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by ab5tract 3y ago
Your point is as nonsensical as the user agent strings themselves. It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.
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by ab5tract 7y ago
What real word problem does bash solve over sh? Or tcsh over csh? Or ksh? Fish is the newest shell I’ve been using and it’s leaps and bounds better than dealing with posix syntax for the sake of unnecessary compatibility (if I need posix, I
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by ab5tract 8y ago
It’s the worst ML because it doesn’t look exactly like Haskell? Oh, no, it’s just click baiting using an easy target.
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Psychoanalysis was considered bringing psychology to the psychiatric profession. Prior to Freud and Jung psychiatrists didn’t even care about the content of delusions and did not consider that anyone diagnosed with an illness could be cured
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by ab5tract 8y ago
That is just not the case. Hunter gatherer societies have rich narrative traditions around every kind of animal imaginable. You only need desensitization once you are massacring animals on an industrial scale.
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Dark matter is obviously flawed because it is clearly a patch on a broken paradigm. The hubris is related to the inability of scientists to even discuss that maybe, jut maybe, gravity is not the only organizing force in the cosmos (you know
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Sorry, but when the fundamental equations of your cosmological worldview require elaborate “empty patches” and tons of “oh inventing this would really balance the equations” but you refuse to question the underlying assumptions (gravity as
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Who said anything about a deity? My only point is that hubris and embarrassment play a huge role in holding back the evolution of human understanding.
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by ab5tract 8y ago
I think that the scientific community at large is so frightened of the shame of being wrong that they cling to obviously flawed concepts like dark matter (how come I never got to just add in a chunk of invisible theoretical force whenever m
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by ab5tract 8y ago
“But mah FPS!!” I have never understood the relative lack of loyalty amongst nerds. Demand more FLOSS, but buy NVIDIA for a few frames per second. Use Chrome instead of Firefox for a few milliseconds on render. Rejoice at clang while main
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by ab5tract 8y ago
I have tried several times do exactly that and have yet to succeed.
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Wow. You understand that there are zero wild animals “designed” to live in a modern agricultural context, right?
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by ab5tract 8y ago
Is there any move towards building dedicated animal crossing bridges? These have been proving very successful where deployed in the US.
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by ab5tract 8y ago
I have to disagree with this idea of fast pace. Considering they have had to perform two full audio engine rewrites since they launched 1.0, and didn’t even have MIDI channels (while claiming to be next level MPE... no hardware works in MPE
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by ab5tract 9y ago
Ireland is a notorious tax haven.
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by ab5tract 9y ago
> Not sure who you're referring to. These results are completely consistent with the standard model of cosmology. Not if what is being detected is simply mass associated with filamentary currents of energy (with attendant magnetic f
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by ab5tract 9y ago
Then again, we're still waiting for the year of the Linux Desktop.
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by ab5tract 9y ago
One day people might realize that a single sentence or paragraph in a book can span a lifetime. There were three Hobbit films and still much was left out from the book. It is nonsensical to judge an adaptation based on the length of the sou
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by ab5tract 9y ago
How, exactly?
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by ab5tract 9y ago
Yeah, and I discovered C is horrible because buffer overflows.
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by ab5tract 9y ago
I wish I could go back in time to ensure that Americans never started using "liberal" to mean anything other than "one who advocates for liberalization of trade and economics". This is what it means in Europe. It took me
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by ab5tract 9y ago
I agree fully! Apparently they stopped adding representatives when they filled up the space in the capital building. I've been intending for ages to pull up the ratio mandated by the constitution to see how many "missing" rep
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by ab5tract 9y ago
The rules regarding unemployment statistics are entirely designed to be favorable. Citizens who are unemployed for greater than X months (where X is a figure I don't currently recall) stop being considered unemployed for the sake of th
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by ab5tract 10y ago
No. I am a black magic^W "matter/energy" skeptic.
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by ab5tract 10y ago
Can someone please explain why such waves that supposedly have minimal/hard-to-detect effects are somehow valid explanations for pushing around black holes? Meanwhile, electrical forces are clearly powerful and yet still neglected in t
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by ab5tract 10y ago
We used to have a thing called welfare that would have done a decent job of taking care of him.
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by ab5tract 10y ago
What an excellent disregard of externalities.
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by ab5tract 10y ago
Because since 1900 the genocide shifted from bodies to minds. IE, the millions of deaths occurred prior.
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by ab5tract 10y ago
Interesting that your example of warlordism in a "potlach-like" culture is from a feudal society. The rest you've said is a gross misrepresentation of the giveaway culture shared amongst many more tribes than just the Northwe
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by ab5tract 10y ago
It's fun to answer questions that could be easily answered with a single invocation, but here goes: coercing a set ($set.Set) is a no-op. my $set-of-sets = set $set; The above will create a new set with $set as its only member.

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