aaronem

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by aaronem 11y ago
You're actually waving the tyranny-of-the-majority flag, in favor of equal protection for minorities. I'm not even honestly sure what to call that.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Sixteen out of a hundred thousand? That's a lot lower rate than I'd have expected.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Yep. Jumping to a platform about which you know nothing is asking for trouble, no matter the context.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> reliable sources for the bare facts A laudable goal, but one I'm not sure can be achieved. It's often difficult or impossible to obtain accurate reporting of today's events, and, at least in my experience, the passage of
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by aaronem 11y ago
> developing and understanding frameworks for grouping historical events This is called "historiography", and were it more commonly taught in US primary and secondary schools, fewer Americans would think of "history"
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by aaronem 11y ago
> wpa_supplicant isn't that hard to configure as long as you only use the GUI Oh, my mistake! I thought I was using a Unix.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Some complexity is essential, and not everything is easy. Pretending otherwise is a great way to end up sorry.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> using technology to truly help make the world a better place This from someone whose accomplishments include mobile advertising and an app that recapitulates hotlinked YouTube annotations? If you're going to make the argument pers
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by aaronem 11y ago
They're probably too busy right now talking to their recent investors [1] to provide one. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/zenefits-rising-hrs-hottest...
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by aaronem 11y ago
You presume a hell of a lot, don't you?
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by aaronem 11y ago
But that's just the point. The words in question aren't any more charged with racialist intent than would be an equivalent work by the same person in a nonverbal medium, but one of those words in particular is linked to a reflex r
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by aaronem 11y ago
Schizophrenia is an organic disorder, not a neurosis; aside from that, given the pretty plain fact that Mr. Davis isn't equipped to make his own way in the world, presumably whoever looks after him would intervene to prevent a document
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by aaronem 11y ago
Do you really think the quote you posted has the slightest thing to do with race? I realize that in it he repeatedly uses a very bad word, but, bad as it may be, it is merely a word; I should like to hope some allowance might be made for th
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by aaronem 11y ago
A lot of the capabilities described for DolDoc, and for TempleOS documents in general, also exist in Emacs' org-mode, albeit of course in a rather different style -- inline images, hyperlinks to live searches as well as static content,
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by aaronem 11y ago
And you think he posts things like that because he's sane?
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by aaronem 11y ago
>Lisp is older, sure, but maybe there were concerns about the syntax and interpreter requirements As I understand it, Brendan Eich originally spent a lot of effort on a Scheme implementation to serve the browser-scripting role for Netsca
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by aaronem 11y ago
Sure hope it's not an emergency!
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by aaronem 11y ago
More of a submersible than a submarine, since they don't cruise under cloak, and really only in the TOS era -- "Balance of Terror" has Enterprise and the cloaked Romulan ship in almost exactly the relative positions you&#x2
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by aaronem 11y ago
> Of course, that takes some chutzpah, you wouldn't see Cameroon doing that to the US or something. Well, not so much chutzpah as the ability to project force, which the US has and Cameroon hasn't. Now I consider it, I'm h
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by aaronem 11y ago
You're doing Weber something of an injustice here, I think. On the first hand, as the series goes on, battles tend to occur between combatants who are no longer at or near parity with one another, as Manticore and Haven are at the star
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by aaronem 12y ago
The largest server farms on earth are all run by administrators who are extremely well paid for their time. Linux isn't free for the companies who hire them.
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by aaronem 12y ago
My eyes start to cross when I hear vim.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to introduce the Emacs key sequence representation before introducing Emacs keyboard shortcuts, though. I can see how it'd be really confusing for someone who's totally unfamiliar.
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by aaronem 12y ago
If simulation were perfect, no one would need real flying hours for licensure or type qualification.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> I don't see how it gives them any extra incentive to murder. Schrecklichkeit , maybe?
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by aaronem 12y ago
> they'll have a nice leisurely ride to a waiting SWAT team ...and no reason not to murder the entire passsenger load on the way there, save possibly to have hostages once the aircraft's on the ground. I really don't think
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by aaronem 12y ago
> The pilots controls aren't directly connected to the flight surfaces any more, and haven't been for decades True for Airbus, (mostly) not for Boeing -- the first Boeing product with FBW is the 777, and it goes well out of its
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by aaronem 12y ago
> We can't really make those systems more safe than they are right now. True, more or less. > We need a paradigm shift. Really? Perfect safety is a pipe dream, and the rule of diminishing returns applies here as everywhere else.
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by aaronem 12y ago
> permanent underclass Hardly permanent, I'd say; eventually they would be outcompeted to extinction by H. s. mutabamus , in the same way H. s. sapiens (is thought to have) outcompeted neanderthalensis .
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by aaronem 12y ago
*(Python)

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