School-Cotton

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3811.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Yes, but even after the opening lines are exhausted, a huge part of expert chess play is just intuition and choosing which moves “look right”, rather than conscious thought and calculation (though that too has its place).
3812.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
> ZFS NB: Not on OpenBSD.
3813.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
You’re obviously curious and want to try it, or you wouldn’t have posted that, so why not go for it? You have nothing to lose. For me the coolest thing about OpenBSD is it’s the simplest OS that is still of practical use (i.e., not counting
3814.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
No, the feds refusing to prosecute doesn’t make it legal. Federal crimes are crimes everywhere, even in states that don’t have the same crime on their statute books.
3815.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
I agree with your speculation in the last paragraph — I think this is at least partly due to the age difference. Younger people are more likely to be able to move on a whim and therefore set up their life such that they don’t have a 1.5-hr
3816.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ
3817.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Cool, good to know people are having fun.
3818.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
> Prosperity is unfortunately a zero sum game. Virtually every part of the world is far more prosperous than it was 100 years ago.
3819.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Interesting. Do you mind saying what country?
3820.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
> Joey's pizza did have a web presence before Facebook. My recollection is that far fewer businesses had any web presence in 2004. Big professional ones did, but random family-owned restaurants usually didn’t.
3821.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
The Linux kernel is written in C, not C++.
3822.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
Of course Gabriel’s horn doesn’t exist in physical reality, but it’s still interesting that such a thing exists in a mathematical theory that is normally a pretty good model of physical reality.
3823.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
“American outlook” here means the outlook of mainstream US culture, not some shared context of everyone who has ever inhabited the land. So the “American” (really, U.S. American) cultural context is in fact not related to Hiawatha at all. H
3824.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
If you asked them, their opinions would not be uniform. Some would be for, some would be against, and some wouldn’t care. Just like what would happen if you asked Anglo-Americans about their opinion on any controversial issue. And for what