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by AimHere 10y ago
SNP are explicitly pro-Immigration. As you'd expect - the population in a large chunk of the land area of Scotland is worried about the effects of depopulation eroding small rural communities. From their website: The SNP believe that
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by AimHere 10y ago
One argument you missed is that IP laws generally create state-granted monopolies, which is something capitalists usually claim to be against.
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by AimHere 10y ago
I'll not endorse your actual line of argument, but without knowing much about the internals of a 32-bit float, I can confirm that your final answer is correct. Source: brute force counting in a small C program. Naturally, this might no
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by AimHere 10y ago
RimWorld is kindof a cross between a sci-fi variant of Dwarf Fortress and Prison Architect, whose art-style it ripped off wholesale, with the permission of Introversion. I figure Prison Architect is surely worthy of a mention in this thread
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by AimHere 10y ago
I suspect it might be theoretically possible for ancient computer games, of the SpaceWars or Adventure eras, to have lapsed into the public domain by omitting copyright notices or lapsing registrations. This was possible before a change in
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by AimHere 10y ago
Might the selection pressure have been fire related, without necessarily being just the use of fire? If, for one speculative example, Neanderthals mostly used fire outdoors, while modern humans used it indoors with correspondingly thicker s
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by AimHere 10y ago
Possibly, but no need to assume the placard-bearers are Irish. Father Ted was a joint Irish-British production and was very well-received in the UK when it came out.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Presumably the commenter is physically out of reach of the Russian and Chinese governments, and being the victim of regime change in the US is more likely than being invaded by the other two.
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by AimHere 10y ago
> the GIMP has a more elegant UI GIMP must have come a long way for those words to form a sentence! Not that it was ever necessarily inelegant, but GIMP's reputation has always suffered from a big chunk of it's natural audience
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by AimHere 10y ago
His point is that the society might be apparently permissive, at least to those who live in it, but there are parts that aren't (such as those two examples), and people don't generally recognize them as such.
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by AimHere 10y ago
I suspect he isn't. Have yourself a giggle at these guys discussing the finer points of FLAC vs Wav sound quality (to be fair, some of them do make sensible points about the ability to tag files and whathaveyou, but still...) http:&#x
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by AimHere 10y ago
I don't use Outlook; what I mean is that it seems that other email users aren't sending so many read receipt requests for some reason (such as changes to Outlook's user interface). Either that, or I correspond with a better c
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by AimHere 10y ago
Those things annoy me too, but thankfully it's been years since anyone sent me one (unless my mail clients have been silently reporting back to people other than the NSA, of course). I assume the read receipt request button has been ma
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by AimHere 10y ago
It's nowhere near that suicidal. In this particular case, the game is being run using modifications to Unity, a very well-established game-engine, so C++ is already doing the heavy lifting (alongside Unity's way of writing GPU sha
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by AimHere 10y ago
So what makes non-depressed kids more smitten? What's interesting is that there is a differentiation between the two, not which is the 'right' way to behave. You can throw your own emotional spin on this phenomenon if you lik
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by AimHere 10y ago
Sure - bad stuff still happens. It gets found out, some people complain, the people in power modify their behavior (sometimes by not being so evil, sometimes by finding better ways of hiding it - the latter can be useful for at least slowin
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by AimHere 10y ago
Snowden forced the government to put in place a whole bunch of new procedures and regulations over the NSA. Much of it is, of course, cosmetic and inadequate, but it works towards slowing down the surveillance campaign and providing some so
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by AimHere 10y ago
One reason for thinking that Trump would be worse is precisely because Hillary and Obama's propaganda machine is good at painting them in a better light. Trump doesn't have to pretend to care about human rights, or war crimes
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by AimHere 10y ago
You can play with this map to see where the changes are biggest and smallest. Interestingly, the strip from Maryland to Georgia - which normally stands out in US political maps, due to issues of slavery and race - stands out as being one bi
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by AimHere 10y ago
For those whose browsers don't speak bare postscript, a pdf also exists: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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by AimHere 10y ago
He's asking us as potential customers for his next startup, of course!
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by AimHere 10y ago
I could understand getting rid of nano. For some users, apt-get remove might be the easiest way they can think of for not defaulting to having nano called from other applications, as opposed to finding out about the proper way that Debian w
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by AimHere 10y ago
The last item in the list is a rope hammock. I suspect this might be one of the more important items.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Your link has a further link to what it describes as the full text of the bill, http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Lan... There's absolutely nothing in the text about pronouns, and absolutely
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by AimHere 10y ago
The commenter just described the probability of tossing a coin 21 times and all cointosses being heads, so (1/2)^21, or 1 in 2^21. It's a specific case of the cumulative binomial distribution which is what you might look up if you
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by AimHere 10y ago
> "hideously horrible paren-based syntax" - i.e. Lisp. So, how many people don't learn Lisp only because of its syntax? I'd say a lot. But the point is that nobody's putting 'S-expression syntax languages&#x
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by AimHere 10y ago
I have this book, and it's not what I'd call a textbook. It rarely explains how any of it works (you'd be hard pressed to find the formula for a probability distribution function, for instance), so it's just a one-stop
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by AimHere 10y ago
Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it means.
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by AimHere 10y ago
> So the GNU solution is to ban making money from software. Hmmm No. That's a misreading, and you're taking it out of context. The GNU solution there is to ban proprietary software companies doing their thing (those companies h
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by AimHere 10y ago
Like SICP, the text of the book is online ( http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ if you didn't already know), so people more likely link to that than to Amazon.

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