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by bhickey 12y ago
Yes, it's in violation of the rules. However, the enforcement of rules is at the pleasure of the tournament director. In tournament play, you typically do not read your own orders. Each round, one player reads starting with his/he
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by bhickey 12y ago
Kissing Pigs was awarded to players who habitually got into fights. The Golden Pickle for misfortune suffered during the tournament. One year someone won it for falling off a cliff.
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by bhickey 12y ago
You can play with Italy in Civil Disorder. It's a rotten variant.
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by bhickey 12y ago
I'll write to Conrad (the tournament director) and see if he can recall. Edit: 'Drunk' was almost certainly meant literally. 'Golden Pickle' was awarded to Frank who had traveled from the Netherlands. I believe the
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by bhickey 12y ago
Most tournament play is organized on mailing lists. If you e-mail me, I can put you in touch with players in Seattle.
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by bhickey 12y ago
Back in 2009 I was playing a game with Brian Ecton. My Germany was on the decline -- I'd played the preceding game with the Austrian player and the tournament director erred and put us next to each other again. It was my turn to read t
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by bhickey 12y ago
Yes and no. It's important to keep in mind that BPF uses a register machine. If you look at the paper[0] describing BPF, the authors explicitly considered a decision tree model (CSPF). Turns out that trees perform redundant computation
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by bhickey 13y ago
Hemingway's abuse of language in For Whom the Bell Tolls always drove me. He uses you in place of tu and thou as usted .
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by bhickey 13y ago
Your explanation makes no sense. Since 1928, the S&P has risen 5506%[1]. Over the same period, the dollar has lost 93% of its purchasing power. If you put a dollar on the market in 1928, it would be worth $808 (1928 dollars). A dollar u
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by bhickey 13y ago
Executive incentives are negatively correlated with company performance. There's a body of literature on this. For example: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperforma...
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by bhickey 13y ago
Sweat of the brow and database rights aren't recognized in the United States.
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by bhickey 13y ago
Among other things, you seem confused about the meaning of 'agent provocateur'. An agent provocateur a law enforcement agent who infiltrates a group. Once there, they get violent in order to justify reprisals against the group.
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by bhickey 13y ago
Have you tried getting a regular cab ride during a snowstorm? At the beginning of this year it took me three hours to get a cab after Boston got a few inches of snow.
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by bhickey 13y ago
Not that failing is really a winning strategy, but even George Church got kicked out of Duke: http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/F.jpg
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by bhickey 13y ago
I don't think they're overstating this claim. It's a double-edged sword. If you have an infection your doctor can give you antibiotics and send you home. Antibiotics tend to be wide spectrum and kill entire classes of bacteri
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by bhickey 13y ago
It depends. There are extant phage that predate staph, like Phage K. There are some hurdles you'd need to overcome. Foremost among these is when compared to antibiotics, phage suck for treating disease. This is a big part of the reason
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by bhickey 13y ago
It isn't my read either. I just wanted to point out that the statement wasn't necessarily as prejudicial as the parent made it out to be.
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by bhickey 13y ago
Or he expected them to screw him.
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by bhickey 13y ago
> From a legal standpoint, they were untouchable with the whole "parallel construction" thing. Where's the test case for parallel construction? Without some case law, I could easily imagine a federal court taking a dim vie
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by bhickey 13y ago
For April Fools' I released cloudyfs -- weather reports in your file system. Its pretty primitive, but functional. Pardon my haskell, it's lousy. http://github.com/bhickey/cloudyfs
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by bhickey 13y ago
While he did a laudable thing, Snowden ain't Nelson Mandela.
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by bhickey 13y ago
In this regard, Ireland has some exceedingly generous right of return laws. If you have documented lineage from an Irish grandparent, the process of obtaining citizenship is completely painless. I obtained citizenship by this route in 2004
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by bhickey 13y ago
There are risks we should be concerned about, and risks we should not be concerned about. If you stuff money under your matress, the risk of losing it to a house fire or robbery are several orders of magnitude greater than losing it in a ba
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by bhickey 13y ago
That sounds like the plea made by the prosecution at Haymarket Square -- “Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/a
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by bhickey 13y ago
J - "You robbed a house." V - "I broke a windowpane." The law isn't some nomic built out of analogies. Suppose a free weekly paper sent someone a C&D and told them to quit taking one copy of the paper.
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by bhickey 13y ago
You're on the money in both this post and the grandparent. However, I'd urge you to examine your style. There's no need to condescend. In particular: > I just proved it. If you didn't understand the above proof, read
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by bhickey 13y ago
If you're looking to minimize your taxes, Rhode Island is a poor choice. Property tax in Providence is $33.75 per $1000 ($19.25 for owner-occupied property) levied on 100% of the assessed value. On top of this, the state has a huge unf
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by bhickey 13y ago
Spiros -- can you hook me up next time you're on this coast?
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by bhickey 13y ago
I added most of the really bad features.
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by bhickey 13y ago
Thanks for the praise. crawl is the only major project I'm involved with, but I'm really pleased with how well development works. The team is totally open to external contributions. For example, some friends and I added a god back

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