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by 127 15y ago
>Here’s the thing though, if you go to a bar and just sort of stand around … girls will come talk to you. In fact this will happen more than once a night. Bullshit. >Honestly, you don’t need to know how to dance. If you just go out
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by 127 15y ago
One thing I hope the technological advancement will bring is synthetic meat. With extremely cheap energy (both environmentally and financially) synthetic product should not be too expensive to compete with slaughtering real live animals. We
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by 127 15y ago
Sounds like a society of couch potatoes and drug addicts to me. From my perspective you have a much too optimistic view on the human race. If people are not forced to exceed, they will not. Suffering, that does not cripple, defines us. It m
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by 127 15y ago
>These are people who weren’t interested in just any white-collar work. They wanted to do transformational, world-saving work – which would presumably be underwritten by taxing the rich. Tidily sums up the whole article and its flaws. G
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by 127 15y ago
Yes, that is a bug and yes, those variable names do suck. Thanks for the correction. ordered_choice = lambda va,vb: lambda inp: (lambda a,b: a if a or a=="" else b)(va(inp),vb(inp)) Would work, but starts to be so ugly that I'd hav
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by 127 15y ago
Reminds me of the quote: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
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by 127 15y ago
Here's a complete PEG parser in 3 lines: consume = lambda c: lambda inp: inp[1:] if inp and inp[0] in c else None ordered_choice = lambda va,vb: lambda inp: va(inp) or vb(inp) concatenate = lambda va,vb: lambda inp: (lambda x:
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by 127 15y ago
This is mostly the fault of insufficient Chrome addon API afaik. In Firefox/Pentadactyl the addon automatically hijacks all the keypresses and only by pressing CTRL-Z can you fall back into direct mode and feed keypress events to Javascript
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by 127 15y ago
>Someday I should record a video of me coding C++ in Visual Studio. Please do. It's should not be that difficult to just switch on the recording software and upload it into Youtube. If you could also verbally describe what you're doing
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by 127 15y ago
My problem with Stross is that while he has some absolutely fantastic ideas and world-building, his stories fall short of keeping me interested or entertained. It's like there's so much stuff crammed in that the story part just falls out of
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by 127 15y ago
I'm only talking about heterosexual marriage, nothing else.
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by 127 15y ago
I certainly believe that marriages can be more harmonious when the men is in a economically leading role. Do I believe that women should suppressed in order to achieve this? No. Do I believe that if a woman wants a successful marriage, purs
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by 127 15y ago
I'm thinking that the fertility symbols where the woman is fit and thin far outnumber the ones where the woman is visibly obese. Wide hips, large bosom, healthy layer of fat, most certainly. But obesity? Rare. India, Egypt, Rome. All those
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by 127 15y ago
>Hang on, did anyone propose affirmative action here or something? All the blog talked about was trying to praise girls for their smarts rather than their looks. If this is enough to cause misery for you, I think you have self-esteem is
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by 127 15y ago
No, the force that bucks against the biological directive to impregnate every fertile female that enters your field of vision is the very real threat of violence and social ostracization. Plus, unless you're a total sociopath: empathy. Unli
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by 127 15y ago
Harder than being a young and beautiful woman.
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by 127 15y ago
Human biology is not that quick to change. It demonstrates a large amount of hubris to even think it should be. Women marry up and across dominance hierarchies. Artificially boosting the career success of women just causes misery on the lon
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by 127 15y ago
One thing I don't understand: wasn't there just discovered a ring of antimatter circling around the Earth? Wouldn't it just disperse into space if antimatter caused antigravity? Stupid question, I know, but just something that's beyond my c
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by 127 15y ago
Brainfuck just might be the easiest language to actually implement. It's a learning experience and can provide a minimal understanding of how programming languages work. I'm sure someone can write the whole language in one line of Perl. The
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by 127 15y ago
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do in problem 12. Everything else was fairly obvious. I just can't comprehend what's going on in number 12.
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by 127 15y ago
Personally, I only measure what I achieve divided by time used divided by stress caused. Intelligence has not much to do with that equation. It's a red herring, IMO. If you bind your self esteem to your perceived intelligence, it is very fr
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by 127 15y ago
You can certainly get part of the big picture from reading Hacker News, but if you're going to learn anything in depth, I seriously suggest taking a class. That way someone else has already done all the hard work in collecting all the mater
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by 127 15y ago
I'm interested. Can you offer any source for this claim? I was considering of reading some of his writings but if he has to offer no value, I'd rather know in advance.
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by 127 15y ago
I don't see that analogy working very well. It's not about shooting single people. It's about banks building their vaults using cardboard and paper, instead of concrete and steel. It's just not that smart.