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> What if instead of connecting just 2 people’s brains together, we connected everyone’s brains like that to the internet? Would that mean that every human being on Earth would feel like they are just one small body part of a single, greater being?

I don't think that joining everyone's brains together would make everyone feel like a small body part of a single, greater being, because our brain architecture really wouldn't support that. You might be able to handle some shared "input" with another person or a small group of people (like these conjoined twins who share a thalamus[0]), but you're going to run into bandwidth issues pretty quickly given that there are only ~1-2 million nerves in each optic nerve[1]--if you're trying to split that 7 billion ways, you're going to have a difficult time getting coherent information through, let alone processing it.

The second major limitation to joining brains together is the speed of light--once we're able to open up communication between brains to allow "communicating via thoughts", we'll be communicating at the speed of our thoughts, which is much faster than physical speech. Connecting your brain with the brain of someone on the other side of the world might be a pretty disappointing experience because they wouldn't be nearly as responsive as someone physically nearby. Uploading brains and running them at higher "clock speeds" than biological hardware permits would make this limitation more significant, because you might subjectively experience a communication time lag that would feel like hours, days, or longer when connected to someone far away. In other words, there would be a limiting radius in physical reality for effective brain-connecting communication that varied depending on the speed of your subjective experience.

Those limitations aside, sign me up! Brain-AI merging and brain-brain communication are going to be the bees knees.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_and_Tatiana_Hogan#Progr...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_nerve#Structure
I buy Greek olive oil. I didn't do any serious research, but it tastes much better than Italian or Spanish counterparts bought locally. I've been to Greece and what I tasted there, wasn't much different from what I buy back home, so I suppose it's a real deal.

EDIT: I live in Europe, so it might be different in USA.
In a similar vein, a personal CRM for job searching
The videos are anecdotes. They either represent a larger pattern or they don't. If the victim is white, they don't represent a larger pattern.

Further reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-finds-police-f...
You mean "decent" as in "can't even show a plain image file without javascript"? Puh-lease.
Cryoshon - what's "Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett)" like, I picked it up in a bookshop the other day as it was in the 'recommended' but the title really put me off (too markety) - is it any good?
This is a great argument to whip people into a frenzy, but it's a little bit of a straw man. The US has labeling laws as well - it's not that the government doesn't care, it's that they're nearly impossible to enforce at scale. Without genetic analysis of literally every shipment, how is a regulatory authority to know what's what if the paperwork is otherwise "in order?"
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I have mixed feelings about Uber. On one side it takes a thick skin to go against the various taxi cartels (some of which are close to an organised mafia, like in Paris, where taxi drivers will not hesitate to physically assault competitors). And they do provide a better service.

On the other side I am not keen to see a mafia replaced by another mafia. There has been multiple stories about Uber bullying competitors. And this. And Uber also seems to be very much minded to milk the customer to the last penny. Introduction of peak pricing, Uber charging a cancellation fee when the driver cancels the ride, etc.
Could be a great opportunity to push OpenCL development but I guess the whole world is still on CUDA :( so not quite open?
Free trade requires harmonized regulation. If the EU adopts the less strict US regulations, the quality of food decreases.
Proving something correct is not a pancea either, although it can result in code that is generally "good enough". https://research.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all...

> I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley proved correct and subsequently tested in Chapter 5 of Programming Pearls contains a bug.
I've always been frustrated by the lack of government involvement in situations like this. Not specific to food but businesses in general.

I leave my car parked for an hour past when I'm supposed to - harming no one really - and I get a ticket. Meanwhile blatant fraud gets ignored?
But is tea distinguished by its terroir (like wine), or is it just a matter of cultivars (like bananas)? I.e. is Sri Lankan "Darjeeling" blind-taste-test-equivalent to Darjeeling from Darjeeling?

I can support a concept of "growing regions" for foods where the growing region matters; but otherwise, it's just bald monopolism.
Situations where people realise they have been decieved and decide to do something about it?
If his conclusion were true companies like Shapeways would only use cheap hobby printers. But ofcourse it is not.

It's far from a perfect analogy, but with servers Google demonstrated really well that the cost of high-end 'professional' equipment can be a waste of money where cheap, commodity kit can be used at scale instead. It's not completely unreasonable to think that a farm of cheap 3D printers could be used in place of one high-end model eventually.
Sorry, re-reading my comment, I didn't actually say it, but I agree that we need more data - I just meant we do have some data (with the privisos I noted).

