Igelau

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931.
by Igelau 6y ago
"42 gets crammed into age"
932.
by Igelau 6y ago
I didn't say it was random. On the contrary, I'd expect it not to be.
933.
by Igelau 6y ago
> Why not just copy sections of the Bible if it's just a sample of work? It would probably be a bad idea to juxtapose religious text with the borderline alchemical pictures in the manuscript. People are/were a superstitious lot
934.
by Igelau 6y ago
It wouldn't be hard to construct a scheme for using the manuscript as an oracle. A single "word" or "sentence" chosen by chance could only be interpreted since it would have no translation.
935.
by Igelau 6y ago
I didn't say it was random. On the contrary, I'd expect it not to be. As you say, humans are bad at random, so if you told a human to sit down and write nonsense content in a nonsense script, you could probably expect some structu
936.
by Igelau 6y ago
I'm of the opinion that it's not supposed to make sense. I think it's a sample: a demo herbal void of any valuable content. Its purpose is to showcase the abilities of the author/illustrator and nothing more.
937.
by Igelau 6y ago
> an initiation ritual in which the candidate is asked to read a blank piece of paper and, on confessing inability to do so, is given eyeglasses and asked to try again, and then again after washing the eyes with a cloth, followed by an &
938.
by Igelau 6y ago
The number is probably derived from his PI services. It also seems like a good enough number to filter out most of the pranksters. I'd fork over a hundred bucks to have someone "confess" at my funeral about some really outlan
939.
by Igelau 6y ago
RTFA: > I need to record the conversation and I need a contract signed, because I need to protect myself. If someone thinks he's just making it up, he's got the documentation.
940.
by Igelau 6y ago
I can't help reading the first couple paragraphs in gravelly film noir voice. I'm waiting for the gangster's moll to show up with no one else to turn to.
941.
by Igelau 6y ago
> You cannot see the blue Oh my. One should not so blithely confess that they can't see The Emperor's New Blue. Such a shame.
942.
by Igelau 6y ago
That's what Slack is for.
943.
by Igelau 6y ago
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" is antiwisdom, and "you can't teach a new dog old tricks" is plain stupid.
944.
by Igelau 6y ago
Any bigger reaction than that is too hawkish for my tastes. Not sure what you're looking for.
945.
by Igelau 6y ago
Foreign interference isn't a bug– it's a feature!
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by Igelau 6y ago
> We vote everyday with our citizenship. You either agree to that living document or you don't by your allegiance. No one is forcing you to be a US citizen You say that like anyone can just up and walk away. Where are you going to g
947.
by Igelau 6y ago
Polarizing much? When you get to "or the CIA torturers" back up and find the verb. It's just poor sentence structure.
948.
by Igelau 6y ago
It appears to be trying to say "no one prosecuted the CIA torturers (and the Obama administration should have)." Implying not that his administration was behind it, but that his administration failed to do anything about it after
949.
by Igelau 6y ago
You may be right, but that still wouldn't say anything about their decision to construct a representative democracy. It just sounds like you have an ax to grind against a bunch of dead guys.
950.
by Igelau 6y ago
The last paragraph brushes up to the problem but doesn't quite get there. Truth is that ethics are only useful in certain times and places. If you try to generalize them to encompass everything, you start reaching ridiculous conclusion
951.
by Igelau 6y ago
You know that's not the case here. If it comes down to picking and editing interviews, it would not be possible to do so without bias.
952.
by Igelau 6y ago
IANAL, but I doubt that imagined alternate histories constitute a legal precedent.
953.
by Igelau 6y ago
Unless they got banned so hard that they were erased from history and memory, mobile phone apps were not a thing during the Cold War.
954.
by Igelau 6y ago
UUIDs aren't supposed to be secure. They're aren't supposed to be unguessable. They're just supposed to be very unlikely to be duplicated. They have one use case: as universally unique identifiers. That's it. Any ex
955.
by Igelau 6y ago
I really want to believe that that's what Nero looked like. I'm pretty sure he tried to get me to prop him up for a keg stand at a college party.
956.
by Igelau 6y ago
More and more it's that the insurance company lets you pay them a premium while you also pay your bills in full. Then if you hit your obscenely high deductible they start helping. Then if you hit your out of pocket maximum they cover i
957.
by Igelau 6y ago
CMYK doesn't have just one black. A couple examples listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black
958.
by Igelau 6y ago
IMHO creativity isn't really as conscious as people seem to think. I have had a handful of hyper productive songwriting sessions and by the end it always felt more like I was the horse than the rider. Neither was anything made so much
959.
by Igelau 6y ago
Except you don't need a cryptocurrency to have decentralized applications or neutral platforms.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> You're just used to the stupidity Those examples you listed are at least an explainable, understandable flavor of stupid. "Hello, bank? I'm disputing this charge" or "Yes, I really bought that stuff". It&#

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