aminorex

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by aminorex 10y ago
Yes, but it was invented by a Catholic priest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître Edit: Ooooh. Did that strike a sensitive nerve? Relevant facts are unwelcome?
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by aminorex 10y ago
Please don't overlook the more valid point: Simply uniformly distributing a portion of the passive interest on the wealth of the top 1% globally would suffice to eliminate the most brutal poverty worldwide.
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by aminorex 10y ago
It does not seem like a stretch to expand the definition of mental illness to include mental conditions which predispose to the commission of violent crimes. Certainly such conditions are maladaptive for the sufferer.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Part of a spectrum from MEMs through pacemaker batteries, Cassini-style RTG, pebble-bed reactors, up to massive GE/Siemens style LWRs. It's a remarkably scalable tech, both up- and down- scale.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Slow neutrons aren't so bad. May as well get used to them, as they will be around for a while.
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by aminorex 10y ago
It is however an argument for enabling Signal to work well on, e.g. CopperheadOS. The patches moxie requested for bypassing Play services would help in this regard.
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by aminorex 10y ago
That's fine for the mass market, but their lives don't typically depend on the security of their communications. For people who are targeted by bad guys (extortionists, kidnappers, terrorists) a considerably higher bar is appropr
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by aminorex 10y ago
The framework itself needs description in probabilistic terms. Otherwise it has only pragmatic utility, and degraded epistemic status.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Extremely so. Lacking so much as useful keywords for finding what he refers to as "standard sources".
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by aminorex 10y ago
I think the author's point was not that python3 is dying. His point was that it deserved death, that 2.7 is flourishing, while 3 is failing to thrive, and reasons for this were postulated.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Voters did not authorize Smoot-Hawley or the confiscation of gold or the disregard of the money Clause of the Constitution. That was accomplished by incompetents, criminals and traitors occupying political office. It occurred about the same
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by aminorex 10y ago
Scala work sure pays a heck of a lot better.
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by aminorex 10y ago
2.7 does Unicode quite well. Not as well as it should, certainly, but arguably better than 3.3 did. I haven't played with anything since, and given the long history of this project going off the rails, I will require some serious con
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by aminorex 10y ago
> At work we use py2 and c++11... As do most corporations. If you want a job in Python, you had best know 2.7.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Definitely disagree. I am a literal genius, wrote compilers, learned a dozen programming languages for fun, but prefer to do hard things. Yes p2 handling of coding is broken, but p3 is much worse. Making a theoretical argument about a pra
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by aminorex 10y ago
If Zed's understanding is correct, that would be a waste of time: The outcome would be that you learned a dead language.
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by aminorex 10y ago
choosing zcrash has to be pretty punitive for your users, given the rate of price inflation. For that matter, it must be pretty punitive for you as well.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Bounded rationality.
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by aminorex 10y ago
They have played Christians for a long time, but I suspect they have also over-played their hand, and are losing that support base, mostly via war, corruption, and generally taking the Christians for granted while completely disregarding th
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by aminorex 10y ago
> the latter is a pretty good example of a white nationalist dog whistle. To quote Ray Davies: "Paranoia - brain destroyer." To parody "The Sixth Sense": "I hear dog whistles."
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by aminorex 10y ago
I may not have liked him, but I thought he was a more viable candidate than Clinton or Sanders. Certainly less intrinsically offensive than Clinton, who was a truly awful candidate.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Hilary's problem was that she was a warmonger allied with the banks.
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by aminorex 10y ago
I think the reasonable thing is to eliminate the institution of state marriage.
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by aminorex 10y ago
All bathrooms matter.
85.
by aminorex 10y ago
Definitely harder than putting 2 and -2 together, anyhow.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Fiscal policy is much more likely to raise velocity of money than "excess reserves" are.
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by aminorex 10y ago
Buy real estate soon to be ocean shore?
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by aminorex 10y ago
because he agrees with the Alberta oil sands people that lesbians are hot?
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by aminorex 10y ago
Name the culprit.
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by aminorex 10y ago
You have to trust them, because if they cheat, they can print infinite zcash. I do not trust Israeli SIGINT people with my secrets.

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