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by Crito 12y ago
It would be embarrassing for SpaceX if somebody from the public discovered something in the video that SpaceX had missed. It therefore makes sense that they would sit on the video for a while, making sure they had learned as much as there
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by Crito 12y ago
> "The Socratic position of accepting judicial punishment doesn't make sense if you have anything you want to do with your life other than making a political point." More than that, it also doesn't hold water if you
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by Crito 12y ago
It would be very convenient for the establishment if every revolutionary was obliged to throw themselves upon a pyre....
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by Crito 12y ago
If you don't find it funny initially, then it is very unlikely that you will find it funny after it's been explained. Nevertheless, I find it humorous because it is very unexpected, quite extreme, and seems to prove itself in a wa
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by Crito 12y ago
Why is my government delivering porno mags and religious pamphlets to my mailbox? The government being in the delivery business is nothing new. Historically, it has worked out for the better more often than not.
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by Crito 12y ago
I really wish retro-style FPSes like this were more common. There is no shortage of retro platformers, but it seems like not many people are making shooters that harken back to Doom or Quake. Cover systems, realistic weapons, online ranks,
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by Crito 12y ago
I download my files into a directory called 'shit' . Maybe I need a filesystem that conflates 'shit' with 'Documents' .
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by Crito 12y ago
Soyuz can dock to deserted stations, or at least could in the past. They had to do it all the time with the Salyut stations, and I suspect it is how the first docking with the ISS went down as well. Technically there is berthing and there
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by Crito 12y ago
> "For example, a mother spending time knitting a scarf for her child would produce a higher value in terms of intrinsic goods than if a mother went to Walmart to purchase a scarf for her child - even if the scarf she knitted and t
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by Crito 12y ago
I don't think anybody claims that higher education in the US is a meritocracy. When people on HN talk about the meritocracy as though it is something that exists, they are talking about it in the tech industry, not in the education s
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Now imagine, your father was the lead architect of the gift card system he worked on for five years, and he gave you the very first issued gift card as a gift instead" Because this (supposedly) time-originating value is pr
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by Crito 12y ago
This year, in lieu of a gift, my parents gave me a giftcard to an online retailer. The system used by that company to create/distribute/sell/accept giftcards likely took many man- years to implement. I doubt anybody would
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by Crito 12y ago
Seems kind of like keying the used car you just bought. It only damages the value of something you just paid money for; even if you think you got a good deal it is still a stupid thing to do.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "The amish doesn't have freedom of thought" This is news to me, and I grew up only a few miles from Lancaster...
645.
by Crito 12y ago
Multiculturalism, modern or otherwise, is impossible if offensive speech from any one group is not tolerated by any other. (They don't have to like it, merely tolerate it. They should be free to speak out against it, but not to resp
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by Crito 12y ago
Remember that the "airplanes are hijacked and flown into buildings" model was neutralized on the morning of 9/11/2001. It only worked three times, the fourth time it was attempted, that same morning, it failed. With t
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I have family in Paris who have steadily become more and more reactionary as the FN (the French far-right) have been given more exposure, even before these attacks." What makes you think there must be a causational relatio
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by Crito 12y ago
This is a topic which has been discussed back and forth for quite a while now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/toleration/ Personally I&#x2
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by Crito 12y ago
> "They have had police officers there for a long time, too." In fact, one of the police officers that was killed was present for the shooting because he was assigned as a police bodyguard for Charb.
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by Crito 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf#Non-German_military
651.
by Crito 12y ago
The type of complexity that bothers me is complexity that I have to wade through on a day-to-day basis when trying to find features that I do want to use. For example, lots of menus, each with tons of menu entries and submenus. That sor
652.
by Crito 12y ago
Consider the following: multi-tools, mess kits, and sporks exist, yet many people prefer using the specialized equivalents.
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by Crito 12y ago
And sanity. ;) Honestly IDEs in general are the most complex pieces of software that I frequently encounter. Most of that complexity comes in the form of features that I either never intend on using or don't intend on using at the tim
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by Crito 12y ago
They actually have a philosophy page which explains it: http://suckless.org/philosophy It basically boils down to minimalism (in general) with an emphasis on minimalist code instead of minimalist UX/UI (whenever the tw
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by Crito 12y ago
That's probably not in line with the suckless way.
656.
by Crito 12y ago
Either they are deliberately going after the software, or they have failed to understand the difference between hosting a websites source repo and actually hosting that website.
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by Crito 12y ago
Charles Stross's Scratch Monkey and Accelerando . Both are not necessarily cyberpunk (at least not through and through), but they both give off that same raw vibe that I get from Neuromancer .
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by Crito 12y ago
I think he means the two sequels, not the original. Many people believe that the two sequels compromised their artistic integrity in order to pander to the lowest common denominator of movie audiences. Having Neuromancer turn out that wa
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by Crito 12y ago
I want a little blinking 7-segment under my television that only displays "12:00" .
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by Crito 12y ago
It is definitely plausible that they were rendering their spinning cube in real-time. A lot of people have written wolf3d-style raycasting engines for z80 (mostly z80-based TI graphing calculators, which are clocked between 6MHz and 15MHz.

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