Typhon

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by Typhon 15y ago
Randall Munroe should've watched a Twilight Zone episode called "A nice place to visit" before drawing this comic.
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by Typhon 15y ago
The tone and extremism are part of the message. Parts of his message. The ideas that seem important to you, you can pick them from it and propagate them yourself.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Can somebody tell me when exactly did Stallman say that someone who used proprietary software was a hater of freedom ? In the last interview I read, he seemed able to understand that almost nobody would go as far as him on the side of soft
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by Typhon 15y ago
Yes. Obviously, it's not completely bad or good. It is my opinion that it's mostly bad, but in theory, it could be changed to something that'd work better. What I think will actually happen, though, is that it will collapse.
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by Typhon 15y ago
Not yet at least. The dissatisfaction is growing, but it's not yet the opinion of the majority. Unless there are drastic changes, it will be. The last treaty (TCE and its ersatz), was rejected by all the referendums. None of the countries
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by Typhon 16y ago
It's making my country poor, it allowed its industries to be outsourced, and it is now robbing people from their sovereignty. It's not providing any kind of protection against the outside world, but it is destroying all of its members prev
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by Typhon 16y ago
I love how the emergence of human-like AI, something I wouldn't expect my great-grandchildren to see, is placed before the USA declining as a world power, something which is happening since the beginning of the century and will probably a
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by Typhon 16y ago
That's how it turned out in America, where people had individual cars starting in the 1910s and where oil is still cheaper than in Europe.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Human scale cities imply human scale commerce. I assume that by "hustles and bustle of commerce" you mean those monstrous gigantic malls. It doesn't have to be that way.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Sending stuff in space (above low earth orbit) is the costliest things ever. So far, only a handful of states managed to send things to the moon, and only two managed to bring something back from it. The last time it happened was thirty-fiv
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by Typhon 16y ago
They give almost all the words. I've had harder Latin tests. The history stuff is weirdly worded. Probably the hardest part of the test.
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by Typhon 16y ago
the CNIL lacks power. All they can do is protest, but they have no real power.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Apple products don't need durability, since they release a new version of a product by the time the current generation is no longer new. Why would you want your ipad or iphone to last more than one year, when the new iphone or ipad will mak
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by Typhon 16y ago
I suggest that the existence of civil liberties in many countries has to do with the example set by the American war of independence, and the French revolution (which was itself inspired by the other one).
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by Typhon 16y ago
Also, 9 women can't make a baby at all without a man. So, instead of 9 people with similar abilities, it's better to have 2 people whose abilities complement each other.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Professional : comes from a french verb meaning, among other things, "to teach". Etymology's very deceptive. It's generally not a good idea to use it to discover the "true" meaning of a word, whatever quality that "true" meaning would have
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by Typhon 16y ago
German, French, and Italian being three of the four official languages, that wouldn't be surprising if it was common. But Einstein did attend an elite university in Swiss, the Zurich Polytechnicum
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by Typhon 16y ago
>Implying convenience is an objectively measurable quality that is the same for everyone. This is obviously wrong. Convenience is completely tied to someone's particular uses. I don't see the point of using a phone for anything but phon
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by Typhon 16y ago
I just did it, thanks for the idea. It's going to take time before I get used to it, though.
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by Typhon 16y ago
An old one : Why do mathematician mistake Halloween for Christmas ? Because to them, 31oct = 25dec
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by Typhon 16y ago
Language - By Leonard Bloomfield.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Impressive. It's interesting to see that most distros are descended from either Debian, Slackware or Red Hat. I guess that trying to improve what already exists is less work than starting one from scratch.
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by Typhon 16y ago
The diversity of GNU/Linux distros is turning into something similar to rule 34 : "If X exists, there is an X-themed Linux distro"
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by Typhon 16y ago
Meanwhile, after seeing the movie, someone else concluded not only that Zuckerberg's main motivation was building something with his mind but that he enjoyed literally nothing but coding (to put it mildly) : http://www.ferretbrain.com/arti
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by Typhon 16y ago
> «They mean porn apps» That's not what Jobs said. And besides, it doesn't change the problem : what counts as a "porn app" ? Is an app that allows you to download, among thousands of E-Books, the kama sutra, (one of the cases discuss
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by Typhon 16y ago
They are strict indeed : "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," (Steve Jobs, quoted on the Wikipedia page about the AppStore) Even though you bought the thing (and it's not exactly cheap), you cannot p
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by Typhon 16y ago
OH GOD NO ! I'd rather have Microsoft's monopoly endure than have it replaced by Apple domination. Perhaps they make better software, but they're also much better at being evil.
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by Typhon 16y ago
Well, I don't know about being a game programmer, but he made me want to program my own tic-tac-toe game. So I made one yesterday and added a real AI today. That's probably, even by my very low standards of beginner, one of the dirtiest pie
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by Typhon 16y ago
Nothing's wrong with that in itself. However, it can have undesired negative side-effects.
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by Typhon 16y ago
There are billions of women on this planet. One drop of sperm contains hundreds of millions of spermatozoa. So the answer is no. I am not one in a million. I am much less likely than that. Not that it makes me special in any kind of way, it

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