Regarding Google-millionaire data: what percentage actually does keep working? We hear about those who do, but not of those who don't (eg Minecraft's Notch). "Newsflash: multi-millionaire relaxes" And, confounding factor: people who succeed amazingly well often keep doing whatever made them wealthy, well beyond financial satisfaction. At least, one hears of those cases - I don't actually know the percentage of how often, vs. those who take it easy. [Guess this is what brbsix meant]

Anecdatum: when I made enough from something I created, I quit. Yet, turns out I was happier before... so was probably a mistake to quit.
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> I think what you're describing is just fraud.

Fraud requires intent. Now, this extreme of bias would typically require said intent, sure. But let's say the experimenter has anterograde amnesia.

They get an idea, flip a coin - oh hey, it's heads! They publish the interesting result. They get an idea, flip a coin - oh, it was tails, nevermind that theory. They get an idea... each time, they don't remember that they've already attempted the theory. No intent, no fraud, just bias.

The good news is this is a pretty unlikely extreme in an individual. Anterograde amnesia is rare. The bad news is nobody can remember that someone else attempted a theory and came up with a negative result that they didn't bother to publish, and even individuals will have a hard time perfectly accounting for and preventing their own bias within a single study. The even worse news is that fraud exists as well.
There's a big difference between "TensorFlow is great, and Google Cloud is great, and you can bet your butt that TensorFlow will run well on GCE" than "Run TF and get locked in to GCE". In fact, as I read it, the selling point is actually much closer to:

"TensorFlow is great, GCE is great, the two work great together, and it's open source so you can trust that you _won't_ get locked in." In other words, no-lockin is a deliberate part of the value proposition of TF+GCE.
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It's 2 years old, but I finally read The Case for Reparations. There's a reason it made Coates into an international celebrity.

Even if you strongly agree or disagree already, read it. Even if you don't think you can get through it without breaking your TV, read it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
Fair; I called it such because I was bitter that they completely and unapologetically dropped T:A just as it was getting some momentum behind it simply to divert everyone onto SMITE. It felt like the next trend came along (MOBA) so they just completely abandoned T:A without a second thought.
That seems a bit too much.

In Greece, when you buy unlabelled bottles (dark green and sooo tasty) directly at a farmer's you pay about 8€. And that's probably a tourist-price.

I imagine that price is even lower when produced industrially, here austrian supermarkets you pay 3-5€ per bottle.
Ah, but that's only a one-directional test. Cheap oil is obviously not olive oil, but that doesn't help you choose in the supermarket aisle if the expensive oil is also not olive oil.

(And, in fact, the expensive oil being the fake is rather the whole point: the Italian Mafia wants to sell something cheap as something expensive and capture the margin; there's no point in just selling something cheap as something cheap.)
> You can make some serious money and build a very comfortable life running a $300k to $1m dollar business, and your chances of succeeding at that are much greater.

This is gold. This is an end result I can see a path to, which gives me clear goals to work towards.
Pokemon Go isn't made by Google, it's made by Niantic. Niantic were originally linked to Google, but have been independent since October 2015.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.
It’s easy for Merkel to insist that Italy has to strictly follow EU rules since she doesn’t have to win an Italian election.

The Euro just seems like a complete failure. Giant economies are limping along with 20% unemployment, unable to recover 8 years after the recession. In contrast the US has managed an OK recovery, now closing in on full employment.

The problem is that each EU national leader is accountable only to voters in their own country. When countries have opposite interests there’s no good way for resolving the disagreement.

The only way it could work would be if Europe-wide economic policy were made by the European Parliament so that taxation and bank regulation would be made coherently across the continent by accountable representatives. But voters, probably correctly, want to maintain national control. But that makes the shared currency a noose.
I had the same effect, moving to japan. It's insane how much better the food is here, compared to Australia.
>good for everyone else

Except for those who have their pensions stored in Renaissance's own pension fund, hah!
Okay, thank you. I'll have to read a summary of the thing so that I know more.
Not really, and I can't say I blame them - the amount of work, resources, and various research fields you'd need in order to maintain such a database would be pretty big. Plus, it seems like it'd be a legal nightmare, even if the site was in the right 100% of the time legally and scientifically.

Basically, as much as I would like something like that, it seems to me that the cost would be too great to maintain well and the necesary knowledge for the site to have would also be great. Even if they relied on volunteer research, it's still a lot to aggregate, and also probably easily subverted with UPC updates, brand switching, and consumer apathy. Plus, I'm' not entirely sure that it would have the intended effect of making people demand higher quality food.

