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..and people call me a dreamer.

1. They will start saving: No. They won't. They will have what little money they have put into a system outside of their control and systematically syphoned away.
2. The benefits of saving are not something people need to learn; the benefits of saving money are harder to justify to someone who isn't already wholly dependant on it (and maybe even perceives it as a tool used against his people for centuries).
3. True, but I fail to see a major difference between a government and corrupt middle men. Most government people run businesses, is that the same in India? Conflict of interest?
4. The 2000's called...give it a couple years and whatever legislation you think protects the poor will be watered down, eroded away, or completely worked around.

The textbook justifications for predatory capitalism don't work anymore. I'm sorry, but the more involved the poor are in finance, the more they are preyed upon; because there is opportunity and reward. Taking candy from a baby.

"Positive-spillover". FFS.
I'm really excited about huginn as an open alternative.
A quote: "KnIT is a collaboration between IBM and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. It is the latest step into a weird world where autonomous machines make discoveries that are beyond scientists, simply by rifling more thoroughly through what we already know, and faster than any human can."

This is a great breakthrough. The system should be let loose on psychology papers -- it could read everything published in the last 30 years and conclude, "These people can't agree on anything, even the meaning of common terms."
The UI needs more love and kittens. I should really get off my butt and send in more PRs though :(
I seriously doubt that, it should have been pretty easy to integrate other services besides G+. The truth is probably that authorship info sucks for many users, and this isn't news either https://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decrea...
> I can't see anything unethical in that

You don't know how it will affect the life of the test subject.

Same reason why experimenting with raising a child by never letting him hear anything for ten years (to test how brain would work) is unethical.
Why use 'regular Lua'?

Never forget that Lua doesn't have to be an operating-system-available install; the LuaVM lives in many, many other contexts than scriptability and execution-at-shell. Lua-based applications can be bundled into any .EXE, .app, .deb, .ipa package, as required .. and in this case, the place for it is in a very small, tight Linux VM node host, which can be spooled in the thousands at will/as needed.

Opinion: As I personally have a strong interest in seeing Lua (and things like it) being used as the principle wrapping for next-gen OS's, stuff like this is terribly exciting. :)
Feels like I'm a kid and I've just been told Santa Claus is made up.
Alcor is specifically structured for longevity - their money is invested to provide long term (longer than human life) returns to ensure their operation. As it is, ongoing maintenance is cheap - they receive a delivery of liquid nitrogen every week IIRC, which is used to top up the dewars, but it is weeks to months between required top ups, with no power required.
There is almost no science in studies like this. There are so many variables, that you'd need to collect hundreds of thousands of data points to narrow down the influence on just a couple of variables... and even then, you can't be sure you've found something significant and meaningful. To do science, you need controlled experiments, and these are practically impossible to do with people. Even the well-known psychological "experiments" have been disputed in the recent years [1] [2].

[1]: parapsychology experiments cannot be disproved http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...

[2]: "The Stanford Prison Experiment was flawed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073748
Long term investment. When your timescale is longer than a human life, suddenly that becomes a lot easier to generate money. Remember that the longest term 'normal' investment funds (outside of banks and individual special cases like Nintendo's $10bn in the bank that is estimated to allow it to survive as a loss maker for 38 years) are probably pensions, which are generally a 50-70 year timeframe.
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For a view slightly less likely to be biased, see the Cryonics FAQ:

http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html
I think you should focus on programming itself and learn how the compiler works also master one of version control systems. Once you understand the idea behind the programming languages, it's easy to understand different languages. As people said, 10 years from now, your best language may be out of date but the basics will be same.
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No. Most folk fear death. If the reason that folk got froze was just because they were rich people who feared death, then a lot more of the rich would be doing it.

I think many folk who do this are showing a level of extreme bloody mindedness combined with a completely ridiculous gambling streak, that I do sort of respect.

I mean, even if it does work, or even worse, half works, you have no fucking clue what madness awaits. The chances of ending up in some Cold Lazarus lab experiment seem to be not completely discountable, seeing that is nearly what you are paying for.
I recommend this book. It's really entertaining and thought provoking. I remember carrying a die everywhere a few weeks after reading this book, in order to add some randomness to my decisions. Silly, but fun!
Why not just do it like any other medical process, namely extensive animal trials before even considering human? Then why not a trial on a human volunteer who dies in the present day being preserved for a month and then revived, followed by increasing lengths to build confidence and a data base to ensure the process is perfect for the patients?
The point is that seamless peer-to-peer hasn't happened, at the OS level. If Dropbox' NS servers go splooey, there goes your backup.

