RevRal

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My favorite Latin logical phrase: Reductio ad absurdum(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by RevRal 16y ago|0 comments
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by RevRal 16y ago
To a very large degree, I agree with what you say. If we go any further I think it would amount to nit picking.
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by RevRal 16y ago
This XKCD strip comes to mind: http://xkcd.com/435/ . I don't think anyone is actually saying nature is math. In that strip you can see that the line continues rightward, though I don't know if that was intentional. Math is just symbols t
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by RevRal 16y ago
Just putting this out there: I don't think this idea is crazy. I fully endorse this. However, I'm not really a part of the Reddit community. If HN wants to start a similar project, or combine, I would be completely for it and would to like
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by RevRal 16y ago
Dan Buettner's TED talk touches on this: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_buettner_how_to_live_t...
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by RevRal 16y ago
>And where did you get the idea of advertisements from? There was a recent submission that touched on this: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/booty-call.html
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by RevRal 16y ago
Yes! I've been waiting for an ebook reader that I can use to take hand-written notes with. I really can't concentrate on a book unless I have a pencil in hand, underlining, circling, and taking notes. Stylus instead of pencil, here.
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by RevRal 16y ago
I went to torrentfreak to double check the Hurt Locker numbers, because I could have sworn they were going after 'tens of thousands.' http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-will-earn-hurt-locker-more-th... . Looks like this 5,000 for Hurt Locker w
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by RevRal 16y ago
There was a time a few years ago when I was absolutely certain that the world was going to return to sustenance level living really soon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe ). And then I read The Road and got extremely d
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by RevRal 16y ago
Looks like you need to use the "single page" link instead of the "print" link on the nytimes website: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/books/review/Nicholson-t.h...
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by RevRal 16y ago
First, don't take it as a sign of disrespect that I am not able to elaborate much for you, and won't have time to elaborate further. Ultimately, it is up to you to educate yourself on rationality. Now, I need for you to be honest with yours
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by RevRal 16y ago
Three things: I will never be unable to unsee this (a good thing). I am now buying a print of the Creation of Adam. What does this mean for the Spaghetti Monster parody of the painting? In the parody, His noodly noodles and meatballs defini
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by RevRal 16y ago
Do you need someone to explain why this is unlikely and not worthwhile to brood over?
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SixthSense Technology: Projecting the world of data onto our physical world(ted.com)
1 points by RevRal 16y ago|0 comments
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by RevRal 16y ago
I've thought about this quite a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that calling games art is like calling reality art. The specific thing that distinguishes video games are game mechanics. And, self contained, game mechanics are basically
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by RevRal 16y ago
I sat here for about five minutes thinking about this, and this really is beyond me. But I do have this picture in my head of throwing a bunch of gigantic parachute things into the water. Perhaps with tubes in their centers that lead to the
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by RevRal 16y ago
A friend of mine told me Fravia had passed on (a while ago, apparently), which was news to me. So that kind of influenced my decision to submit the link. He really had a positive influence on my night life back in the day.
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Fravia's web searching lore:Finding Information and seeking Knowledge on the Web(searchlores.org)
5 points by RevRal 16y ago|2 comments
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by RevRal 16y ago
I've seen that video a few times over the years, and it has always struck me as... how do I say it... not correct. Something in there just seems wrong. I do like some of the ideas in there, though. Hopefully someone here can elaborate becau
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by RevRal 16y ago
The url goes to a May 20, 2010, google cache. Why? [edit: Okay, I didn't see that he could only find the cache. Just for future reference doron, at the top of the webshot is displayed the URL.] Here's the URL unshortened and uncached: ht
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by RevRal 16y ago
Whenever I see something like this, I ask myself: "should we have banned the use of fossil fuel when it was first being harnessed?" The answer to myself is always: no.
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by RevRal 16y ago
I just finished reading this: http://www.nthposition.com/thelastcargo.php Very interesting. I especially liked the term "cargo prophets." The article paints cargo cultists as performing, with fervor and rigor, a "magical repetition" of an
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by RevRal 16y ago
I spent about half an hour working on mine. I have trust issues with random people on the internet.
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by RevRal 16y ago
>Maybe it's time for some stricter flagging. I've only been flagging spam, in faith that HN is self correcting. But I've been getting annoyed more frequently, and am about to re-consider my position on flagging. Maybe a "flag more" cult
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by RevRal 16y ago
For Vim I use tab as esc, and s-tab as tab. Auto-indent turned on. Caps as right arrow is an interesting idea. Basically, caps lock is silly.
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by RevRal 16y ago
Frankly [my dear], I too have been finding the stories and the discussion here pretty dull lately. On-the-plus, I've been hitting f5 less frequently :). Perhaps old-timers with good karma should have a higher weight to their story upvotes.
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Remap Your Caps Lock As Backspace(michaeljaylissner.com)
4 points by RevRal 16y ago|4 comments
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by RevRal 16y ago
That, and the sheer sum of suffering vastly trumps pleasure in the world. And not just in humans -- there is a lot of cruelty in nature. Pain can also be condensed much more easily than pleasure, to maddening heights. It seems very whimsica
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by RevRal 16y ago
Full of shit.
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by RevRal 16y ago
On crafting a good personal character there are two words: convincingness and credibility . In any situation, you must always be convincing in what you do and say, and in a way that puts you in a good light without undermining your credi

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