AkThhhpppt

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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Counterpoint: the only businesses that force VbV etc. I will deal with are airlines (because they all do), which meant the last time I flew transatlantic I took 800 euro out of my bank account and _walked_ to Air France's bank rather than u
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
The article is about caregiving fathers; what if the employed parent is the mother, or the couple are gay and the child is adopted? Why should the 'present' father get medals for doing things every mother is expected to do?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
That's contrasting the University experience, which is wildly different. And the "snooty British guy" stated he attended a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_school himself, which are most definitely state schools.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
That's not just GMail, that's all compliant email handlers; it's part of the RFC. Unfortunately, it's not guaranteed that the site you're signing up to can handle that address format - Facebook doesn't...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
What's preventing you running a VM to let you use it (and all the other helpful bits)?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
There's a lot of distance between "can't" and "don't want to."
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Or real names that looked like they might be fake (Violet Blue). Or that were foreign in a weird way (Hong Kong users). Or famous people they though might have been faking (William Shatner). Or... Basically, the nym wars debacle demonstrate
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It's sensible, but how is it Zen? In what way does it partake of the Buddha nature? :-)
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Ok, where I say 'alien', imagine I said 'extra-terrestrial'. We know the probability of the universe evolving intelligent life from scratch is 1. We know nothing about the probability of the universe evolving intelligent life from scratch t
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
The aliens bit was continuing the GP's probability comparison, nothing more. That's a fallacious comparison: E = mc^2, the discovery of the neutron, and the discovery of uranium's fissile nature told us very clearly how to get nuclear energ
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Inertia, I assume.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
I'm a big believer in the universe as predicted by the Fermi Paradox, and that we'll only ever interact with "human-descended" intelligences. My gut still says it's more likely we'll talk to aliens than harvest vacuum energy. Entropy says w
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Because that's How It's Done. Programmers are almost the only people who routinely break it - because we're used to quoted strings being atomic units.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
No; absent any other problems, it's a tiny effect. And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Effect#Applications
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
*Correction: and those who didn't assume it to be bollocks generally had not made up their mind one way or the other, and wanted the weapons inspectors to be given time to find out. When they were given the bum's rush out of Iraq by the Coa
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
No, it was more or less assumed to be bollocks. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix#Iraq_disarmament_.27... for an idea of what we were hearing).
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Um... I was on anti Iraq war demos when I was 18, because it was obvious to me Saddam Hussein had no WMDs. And I was _not_ alone in this assumption: "In London, at least 750,000 people demonstrated in what police called the city's largest d
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Nature has been an unapologetic advocate of open-access publishing for as long as I've been reading it.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Perhaps IFTTT ( http://ifttt.com/wtf ) might be a start towards what you're looking for?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It's stated that he didn't have to go far; one of the reasons he didn't just abandon the car and walk was the amount of tools that he'd be leaving behind to be stolen, so...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
The swing arm and one of the two main structural parts of the chassis broke. He'd want to have a welder with him.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
There's an amazing sequence in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" describing the destruction of a space elevator in a terrorist attack: the cable digs a trench marking the equator of Mars as it wraps around the planet multiple times.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
I don't know; "Potentially marginalized technologies: Consensus reality" is pretty special....
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
After doing some hunting, apparently I imagined them saying that. What I did not imagine was that it impacts score in results for their "recipe search" product - and it caused some consternation among the recipe blogging community at the ti
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Terrorism is opposition to the current political setup. It's not _just_ that; there are other requirements (terrorism is a subclass of opposition, if you will) but I was simplifying in the service of an epigram. (",)
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Terrorism is opposition to the current political setup. Totalitarian regimes' innovation is making opposition to the current political setup terrorism.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Yes, but the "web of knowledge" folk were planning (ish) hand-added metadata to allow knowledge extraction by AI programs, with no real incentives or network effect to promote people doing that. Google got microdata (which are semantic anno
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Yet again, Steve Mann was there first: http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality Sorry for the monomania, but the man really did pioneer a huge chunk of wearable computing and AR.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Google 'entrapment "ruby ridge"'
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
And they already have relevant patents, in a different arena: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_could_soon_augme...

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