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by Zuider 12y ago
pk;dr
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by Zuider 12y ago
Or change the name 'J. Doe' so you can't even tell if they are alive or not.
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The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design(myreckonings.com)
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by Zuider 12y ago
LCC-Win (formerly LCC-Win32) is not free but dual licensed. Free for personal use, but not so for commercial or educational use. "This software is not freeware, it is copyrighted by Jacob Navia. It's free for non-commercial use, i
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by Zuider 12y ago
I can see you are trying for a 'working definition' of consciousness which would encapsulate the phenomenon without any philosophical wild goose chase involving defining essences. This approach has been wildly successful in scienc
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by Zuider 12y ago
This dualistic approach cannot definitively be ruled out, but it does raise serious problems as to how these categorically different substances can have any affect on each other. Another approach is to consider consciousness and material to
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by Zuider 12y ago
From the perspective of a non technical person the name 'GitBook' has even worse implications. 'Git' is a common insult in British English (being short for 'whore's get', i.e. an illegitimate child born t
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by Zuider 12y ago
Thanks.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Page not found. Article pulled?
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by Zuider 12y ago
It depends on whether the offender cares or not. If they cared, they probably would not be transgressing in the first place. If they didn't care, they would probably react aggressively to being told off.
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by Zuider 12y ago
- Object Oriented Programming, where the nouns modestly conceal their verbs in their underwear. - Functional programming - refusing to change your underwear for fear of getting your knickers in a twist.
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by Zuider 12y ago
You have probably hit on the real reason for the odd choice of verb 'lain' in the Guardian article - the sexual connotations of the word 'laid' (especially in the context of bodies, and given that the location was in Fra
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by Zuider 12y ago
In contrast to "au revoir", the French expression for a final parting is "adieu". This is a shortening of of "a Dieu vous comant" ("I commend you to God"). In a sense, this is the opposite of "g
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by Zuider 12y ago
The pages used to display an active load-bar to reassure the user that something was happening. One expected slowness back then, especially on dial-up, and you could always hit [esc] once enough of the page loaded. There was a time, especia
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by Zuider 12y ago
O.K, I've considered your priorities. Now move!
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by Zuider 12y ago
It is a basic social obligation to be alert to the impact that one is having on others.
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by Zuider 12y ago
I have the greatest respect and regard for ActiveState, and I am grateful for their community editions. I believe that they were pioneers in this at a time when one either had to spend a lot of money, or go through the headache of compiling
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by Zuider 12y ago
And also from the Cyberfox project: https://8pecxstudios.com/
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by Zuider 12y ago
Whoa! Adtivestate's license for the community edition is quite restrictive: Dev and test machines (non-production) only http://www.activestate.com/languages/compare-editions I am glad to see that there are other b
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by Zuider 12y ago
Yeah, you have to be careful to share the goods evenly among corvids. If you favor one individual, it can be exiled, or even attacked and killed by the others. A crow that is good at getting your attention rises in status if you make sure t
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by Zuider 12y ago
Tcl was not originally intended to be used for writing large programs on its own, but to act as an interface to compiled programs. The actual heavy lifting was meant to be done in C, while interactions with the user could be quickly prototy
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by Zuider 12y ago
That's a nice idea. I have heard of people developing an intuitive grasp of how a hypercube works via a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional projection of a four dimensional object. It could work just as well for &#x2
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by Zuider 12y ago
This is part of a scurrilous campaign by green activists to get solar physicist, Dr. Willie Soon fired from his post at the Smithsonian Institute. This campaign was apparently triggered by his co-authorship of a paper critical of the predic
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by Zuider 12y ago
This is scurrilous and has no place on HN. Flagged.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Are you serious? From your description, I was expecting some kind of gross pornography. I think that these 'rolling in the aisles' displays of public piety in the service of political correctness are getting a little out of hand t
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by Zuider 12y ago
It is a kind of reverse Pons Asinorum.
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by Zuider 12y ago
>well then co-habitants or the landlord will have a good reason to throw the fraudster out. But how would the landlord or co-inhabitants know? And even if it were proven, it would still not be a straightforward task to deal with such peo
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by Zuider 12y ago
"Of course, if someone identifies "self" with some larger social project or humanistic goal" Such people can be the worst of all. They would have no compunction against mass slaughter. Utopianism in general has led to gr
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by Zuider 12y ago
>...but it's really not that much effort to have to see bad ads on each "bad" domain _once_, and then blacklist... I don't want to download a trojan from a malicious ad-server. Not even once.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Yes, but it is not intuitively obvious for the ordinary user who would account for the majority of page views and potential advertising revenue.

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