Retra

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by Retra 8y ago
Artist's ideas are just other ideas combined in yet-unseen ways. The originality (the reason they are unseen yet) is a side-effect of combinatorial explosion. Your intuition will generate novel configurations within a narrow domain, wh
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by Retra 8y ago
A more generous interpretation would simply be that "shill" was used as a proxy for "selfish." But that doesn't even matter, you can ask that poster what they meant. Context should tell you they were doing nothing m
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by Retra 8y ago
Perhaps Carlson was just being generous to his opponent then. Surely a nefarious deed.
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by Retra 8y ago
People who make their livelihood on the back of a sport don't really have any incentive to not be overly dramatic during the big game. Any promoter will want people's eyes on the game. Controversy does that. Carlson's draw of
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by Retra 8y ago
You used the term "specifically" but nobody is nitpicking the meaning of that word to elevate a non-generous interpretation of what you mean. Sometimes people are just not that careful with the words they choose and don't exp
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by Retra 8y ago
It's typical of all surveys. You either need to go into extensive detail to remove the ambiguity of the questions, or you need to allow people to state what they think in plain language. Taking surveys to gather information is like usi
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by Retra 8y ago
It could also just be material layering for stability, shaping, cavitation protection, noise reduction, strength, etc..
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by Retra 8y ago
What is the fundamental unit of velocity? Wavelength?
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by Retra 8y ago
Having some words written somewhere is hardly regulating anything. Regulation requires control.
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by Retra 8y ago
Nobody said anything about feeling productive. They're talking about being productive.
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by Retra 8y ago
One of C's big problems is that it doesn't provide many efficient abstractions, and fixing that problem will lead you to something which is not like C for the same reasons Rust is not like C.
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by Retra 8y ago
And this is why every survey I've ever taken has pissed me off and now I don't take them at all. I've never felt that the information gleaned from a survey was honestly useful for making decisions.
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by Retra 8y ago
He trusted in himself that the position was not as strong as it appeared, and decided to let another game decide the outcome of the tournament.
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by Retra 8y ago
>Creating a new project with one of the current popular frameowrks will bring in hundreds or thousands of dependencies. Who can possibly vet that? People who care if their software works correctly. Everyone else relies only on herd immun
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by Retra 8y ago
That's not a very useful perspective, because you could say the same thing about any part of language or science. Human knowledge is an abstraction, and can only ever indirectly represent reality. (And surely, "not in the slightes
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by Retra 8y ago
It is still better to trust in misleading science than it is to do any of the alternatives. And just because some science is misleading doesn't mean the institution itself doesn't work.
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by Retra 8y ago
I think the confusion here is related to the idea that you can infer something happens even if you cannot observe it happening. If you know it takes light 8K years to reach you, and you can right now see a countdown process which will go of
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by Retra 8y ago
And both of you lose because you're purposefully dismissing the value of research and making decisions based on ritual and conformity.
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by Retra 8y ago
I suppose then that you're imagining they got that tall by unnatural means?
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by Retra 8y ago
There exist women who are good at and interested in chess.
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by Retra 8y ago
Your analogy doesn't make sense. In basketball, if your opponent gets tired, that gives you a better opportunity to win. In chess, if the game nears the end and neither of you can see a way to win, then there's no good opportunity
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by Retra 8y ago
.. all of which require some kind of rendering software that has to actually be installed on your machine.
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by Retra 8y ago
Well, even if you had a good database design, you'd only then be able to argue that a greater portion of the problem is SQL.
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by Retra 8y ago
With more parties, new/different ideas have more ways to infiltrate the political decision-making process. With two parties, ideas stagnate unless they are adopted by the overly-powerful heads of those parties.
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by Retra 8y ago
"The nation" isn't just swing states.
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by Retra 8y ago
I can't wait to see people shooting their rifles and handguns at fighter jets, tanks, drones, and bombs. Really good self defense plan there. And it's going to seem so patriotic when you're shooting at your own government &am
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by Retra 8y ago
It can be fun. It can also be fun to come up with some sort of breadcrumb system and movement planning. Exploration in proc gen worlds is mostly pointless anyway. Build roads to everywhere you want to go and you'll never get lost.
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by Retra 8y ago
That's pretty much the main reason north Korea hasn't been attacked since the Korean War: even without nuclear weapons, nobody wants to risk war when Seoul is all but guaranteed to be leveled.
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by Retra 8y ago
They can be numbers and abstractions. There's not really any definitive singular notion of what a number is , so it wouldn't be very useful to say something like pi isn't a number. (If you can do arithmetic on it, chances ar
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by Retra 8y ago
The OSI guidelines are themselves a codification of values; all systems are. Don't fool yourself into believing that there's any way to function in the world without exercising discriminating judgement. Your responsibility is to m

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