https://ustr.gov/tpp/
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion with my intensely Christian neighbor
who expects to vote for Trump, he explained his experiences as a missionary in
some of the NAFTA countries where he claims to have seen the bad effect of the
agre
The recent filing of Ryan Bundy scared me a little bit:
http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/ryan-bundy-incompetent-subject-federal-law/
We're breeding these people, somehow. Granted the 'sovereign citizens' are
very different from the Trumpists an
The analog wouldn't be cell death. It would be systemic, much more like a
self-regulatory dysfunction, auto-immune disease or cancer of a diffuse system
(like a blood cancer). Perhaps an even better analog would be simple aging.
Or maybe the solution that we _are_ ... our structure, way of b
Well, sure, competence in communication involves both abilities: 1) to
compress/abstract out detail so as to state your point clearly and 2) to place
such a point inside a use case, a narrative. And although I think of
abstraction as one of my skills (at least I tend to do it all the time, per
Thanks for sharing more of your story! I believe it's our duty to share
stories, the more personal the better. It's how we understand our and others'
place in the world. Too many people are too terse and present context-less
thoughts. It's possible that part of the steady increase in the na
On 07/13/2016 08:28 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Seems odd: this is number 70 in this thread, all to explain automata?
> Really?! My guess is the book is not the best start on understanding Turing
> Machines, but heck, its not a book about religion, right?
Well, it's a continuation of the conversa
Yes, I think so; except the goals need not be underspecified or contradictory.
The condition (or action or assertion) made by one of the anticipatory agents
within the system can be an unambiguous member of the set defined by the
policy. The loopiness comes in because that condition is define
But what you're arguing for is essentially the idea that all special-purpose
devices (should not can) be replaced by universal computers. That's
unreasonable. It makes good engineering and scientific sense to divvy up types
of computation. The distinction in the question of whether the kind
Hm. I can't shake the feeling you're relying on some ambiguity in "meaningful
distinction". If you admit distinctions in things like domain knowledge,
correctness, verified code, tolerances, sensitivities, etc., then why not admit
there are meaningful distinctions in _types_ of computation?
I tend to use the word "algorithm" to mean processes that are guaranteed to
stop. Anything that's not guaranteed to stop is simply a "process". The
process below may or may not have a guaranteed stop, depending on how it's
implemented[*]. If you had not said "ask dad" and "dad says", then it
On 06/27/2016 03:09 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> While I am observing said hoopla with my usual "morbid fascination", I am
> truly disturbed by the possibility that we ARE degenerating to a Mobocracy or
> more technically, an /Ochlocracy/. I like Wikipedia's definition of the
> term as: /"Demo
What I don't quite understand is, if referenda are "consultative" and
non-binding, why all the hoopla? Why can't they simply factor the results into
a more rational process? This is especially curious if Cameron plans to/will
resign anyway. And also curious given the Bregret. Did the pre-re
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