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by V-2 8y ago
Well, he's the heavy weight champion though (formerly light heavyweight, but heavy nevertheless). They, too, have weight divisions in the sport.
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by V-2 8y ago
I won fairly easily. The engine is quite weak, it falls for basic tactics (is it custom made?). But, obviously, I assume that's not the point... it's just fun to play :) For a chess player it feels kind of like 2048. Plus, I guess
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by V-2 8y ago
Well I'm not exactly saying that (it sure might be, like anything that can consume your life)... My tongue-in-cheek point was along the lines that just because a discipline doesn't involve punching someone in the face - unlike b
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by V-2 8y ago
In fact, competitive chess requires adapting a very merciless mindset and swapping empathy for "killer instinct". In one interview - with Peter Thiel, by the way - current WC Magnus Carlsen was asked about Josh Waitzkin. (Waitzkin
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by V-2 8y ago
Gmail isn't the only service guilty of that. Here's an icon from the Outlook web mail app: https://ibb.co/ic66Qd What does it mean?
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by V-2 8y ago
> someone born this decade is unlikely ever encounter the real thing UX design used to reach further back than current decade. Even in the ancient days of early Windows, not many people had had first-hand experience using an hourglass
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by V-2 8y ago
"I don't even use Gmail anymore (I've completely switched over to Inbox) but when I opened that article the first thing I did was "read" all the icons on the page." Well, Inbox shares quite a few of these obs
608.
by V-2 8y ago
But "..." is English (and multiple other languages), not an icon .
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by V-2 8y ago
Quite the opposite. Anchoring the law in morality works like a safeguard against the dystopian scenarios. Laws can be changed overnight - but permanently altering societal views on morality takes considerably longer. This process is still a
610.
by V-2 8y ago
The more the law diverges from the morality (as commonly understood in a given society), the more oppressive power structures you need in order to maintain it.
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by V-2 8y ago
> If harming those who commit crimes is a good thing, why not do it more? Because proportion is a good thing, too - and is pivotal for the whole concept of justice. > And who gets to decide how much is enough? The same instance th
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by V-2 8y ago
> To what end? Should we waterboard them every day? Should we implant them with pain devices that make their life hell? Nothing like the good, old reductio ad absurdum . Two can play that game, but it prevents any meaningful discussio
613.
by V-2 8y ago
Only that's not the case at all. Popular cinema and TV are bursting at the seams with antiheroes. From Clockwork Orange through Hannibal Lecter to Sopranos, Dexter, Breaking Bad...
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by V-2 8y ago
> I stayed one day in the hotel to work on my computer and my GF came back crying You should have said that from the start. This definitely rules out Prague as the next Silicon Valley.
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by V-2 8y ago
> If you ask people to volunteer for remote work then people who are better remote workers are likely to volunteer And people who are better in-office workers volunteer not to go home :) I guess this does mimic real life, no?
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by V-2 8y ago
Perhaps the clear difference in entropy between 23x73 and 73x23 renderings actually stresses the fact that the data conveys a thoughtfully arranged message of some sort.
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by V-2 8y ago
I guess we're broadcasting it inadvertently anyway, with all the radio noise we create.
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by V-2 8y ago
> Travel there to see yourself. Try to bring a foreign looking girl friend. Enjoy. The condescending tone is uncalled for. As for the advice, I don't really need to travel as I've lived in Poland for my whole life (minus a fe
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by V-2 8y ago
Your point about "language" isn't convincing to me, as everyone speaks English in the IT sector anyway. And what sort of "xenophobia" are you referring to?
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by V-2 8y ago
Yeah, same in Polish - it's "poduszkowiec" (pillow - "poduszka").
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by V-2 8y ago
Apparently Ronald Pelton (the man who spilled the beans to the Soviets) "was tried and convicted of espionage in 1986 and sentenced to three concurrent life sentences[3] and a $100 fine" . My question is, who fines you a hundre
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by V-2 8y ago
Eh, I know we're used to the "10 great ways to self-improve" genre these days, but I would still grant some artistic license to freeform essays and the like ;) "Shooting An Elephant" (by Orwell) is, too, very disapp
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by V-2 8y ago
Much more so in a less egalitarian language such as Polish (or German, I imagine?), where the distinction between informal "you" and "sir" (or "pan") is a bigger deal than in English.
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by V-2 8y ago
True, but at least the piece is quite insightful
625.
by V-2 8y ago
What's with the chess pieces setup?
626.
by V-2 8y ago
Isn't the possession of eg. pedophile drawings, or (theoretically) CGI / AI-generated pedophile movies also criminalized?
627.
by V-2 9y ago
This is about distribution. The whole concept of media is inherently related to distribution (of information). It's in the very etymology of the word.
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by V-2 9y ago
I also recommend "The Eye" and "Laughter in the Dark". My favourite writer along with Kundera and Lem (does it give me away as a Central European?).
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by V-2 9y ago
> Lem extrapolated that from dinosaurs (although I think it showed a weak grasp of natural history because for dinosaurs size was not correlated with their extinction) Size was a contributing factor. That's why maniraptorans manag
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by V-2 9y ago
"The Investigation" was a somewhat flawed experiment on Lem's part. However, the much later "The Chain of Chance" (I had to look up the English title - the original is named "Katar", or "Rhinitis&quot

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