that's really the cherry on top of all of it. my 50 cents are, that all the ecosystem hype in the desktop space sides with os x. all the new fancy tools are done for os x and ios and android. i'm sure 99% at google, fb, github, stackoverflow etc. use macs, while the other 1% still believes that thinkpads are still the same thing as they used to be 10 years ago. and the those on thinkpads probably use linux (ubuntu, mint, elementary etc.) because honestly, who can live without a decent shell? why do windows users still bother?
This is _very_ clever! For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically impossible for non-argentinian companies and individuals to buy property in Argentina (thanks to the founder of Benetton). However, right now it's the perfect climate to invest in the country bc prices are down. So ye guy buys a huge taxi fleet. Very clever.
This is _very_ clever! For anyone who doesn't know, it's basically impossible for non-argentinian companies and individuals to buy property in Argentina (thanks to the founder of Benetton). However, right now it's the perfect climate to invest in the country bc prices are down. So ye guy buys a huge taxi fleet. Very clever.
Well you know, when he was like 12-15 he co-drafted the first rss spec as well as the first spec for the creative commons licences. I don't know what you did at that age, but I mainly played Counter Strike and programmed clan websites...
i thought the same. then i watched it. it's really well-made and you learn much more about aaron than by the media coverage it received way back when. it's on youtube, so you don't even have to pay/torrent/whatever it.
The same as if there were a visual difference between them: none. GitHub doesn't detect anything besides changes of the file hash. But that suffices for it do display the two images in the new image viewer.
I appreciate your opinion, because its food for thought, which is always great. Actually, it's really hard to refute your point after giving it some thought. But then again, I am pretty sure that there is a difference. I think it lies in the "universality" of our knowledge creation capabilities. In the end, we (humans) are the ones who fathered (mothered?) the algorithms driving the chess computer. I.e. we discovered an alternative way to reason about problems arising in a play of chess. It turns out, that the alternative solution we discovered, is actually better suited to make a successful move than the one humans use when reasoning about chess problems. This is because there is no "fundamental principle" of a successful chess move. It's all just predictions down different branches of possibilities. This is something a computer is naturally much better at than a human brain. Compare this to problems in different domains, those that cannot be modeled with our mathematical tool set: creativity, morality, consciousness, etc. Those a random concepts that may exist on different levels of emergence, but they are nonetheless real, or at least i'd say there is a consensus among most people that these phenomena have a bearing in reality.
The assumption that our brains are nothing but glorified (bio-) computers naturally leads to the conclusion that there is not a single thing humans can do, that cannot be done by any other equally capable computing platform, be it implemented in silicon-based or dna-based hardware. While I agree with this assumption, you shouldn't be so quick as to assume that we are already at the point where we can effectively re-implement the software which defines a human on any platform. There are a still "hard" problems of which we have no clue at all how to model them, even conceptually. The fact that we can do statistical analysis on an ordinary computer superior to a human doesn't mean much.
consciousness, i.e. the thing that you are and what comprises everything that makes you you, is an emergent property of the interplay of all those little particles you're made up of. the preservation of those individual constituents according to the laws of physics bears no relevance at all regarding the question what will be preserved of you in any meaningful way. the answer of course, is nothing. deal with it. it's painful, but we will overcome it someday, when we're ready to deal with the implications of it.