OvidNaso

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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Love Diaspora, but it is really more of a philosophical thought experiment that drops you into two worlds rather than a novel with a plot. Half the book is geometry!
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
But there is one other factor more important than any and muddles everything..the desire to accumulate wealth.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Because we all have a common ancestor that lived not that long ago[0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
How dose one enable it? I only get the "something went wrong" page when visiting the site and all the help docs only reference an HTML5 embedded player.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
All of those viewpoints you alude to are extremely fringe movements and are in no way populist.
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
Wasn't that the entire purpose and function (practically) of TrueCrypt's hidden volumes?
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
>I've finally come to terms with the idea that, if there is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent power, it's the universe as a whole, but since you can't take any part of existence and remove the part that isn't div
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
Recent versions of mupdf support epub. I currently use zathura which is great for pdf's and it does an decent job with epub's.
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
"Physical dependence" with respect to addiction really is nothing. Substances that create physical withdrawal symptoms can certainly be very very unpleasant (even dangerous), but if they were at all the main factor in addiction,
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
That is interesting, but really only the first point is outside the scope of issues that would be addressed or rectified if the academic community as a whole were to embrace an open culture.
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
I use pentadactyl with firefox which allows me to <C-i> in a text area which launches emacsclient (running in daemon mode) and sends the text back when I save. no mouse! Here is a short video of how it works: https://youtu.
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
What are these people supposed to do? Your solutions sounds like certain cities solution to the homeless problem...kick them out of the city. I'm pround of the other members of your group. The mentally ill and socially inept should
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
Check out the documentary 0.Casino Jack and the United Stats of Money read up on jack Abramoff. It certainly appears that he was living in a fantasy world created from pulp cold war fiction novels and he was not alone. [0] http:/&#x2
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
"Money is a sign of poverty" --The Culture
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
>In every culture in the world, a man putting his hand on another's shoulder is a gesture of dominance, What an example of cultural confusion on display. Because this sounds absurd to me. Here, a hand on the shoulder, is a clear si
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
This actually is not the primary reason for the tradition. See: http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/en_tradition11.pdf
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
But in a case of property dispute, this contradicts what you said about the mind of the victim not mattering. If I am in your house and believe that the playstation is mine and walk out with it. Weather or not it is a crime is entirely de
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
If you want to extend even furthur into the metaphysics, it was Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" which (certainly not first) proposes that it's the computational universe that comes first given rise to the mathematical re
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
>No one is obliged to give me money -- unless they consume the content I created. At that point, they are. I just read that sentence...am I now obliged?
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
Colorado and Washington are already blowing it. They are taking tax revenue from the sale of marijuana and using it as regular tax revenue for programs such as schools. Just look at the insidious relationship government has with the lotte
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
Along these lines, I've often thought about the cognitive paths that could be explored or changed if I were to learn braille or sign language. Neuroscience has recently studied and given legitimacy to the state of 'Flow' or
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by OvidNaso 11y ago
You really want the surgeon who is only doing his best due to fear to be operating on you? None of those listed professions at any time motivate their training due to fear of imprisionment. It is a complete non factor and it's only ef
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Try =package-refresh-contents=. When this happens it means the package was probably updated since last package.el was refreshed.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Isn't this sort of the original intent and purpose of Literate programming. I just spent a bunch of my time creating my emacs configuartion in org-mode using babel [0] and man, it was a cool experience. You can comment out the wazoo,
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Unfortunately, I've also had a few problems with Manjaro. I still think it is great and would recommend it, but it certainly is a 'plan to move on' distribution for me. I think I'm going to try Antergos next. I'm
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Food, water, shelter. Don't think you can deny prisoners those and claim it's not a human right's issue.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Man, none of the sites in this thread work on linux without flash (Manjaro; Firefox 36.0). I was super excited looking at the players...just wish I could hear the music. The only option I've discovered to work so far to discover EDM wr
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
But this is the case in many social issues that are eventually "won". Only a couple of years ago the vast majority of people in the US firmly believed marijuana should remain illegal and that number has dropped enough to change ma
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Recent trends seem to be that the AI Effect is happening in reverse. Processes that were considered normal computational, mathematical and statistical fuctions are being described as AI.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"If flying across the world/country and making other drastic changes really does stop the cycle with a high rate of success, we should consider funding it." In addiction circles this behavior is comingly attempted, and consid

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