However if me and every family member want to share our own private files, internally across the vast Internet, without any 3rd-party interaction - i.e. really peer-to-peer, only the open-source/3rd-party-app route works, feasibly, at the moment.

Which is what I mean when I say that I think that OS designers are asleep at the wheel; or, perhaps, brain-dead. An OS which does point to point encryption across untrusted networks, successfully, and which wraps up the whole thing in a workable GUI provided by the OS vendor .. its just not there yet. I suppose soon, though.
>It's a pretty long, annoying process to become a member, but I'd recommend it if you'd prefer not to die.

The thing that always disappoints me whenever I read about cryogenic freezing is that people seem to have to already be dead before anyone is allowed to freeze them.

From the article:

>Just after his legal death was declared Thursday at 9 a.m., Finney’s body was flown to a facility... As of Thursday night, Finney’s blood and other fluids were being removed from his body and slowly replaced with a collection of chemicals... Over the next few days, the temperature of his body will be slowly lowered to -320 degrees Fahrenheit.

I always thought that the great selling point of cryo was that if you have some incurable-by-today's-science condition and you are shortly about to die, then you could be frozen instead, and then unfrozen and promptly cured many years later once someone has figured out a reliable treatment.

Isn't waiting until you are already clinically dead before having yourself frozen missing the point?
Currently 'the plate is full': D is full of features and many of them are not finished/polished so I doubt that they will add such kind of feature in the near future..
He waited a day or two to be frozen after he died. Doesn't that mean his brain will have already suffered massive damage from oxygen deprivation and be unrecoverable? I thought you would have to freeze yourself before your brain begins to destroy itself. However, that may mean doing it before you die, which could be illegal (assisted suicide) in the US.
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You can get a neuropreservation for ~$75,000[1]. It also might be preferable in many cases as if you're old, you don't really want to be brought back with an old and decrepit body even if future medical technology allows an improved quality of life, having a new body that is non-aged would be preferable. The technology to regrow the majority of the body isn't that far off in the timescale that cryonics thinks in.

[1] As it is, the vast majority of people pay via life insurance rather than directly, both because it's far cheaper, and because there are risks in paying directly as the money could get caught up in a legal battle, while the patent's brain is rotting all the while.

Neuropreservation also allows a better preservation in many cases as newer preservation methods and technologies are often only applied to neuropatients first, before becoming available for whole body patients later.

I'm personally interested in neuropreservation. The only thing I have to lose in my body is my tattoos (which I would be sad to lose, but it would be worth it to live again and be young again), and which I would reproduce on my new body anyway.

If you say "people shouldn't spend their money on things they want to because it could be spent on other people", I seriously hope you don't have a house, nice car, food over basic subsistence level, etc. at the risk of you coming off as a massive hypocrite.
How well do you know "Ms. Rice"? Personally? Professionally? Politically? Psychologically?

Ms. Rice, and her associates, were responsible for committing acts of open war on another country and in so doing violated - criminally - much international as well as national law. Charges at the ICC mean something. Such individuals, no matter what, should not be allowed more access to the masses until they have answered for their crimes.

The fact that this is of no consequence to someone who 'publically defends Ms. Rice' may not surprise me. She must answer to crimes against humanity, sir! This is why she should not be associated with the Western worlds growing fascination for documenting itself ..
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Well, my long-term experience is different. The time you've spent on old languages is never really lost.

Every language that you learn and abandon, makes you understand the next one much quicker. Furthermore, you learn the appreciate the new constructs and idioms that new language brings. The new language usually also supports all the old constructs that you got used to in the past. So, you can always fall back on those too.

Concerning computer science, and especially compiler construction, indeed as you wrote, it applies equally everywhere.

