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majmun··on Seattle drinking den bans Google Glass geeks
They also sell drinks and probably don't allow others to sell drinks in there.
majmun··on Do these conjoined twins share consciousness?
If you show picture to one head. does other one know what it was?
majmun··on Uber Partners and Drivers
I don't see reason why same (or better) security measures that are present in normal cabs can't be implemented in uber. Maybe there are already?
majmun··on Hello. I'm a compiler
Compiler got AI human language capabilities?
majmun··on Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers
theoretically it coul be run by autonomous agent. hosted as tor service.
majmun··on Cars and Robust Cities Are Fundamentally Incompatible
This model of car centric city would be more and more common as man enters uninhabitable outdoor environments. so there would be benefit of starting to adapt to it right now with improving car indoor expirience like drive-ins and not making it harder with car prohibitions and taxing. With personal cars you will have more degrees of freedom than with trains, busses etc.
majmun··on Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza
there will be order pizza API in future

if( dateTime.Now == friday ) { orderPizza(pizzaType, pizzaSize); }

majmun··on Manufacturing a Renaissance with 3D Printing
call me when 3d printers would be able to print itself from materials found in nature.
majmun··on Do we live in a computer simulation? UW researchers say idea can be tested
this happens when you die, universe segfaults, or it continues running in hell, limbus or heaven. depends on where it lands. hell has 9 rings. goal is to end up in ring 0 . heaven
majmun··on This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML
Why is this a bad thing? and not a good thing
majmun··on A technique for hiding your JavaScript code
bonus points for hiding data in existing image without modifying it.
majmun··on Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
timeouts of few seconds are decent alternative to captcha. they can't be beaten.
majmun··on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Yeah I read that, but nobody seems to mention what coding and project management practices were used in development of this software.

If this software is really done by military then it's development process was following some strict military standards and regulation. and should be similar to existing other software.

Regulations like : How is software partitioned to modules? What interfaces it is using? Are this novel or existing techniques? and things like that.

majmun··on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Are there any clues , how many people worked on stuxnet and flame.coding style methodology, how this project was managed etc. ? (Im still not convinced that this is from goverment)
majmun··on Birds may be paedomorphic dinosaurs
That what first crossed my mind (because of theory of Polymorphism that I'm developing) , but maybe not because genetic mutation over time may have damaged the necessary DNA. Possibliy you can switch some gene and get deformed lifesize dinosaur.
majmun··on On developing deep programming knowledge
This kind of knowledge most likely comes from reverse engineering the binaries.
majmun··on Germany sets new solar-power record
How many energy was consumed building this thing? and in what time will this power plant produce same amount of energy?
majmun··on "The descent of Edward Wilson" (by Richard Dawkins)
no i don't have explicit quote. but this is what it boils down to. What else could it mean?
majmun··on "The descent of Edward Wilson" (by Richard Dawkins)
1. yes 2. this article quote: "That’s differential group survival. But you’d never say of any part of a squirrel that it evolved to promote the welfare of the grey squirrel over the red. Wilson wouldn’t say anything so silly about squirrel"
majmun··on "The descent of Edward Wilson" (by Richard Dawkins)
I think Dawkins believes that genes are being manipulated not cells. But Dawkins disagrees that this genes (that cascadly manipulate reality) contain information about reality beyond cells, like for example different groups dynamics. While this other guy thinks the opposite. (Thats what i get from his squirels example.

Dawkins has hypothesis that evolution is "blind" process, so if this is true than it would probably collapse.

majmun··on Quantum physicists show small bit of randomness can be amplified without limit
My view is that of Copenhagen interpretation. where this randomness is also not the part of objective reality.

Many-worlds interpretation is even more extreme and less proven than view that reality is by nature random

majmun··on Quantum physicists show small bit of randomness can be amplified without limit
"In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states a fundamental limit on the accuracy with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In layman's terms, the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be controlled, determined, or known."

It doesn't tells us that physical process is fundamentaly random (as in that randomness is objective reality)

majmun··on Quantum physicists show small bit of randomness can be amplified without limit
Part of this article is bullshit, there is nothing "fundamentally random" about physical processes. It is just that you can't measure it without disturbing it. so you must use probability to help you.
majmun··on Using A Slime-Mold To Calculate Minimum Spanning Trees
Next step : connect slime-mold to virtual reality , and expose API for it.
majmun··on ZTE Backdoor
You make it more stealth.
majmun··on This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like
Why are you supposed to test on all device types? Couldn't be possible to find the one or few devices that combined have all the properties that all other devices has and test on them only.
majmun··on Humiliation in Startups
i wonder how you didn't notice this while developing app.
majmun··on South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago
In addition south korea is one of the most pwned countries on the internet. (based on latest antivirus vendors reports. )
majmun··on Timeline of the far future
Still this paradox is too detached from reality, maybe for its time it was smart. How can we know what is the chance of universe create brain and how many brains there will be per universe? How can we know that universe fluctuation is less likely than brain fluctuation? without this numbers we know nothing.

Universe filled with many brains fluctuation can be more simple than brain fluctuation. Fluctuations may also happen in environment that doesn't even have atoms that are needed for brain , but will have atoms that are needed for universe. Maybe this atoms needed for brain can only be created by universe fluctuation.

If we assume all this unknowns and create our imaginary universe yes there can be more brains in it than universes.

majmun··on Timeline of the far future
This is simply not possible (maybe in star trek), because self-aware brain requires certain kind of environment to exist into. so if there is brain there is organized environment. probability that boltzman brain exist is 0%. probability that self-aware brain in an orginized environment exists : 100% probability that Bible exists in a some unimaginable place far far away: unknown.

Anyway what is the point of this (Boltzman brain paradox)? (or point that was supposed to be?)

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