bladedtoys

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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Consider a very likely example: since first to market is very important, one would expect most successful ventures to be quick at decisions. Yet still one would expect that most quick decisions are bad decisions. I would conjecture there ar
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Absolutely excellent, kudos! I only wish Aaron Swartz had lived to see it.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Why write them? Because games are play which is the most vital activity humans, indeed mammals, engage in. Without it, not only would I not have this very alphabet I'm writing in (which descends from drawings), but I and everyone read
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
To make it searchable on your password, someone would have to go through the Adobe set and use the hints to manually figure out the clear text form. Off hand, it's hard to see how posting that on the web could be done responsibly. But
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Meta answer: because we still use a calendar that was designed to track Roman feast days.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
If you chose a single non accelerating frame of reference outside of any gravitational fields. (a highly theoretically thing no doubt) you'd be ok. All other observers, those with a different relative velocity, will obviously disagre
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
I mean we, chimps and, dolphins evolved on the same planet at the same time and have vast tracts of DNA in common yet the gap is huge. So anything evolving at a different time period in a different environment (in the unlikely event it deve
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Yeah but the US and India, which the OP is comparing were both part of the British Empire. Indeed former British holdings span all extremes of corruption from the Sudan to New Zealand and every flavor in between.
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
I conjecture the odds that humans will colonize other stars is close to 100% (it's what living things do, expand maximally) But the odds that we will find an alien species that happens to be on a level of development interesting to eit
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Comparative advantage when the commodity is ideas? Intriguing. How it works for physical good is clear. But how can one society produce one category of ideas cheaply while another produces a different category of ideas cheaply?
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Yeah, they could just ship hydrogen back. They could also beam lasers at us although I image it would be awfully wide by the time it got here. Also, so as long is the energy to ship it is less than the energy to create it by fusion, it woul
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Indeed. And Apple my have been trying prevent apps from being overly vulnerable from the start: the approval process will reject: 2.7 "Apps that download code in any way or form will be rejected" 2.8 "Apps that install or l
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
If it we were discussing a greater interstellar human civilization, (and let's face it, the idea of aliens is silly) there is one additional interesting problem: the time dilation colonist experience will mean they will be permanently
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
The article mentions sales/VAT/IVA tax. Perversely I think the US actually does this right: In the EU, VAT tax is included in the displayed price while in the US, sales tax is not. As the article mentions this is convenient for EU
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Firefox and Mozilla core are games?
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
Surely it would be unwise to agree to an outlandish contractual item purely on the grounds that one hasn't seen it invoked yet. And surely it is a good thing to bring it to the attention of people who aren't likely to read every w
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by bladedtoys 13y ago
There maybe some axioms that are analogues to rules of a game and so are neither true nor false. But in practice, the bulk axioms are chosen and retained because the inventor thinks they or their consequences have some mapping to reality. T