After six years of relatively easy money of mostly delegating PHP work to others, I moved on to nodejs this year. I am not that keen on delegating node work at this time, because I want to play a bit more with it by myself.
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I don't know if it's just me but, how the hell do you nap?! I tried once, and I was still wide awake when my alarm that was supposed to wake me up from my hour long nap went off. I'd have to be really drunk, or not have slept for days in order to nap. I don't understand how people just nap on queue, I feel like I'm missing a trick here :(
I should add that, during siesta, many people fall sleep in front of the TV. In July, the Tour de France is perfect for that, due to the beautiful scenery and the flow of the race.
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Fine – that frozen body is an asset. But any random frozen body is not.
You might enjoy Isaac Asimov's short story: The Last Question

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

I recommend you read the whole thing, but if you're looking for a plot summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question#Plot_summary
Among other things, the statements of Crimean Ukrainians and Tatars who have since then fled the place? If you were not part of the Russian majority you very much have to keep your head down.
We already have that 'fridge' in the form of Pyramids of Giza or other ancient tombs. They even have their 'insurance' and incentives as the treasures and golden coins they are buried with. After thousands of years we are still unable to resurrect them and arguably we wouldn't even if we could.
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After being on your own for 8 years, do you really want to leave your career in another person's hand? The corporate jobs really aren't as safe as 8~10 years ago. People get laid off all the time from their corporate jobs.

I hope that it gives you comfort in knowing the corporate people have a lot of fear going the other direction, too.

You survived on your own for 8 years, that should give you a lot of confidence. You have done Bus Dev, you can sell yourself in a job hunt; you have learned web development w/o a college degree, you can learn JS and PHP - the languages and DEV platform are getting easier and easier.
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I meant that nothing stops you from distributing your application through a different channel, like selling the .apk on your website or one of the alternative app stores.
> Well, I don't think I understand entropy - even after Wikipedia.

Okay, here's a commonly used explanation. Entropy and time are bound together -- as time passes, overall entropy increases (with local violations like us). This is one idea about why time "moves" in the direction it does -- if time were to reverse, we could tell because some classic entropy results would run in reverse, violating common sense.

Imagine that there's a room, and in one corner of the room there's a perfume bottle. At time zero, the cork is removed from the perfume bottle. Because of entropy, the tendency of isolated systems to move from order to disorder, the perfume disperses through the room.

Ask yourself what the probability is for the perfume to spontaneously recombine in the bottle, versus the probability that it will disperse through the room. That probability differential is a measure of entropy.

> So is there somewhere in universe some energy that is not available to do anything at all?

Sure -- any isolated system can eventually get to a point where no useful work can be performed. Imagine an engine without any temperature differentials anywhere, or any way to acquire a temperature differential from an external source. Such an engine cannot do useful work.

A steam engine requires a heat source and a heat sink. Without a temperature differential, the engine cannot function. Same with a gas engine.

> Is it too diffuse such that the energy needed to pull it together to perform a unit of work is greater than the energy available ?

But without tapping an external energy source, the energy in an isolated system won't concentrate itself or spontaneously create a temperature differential suitable for exploitation. In an isolated system, the level of disorder always increases over time.

> If so how did it get to that state?

Simple physics. For two masses having a temperature difference, one with temperature "a", the other "b", and a temperature conductivity of "k", they will eventually reach the same temperature this way:

Δ = (b-a) e^(-t k)

Δ (delta) = temperature difference at time t
a = temperature a
b = temperature b
t = time
k = energy transfer coefficient

The above refers to an isolated system with an initial temperature difference. As time passes, that difference declines.
Not going to happen. They invest for the long term, because when the goal of your company is generations off, you can afford to pick safe yet rewarding investments.
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As a note, these languages do cross over. While you're more likely to see .NET in a corporate setting I've worked in numerous agencies and startups that have used .NET. I've also worked with corporations that solely use Python.

It seems pretty obvious, but a small minority of developers tend to see the world as black and white. Choosing a language that makes you happy is paramount, and if you're lucky you could end up as a C# programmer working at a startup, or as a PHP developer earning megabucks in the corporate world.
There have been legal precedents in people declared dead in absentia for centuries (e.g. people who were lost at sea, or ran away, who later reappeared). An extension to a doctor declaring someone dead when they are not would be a clear logical step.

If humanity survives long enough for revival to be possible, it will have already solved overpopulation problems, as otherwise it would have become extinct in the not-too-distant future.
I never did that - they just need to prove that reviving (which is the end goal I suppose) is possible. I really don't care how they prove it, I just suggested a pretty good way (IMHO).

Also, did anyone read Pet Cemetary? Yeah, it would be nice to be revived, but in what condition?
Maybe this has something to do with the Rovio focus moving more towards being an entertainment brand and not a gaming company.
> I can't see anything unethical in that

Really?

"We're going to give you sight but not let you see anything round for 2 years. So we need to keep you in this cage unless you are blind folded."

Yeah. No ethical issues here ...
Rent seeking. This is one of the things that in my businesses I try to avoid because it is basically should be a last ditch, hail-mary pass. Which is what this DRM probably is for Keurig.

