abefortas

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by abefortas 17y ago
We don't need to stretch the definition of hacking to be interested in something.
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by abefortas 17y ago
GEB is much better. I didn't get very far in "I am a Strange Loop," but GEB is easily one of my favorite books.
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by abefortas 17y ago
I don't see the connection. One could maintain that source code is not art and that Michelangelo's works were not graffiti.
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by abefortas 17y ago
I'm sorry, what? Michelangelo's frescoes were commissioned . I utterly fail to see why anyone should admit they were graffiti.
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The Right to Walk Away(mises.org)
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by abefortas 17y ago
Providing an outlet for it might be pretty much the same thing as encouraging it. Now, if you could reliably identify kids who needed the outlet and have them do it, but leave the rest of us alone, that would be fine. But I shudder to th
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by abefortas 17y ago
I am a Westerner and I have no such moral principle.
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by abefortas 17y ago
Because it's faster. You can download torrents with Gnome-do without having to even look at torrent sites.
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by abefortas 17y ago
American. Are you saying Daniel Franke is an anarcho-capitalist?
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by abefortas 17y ago
I enjoyed that essay, although he never cleared up my confusion as to what he meant by libertarian. I generally use it as a synonym for anarchist, but he sounds (and I could be wrong) more like a right libertarian. Is this right?
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by abefortas 17y ago
In case you missed it, (a very nastily formatted copy of) Orwell's Politics and the English Language is on HN's front page at the moment.
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by abefortas 17y ago
Gimp is absolutely a replacement for Photoshop. Not necessarily adequate for professionals, but a replacement nonetheless.
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Meta Magazine(scribd.com)
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by abefortas 17y ago
Certainly not. You use eyes to view.
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by abefortas 17y ago
Tengwar, Tolkien's Elvish writing system, had a sort of table of letters instead of an alphabet. If you knew the glyph at the top of each column and the permutation for each row, you could figure out all the characters. It was pretty cool
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by abefortas 17y ago
So condescending. We don't need to be told that correlation implies causality.
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by abefortas 17y ago
Pardon me, but why isn't there a black 23 in this case? As I understand it, half of deciding 'fair use' is: -is the use of commercial nature or is it for nonprofit educational purposes? -how does the use affect the potential market? It seem
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If I could only say 'O' like Mr. Whitefield(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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