WinterAyars

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by WinterAyars 17y ago
There's another issue too. It's not just "the iPad is closed, therefore openness is doomed". That would be obviously silly. The problem is that all the powerful forces in our society (barring technology itself) are pushing towards these clo
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
In MMOs it's easy: go look at the psychology of rewards. Psychologists found that if you rig up an experiment where you take rats and give them a button where they get food when they press it they'll more or less do the sensible thing: when
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
It's definitely too big to be a wolf. The size would be appropriate for a bear, and bears are probably more likely than wolves anyway. It's not quite the right shape for a bear, but that's just my opinion.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
I think this is a pretty naive way to look at it. Of course Harvard realizes their MBAs often end up with a duty to maximize shareholder value at any and all costs. Isn't that kind of the point? "That" being to create tension between the tw
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
I think they're more closely aligned with psychopathy/sociopathy (the actual disorders) than outright "evil". (Of course, psychopathy/sociopathy is probably the closest thing to a medical description of "evil" that there is...)
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
But women now have to keep wearing make-up in order to "keep up with" gender perception. (Or so one could argue.)
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Well, i think we could do a better job of protecting government from corruption than we currently do. It would make a big difference if we had, for instance, publicly funded elections.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
That argument is a form of definition-mongering. It's basically "because you can't provide an EXACT line that separates these things there's no separation at all!" But that's plainly not a convincing argument.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
The DMCA is, itself, a racket and was designed right from the start to be.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
NASA has some rather particular requirements, though. If their systems fail their spaceships crash and explode. Possibly killing people. It's a much stricter requirement than most people will ever deal with, but wow do you not ever want to
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
In my view, contracts can do the "redundancy" thing much better than typing can. It's explicit, it's optional, it's a better guarantee that you're getting what you want, it's more flexible, etc. Contracts and TDD are my favorites right now,
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Advances in technology have often killed jobs. Actually, advances in technology kill jobs continuously. Like, since the invention of the wheel probably. It's just that technology hasn't made people LIKE THIS obsolete before. At least, not r
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
The other "rule of them" i've heard is that the first 80% of the work takes 80% of your time, but the last 20% of the work takes the second 80% of your time.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Okay, but the school example is bull. I've blown people away with all kinds of stuff, but i've never gotten anything more than an "A" out of it. Of course this is one way in which school is unlike real life. In school your success is effect
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Wow, a bit bitter are we? Well guess what...
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
The problem is... that's exactly how quacks operate.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
They could also, if needed, point out they have a "doomsday machine" ready to go if they were pressed into it by the US.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
The whole point is that there's more to languages than just "technical correctness". Lisp is great technically and theoretically, but in other respects it is quite a ways behind (for instance) Ruby. So Ruby has some big problems (speed, to
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
If you did, indeed, see the talk then i think you missed the point.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Try listening to Matz talk about his experience with Lisp and (subsequently) his inspiration to make Ruby. Basically, he said Lisp sounded great in theory... but actually when you have to use it it's a huge pain in the ass. And Matz is a pr
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Well, first we have to define what exactly we're talking about: physical sex, mental sex, behavioral sex, or some sort of combination. Since it wasn't spelled out i'm just assuming it's "whichever you feel is most important" :) So for physi
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
What if my soul was androgynous from the start, and it's my body/"gender" that i'm bringing into line with my soul rather than the other way around? I mean, that's the other option, isn't it?
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Awwe, a "wtf" option would ruin the whole thing :P (Smooth, by the way ^_^)
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Yes, i did indeed register for this poll. I've been lurking here for a while, just never found a thread/poll i really wanted to participate in. Since i'm a bit of a minority i felt that i should represent myself :) (I don't know about over-
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
In MY opinion--mine only, can't speak for anyone else--i think "other" is fine if you don't want to include a big list of stuff. "Other" and "transgender" is probably also fine, but i would have been pretty comfortable with just "other" mys
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
It's a last resort sort of question for when you're desperate. Monty Pythonian, sure, but that sort of question has really hurt people, unfortunately.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
"(which is/should be obvious)" Not always as obvious as you might think! It's the exceptions that are important, here. Shouldn't your biology actually be more obvious than your gender? I mean, being somewhat of a devil's advocate here.
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
There are a variety of conditions that usually fall into "intersex", from XY females (who usually identify as female and would typically pick the female option as that's how they typically (again: typically, they're perfectly justified in c
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Heh!
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by WinterAyars 17y ago
Yes! "Other" please :) (Edit: and just as i post, the poll is edited. Now all us weird people can vote, too! Yay!)

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