I'm trying to find the report, but I recall reading that after being on a diet of canned and other low quality foods for a long time, a person can become averse to fresh foods, preferring the taste of the lower quality foods just because it's what they're mentally used to - a peach tastes like "this" (canned in syrup), not like a fresh peach. Spinach is "bad" because it's slimy and has no texture (frozen spinach), not like good fresh and tasty spinach.

Given how used we are to the olive oils and fish and such, I do wonder if we'd have the otherworldly experience or if we'd more wonder why our olive oil has a weird taste and why our sushi tastes different.
Author here, do note that device access and access to all previously setup passwords and PINs is required for this to work. It still beats the purpose of the HSM though. The article explains this a bit more in the #Rationale section. Happy to answer questions or comments.
Because TTIP is heavily influenced by the lobbying of big multinationals, the Monsanto's and the likes. As a result it favors the big food companies over small local producers. Eventually TTIP will lead to less local variety of food products and more food that is imported and therefore less fresh.
I havnt applied yet, but I'm treated very well(better than locals in most cases).

I have yet to see any discrimination, compared to Australia where my wife(Japanese) regularly had issues.
Does it ask you to login all the time too? My session gets expired very quickly.
Not in order

1 - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

2 - The Trial (Franz Kafka)

3 - Beyond the door (Philip K Dick - short story)

4 - The eyes have it (Philip K Dick - short story)

5 - Seven brief lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli)

6 - I have no mouth, and I must scream (Herlan Ellison - short story)

7 - The art of simplicity (Dominique Loreau)

8 - On anarchism (Noam Chomsky)

9 - The difference engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)

10 - Utopia (Thomas More)

11 - Sophie's world (Jostein Gaarder)

12 - Rete padrona (Federico Rampini - essays about the 'dark side' of the corporate web)

13 - The art of discarding (Nagisa Tatsumi)

14 - Symposium (Plato)

And a couple of very short philosophy booklets by Zizek (about the Matrix) and Baudrillard (about 'cyberphilosophy')
I know this is crazy, but you can taste it :-) Of course, most people don't know what olive oil should taste like, but it really has a wide flavour range. Buy a selection of small bottles and simply taste them (possibly with some nice bread and a little salt if you don't like drinking oil straight up).

I highly recommend trying olive oil from other countries as well. It's really an eye opener. Once you get some experience it's pretty easy to spot good olive oil. It's a bit like beer. Some people love American lite beer (and more power to them), but if you compare an all malt lager with a single variety noble hop to a light beer with 30% rice/corn and a mishmash of 8 nondescript hops (or isomerised hop extract) it doesn't require a discerning palette to detect the difference.

Interestingly, I have been wondering for about 10 years now about how ridiculously cheap balsamic vinegar has shown up in the super market. Buy a bottle of 30 year old balsamico and compare it to the cheap stuff and I suspect you will wonder (like me), "Is this really balsamic vinegar???"
Except my phone does not have the update yet (note 3). I really need to root this sucker.
No Brexit Without Free Parliamentary Vote, U.K. Lawyers Urge
So, then maybe if you're so exceptional you should state these things up front rather than to add them afterwards to bolster your position.

23andme is there for the general consumer, not for you specifically.

Of course there are exceptions to every rule, I'm well aware of that and accept that there may be some extreme edge cases for which 23andme makes sense. But you make it seem like your situation is 'normal satisfied consumer' at first and then add more and more information to move it into 'extremely exceptional satisfied consumer' territory.

> I spotted a second cousin in the ancestry components of the list, and the maternal components match exactly with what I know.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
The bizarre "genius" of x86 is that exactly that thing gets done in microcode as a special case.
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Because currently the USDA and FDA equivalents in EU actually work, and the laws that require food inspections are stricter. The worry is that TTIP market access policies will force uniform, lowest-common-denominator rules, eliminating european food QA policies.
I've read, at the behest of my spouse, The Hobbit and the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings. As someone who was never really "into" the whole world Tolkien had created, I must say I was won over by the end. Who wouldn't want to be a hobbit? At least, a hobbit who is not Frodo.

Every year or two I give a light reading to Andy Hertzfeld's compilation "Revolution in the Valley", which is a print edition of many (and probably some extras) of the stories available on www.folklore.org

I am also midway through "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (Robert M. Pirsig) and I must recommend it. It's got a lot of philosophy in it that I think is both accessible and transcendent all at once. It's actively changing my world view.

In terms of skills acquired, I don't typically read for that purpose. I learn skills primarily by active work, not passive ingestion of information.
Link to the paper?
h is left because it is on the left of the movement keys, l is right because it is on the right of the movement keys... a fairly convenient correspondence.
A lot of interesting titles floating around in this thread!

