Torwald

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by Torwald 8y ago
Haha it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vas_deferens To my deferens, it vas vast over my head.
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by Torwald 8y ago
In the capture to the title picture, there seems to be a typo "vas deferens" instead of "vast difference." Correct me if I am wrong, non native speaker here!
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by Torwald 8y ago
I don't know why the term "handcuffware"could be applied to WordPress. I deploy several WP sites, I find it neither complicated nor particularly buggy.
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by Torwald 8y ago
> No, that's silly. Witches don't have "rituals to fight Christians," excepting the fringe sort of bigots that can be found in every religion. Unless you know each and every witch personally, how can you know what rit
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by Torwald 8y ago
Also the existence of nuclear weapons could be a force towards world peace, because they force the powers to behave more peacefully, because wars have become to expensive.
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by Torwald 8y ago
You can't really prove either one proposition. I've heard that Witches use the peace sign in their rituals to fight Christians. I would be interested to hear more about that. Any Wiccan around here?
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by Torwald 8y ago
There is talkietalkie.el major mode for Emacs.
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by Torwald 8y ago
After his return to Apple, Jobs explicitly said that Apple should be better at partnering. It was on the event were he announced the Microsoft deal. I guess Steve learned this during the Next years.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Who protects doctors from attacks, when they get attacked because they value patient confidentiality over conformity to such governmental programs and maybe peer pressure?
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by Torwald 8y ago
Leasing things that are already up there and have downtime is going to be a future possibility. I don't know about cheap though. No idea. Dynamics like Moores law will make it possible at some point. It's a general hunch.
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by Torwald 8y ago
In other words, the one who follows Paul Graham says: yes! For Paul wrote: solve hard problems. Let's get down to the practical. Laying fiber is expensive you say? What about spacecrafts/sats? Let's phone Elon wether he has t
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by Torwald 8y ago
Is this an opportunity for an entrepreneur? Just asking, because, you know, what site is this?
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by Torwald 8y ago
I am 40 and from Europe, when I was in school, "latin" America, that's how it's called, was clearly considered West. What you are experiencing is something that seems to arise from the US only in more recent times, maybe
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by Torwald 8y ago
It comes down to the question what kind of financial services they want to provide. What people are doing is to use those cards as speculation devices. You enter a game of speculation, using your card depth as speculation matter against the
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by Torwald 8y ago
> Few without deep technical knowledge is sympathetic to FOSS. Few without deep technical knowledge do even know what FOSS is.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Ok, cool, now, how is the number eight, for instance. Does it exist only because human brains have it in it? Or do numbers exist in the universe outside our brains? Can we answer this? This would be an important step in IP rights and all th
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by Torwald 8y ago
Hey aragorn2, I read trough all the comments you made here as well. Based on that I want to recommend to you the material of Stefan Molyneux in regards to two of his keywords: self-knowledge and peaceful parenting. He talks about other thin
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by Torwald 8y ago
Good distinction, I agree. This leads me to this: If, for example a song, is not written down anywhere, but some brains contain it, this means there some people who could reproduce this song by singing it, this song would still exist. Is a
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by Torwald 8y ago
OK, maybe you still have a point. What then, would be the threshold for saying: now, at this point, the costs of X are not marginal anymore but substantial enough to be taken into account?
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by Torwald 8y ago
> Copying data is a fundamental operation that all computers are able to perform and it costs nothing. That is not true. Running, maintaining, etc the IT infrastructure is costing money, electricity etc. It doesn't come for free.
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by Torwald 8y ago
The problems are made by the state with it's unnecessary regulations of the market.
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by Torwald 8y ago
How do you define "wealth redistribution" that you can think it is a business?
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by Torwald 8y ago
anybody who searches investment opportunities, has the money, deems this a good opportunity, can distinguish between the deal itself and the PR stunt and never heard of it before seeing this story.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Yo, Bill, what about your own degree? LOL.
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Defect attractors(esr.ibiblio.org)
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by Torwald 8y ago
Maybe part of the problem is a wrong diagnosis. Maybe they don't feel that unhappy. They just have a wrong expectation on how it would feel like, when they finally would be happy for the first time in their lives.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Like in Star Wars. I think it can work.
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by Torwald 8y ago
No, it's a bug. I liked your original idea, let's have that one plus a 10k constituents cap per representative as suggested in the other thread.
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by Torwald 8y ago
It is a metaphor that related to the technical aspects, instead of adhering to a social hierarchy.
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by Torwald 8y ago
The thing is such an OS would never be popular, because the vast majority of users never will be programers (again).

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