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by ab5tract 1y ago
How is it “instead of”?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Can I ask you which alternatives exist at the layer Lucene occupies? I went looking around last year and couldn’t really find many options, but I might have been looking in the wrong places.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Who is “you”? Are you really conflating everyone in this thread with a handful of mega corporations?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The DMA is barely past the toddler stage. I think it’s a bit premature to claim lids on coffins here.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Source please.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Gas is priced lower when counting for inflation, isn’t it?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Can you name any significant economic fallout of any kind related to this attack vector? Because I feel pretty confident that it is dwarfed by the volume of money that has been unlocked by tying crypto to ransomware.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
That feels like a real stretch considering that Paul is responsible for starting the branch of Christianity that would eventually outlaw any “non-canonical” books about Jesus. Said books would never even have existed if it was true that Pau
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by ab5tract 1y ago
It’s worth noting that Google became dominant in the first place specifically because PageRank was deeply superior to the methodologies of other search engines. Just because search engine quality is now quite low across the board (except pe
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I’m confused. What I read you to be implying is that simply describing current reality is automatically an endorsement of that reality. Am I misreading you somehow?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Mondo 2000 was always a bit too tongue in cheek for me to be able to gauge their intent properly.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
ISTR that whatever channel you had set up for your game console to operate needed to be a dead channel in order to work, anyway.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
By the early 90s, “cyberpunk” had largely become self parody, meaning that the counter culture was already rejecting cyberpunk as too mainstream. Search around for the Usenet reactions to Billy Idol’s album of the same name. Or take a look
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I don’t recall any real sluggishness with BeOS, in any category. Come to think of it, I haven’t used an OS that could match the accuracy, speed, or most importantly utility of BeOS’ active queries since 2001.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
There are literally thousands of scientific theories that have been disproven over time. What’s your point? Edit: Also thousands of historical written documents that are disputed or tossed aside.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Thanks for these resources, I look forward to reading them.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
My long reply got devoured so for the sake of my own sanity I will reiterate my original point from a quote with the resource you linked: > In conceptual terms, scholarship on the past should revisit the bibliocentric assumptions of “pre
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Ancient oral histories are preserved through constant communication across generational boundaries. There are too many examples of oral history matching historical events for me to bother being your Google here. Very little weight has been
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I think the point still stands that there has been a desperate clinging to a chronology that denies plenty of evidence and essentially all oral tradition of the people in question.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Laws can have been used and abused and still be important. I know it’s hard to believe but the independent artists who were already struggling need IP laws to survive. Otherwise Disney and the like can just come in, make copies or derivati
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by ab5tract 1y ago
That’s why the “transformative” argument falls so flat to me. It’s about transformation in the mind and hands of a human. Traditionally tools that reduce the friction of creating those transformations make a work less “transformed” in the e
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Really? I would assume that most ranked personnel would be less impressed by a person wearing a uniform that they never earned and don’t deserve. But then again, pomp and circumstance…
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by ab5tract 1y ago
There is a grain of truth but your position is inaccurate. Boeing split off important software systems on the 737 MAx into paid upgrades. That’s not a training issue.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Thanks, I will check this out! The amount of archaeological “fact” that rests on religiously (or culturally) constrained research is pretty astonishing.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
That hardly entails that self-driving cars have "arrived". Am I mistaken or is it true that you can't even own and operate one yourself? In my opinion, it's as similarly off-base as to making claims that 'mach speed
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Excellent link, thank you for sharing this!
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I have not ever been in a self-driving car. I've seen a few of them visiting the Bay Area. Only taxis seem to be allowed to use this tech so far. I've always been a proponent that we would see self driving cars in our lifetime. Bu
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Yeah, I understand that it might get confusing to use multiple implementations, or to transition between the two, but I seriously doubt these claims that “regular people” (as in, people who are expected to know how to use Word) are struggli
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by ab5tract 1y ago
LSD is not a CNS by any stretch of that definition.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
How does it contradict, exactly? To me it seems completely congruent with your quotation.

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