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by astine 19y ago
Wubi, is somewhat more flexible than Vmware. The ability to install from image is ridiculously cool.
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by astine 19y ago
That, by definition, is distillation. It is remarkably difficult to do properly.
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by astine 19y ago
I despise it when people use the term rehabilitation with regards to criminals. They are not generally sick or disabled people. They are individuals who have made choices about their lives and others. True, criminals can reform, but it is u
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by astine 19y ago
Yes, I think that is the point of the article.
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by astine 19y ago
People
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by astine 19y ago
Are you sure? Do you know how this machine works? There is significantly more to distillation than just boiling. Conventional boiling only deals with microbes, chemicals, such as salt, require full distillation, so if this really is a genui
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by astine 19y ago
Good for you. Really good, fresh bread, is a treat that not enough people appreciate.
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by astine 19y ago
The essential flaw in your logic is this: "evolved to" Evolution has neither purpose nor end. That which is more 'fit' (a very vague term to be sure) is what evolution favors. If a larger force with better weapons can defeat a smaller, diso
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by astine 19y ago
I think that the author's point is that even though Facebook has a huge number of users, they haven't yet figured out a way to properly monetize their business. They're making peanuts compared to Google and income is a very well established
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by astine 19y ago
You're thoroughly missing my point. PG's argument is that man was designed, via evolution, to live relatively autonomously. My point is that even a casual glance at history disproves that. The German and Swiss states, for all their autonomy
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by astine 19y ago
Right, lets take violent criminals and place them in upper management. I can see it now: "I used to be a drug dealer; now I'm your boss. Now get to work bitch before I cap, I mean, fire your ass!" ... In all seriousness, I see a danger in u
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by astine 19y ago
Yes, I would trust my friends more than the credit card companies. The former would like to see you succeed, the latter would just like to see your money.
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by astine 19y ago
I think that this analysis only focuses on one half of the forces that direct survival. Humans may work more efficiently as small groups, but we have also formed into large hierarchical structures for as long as we have had history. Egypt a
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by astine 19y ago
So... starting a company during a recession is a good thing because it will force you to adopt best practices? What about just adopting best practices during a boom? Wouldn't that be MORE advantageous? Seriously, how is adopting an advantag
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by astine 19y ago
The reason Europeans are not as accepting of warfare is because they screwed themselves over twice with it. War is always the last resort of negotiation. When nations become too belligerent or stubborn conflict will always follow. Europe fo
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by astine 19y ago
I disagree with this. The argument seems to be that the only valid reasons to discredit a language are extrinsic to the language itself. Granted, one should always take into account the language's problem domain and design principles before
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by astine 19y ago
Yes it would. Think mathematically: Whatsay over a given year the entire stock market grew 10%. Then the average rate of growth for every stock is 10% per year and so for any given stock for any given period over a period of 20 days the ave
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by astine 19y ago
I like the concept. While short term stock exchange is usually a risky waste of money, this does help illustrate certain principles. The number of people suggesting that 'always buy' works shows us something: that the economy on average has
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by astine 19y ago
Actually, considering that on average, the stack market has grown over the years, this seems like a good strategy. It's why mutual funds and the like exist: individual enterprises come and go, but the economy is constantly growing. If you y
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by astine 19y ago
Robots on the battlefield doesn't spook me at all. It seems to me to be an improvement over sending people to risk their lives.
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by astine 19y ago
I'm willing to bet that it was literally and deliberately modeled after a large dog. Engineers borrow design from nature all the time because its much simpler than starting from scratch. Why reinvent walking when dogs already do it so well?
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by astine 19y ago
There goes my web 2.0 idea... Seriously though, if Google is willing to pay me for traffic on my website, who am I to complain? Besides, good advertising is more about exposure and image, than direct sales. How many people knowingly buy som
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by astine 19y ago
There is a slight error here: when Aristotle makes this distinction, it is not between things that are useful and things that are not, but between things that are sought for their utility and things that are sought for their own sake. We ma