D-Coder

24 ms·

571.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"Aging has not been a priority yet, because the vast majority of people die of something else..." Also aging is a _very difficult_ problem. We are only now collecting the tools to understand it, much less fix it.
572.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Panix.com allows email addresses of the form whatever@username.users.panix.com ("username" = your usual email address). It's not at all a pain in the ass, I just type it in, it makes a lot of filtering trivial, and I don&#x27
573.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Yeah! What a bunch of boobs!
574.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"Do airplanes fly?" They don't flap their wings or have feathers or eat bugs. But they do something similar to birds, and useful, so we call it "flying." "Do submarines swim?" They don't propel themse
575.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"You can't produce a "great depression" on demand." Well, I think you could (eg remove all banking regulations), but you probably don't want to do that.
576.
by D-Coder 10y ago
That does turn out to be more effective in teaching them to write coherently. Spelling and punctuation details can come later. If the kids start out being wrong all the time, they just quit.
577.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"their legal fiduciary duty is to maximize profits" actually is not true. Although it's of course a very common motive.
578.
by D-Coder 10y ago
I find that the older I get, the more wisdom I accumulate (or at least experience and the application of that experience). I'm... over 50, and if living indefinitely means being stuck with my current body, I'd accept that. Plus, t
579.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Not all of us.
580.
by D-Coder 10y ago
That's why I built my own car from bauxite and iron ore. And my own computer from sand, in my own silicon-refining furnace.
581.
by D-Coder 10y ago
"Flughaveno" (flight-port). Similarly "flugmaŝino" (flight-machine) has generally disappeared for "aviadilo" (sort of "aviation-er"). Some of the vocabulary has drifted with technological and social c
582.
by D-Coder 10y ago
The last link (12100781) is to an unrelated article.
583.
by D-Coder 10y ago
This is either a descendant, or not, of a story first published in Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog) in 1946 by "Dalton Edwards" entitled "Meihem in Ce Klasrum." Link http://english-zone.com/languag
584.
by D-Coder 10y ago
The plane is zero centimeters from a hard surface at the beginning and end of the flight.
585.
by D-Coder 10y ago
I have heard it's due to the corrupt traffic police. Everyone wants their own record of what happened.
586.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Typing is easy. Thinking is hard!
587.
by D-Coder 10y ago
The Esperanto part seems pretty good. There is one section with consistent errors, "Mi vizitis francio" does need a -n ending (francion). And again, "and" is not a preposition. But that's all I noticed in a quick sk
588.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Sure, if you have 100 full-time people helping you out. Historical note: Has this ever happened anywhere?
589.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Atmospheric tests do not produce the same particulates as setting entire cities on fire.
590.
by D-Coder 10y ago
The Potzrebie car isn't the only car with issues. At least the Potzrebie's doors-falling-off problem is widely known.
591.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Thus, take a compressed-air tank with you. Point it down and open the valve to increase the air density that you are falling through. Is this so complicated???
592.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Infinite scroll breaks text search. :-(
593.
by D-Coder 10y ago
If you consider aging and death in old age as a _positive_, well, go for it.
594.
by D-Coder 10y ago
Needs more Erlang. And cowbell.
595.
by D-Coder 11y ago
Story of my life.
596.
by D-Coder 11y ago
Panix.com supports this, plus an alternate that works almost everywhere. You can use "whatever@yourname.users.panix.com", and it ends up in your inbox, filterable by the "To:" address. I create a new email address for ev
597.
by D-Coder 11y ago
"it's all a product of lazy / greedy regulators." Uh, I think it starts with greedy traders. If they weren't so greedy, the regulaters wouldn't matter.
598.
by D-Coder 11y ago
We're not measuring this as a binary value happy/unhappy. Not all losses are equal. Your children dying before you is worse than most other losses.
599.
by D-Coder 11y ago
Also, I doubt that the President set up the hour-by-hour invasion planning.
600.
by D-Coder 11y ago
Who else was expecting an article on a new way to collect cows into one spot?

More ›