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by batista 14y ago
> .. and connect with your Facebook account, grant extended permissions, signup for a Wolfram account, go to your mail inbox, validate your Wolfram ID, hit a dead end, sign into Wolfram with your Wolfram account, type "facebook report"
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He might have just been an outlier. It would only be worth investigating if the majority of Nazis and Nazi supporters were vegetarians. I didn't speak about some sceptics, much less about ONE. I spoke about what qualities I saw in the major
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> Seriously, you repeatedly contradict already given Wikipedia links. Seriously, I doubt I contradict them, without actual examples. I speak from experience AND from readings on the matter. That said, "Wikipedia links" are not exactly
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> If not, why don't you scientifically get yourself the factual answer to a few simple questions: And what makes you think that I don't know the factual answers already? > -> what is the difference between islam and sharia ? S
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> You seem to deny that antisemitism hate propaganda is prevalent in the Muslim world? This is well documented. No, I deny: 1) that this is the kind of "antisemitism hate propaganda" that "left wing idealists" (in the western world) em
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> Weird rambling. From his style of argumentation ("other skeptics are sexist and Star Trek fans") he probably wasn't a very good skeptic anyway. Yes, because "no true sceptic" would be sexist and/or a Star Trek fan right? Have you bee
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Which is very advanced for the times, and even for today.
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> Dawkins does not call Skepchick "muslima"; he addresses the missive to some "muslima" to ironically point out that there are women who suffer far worse sexism than being asked if they'd like a cup of coffee. Reading comprehension pro
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Weakness and power does not count populations, and especially not population dispersed. E.g A colonial power, like England that had a population of 30 million people, ruled colonies of 1 billion (and more) people 7-8 decades ago. And it's n
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> It's not Islamophobic to pick on Islam, if the acts done in the name of Islam really are worse than those done in the name of some other faith. It will take a while for the crimes made in the name of Christianity to match the crimes
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> Personally I found it extremely painful to read. This article is like a small piece of chocolate hidden inside shit ton of dog shit. That small piece of chocolate is totally negated by heaps of dog shit. You just keep reading in the h
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> That was certainly an interesting if not completely ridiculous read... The author seems to spend most of his time generalizing and erroneously misinterpreting the view points of those he perceives as skeptics (the most heinous of whic
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I can recreate your "writing directly to a socket" in a couple of lines of code in any language. So it means nothing to me. The post however is about a whole new server. It's also written in an interesting language. This I might use. This I
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> My authority: I hold a Ph.D. in the applied math of stochastic optimal control. I've taught math in college and graduate school. I've published peer-reviewed original research in applied math and mathematical statistics. With all tho
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> or us having an outage due to another AWS problem and switching providers. Why, because the other providers (or a roll-your-own solution) will not have outages? Or because the customers cannot tolerate even the more or less half a da
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You keep using that word "serving". I don't think it means what you thing it means. Parent is spot on.
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I'm a fan, I've even bought the "Math, better explained" ebook in the past, but this article, while nice wasn't on par with the material there. Not to be scrapped though, just needs some rewording and some more meat.
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> Does it seem crazy to anyone else to have non-experts making enormous rulings like this? No, it seems democratic. The law is about the will of the people --which is what the "jury of your peers" tries to capture--, not about what som
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> Being happy improves my life, if my meaningless project does that then so what? So you are a solipsistic narcissist. It's not about making you happy, it's about making the world a better place.
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> I personally see no place at all for C++ Application programming in the scale of Photoshop, Word, etc. Video games. All kinds of multimedia apps and video/music editing apps. C is too low level for those kinds of things, and Go too h
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> What they found was the widespread use of sophisticated, off-the-shelf computer espionage software by governments with questionable records on human rights. And even more widespread use by governments with good records on human right
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> We search with Google, run our phones with Google, run Google's browser, now they want us to write all our code in Google's language. Which is also open source and has a community behind it. (Plus, you can search with Bing, run an iP
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Yes. It's 2012, cookies are non tin-foil material, get on with the program and enable them. Or, if you insist, at least do not expect to use any web app / sales page, anything without them.
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No, still the same old one. Improvements are supposedly coming though (though, they were coming 2 years ago also).
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> Furthermore, although Python is a pretty good all-round language, it doesn't really excel at anything in particular, unlike for example Perl which continues to maintain a strong niche in the areas of text processing and system adminis
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> The issue, then, is that Go's success would contradict their world view. I call BS. The parent explanation is much better: for a lot of the kinds of jobs C++ is good for, Go is not that good, whereas for a lot of things Python is
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> Really? If today were the last day of my life I'd do things very, very differently - I can't imagine that answer ever being "yes". Sure, if it was your very very last day and you knew it, you might did something extremely different (
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> Wake me up when I can join a class action suit against lawyers who chase high profile cases, win mega payouts for themselves, and leave the harmed with $1 checks or worthless discount vouchers. This makes the assumption that the only
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> One of the top-grossing apps with ~$60M/year in revenue. Considerable open-source libraries. A huge number of applications are running my code, even if you discount the code I have in the OS. Sounds impressive (but, no pointers/links
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Really? Because it started as "C with classes" IIRC. That you can used different paradigms, from procedural a la C to template-based programming etc, doesn't mean that it's not OO, or that it's not used for OOP 99% of the time.

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