bertiewhykovich

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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
lol yeah, corporations are constantly shut down when they betray consumer trust. The Chicago stockyards went belly-up when "The Jungle" came out.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It's terrible that the FDA is interfering with free association between these gigantic conglomerates and consumers. It's a sin.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Hoo boy, buddy, do I got some news for you: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
In fairness, the list comprehension would probably be the most "Pythonic" way to do this. The nested iterator might be discouraged (under "explicit is better than implicit," perhaps), so a more Pythonic snippet might loo
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The "borrower is an exhibitionist" scenario is beautiful and I hope it brings hell to these people.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Fair -- I kind of glided over that caveat in your post; my apologies.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Have you seen the Hennessy Youngman bit about Hirst? It's fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_8DWg5W0w
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
In Python, the only good language, this could be expressed as: [person for person in (Person(name) for name in names) if person.isValid()] or: filter(lambda p: p.isValid, map(Person, names)) or: persons = [] for
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
A valid artistic order would expel Hirst immediately. His continued celebrity is a massive indictment of the arts economy.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Artists love producing works dictated to them by consumers for twelve hours a day in Yiwu sweatshops. They love it so much.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Ah, yeah, you gotta do that. Sorry for jumping to conclusions -- I shouldn't transmute the moral failings of our economic order into personal immorality so carelessly.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Tell the sellers that their product is worth more in returns than on eBay instead of taking advantage of them.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
oh yeah, that game theory. mmm. I see what you mean.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
it's good that we live in hell
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Bitter Harvest: Cassava and Konzo, the Crippling Disease(globalhealthnow.org)
2 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|0 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
why would you do that to your poor wife
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This is obviously a repugnant tactic that should be rejected with no hesitation and fought at every turn -- but it does kind of seem like the goal. Infinite VR pornography, sifted by neural nets to match every possible desire, a lifetime su
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
lol yeah dude, playing with an HTC Vive is exactly the same as fucking. exactly. there's no difference.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
yeah
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I believe that if the EmDrive produces real force its top speeds are, in a vacuum, only limited by relativity and the amount of energy it can carry.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
There are still incomprehensible numbers of stars, and awe-inspiring distances between them. Even if acceleration is cheap, there are only a few thousand stars that would have been reached by any human-produced signal yet -- and the chances
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The Future Has Already Happened(viewpointmag.com)
2 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|0 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
how do you figure, dude
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Everything about this is troubling. The fixation on pornography, the reduction of any given erotic stimulus to the instantiation of a sex act, the mechanization and rationalization of sexuality at every level. Absolutely pathological.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Why would you use the term "holographic" instead of "non-sparsely encoded," "robust," "redundant," or any of the other better-understood and seemingly more descriptive terms one could use?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
See, to me, the sequence of keypresses I make while banging on my keyboard seem like it could be represented as an ordered list. I may be missing something, though.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Sorry -- you're right. I should have said "explain monads well."
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The notion that pornographic content does not produce desire for the acts depicted is on its face ludicrous and should be clearly false to anyone who has ever consumed pornography.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
What do you mean?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
My suspicion is that no one wants to explain monads because if they did it would be painfully obvious that they're a purgatorial way of getting around the basic mismatch between functional purity and actual computers.

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