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by 13415 8y ago
I agree that the Wikipedia definition is not very good, but Holism can sometimes make sense if its specified more precisely. Sometimes it means that a system is such that if you change one component, then all other (or many other) component
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't think this is a good comparison. People who are skilled in both areas might not realize that, but learning how to program is a hundred times easier than working through any advanced topic in higher mathematics and coming up wit
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by 13415 8y ago
tl;dr the author of this "random meta-political noodling" (his words) has re-invented some of the old arguments for direct democracy that have been perpetuated from all fringe parties in all countries since democracy exists. Remem
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by 13415 8y ago
Maybe what he meant is that he wants all of the contents and databases to reside on his machine unless an item is explicitly shared with someone else. For some people like me that's a basic condition to even consider a tool.
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by 13415 8y ago
> Is there a reason, in principle, why it is unlikely or impossible for average IQ to be unrelated to “race” (however that concept is defined)? Certainly not, but AFAIK phenotypical "race" - like the one when you distinguish
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by 13415 8y ago
“Dr Watson’s statements are reprehensible, unsupported by science, and in no way represent the views of CSHL, its trustees, faculty, staff, or students. The laboratory condemns the misuse of science to justify prejudice.” Basically, the who
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by 13415 8y ago
The problem with this 'Solid' project seems to be that it is vaporware. Anybody who wants to advance the open web should focus his efforts on a P2P library with extremely good NAT traversal capabilities that is extremely reliable
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by 13415 8y ago
I use a calendar called Action Day Planner that is loosely inspired by the GTD method and Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks with numbered pages and ToC.
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by 13415 8y ago
I think OP has a valid point.
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by 13415 8y ago
I've heard enough about USB-C when I heard a report of a fried motherboards due to a faulty cable. No consumer technology should work like that.
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by 13415 8y ago
I guess someone has to state the obvious here. China has a totalitarian, one party government that puts a lot of efforts into total surveillance of their citizens. They are censoring the local intranet and even have "citizen scores&quo
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by 13415 8y ago
I use it, too, and I wish it had LaTeX/Pstricks export. I used to use LatexDraw, but it's too limited.
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by 13415 8y ago
They might need a lot of marketing to undo the damage that has already been done. I'm one of those who have been super interested in it during the past years but I wouldn't touch Star Citizen with a 10 foot pole now, after those &
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by 13415 8y ago
That's odd. Why did they write "f*ck" instead of "fuck"?
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by 13415 8y ago
That's absolutely silly and gullible because of the following reasons: 1.) No, cryptography does not replace the trust in people. Your dead wrong if you think so. You need to trust the maker of the cryptographic software, whether it&#x
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by 13415 8y ago
I don't trust VeraCrypt very much. Mounir Idrassi's company IDRIX was founded in 2006 in Paris and it is one of the classical shady government-near companies that could have close ties to intelligence agencies. Note that I say
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by 13415 8y ago
"Moscow suburbs" pretty much sums it up.
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by 13415 8y ago
This political contribution seems highly flag-worthy. Basically, it's just flamebait.
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by 13415 8y ago
Yes, that's perfectly possible, of course. Companies hate such ideas because they can have legal standing under certain circumstances and in certain legislations, or at least have a potential to create some problems. You could also pri
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by 13415 8y ago
1. I do unpleasant things as fast and effectively as possible, so I can procrastinate later. 2. I only use the Get Things Done method when I'm really stressed, so I can suddenly benefit from its effects. 3. I don't work at all aft
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by 13415 8y ago
This 'question' is bound to go up in flamewars, but here is an honest and unbiased answer by someone who has taken a look at nearly every language on the planet (a hobby) and thinks that both languages are a bit crappy from a gene
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by 13415 8y ago
Makes no sense to me to redefine existing integer types. Why not introduce a primitive type "num" for arbitrary precision rational numbers instead? As a long-time Racket and Scheme user, I'd say that arbitrary precision numbe
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by 13415 8y ago
I grew up in West Germany and some used to call them "Teds". "Rockabilies" was more common. "New Romantiks" didn't exist were I lived, I think we called this "Postpunk" (guys who listened to band
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by 13415 8y ago
1. Try to get a mentor. During my time as a PhD student in philosophy, I had the luck of having a mathematician and physicist turned philosopher as my supervisor. He helped me a lot in understanding notation and improving my own mathematica
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by 13415 8y ago
Or maybe he just personally cares more about American homeless people than about aiding in the most effective way possible.
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by 13415 8y ago
Fun story. Back when I was a bit younger, I once forgot the 4-digit PIN of a cash card after a heavy night of drinking, even though I had used the card for many, many years almost daily. It was just gone, no matter how much I tried to remem
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by 13415 8y ago
I'd say the opposite. Mutually recursive functions are notoriously hard to get right and debug, and many languages have stack limits. Often it's better to maintain the stack manually.
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by 13415 8y ago
Position 1 is analytically true. No scientist believes position 2 in general. Regarding particular subject matters and well-confirmed theories, on the other hand, it's pretty much uncontroversial. No cell phone would work and no plane
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by 13415 8y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive, you can be an atheist or theist agnostic, but also a positive or negative atheist. You probably mean the colloquial use of agnostic for negative atheist - the position of someone who does not believe t
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by 13415 8y ago
Tail call optimization is more or less unimportant, because you can express any recursion with iteration and most of the time the explicitly iterative version is even safer and better. TCO only adds zero-cost for recursions based on tail ca

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