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by cicero 7y ago
Richard Garfield's new game, KeyForge [1], attempts to remedy this problem by using pre-made decks generated by an algorithm that makes every deck unique. You buy a deck for $10 and you are ready to play. Each deck is given a unique na
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by cicero 7y ago
Regardless of the size of the assets of these organizations, the parent's point is still valid that their success should not be measured in $s. So the Vatican has $10B in wealth, does that mean that they are successfully leading people
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by cicero 7y ago
There are all kinds of intelligence. What is unique about human intelligence, which has been known since Aristotle, is our ability to recognize abstractions and make generalizations, which then leads to human language. Various plants and an
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by cicero 7y ago
The success of phones and tablets appears to have made the desktop world afraid they were obsolete, so the trend since Snow Leopard and Windows 7 has been to make the desktop more like a phone or tablet. Windows 8 clearly went too far and p
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by cicero 7y ago
Call-A.P.P.L.E. was an early magazine for the Apple II. I think it had lots of code listings, as was often the case with computer magazines back when it was common for computer owners to type in much of their software.
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by cicero 7y ago
I missed this museum when I was in Cambridge. I may have to go back.
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by cicero 7y ago
Since air traffic can be global, it makes sense to have global air traffic control conventions. However, not every technology has to be global. If a region wants to develop a technology that is optimized for their region, they trade global
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by cicero 7y ago
We don't have to globalize everything. Yes, it's wonderful that we have the potential for people around the globe to work on and benefit from a particular project, but it is not necessary for every project to work that way.
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by cicero 7y ago
There are very solid reasons for seeing marriage as a life-long commitment between a man and a woman for the purpose of providing a stable home for the children that they conceive that has nothing to do with hating gays. This is something h
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by cicero 7y ago
Cancel culture is becoming universal. Violations of political correctness can cause cancellation of TV shows, loss of jobs, and now banning from video game competitions. It is interesting that these days this is primarily a tool of the left
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by cicero 7y ago
At least our C02 emissions would be reduced.
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by cicero 7y ago
Unopposed progress is why we are now having concerns about the environment.
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by cicero 7y ago
I considered using Rust for a project, but I ended up going with C# because it appeared to have better support for Oracle database access and I could easily have a nice Windows desktop UI. C# seems more mature or fleshed out, but some of th
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by cicero 7y ago
I think you missed the point of That Hideous Strength , which is not an allegory by the way. In an allegory, you must be able to say some person or thing in the story is equal to some thing in the real world. For example, Animal Farm by
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by cicero 7y ago
These things sound like a kind of socialism to me (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism#Economics ). "Various work programs designed to establish full-employment for the German population were instituted once
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by cicero 7y ago
Socialism requires a powerful centralized government. Powerful centralized governments have the means to great propaganda power since they control most of the media, and they usually need to use that power because the people won't alwa
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by cicero 7y ago
Your consciousness separates from the body. https://magiscenter.com/nde/
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by cicero 7y ago
Also, I will launch into a philosophical discussion of existence from a purely materialistic point of view while ignoring the religious dimension that is almost completely universal to human experience throughout history. I can get away wit
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by cicero 7y ago
The problem is not government, but highly centralized government at near continental and global scales. Power needs to remain as local as possible. This Facebook move is not a solution because it just puts some global-scope power in another
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by cicero 7y ago
I assume you are joking, but your statement highlights the problem with a "moral" system rooted in maximizing shareholder value. I think free enterprise markets have many advantages, but there has to be a better grounding for ethi
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by cicero 7y ago
I'm 56, and my first job out of college was at General Dynamics Fort Worth Division, which is now part of Lockheed Martin. I did not work on the F-22, aka Advanced Tactical Fighter, but I did work on avionics software for the A-12, aka
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by cicero 7y ago
My first job was programming a Sony SMC-70 Z-80 based computer that ran CP/M using the BDS C compiler. (BDS stands for Brain Damaged Software. It was an integer-only version of C.) The SMC-70 was connected to a Sony Laser Videodisc pla
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by cicero 7y ago
I use MacOS at home and Windows 10 at work. I find iCloud access from Windows to be pretty awkward. Am I missing something?
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by cicero 7y ago
I use Windows in my office and I also develop Python software to accomplish some tasks related to my job. If I really had to save money, I might consider a Raspberry Pi, but they are less reliable (SD Card versus robust SSD) and are not as
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by cicero 7y ago
If you are using Windows and Mac, you might want the same browser on both.
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by cicero 7y ago
You are probably thinking of the Circus of Nero, which was the place where St. Peter was crucified upside-down. Peter was buried in a nearby necropolis, which is now the site of St. Peter's basilica. Drawings I've seen show that t
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by cicero 7y ago
I am looking forward to seeing the movie, but this article is strange. It seems to be grasping at straw in order to throw doubt on the "fail often, fail fast" (foff) philosophy. My take on foff is that it recognizes that the fear
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by cicero 7y ago
That's the urban lifestyle in general, isn't it?
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by cicero 7y ago
There are lots of ideas floating around today regarding what is a soul and what makes humans different from other animals. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century had a very clear conception of this, rooted in Aristotle, that I believe is still
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by cicero 7y ago
I used WATFIV in 1982.

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