Ideally, you should always focus on being better than your competitors, which is difficult--but not impossible--in commodity products. Good examples are Dropbox or Starbucks. Cloud storage space or coffee are obviously not new or hard to deliver products, but it's how you deliver them that makes all the difference. I think this is a loosing battle for Keurig, and they should focus on providing some additional value (or perceived value, which can be just as good) to their customers. Maybe that's genuinely better tasting coffee, or maybe it's a slight (but acceptable) premium over generics (people like and trust brands).
Well there is a right and wrong way to let you mind wander. The right way is what is taught in Mindfulness meditation. It requires hard training, and I'm not very good at it (yet I hope).

The "trick" is to let you mind wander without intentionally thinking about anything, but just letting thoughts float on by without getting attached to any one of them. Just notice all the different things your mind is bringing up, and let it happen, without grabbing hold of any one thought.

My big problem is that I have a strong inner voice that is explaining or narrating almost all that I do. This voice if focusing my thoughts, so I need to stop talking inside my head for this to work. I kind of just need to shut up and watch my thoughts instead :)
I wonder if it's possible to ever find out what our reality is even if we will eventually reach the intellectual and technology necessary because we are part of it and it's probably impossible to have an objective view of the matter.
To be clear for non-Londoners, route 29 has one of the highest crime rates amongst all London bus routes, especially late at night. I'm not sure if it's particularly bad around Camden, although there is probably a higher than average rate of drunken idiots.
You need to pick a project you feel passionate about, find a small piece of paid work, or find a friend in need of getting a project done to push yourself through. I also found looking at other people's DEV work being helpful, too, granted that the developer is willing to share and explain.
Is it? Anything to read up on that? I would have myself frozen if this was my only worry though; I think the problem of having these vats survive even 100 years is unlikely, let alone more if that would be needed. It feels somehow that people are too optimistic about the whole process. Maybe when I have a lot of money to spare and the doctor brings bad news I will do it. I think I have to move to the US for it though?
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I have heard, through a friend of a librarian, that people actually microwaves books to kill bugs.
Well, you are incorrect. The simple use of modulo does result in a bias. See for instance, modulo 7:

0 % 7 = 0
1 % 7 = 1
2 % 7 = 2
.
.
.
56 % 7 = 0
57 % 7 = 1
58 % 7 = 2
59 % 7 = 3

From this, you can clearly see that:

0 appears nine times.
1 appears nine times.
2 appears nine times.
3 appears nine times.
4 appears *eight* times.
5 appears *eight* times.
6 appears *eight* times.

This is not fair, and is an actual problem in real life: Two examples off the top of my head is when drawing cards in electronic poker games (where slight biases in the PRNG can be exploited by those who notice them) and in cryptography.
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Try Coursera.org - the classes are of decent quality, even the free ones are really, really good. Make yourself do it. I only completed half of the classes I signed up, but that's better than nothing....
That's not a fair comparison. The mummy creators removed the internal organs of the deceased, replacing them with preservatives like natron --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natron

-- and basically creating a simulacrum of a biological being. This is not to suggest that our present fascination with freezing is any less crude and unworkable.

> After thousands of years we are still unable to resurrect them and arguably we wouldn't even if we could.

That's because the mummies aren't remotely the people they once were, any more than a wax sculpture of Prince is Prince -- or the artist once known as Prince, if that's still going on.

But I would certainly like to reanimate some of those ancient figures, ask a few questions about ancient Egypt. Doesn't that sound interesting?
While my own view is self-evident, where it comes to to the anti- side, I have found a fairly even mix of uninformed, interested/well balanced critical, and uninformed/critical for the sake of it comments. It's less civil than most here, yes, but not exactly youtube-level.
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> I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Or what it has to do with what I said.

Look at the comment you replied to:

> When was the last time ...

You brought up a VERY old product and he called you out.
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s/rich/life insurance/

Many Alcor patients are middle class rather than rich.
>I don't like that definition.

Yeah, but physics aren't a la carte. Either prove it wrong (and get a nobel) or accept it.
You're not actually dead when you're legally dead, in that everything that makes you you is still there in your brain, and it could in theory be restored to working order. Which is the general plan.

It's still a shame we have to wait though, because being vitrified while still legally alive would majorly reduce the chances of brain damage due to lack of oxygen (ischemia).
... and that's one reason why I won't use it for anything meaningful. I'm tired of my digital activities simply becoming fodder for a third party's data mining.