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by Zuider 12y ago
Many authors do make their works public domain, especially for technical books published in the '80s and '90s that retain value as theoretical and conceptual works (despite referring to obsolete technology). Other authors won&#x27
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by Zuider 12y ago
I read him as referring only to Fox. It is one of the inherent ambiguities of English idiom that people will say 'like X' or 'such as X' when they have only X in mind. It is sometimes a source of humor as when an exclama
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by Zuider 12y ago
>Is there any significant historical evidence of mass genocide among seafaring cultures of the north? Hell, yes. Most cultures along the Western Atlantic seaboard have long oral traditions and solid historical evidence of devastating Vik
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by Zuider 12y ago
Taggedfrog does something very similar on Windows, except it uses a drag and drop GUI instead of the shell. You can have ready made customized tag clusters (so you don't have to type the tags for each file), and it will tag anything, i
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by Zuider 12y ago
I don't think that they will go bankrupt. Rightscorp is a loss making shell company which remains in business due to regular 'donations' from copyright holders. Their remit is to engage in aggressive, quasi-legal practices in
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Are Lawyers Ruining Science?(labtimes.org)
2 points by Zuider 12y ago|0 comments
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by Zuider 12y ago
And dead ends.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Would an individual have been chosen for sterilization if: 1) He was born with a markedly pointy head, which caused much consternation to his parents and relatives. 2) Was developmentally backward. Notably, he failed to acquire language ski
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by Zuider 12y ago
There are already more Chinese people than 'white' people. They've won! Please join the queue at the nearest surrender booth.
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by Zuider 12y ago
>...but also select for a mixture of cancer, OCD, suicidal depression, and plain batshit crazy? 1.3 billion bald, cat cradling, evil geniuses, all saying "mbwah, ha ha" in eerie synchronicity?
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by Zuider 12y ago
Clarke also predicted genetically engineered chimpanzee slaves, the 'Superchimp' (or 'Simp' for short). Leaving aside the ethical issues this raises, it indicates that he thought that it was more likely that such a creat
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by Zuider 12y ago
Corvids seem incredibly intelligent despite their tiny brains. I do not understand how they can tell one human from another, but they do. A rook makes her presence known to me unobtrusively every morning as I walk into work, and in return I
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by Zuider 12y ago
Don't even need to use a VPN. DNSCrypt encrypts DNS queries. http://dnscrypt.org/
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by Zuider 12y ago
The end note is just a legal in-joke which could be paraphrased as: 'because I say so, so there!', but he does give good reasons in the first paragraph (and the legal profession would not have to be persuaded of the usefulness of
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by Zuider 12y ago
>it means the next person charged under the CFAA for "exceeding authorization" by fuzzing will have a precedent to cite. Unless Ulbricht's lawyers successfully argue that fuzzing constitutes an illegal search. The law resp
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by Zuider 12y ago
Last Wayback machine snapshot is from Sep 5 2014.
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by Zuider 12y ago
It is even less appropriate in the light of the fact that Stalin was one of the most brutally incompetent tyrants ever.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Nein, nein, nein!
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Why I Left the Law (1997)(spectacle.org)
93 points by Zuider 12y ago|22 comments
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by Zuider 12y ago
Alsace and Lorraine have been historically part of the Germanic world (though it is quite true that the populations preferred to remain French). Can I take it that you won't have strong grounds to object if Merkel sends a few divisions
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by Zuider 12y ago
The German philosopher, Hegel had quite the man-crush on Bonaparte. "I saw the Emperor -this soul of the world- go out from the city to survey his reign; it is a truly wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrating o
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by Zuider 12y ago
pk;dr
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The Three Unexplained Mysteries of Taxi Tipping Behavior(businessweek.com)
1 points by Zuider 12y ago|0 comments
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by Zuider 12y ago
>Free speech is a right given by the government Free speech is a liberty protected from the government by constitution limits.
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by Zuider 12y ago
Who needs legislation when you can dial a twitter mob?
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by Zuider 12y ago
Unless they Google via a proxy. People are already doing this to gain access to locale restricted content, notably on Youtube. In fact, there are browser based plug-ins to automate this. There is no 'right to be forgotten', really
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by Zuider 12y ago
It is even harder when there is an ideological block. In the first case, you get stonewalled, and ultimately ignored. In the case of ideology, you get shouted down, mobbed, and subject to various preemptive attacks intended to discredit and
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by Zuider 12y ago
Where are you getting the 98% figure for belief that humans contribute significantly to climate change? Can you provide a citation? What exactly does 'significant' mean? Can you provide a citation for this?
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by Zuider 13y ago
For someone who insists that you don't need redemption, you sure like preaching.
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by Zuider 13y ago
This is an ideological position, not a scientific one. For many years it was the default position, the null hypothesis, that masculinity and femininity were mere social constructs, and that the human brain, being completely plastic, was sha

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