Draco6slayer

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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
With all that's being said about the NSA, and how we should add self-restraint, with all that the government is admitting about the current state of the NSA being bad, why not? If it's that clear that Snowden did the right thing,
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Science fiction novel about an open-source country.
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
The NSA had been spying on mathematicians, and discovered their greatest secret. Pi and e are actually switched. No, really, pi is wrong.
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
I'm not sure if I am making a mistake, but I couldn't use the command listed in order to clone the repository. I'm using windows, with git installed, and I received the error: "Permission Denied: publickey" I was ab
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Tha a is raelly closa to tha e on tha dvorek kayboerd, end it mekas for e mora common misteka. ;)
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
And here I was thinking New Myspace was the New Myspace :D.
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Why not link them the other way? The article claims that individuals who are stronger physically will try to claim socio-political highground, but it seems much more realistic to me to observe this data and say that people who aren't as com
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Role models exist for a reason, and that is that we can do our best to be like them. It's not like we're arbitrarily judging character just for the hell of it. I know that I would like a role model that could show how to be a good person a
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
The level of 'approximation' involved here would be like making a square that was .0001% too long on one side. You wouldn't be able to tell at all. The page you listed also says: "There has been an industry trend towards sampling rates well
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Exactly my point. Just because someone else is doing the work (or, in this case, something else) doesn't mean that the work isn't the first person's art. And yes, I suppose, anything can be technically art. But this is veritably the same ki
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
Renaissance artists didn't do much actual painting. They just sketched what they wanted, mixed colours, and had students do the rest. This is basically the same thing, only with abstract art. If this isn't art, then the renaissance didn't
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by Draco6slayer 13y ago
That's a Douglass Adams quote, isn't it?
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I rather did not, and for two reasons: Firstly, the post that I was attached to that was offering the same joke, almost precisely, was getting very positive attention. Secondly, after I added the footnote, the total score for the comment i
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
You know, I completely accept that. \grin.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Erm, I seem to be getting a negative response. This is, I hope you are aware, a joke that carries on the joke of the post above it. I do not actually agree with the sentiments I have given, they were to be imagined with sarcasm.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Rather! Just think of it- we've already lost Christmas, April Fools, New Years, and probably a few others to the unstoppable force of PR departments. The nerve of these people! Just find any decent day of the year and pollute it by pretendi
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
But the takeaway here will not be "this is something that Steve Jobs did that was nice," it will be "OH WOW STEVE JOBS WAS A SAINT." And that, sir, is what we call the fundamental attribution error. But I feel it applies more to everyone
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Yes, quite. Sorry. Point being though, you can own an intellectual property even if you can't own the parts and tools that go into it.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
You can't patent atoms, but you can patent compounds made of those atoms, like a new plastic. Or, if those compounds are already open, you can patent products that combine those compounds into a new shape, like a new blender. You can't pate
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Though they do share a whole lot. It would be like making a phone rectangular with a touch screen and a home button. Obviously everything inside your phone is completely original, but because they look vaguely similar, you've violated your
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
This is stupid and nobody likes it. Go back to your terrible life as a terrible person who nobody likes. But in all seriousness, I think you do have to take the negative with the positive, so long as both are constructive. It'd be stupid to
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Well, if they're totally equal, sans sugar, then the obvious reason to choose DuckDuckGo is for privacy's sake. No sense sending personal information to Google when DuckDuckGo will do it for free.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
This is the first time I've seen this argument against linkbait headlines, and I happen to like it a lot. I've never actually considered headlines from a psychological perspective.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Actually, calorie for calorie is not a valid counter. Per wolfram alpha, you'd have to eat 4.0kg of broccoli per .41kg of steak (average steak size). Apart from that, I would cede to your points about the b12 and iron, but if you want calor
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
I disagree. There are a lot of nutrients (mostly protein) that, without meat, require us to rely heavily on nuts and beans. A dependency on those requires a large amount of additional effort for the consumer. Nut allergies are intensely com
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
It's probably rude, but I think that the fact about the decreased morale is somewhat hilarious. Just picture the situation where you have a whole bunch of assembly line workers being ousted by pigeons. What would it feel like to know that a
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
So the problem is that sorting by upvotes alone creates a list of comments where the first comments to the pack get the most reads, and therefore the most upvotes, such that the first comment will have 200+ upvotes if it is posted first, bu
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
Hey, there's a First! time for everything.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
But you have nothing against the second example, presumably? I still see that as a valid option.
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by Draco6slayer 14y ago
But just because you , in one particular instance didn't see it, doesn't mean anything in the long term. Obviously with any statistical estimate, individual data points can fall far from the curve. But the idea is that, after enough time,

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