be possible so it is crucial to sort these out. Just thinking.
Actually, it doesn't mean that people who are _only_ nice will actually survive all the time. Perhaps you need to have a healthy "mix" of altruism and egotism in order to have the highest chances of survival.
So something tells me this book actually is a one-sided story.
We need to turn our fake democracy into a real one, where our voice is actually being listened to. And I believe us "nerds" can actually make this happen.
What we need is a moderated forum (perhaps like Slashdot) integrated into congress, and MCs being required to spend at least X hours per day on this forum answering questions. The moderation system has to be designed by academics, such that the system prevents abuse and unjustified censoring by design.
Also, we need a better voting system (since uneducated people ruin democracy, e.g., by being susceptible to populist sentiment). Perhaps something along the lines of PageRank, where each voter selects N random people he/she trusts, and from the gigantic graph that results we can derive mathematically the outcome of the election. Of course, here also academics are needed to design the system and prevent abuse.
We can simulate one-dimensional problems without much problems.
Perhaps the simulator we are "living" in is built in a 6-dimensional world (or even higher). A computer in that world would have no problems simulating a 4-dimensional space-time.
Here are some other questions, related to this "creationist" theory:
1. In how many dimensions is this supposed simulator living? 2. Is the simulator itself embedded inside another simulator? 3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions? 4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
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I wish google implemented captchas for sending me email.
How does that work?
Well, if you, the unverified person, wished to send me an email, Google would send an email back containing a captcha. /dev/null.
If you solve the captcha, you would enter my "first-line-of-defense whitelist", and the e-mail gets sent to me.
Needless to say: otherwise, your e-mail would end up in
If a sender continues to send you email after you tried to unsubscribe from their messages, new messages from this sender will go directly to Spam.
But what if the sender is, e.g., MailChimp?
Will this blacklist MailChimp?
Many companies use a third party to send their newsletters.
Given all the governmental fuck-ups lately, I'm surprised we haven't seen any missiles being launched inadvertently.
And it is only compatible with letterboxes from one company.
I wonder when we can buy the first DIY gut-flora-transplant-kits from kickstarter.
Can't they retarget those IMAX movies for use with the Oculus.
I know it's not 360 degrees, but one could *simulate* that one is sitting inside an IMAX theatre, I suppose.
Menus should have been solved by now.
Is there any compelling reason for them to "stick" with something?
Try changing your keyboard-layout every day, and then after a few days you should understand.
Don't worry too much about UI designers.
Once we have the self-driving car with voice control, there will be no UI left to design.
Indeed. It is the task of scientists to actually make sure that every group is represented equally. If that is possible. And otherwise they should come up with conditions that are somehow fair.
Here is an interesting link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Very loosely stated, Arrow proved that under some modeling conditions, "democracy" is not "fair" (read the article for a deeper explanation).
So if democracy is broken AND not fair to begin with, I'd say that we'd better start looking for a system that is not broken and possibly more fair.
However, I suspect that every new application requires the method to be applied differently. Also, for every new application, other attack vectors might be possible so it is crucial to sort these out. Just thinking.
Actually, it doesn't mean that people who are _only_ nice will actually survive all the time.
Perhaps you need to have a healthy "mix" of altruism and egotism in order to have the highest chances of survival.
So something tells me this book actually is a one-sided story.
We need to turn our fake democracy into a real one, where our voice is actually being listened to.
And I believe us "nerds" can actually make this happen.
What we need is a moderated forum (perhaps like Slashdot) integrated into congress, and MCs being required to spend at least X hours per day on this forum answering questions. The moderation system has to be designed by academics, such that the system prevents abuse and unjustified censoring by design.
Also, we need a better voting system (since uneducated people ruin democracy, e.g., by being susceptible to populist sentiment).
Perhaps something along the lines of PageRank, where each voter selects N random people he/she trusts, and from the gigantic graph that results we can derive mathematically the outcome of the election. Of course, here also academics are needed to design the system and prevent abuse.
The US, land of the free! (*)
(*) applies iff you are the CEO of a MegaCorp.
Passenger treated like dirt by airport staff. News at 11!
Like Google buying Nest.
Finally a car-analogy that isn't!
We can simulate one-dimensional problems without much problems.
Perhaps the simulator we are "living" in is built in a 6-dimensional world (or even higher).
A computer in that world would have no problems simulating a 4-dimensional space-time.
But how do two distinct points in space-time know to use the same mathematics?
Here are some other questions, related to this "creationist" theory:
1. In how many dimensions is this supposed simulator living?
2. Is the simulator itself embedded inside another simulator?
3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions?
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
Another idea: try to generate an overflow, or division by zero.
What could possibly go wrong?
Next up: AppleCare Health Insurances (*)
(*) only people in the intended target population can apply; your iWatch can tell you;
the rest can find themselves another insurance company.
1. Build large nuclear power plant on the moon.
2. Use strongest laser to beam power to earth.
Alternatively,
1. Build large solar plant
2. Bring it into space
3. Send it towards the Sun
4. Use strongest laser to beam power to earth.
(Warning: please think this over first; this was just me brainstorming.)
An extension to TCP/IP is needed, where each packet contains a flag stating that it should not enter US-governed networks.
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."