bluedanieru

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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I assume the name for CoffeeScript came from it being calling Java Script.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
On a related note, the more I would play Smash Brothers, the worse off I would be against people who had never played before and just picked up the controller and smashed buttons.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Just start calling it Mocha. That was to be the name originally, iirc, and it's heaps better. I know one person who calls it ECMAScript. You probably know an awful lot about this person just by my telling you that one thing.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I imagine that, aside from porn (and maybe even including it - or most of it), our modern sex lives are a faint shadow of what our prehistoric ancestors got up to. Look at what the bonobos do with each other - and we're more creative.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
The problem is that the market has been compromised such that fair price discovery isn't happening. Interesting you bring up DeBeers. I suppose you assert that the global diamond market is healthy as well?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Again, there would be nothing stopping the owners of those small businesses from donating to political campaigns, and fully exercising all of their other rights.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>Can they say that Newspapers that are owned by corporations don't have complete freedom to publish what they want? Let's say they passed a law saying no corporate political speech within 1 month of an election - would that mean no New
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Perhaps, but again, I'm not arguing that corporations should or shouldn't be able to do X, only that they have no 'rights' as such. If a group of people want to retain those rights, they can always act collectively without first asking th
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
How are the union dues made mandatory? That's important. And, if there is government involvement in that, is there also some regulation involving how unions are expected to behave? Also important. I don't have a problem with recipients of g
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Oh fucking great, so now we can have the DEA confiscate your car because you have some laundry detergent in the trunk. The last half of the article detailing the "detective work" (read: harassing destitute drug addicts) made me sick.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Yes this is great, but it ignores the fact that a corporation is more than a group of people. It enjoys considerable legal benefits in the form of protection of its owners from various liabilities. In the US they also tend to enjoy consider
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
But, it's in the title. It shouldn't have been edited out.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I would go even further than that and state that this is a classic example of nerds completely failing to understand what the justice system is for (hint: it isn't a state machine).
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Can you expand on this? I'm curious. It seems to me that with the glowworms, knowing the position of one worm tells you something about the position of every other worm in the sample. If it was truly random, wouldn't it tell you nothing?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Out.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
That's what I meant, as well :-)
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>nested ternary (please don't) Eh, if you use whitespace effectively it is perfectly readable. Moreso than the alternative, IMO.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>I don't accept the premise that whatever man touches is somehow automatically tainted or corrupted. Nor do I accept the premise that man is somehow unnatural. I accept both, and especially the second, but I'm not anti-human or anything
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Didn't Siegfried and Roy hack the maternal instinct of female cats to achieve some semblance of domestication? I mean, it didn't work out very well of course, because a cat mauled Roy and nearly killed him by grabbing him by the neck (to dr
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>It's better than restricting speech through law AND enforcement. Are you sure about that? If a government passes a law restricting speech because it has to, and then enforces it to restrict speech, it isn't clear to me that's worse tha
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Is there any reason to think, that if there were many alien civilizations in our galaxy capable capable of radio transmission, that we would be have picked up on the signal? The last I checked (and I admit it has been a few years), the folk
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
So... what? It would be hard for authorities in the US to pass a law restricting speech, so instead they just restrict speech without going through the bother of making a law about it? How is that better?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>"Negotiators from Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Costa Rica and Kenya have said they would need to consult with their national governments about how to proceed and would also not be able to sign the
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I infer from the article that it's not a perfectly consistent background noise across the entire grid, but rather that it's consistent enough to get a match as long as the recording is long enough. As such, even if you did have access to
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Hmmm, some of these are likely to prove to be correct (the last three).
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I don't think you really need to append "of the <time-interval>", but I agree. Maybe he can explore why Apple prefers a closed ecosystem to an open one, and write about that. Is it because it's better for their customers? Because if
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I wonder how much of that is the stupid, stupid name. Or the DRM. Probably not much I guess, but there is a good chance this is the first Nintendo console I'll sit out since ever, and those are the sole reasons in roughly equal measure.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
You could get that kind of efficiency, or get closer to it anyway, if you just cut people a check. It turns out that's more effective at combating poverty than most social programs anyway. But it's politically impossible.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
It might be what enables you to treat the subject humanely in the first place. It seems it would certainly make it easier, at least. Advocating empathy isn't the same as being soft on crime. It's perfectly possible to punish for crimes, eve
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Wow, what a disingenuous, bullshit comment you've made here. From the article: >We need to send a strong message to the world that the Internet has thrived under a decentralized, bottom-up, multi-stakeholder governance model. While that

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