Fargren

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by Fargren 15y ago
For less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) I almost always walk, unless I'm in a rush. It' s great habit to have, and my main source of exercise. For greater distances, I generally use public transportation.
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by Fargren 15y ago
Any member of the public can visit a local university or large public library and get access to any book or journal article they desire. I think it's a bit sad that I have to drive all the way from Buenos Aires to Texas if I want to read
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by Fargren 15y ago
But it’s not just that iMessages kills SMS because it’s free. It kills it because it’s better. While the sending of photos, videos, and text matches SMS (and MMS), it’s better with iMessage because it’s streamlined and simplified. This ju
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by Fargren 15y ago
The spanish translation of that chapter of GEB was not enjoyable, sadly enough.
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by Fargren 15y ago
What's your source on that?
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by Fargren 15y ago
I don't see how this doesn't encourage piracy.
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by Fargren 15y ago
You don't reach Philosophy from Philosophy.
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by Fargren 15y ago
There's millions of man-hours of heritage. I don't have data to back me up, but I'd wager more time and effort has been spent in building Wikipedia than in any World Heritage, maybe more than all of them combined. But I don't really know wh
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Peititon for Wikpedia to become first digital World Heritage Site (wikipedia.de)
152 points by Fargren 15y ago|67 comments
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by Fargren 15y ago
Reminds me of the 2001 protests here in Argentina(actually, december of 2000, but it's remembered as 2001). That ended up getting quite ugly. The sentiment was very similar: all political parties were equally hated, and there was a huge des
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by Fargren 15y ago
As an aside, except distros and open Documentaries, what all do people download legally through bit torrent? World of Warcraft
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by Fargren 15y ago
What's the state of the art in cryostasis?
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by Fargren 15y ago
Isn't that still in beta?
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by Fargren 15y ago
Nothing is fail-safe.
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by Fargren 15y ago
Well, it would be really cool and confounding if gravity made antimatter move sideways. But I don't think that's likely.
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The Relativity of Wrong, by Isaac Asimov(hermiene.net)
13 points by Fargren 15y ago|0 comments
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by Fargren 15y ago
Yeah, I read something about that being the opinion of Buzz Aldrin. But a on way trip seems like a hard sell. Doesn't the government have to approve something like that? Immigration, maybe? And it just doesn't some like a good PR move to ap
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by Fargren 15y ago
Does this sound believable for anyone that knows something about the current state of the art in space traveling?
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by Fargren 15y ago
Are you saying that everything that is illegal is wrong? I'm not sure I'm reading that right, but if that's what you are saying, I have to disagree. In many cases what's right and what's legal are, at the very least, orthogonal. in some cas
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by Fargren 15y ago
Have you given Alejo Carpentier a read? He has a very baroque approach to magical realism that I love.
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by Fargren 16y ago
Seriously. Once I was assigned to a project with a coworker that commented code instead of deleting it. I explained to him why this was wrong, he kind of agreed and deleted some of the commented code as he saw it, but didn't care much eithe
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by Fargren 16y ago
Full disclosure: I abhor Monopoly. The "fun" part of Monopoly is trading with other players. It's actually a pretty acceptable game as far as diplomacy goes. The worst problem with the game is that it very quickly devolves into a situation
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by Fargren 16y ago
Not if the money from the fee actually goes to paying competent personnel to analyze whether the patent is spurious.
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by Fargren 16y ago
Not necessarily. At my college, attendace is not required for passing. As long as you do well in all your exams and pass all practical your assignements (two or three each quarter), you are ok. So suspension would bw tough but not and autom
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by Fargren 16y ago
Or we could go the nihilistic way, and not even applaud those who act. They are, after all, only being consequent with who they are, and that's hardly special or worthy of praise. Sorry, I've been reading too much Camus...
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by Fargren 16y ago
"The main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that there is still an original copy." No, the main argument for 'piracy is not stealing' is that piracy is not stealing. Stealing is the substraction of property, which piracy isn't. This
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by Fargren 16y ago
I have the same issue, but some of those huge T-Shirts can be really comfortable during a hot summer day, if the cloth is thin enough.
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The Bicameral Mind(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Fargren 16y ago|0 comments
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by Fargren 16y ago
I haven't worked a lot with XCode, but I remember using macros without problem.
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by Fargren 16y ago
I don't think you are being a smartass, I believe that's the only correct answer.

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