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by cbd1984 12y ago
> "Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it." Rather Reaganesque: If they think you're crazier than they are, they'll leave you alone. (Note: Doesn't work if you have no way to hurt t
902.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Hail Seitan Well, if you're gluten intolerant, they both cause trouble down below.
903.
by cbd1984 12y ago
How easy are these things to heat and cool? How well do they keep insects and other pests out?
904.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> non-expressions I think "statements" is the usual term, with "sentences" being the general term which encompasses both (a "sentence" in this context is something recognized by your formal grammar). Can you
905.
by cbd1984 12y ago
Sadly, assholes can be right, too. Having a good asshole filter doesn't mean you have a good 'this person is right' filter, or vice-versa.
906.
by cbd1984 12y ago
German was the language of science decades ago. Before that, it was Latin. Before that, it was Greek. (Your mileage may vary in various regions.) Things change.
907.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> The user is a woman Nothing changes. Downvoters are sexist.
908.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> You can love your neighbor as you love yourself, and still not condone or participate in or approve of activities that contradict your faith, just as on a purely secular level you might like an individual but find some of their behavio
909.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> The microbiome you want (or rather I want) is the one my ancestor's had Why? Do you think your ancestors were especially healthy? Do you think they all had the same microbiome?
910.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Popular ignorance of the actual meanings of those terms does not change anything. How do you think words get meanings in the first place? Do you think they're handed down from on high?
911.
by cbd1984 12y ago
I'm trying to understand here: Aren't Google's Public Resolvers authoritative for the domain names Google itself owns?
912.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Speed is is the magnitude of velocity so bigger is faster. If you're going to be pedantic, velocity is a vector, and vectors must reside in a vector space, so what vector space do the velocities in this context reside in? Ignoring
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by cbd1984 12y ago
"Uses, or claims to use, one-time pads" is, by itself, strong enough evidence that an encryption product is bogus that you'd be wise to not use the product based on that evidence alone. Similar is the claim that it uses a pro
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> First and third world do not mean "rich" and "poor". They do now, in this post-1991 world. > They refer to political alignment with the United States (first), USSR (second), or unaligned (third world). So China w
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by cbd1984 12y ago
Here's an interesting article from 2012 on how the PRC government wants people to understand China's economic politics: http://en.people.cn/100668/102793/7980397.html > In June 1992, Comrade Jiang Zem
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Some people even still call them communist. Such as the PRC government. http://english1.english.gov.cn/links/cpc.htm It's Socialist, too http://english.gov.cn/archive/white_paper/201
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> IIRC the Lisp Machines supported C in addition to the system's dialect of Lisp. IIRC the Lisp Machines (well, CADR at least) compiled code down to some pretty high-level machine code implemented in microcode. How many standard C i
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> Your experience is the price of admission to gain access to a global audience. Nothing they said was inherent to the process of getting a global audience. Apple has created all of their problems they mentioned; we know this because App
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> "Lisp is a very high-level language" myth Lisp is as high-level as a fundamentally procedural language can go; it even kind of looks functional, and it's closer to being functional than procedural language styles which
920.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> At least as far as the assembler, well, that's something that anybody who is sick of hand-keying in machine code and patching up addresses will probably think of. And then reject, because it's inefficient and hand-keying mach
921.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> The 80's were so simple. Simple things were simple, complex things were impossible, mostly because computers of that type and era didn't have the RAM. Rose-colored glasses are nice, but they say a lot more about the wearer th
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by cbd1984 12y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/ This lets you edit text fields in a real text editor of your choice.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
> "pass by reference" is an incorrect phrasing No, it isn't. In C, a pointer is a reference. It supports arithmetic, but it works like a reference as well, so the name applies. What might confuse people is that in C, you
924.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> I normally ignore downvotes but these are confusing. It apparently takes relatively few to grey your comment. I upvoted you and downvoted the Wakefield-ites, and I swapped the gray/color properties. All it takes is a few yahoos wh
925.
by cbd1984 12y ago
> Java passes "references by value". Meaning the target method receives a _copy_ of the pointer, not the actual pointer. Which is exactly how C does it. I don't see how this is a difficult enough concept to grasp that we n
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by cbd1984 12y ago
People who rely on screen readers probably don't like this.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
So goodbye to accessibility.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
If you think this, your perspective must be limited to a pre-1970s worldview, or you must not know much about how much freedoms were stomped on before things like Roe v Wade and the current notion of a strong freedom of speech protection.
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by cbd1984 12y ago
All of the things you're talking about exist in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well.
930.
by cbd1984 12y ago
It's entirely relevant as long as it's part of America's political discourse. Why won't the GOP take responsibility for what its behaviors are doing?

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