blastrat

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by blastrat 10y ago
it appears your point, while well made, is covered by Point Eight. "All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the Unification Board, whose decisions will be fin
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by blastrat 10y ago
you are the one who used the word "invest"; you used it wrong in that case. And to say I'm too caught up in theory is ridiculous, theories (of everything) are how we understand (everything).
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by blastrat 10y ago
thank you! this discussion also helped me realize the importance of both memory--in which to store broad knowledge and associations--AND raw horsepower in the CPU.
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by blastrat 10y ago
foreigners are much more likely to hire people with local influence!
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by blastrat 10y ago
according to Modern Portfolio Theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model, an undiversified portfolio contains risk that is not being compensated; that the only rational way to invest is in a (weighted) little bit of everything; and that a l
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by blastrat 10y ago
how can you allow people to own guns without allowing them to shoot people? how can you allow mechanics to fix brakes without allowing them to break brakes? I dunno... laws maybe? Like, the same laws that can require manufacturers to allow
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by blastrat 10y ago
Even when others cared and decried the walled gardens... ... I used to not mind when I couldn't open my iPod Classic to replace the battery, because failures like this rarely occurred and when they did Apple repaired them easily ... ..
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by blastrat 10y ago
thank your for saying this!!! Because the article was completely about people REPAIRING technology they purchased, and not at all about mods, modding or modifications.
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by blastrat 10y ago
an alternative way of looking at this kerfuffle every time it breaks out is the old Arab proverb, "dogs may bark but the caravan moves on" which I always take to mean, "others can be counted on to criticize, but doers keep do
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by blastrat 10y ago
I find I get more from what other people contribute if I focus on what they say and mean, rather than how they say it. For instance, a Japanese person is used to a hierarchy of polite and formal modes of addressing people, but their hierarc
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by blastrat 10y ago
I don't know what options are available to you for psychotherapy, but whenever I tell myself things like you are telling yourself, that's what I need. There are many hurdles to getting a PhD and then there are more hurdles to beco
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by blastrat 10y ago
i replied above because reply here wasn't an option after i got downvoted
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by blastrat 10y ago
nice humbleinsult
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by blastrat 10y ago
I'm using a different (and I believe more accurate) definition of virtual machine, and I'm using it because I think it offers more insight. There are many possible chips you might have running inside your workstation, and none of
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by blastrat 10y ago
there is no such thing as what? i didn't posit the existence of something that does not exist. I disagreed with your POV because I can hardly imagine a scenario where I would recommend dropping an OS like Linux. This article and discus
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by blastrat 10y ago
This topic always comes back, and it attracts a bunch of people from one side of the issue who come out of the "would work" (on real problems only, ha ha) to disclaim puzzle solving as a measure of anything. I think it's beca
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by blastrat 10y ago
| As the cube gets larger, the complexity will get reduced, ( by ratio of volume/surface area ) ? Am I right ? I know nothing about this except what a Rubik's cube looks like, but at first cut I'd say your comment is wrong
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by blastrat 10y ago
| The real answer ... is that operating systems are designed to help users and programs. They are not designed to be a custom tailored highest-performance cure-all ... Using one tcp stack helps users and programs more... I don't use
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by blastrat 10y ago
if you have custom apps, this announcement tell you how set your apps to trust your own CA certs.
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by blastrat 10y ago
To be (more) nuanced: the truth is often somewhere in the middle, where a drug/alcohol infused psych patient acts like a complete jackass, and frustrated cops get sick of dealing with him and let him have a few knocks (which they shoul
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by blastrat 10y ago
unless you're thinking of something that I'm not thinking of? RPN only solves this when the operators are known and used exclusively in operator context and can be relied on as implied close-parens
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by blastrat 10y ago
it's not even the small number that makes it useless, it's the fact that it is not weighted by market cap.
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by blastrat 10y ago
yes, "hello" can be traced back to older forms of "attention seeking hollers", but the popular currency of the modern hello came about because it was the greeting chosen for the telephone. I believe the original suggesti
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by blastrat 10y ago
| I disagree. Excellent! and I disagree with you, so we disagree. Where does that leave us? Simply as two proponents of free speech... unless... unless we have a smart contract between us, one under which you just drained my Ethereum accou
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by blastrat 10y ago
IRL, contract law and courts take precedence over schemes like Ethereum and the DAO, just like arrest warrants do, money laundering regs, etc. Whether this is good or bad, it just is. In real contract law, there are three elements of a cont
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by blastrat 10y ago
| This means that Apple isn't listening to you 24/7, only when Siri is activated. what?! your proof that Apple isn't listening 24/7 is not a proof at all. A device that is listening to you 24/7 to hear when you s
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by blastrat 10y ago
| “a napkin” used to be “an apkin” <-- I don't think so I think you are thinking of "a napron" became "an apron" another good one is pease sounded like a plural so pease soup became pea soup. Pease porridge ho
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by blastrat 10y ago
not facetiously, it's like the shortest possible follow-on to a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable
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by blastrat 10y ago
the internet boom (and I mean boom not bubble) started to flicker in 94, gathered steam in 95, and really got going by 96. Saying that was the time to bail out, before 97 98 or 99? I would not say that Greenspan "called" it. bubbl
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by blastrat 10y ago
and to add to that, the headline on the article that we are discussing contains the phrase "McDonald's: you can sneer, but..."

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