Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
Kids were allowed to discover things in the 30s - yeah, allowed to die, too, if they were poor. But you cannot have a creative culture if you're scared to death of all risk. America's edge has always been due to risk-takers, and we're do
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"She made a bad choice." Jesus. No, this interested student made what, to any scientist in the history of the world, would have to be considered a good choice - mix some stuff and see what happens, outdoors and well away from anybody.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Nothing's stopping you (or a potential commercial user) from negotiating a commercial, non-GPL license, you know.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Man, I'm torn here. Making orphaned works public-domain is really a positive move, but the law doesn't appear to be using a great definition of orphaned if this article can be believed. It does beg a question, though: I don't live by photo
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by Vivtek 14y ago
No, I think these are afterthoughts. The point of the article as I read it is that Reddit needs to change, that these effects are only due to its current design. But I think a saner takeaway is that Reddit is simply the wrong tool for cro
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Pfft. If he understood what he was doing, I hate him more. So far I've always given him the benefit of the doubt when considering the results of his actions on 9/11, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, with the banking crisis, with Katrina, with s
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Oh, you people with fully functional color vision are always complaining about this kind of thing. I'll just stand over here with Van Gogh.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
This is a thoughtful article, except for the basic premise that if Reddit wants to be useful at crowdsourcing of this nature, it needs to be something other than Reddit. Reddit is a social forum. It allowed people to feel part of things, a
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by Vivtek 14y ago
The only uncanny valley effect here is that the water doesn't wet anything - everything is perfect Teflon. So it's hard to judge whether the movement of the water is perfectly realistic, because I keep looking at the transitions. If I don
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Makes you kind of wonder if shutting down Boston for a day was partly motivated by the desire to be able to list damage to interstate trade.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm pretty sure they attacked the country that gave them shelter purely because that is where they were physically located.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Skin, metal - some kinda head. Stop joggling my elbow, son, you're distracting me.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
"We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms." How these people's heads don't explode is just beyond me. He has to be aware of what he's saying. Right?
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by Vivtek 14y ago
They had a Jihadist motivation like a metalhead has a Nazi motivation. Their father was a Russian anti-separatist enforcer and the older brother's act of rebellion was to act like a jihadi. And the younger brother thought that was cool. T
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I could have told you that. I can tell you that the same mechanism works for your own dog's barks, too, something my wife and I have laughed about recently.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
This is a really nice conceit. I'd go further and say there are other types of pursuit that are dreamlike. Translation (my own work) can be like that, and to different extents for different languages. Hungarian to English is every bit as
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Then choose the impotent veto and stand on the side of justice. I don't see that as a problem.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Nah, I think it's constant over time. Most people here are pretty goal-oriented. Thank God for Reddit. If Reddit didn't exist as a contrast, this site would go down the drain.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, Skype is fantastic. I'm on a different continent from my parents (in Budapest, they're in Indiana) and I think I talk to them more now than while we were right next to them for the previous three years.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Also, Dutch is easier to read than Swedish. So there's that!
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Makes sense. If what they want to do is index people.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Why the ad hominem, bob13579?
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Worse than that: the people who like a Ryan and his type actually respect gut feelings better than wonky data.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
They'll say nothing at all.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
From the article, it would appear there is in fact an attorney in the loop - who doesn't appear to know that this is a mistake.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
This is fantastic. Truly!
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by Vivtek 14y ago
You've just invented the Public Works Administration! A huge proportion of America's infrastructure was built in the 30's by the PWA - including the vast majority of infrastructure in federal and state parks. They had to stop because that'
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by Vivtek 14y ago
From the article: Given the tight financial strictures of the US government this is unlikely This is what pisses me off about the last decade. Plenty of money to bail out the richest people the planet has ever seen. Plenty of money to k
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by Vivtek 14y ago
The thing about a fusion rocket engine is that the energy is used to throw stuff out the back. In a fusion generator this would not be considered a feature - if you want a stationary generator that doesn't melt your city you have to co
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by Vivtek 14y ago
You obviously didn't grow up in the same Western country I did.

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