I'm only 2 paragraphs into the article and I can already see that Tim is low balling it. There's so much more in there that wasn't even covered. But I guess you can't spend pages and pages ripping it apart...
Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.
I'm only 2 paragraphs into the article and I can already see that Tim is low balling it. There's so much more in there that wasn't even covered. But I guess you can't spend pages and pages ripping it apart...
Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.
While I do think that using HIV is not in the best taste, I do think the analogy with STDs is a good one. Your shitty password on Facebook makes it more likely that scammers will gain access to more of my private information. That puts me in more danger and, in turn, makes it more likely that I will be scammed.
Then again, the analogy only makes sense if everyone is having sex with everyone else.
As a Bayesian, I have to point out that not only does our mind have a problem with probability but it's also not trivial to even define what one means by a statement like "Obama has a 85% chance of winning". For spinning coins, we can define the probability of heads by the frequency of heads in an ever-increasing number of coin spins. But the 2012 presidential is a non-repeatable event and all that breaks down.
I like that you call the world wide web a discovery and not an invention. :) I can totally see Tim Berners-Lee digging up the first ever seen chunk of world wide webinum.
The very title of the article already shows a lack of understanding about some of the issues with genetic information. Your genome is not just your genome. It also makes up a large part of the genome of your parents and your siblings and your children. You might be ok with doing whatever with your own genome today but your brother or your children and their children are going to have different considerations.
"People like me used to be auteurs... Now I'm supposed to beg for attention. It's completely counterintuitive to why I became a musician in the first place and the personality of someone like me."
I'm sorry Billy Corgan, I totally didn't hear you there. I was too busy watching stuff on Hulu, listening to music at Spotify, planning my next gathering at MeetUp, reading interesting articles on PLoS, posting on Facebook, and learning things at the Khan Academy. Please whine at me more about having to beg for attention, these headphone are just so I can hear you better.
I was at a Richard Stallman (of GNU and FSF fame) talk and someone asked him about possible legal issues with 3D printing technology. He completely blew off the question as not being relevant any time soon. I was disappointed to see his lack of vision into the very near future.
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same for games
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same for games
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voyeuristically
Does it strike anyone else that he's saying we do read your emails, we just don't derive sexual gratification from doing so?
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low balling it
Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.
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low balling it
Impressive troll is impressive. MacArthur really hits all the "high" points from neutral search to Google not having any cost to likening Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt to Hearst.
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herpes would make a better analogy
Then again, the analogy only makes sense if everyone is having sex with everyone else.
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Bayesian
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MAD
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discoveries
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I'm sorry Billy Corgan, I totally didn't hear you there. I was too busy watching stuff on Hulu, listening to music at Spotify, planning my next gathering at MeetUp, reading interesting articles on PLoS, posting on Facebook, and learning things at the Khan Academy. Please whine at me more about having to beg for attention, these headphone are just so I can hear you better.
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New Doogle
http://t.co/LR7Xio1r
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BBC Porn
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Stallman
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sparkle
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My neutrino modem was supposed to do that too but it looks like it was just hype.
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That is currently my favorite reason that people give for not caring about free speech. I hear it a lot. It's "sour grapes" for contrarians.
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