How do you guys choose your next book or Where do you find out those books which peak in the 'interestingness' factor?

Especially, those which are non-technical,fiction, pseudo-fiction etc..
If you can't increase the number of tests, increase the punishment and let it affect the entire chain from supermarket to producer. You want being found guilty of a violation to be a nightmare scenario that will end people's careers and entire companies.
>I'm not confident that is the case. It sounds wrong to me because although I accept that our grandparents were far more physically active than we are it is known that exercise burns calories at a low rate. Exercise has always been a bad way to lose weight. It has always been easier to lose weight by eating less. You could skip the gym for two days by neglecting to eat half a mars bar.

I don't want to call you out for exaggerating, but you are approaching exaggeration by orders of magnitude. A mars bar is under 300 calories.

For me? a 6', 210lb man? bicycling for one hour at 14-16MPH is gonna burn well north of 900 kcals. (Note, this is completely reasonable at my fitness level, though I need to carry water; I'll consume a litre during that time period, and judging from the condition of my clothing, excrete it from my skin; without it I make it about 20 minutes and then slow to 8mph. As far as I can tell, if you are carrying around as much spare weight as I am, there's no reason to use gels or really worry about eating extra before or during the ride; but the water is essential to performance.)

Check out some numbers for walking:

http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwalking.htm

My point here is just that cardio is a real thing. And it takes time and effort and sweat, (oh my god, the sweat) but it is a real thing, and one of the interesting bits is that the fatter you are, the more you burn doing any cardio activity.

I'd bet money that the increased caloric intake of our ancestors is entirely explained by their increased physical activity.
From a white, middle class background. I am one of six children, and while my parents made a decent living, six children meant that money was always tight. Still, my Mom taught us the importance of good manners and being able to speak properly. She did this because she thought it was the right thing to do, and because she knew we didn't have the same financial advantages as other people.

I learned an important lesson about this in my very early twenties when I applied for a summer internship at a local firm. There were only two interviews: one with engineering and one with the owner. The owner gave me the internship on the spot not because of my qualifications, but because he liked the way I dressed and spoke. His words to me were something along the lines of "I feel comfortable putting you in front of our clients."

One of the reasons poverty is so disabling is because it changes the way a lot of people ( but not all people ) carry themselves. People from wealthier backgrounds often present better and get first crack at opportunities as a result. Note that when I say "present", I am talking about mostly superficial qualities, not level of education, skill, or other deeper qualities.

Anyone can learn to present themselves the right way, with respect to speaking, dressing, and credentials - although it's extra work and extra cost for those who have already fought very hard for their chance to climb the ladder.
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Look, as somebody that's lived many years in Europe and in US, the situation is incomparable. I don't know why - either you have crappy laws, or you have crappy enforcement. If you read the article, it claims both. The FDA has super-low requirements to do anything - and manages to do even less than required to.

The european market is significantly bigger than US one (380m people) but manages to have much better labeling standards.
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From what I understand, it'll ask a new login if the servers crash between usage sessions of the app. I've not had to log in today, for example, but yesterday I had to two or so times. The login bug is relatively low-priority to me - all it does is force me to switch to the 2FA app and then untick the music in settings. Compared to other bugs, that's trivial.

I'm still occasionally seeing bugs with gyms - for example, instantly kicking me back to the gym screen as soon as I try to battle - but that's fixable by going and battling another gym. I've yet to see a way to solve the other big gym bug wherein enemies stay at 1hp but never die or do anything until the timer runs out.

Otherwise, the standard client/server sync bugs (pokeballs sitting on screen doing nothing if you lose server connectivity during capturing it) and client-side bugs (battery saver mode cuasing the game to become completely unresponsive to touch sometimes when you bring it back by turning your phone upright again) are the main gripes.
> Also, engineers working on medical devices, avionics, robotics, finance, etc. probably get to prove the correctness of their code.

Some might, but the relevant ISO standards are ok with testing if you reach sufficient coverage, so generally testing is all that's happening.
>It's difficult to tell if your ev-olive oil is fake without chromatography/spectroscopy equipment but some people try

Sorry if I'm asking something obvious, but if it's that difficult to tell, what is the downside of using a fake?
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Because he did what he did even though he knew it was bad to do what he did, and now he is telling us what is the right thing to do. It is clearly described in the article!

What is not clear is if what he is telling us now is the really right thing to do, or if in 30 years time (he'll be just 120!), he will tell us what it is that we really should be doing.