ci5er

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by ci5er 9y ago
We absolute can be aware of subjective experience/awareness. Hawkins posited in "On Intelligence" that consciousness is simply the feeling of having a neo-cortex. While I am as baffled as any/many at having subjective qu
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by ci5er 9y ago
Just a question: How many countries have you visited? In asking this, I'm assuming that since you say "here", your PoV is the United States. If that is incorrect, I apologize.
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by ci5er 9y ago
What resources are being sucked at what price per unit resource, and what amount of that price is kept in-country for investment and for paying the laborers? Is your argument that "the West" isn't paying enough? Or that the m
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by ci5er 9y ago
The one-time PAN patents (and the merchant or tx-bound PAN) patents of the late '90s are largely expired at this point, so it is open art now. I see more and more companies starting to implement it more broadly (Citi, BofA, CapitalOne)
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by ci5er 9y ago
What's wrong with Kafka? :-)
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by ci5er 9y ago
You are right. I was wrong. I am sorry.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Populism happened before. When we went from an agrarian society to industrialized, we got a civil war, about 45 years of populism (1890~2035), and WWI. Now we are facing an equal if not larger economic dislocation. People are rightly afraid
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by ci5er 9y ago
That's funny! Back in the day we only had k&r and man pages...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Freddie Mercury's voice survives.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Do you believe then, that Facebook (founded 2004) and Google(founded 1998) have an obligation to carrier any and all speech? Why? Because they were successful? If I were Facebook (I am not) ... wouldn't I - shouldn't I - be able t
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by ci5er 9y ago
I grant you that this is new territory. But I hesitate to grant any particular national government to do what I will with my property. I must think on this. Thank you.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Sassenrath was not a Posix guy, for sure. But the Amiga was not a common platform.
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by ci5er 9y ago
OK. So ... I startup in my garage. And, somehow, I build a platform that people congregate together to use to talk to each other. Then... you think that the government should compel me to allow any and all voices to use my private property
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by ci5er 9y ago
Good luck. You may be a math genius, but you don't have a marketing or venture-formation bone in your body. (I do applaud you're choice not to take on VC money, though...)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Hmmm. Thank you for your response. At this point, I think that I must say that your brain and my brain must operate very differently. To me, messing with pointers is the beauty of all that - and it so easily translates to the assembler-lang
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by ci5er 9y ago
I've never understood why anyone (in the day) would read anything other than K&R (or ANSI 89). Were those not good enough to learn C?
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by ci5er 9y ago
You must be older than you look, to remember that Dale Arden line...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Hmmm. Odd. I took all the above. Maybe our classes were shorter (~50min each)? Or we had longer days (7.30am to 3.30pm and then the extracurriculars started)?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Really? Since when? It's been a long-o time since I did any 3d physics or rendering code (in C), maybe even since before the WWW, but I don't remember this convention... (I mean - sure - it makes sense, but I don't recall the
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by ci5er 9y ago
> if you are lucky enough for them to breed Lucky? How do you stop them?
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by ci5er 9y ago
That's a nice opinion. Be a shame if anything ever happened to it. I hope you have others that you can share.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Is Windows an ex-cash-cow?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> The only concept people struggle with is pointers Why is that? I've tried to explain pointers to people who struggle with the very small number of pointer-related concepts, and I ... fail. But I don't know why I am failing. T
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by ci5er 9y ago
BASIC is pretty good. I went from that to 6502, then to 680x0 and then to C (then to FORTRAN and then right back to C). I had a fair number of co-workers (years later, you know, when I had a job) who struggled more than a little bit with po
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by ci5er 9y ago
I'm not a fan of firing the bottom 10% of annual 360 reviews, but, do you think that having a 10% false-positive rate on interviewing/hiring is outside the realm of possibility? EDIT: Just so you know ... the cumulative quarter av
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by ci5er 9y ago
Huh? Might I suggest that you might not know enough 40- to 50-somethings to sling around that word "most"? Sure, as an old fart, I don't like the new culture of the young snots that change jobs every 18 months before they&#x2
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by ci5er 9y ago
I left the country for a while, and when I got back, I was no good at picking those up either. But I do understand your point.(I think)
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by ci5er 9y ago
Oh. I see what you mean. I see enough references to the phrase (like: "everyone knows this is a dog-whistle for xyz") that I started to wonder if that phrase wasn't in itself, in certain contexts, a form of virtue-signaling i
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by ci5er 9y ago
You are telling me that "welfare queen" is supposed to make me think of white trailer trash in my neighborhood? Surely not. You are trying to tell me that the phrase is supposed to make me think in racist terms, right? If so, then
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by ci5er 9y ago
Fair enough. And almost certainly right. Where does the line of full disclosure fall on the submitter, the editor and exploration by the reader? AND! IF we push it to the submitter, does the quantity of high-quality submission fall because

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