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by crpatino 10y ago
Therefore if you want to be informed about something, you need to skim through at least a dozen of different newspapers spread over the political landscape, so you can have enough pieces of the puzzle to be able to put together in your mind
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, as I mentioned in my edit to GP, I have now read the article. It still sounds strange to me. I mean, how is it that 3rd country rural people cannot not know about chickens? I assumed this would be about giving flocks to urban poor, whe
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by crpatino 10y ago
Grain in bulk is still cheaper than poultry. However, you have a point. If poor urban families do not have access to fairly priced chicken feed, they will face the choice of feeding them pet food (at a net economic loss) or cutting their lo
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by crpatino 10y ago
In order of severity: 1. Family ends up homeless because there is no legal framework to raise small anymals in urban environments, and the flock is framed as "unruly pets" by abusive landlord/neighbours. Family ends up worse
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by crpatino 10y ago
ROT13 would stop and attacker peeking over everybody's documents, one doc per second, in search for something interesting to actually devote time and resources on. You have to decide if the tradeoff between a thousand bot's scans
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by crpatino 10y ago
By the same logic, if you are going to bitch about whatever response you get, why botter asking in the first place? Alternatively, you may want to fetch a dictionary and look up the meaning of word "tradeoff".
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by crpatino 10y ago
> How would you make a system which could kill interlopers quickly and reliably 10,000 years from now? 1. Put the real stash of waste very, very deep underground. 2. Put a (much smaller) booby stash in a moderately innaccesible place abo
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by crpatino 10y ago
It probably was found. The damned thing just outcompeted (aka killed off) all the other organisms around it, then died off when there was no longer a working ecosystem to provide for some critical resource or to dispose its waste. Centuries
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by crpatino 10y ago
For the same reason we cannot close one bug per developer per day. At first you can do it, then, all the easy ones get solved. The ones that remain all have a number of troubles: they are hard to reproduce, or the last person to touch that
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by crpatino 10y ago
People still needs some income at all. Otherwise, they will either rely on welfare or resort to crime for survival. This is a explosive combination, specially in a society where the unemployable's fare is seen as just and self inflic
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by crpatino 10y ago
I would argue that buying an ergonomic chair goes way beyond tricking your senses. There are actual mechanical forces that support your body weight in ways more conscious of your anatomic needs; e.g. the chair is simply better, no trickery
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by crpatino 10y ago
> No sane man would deny that. But no good captain would admit it. There has to be a limit, though. I think there is a difference between strategically ignore hard situations for morale reasons and simple stuborness. For some reason, th
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by crpatino 10y ago
I guess everyone is entitled to their preferences, as long as they don't try to force them into anothers. The problem with the "code a lot, then refactor" approach is that it takes a lot of different skills to actually pull o
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by crpatino 10y ago
I find it creepier and creepier by the day when people keep insisting that they want to be uploaded into the Matrix.
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by crpatino 10y ago
> I wasn't thinking about shutting out baby cry to get some sleep (sleeping with headphones?) This is not the intended use, but people will figure out on their own and do it anyways... Then, one day, a baby will die horribly or som
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by crpatino 10y ago
We have been there before, yet we are still here. The proportion of systems programmers that can writte assembly code consistently on par with the quality of that from a decent compiler (such as Gnu's GCC) is probably less than 1%, and
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by crpatino 10y ago
And what would be the purpose of machine civilization, then?
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by crpatino 10y ago
The irony being that every damned time the boy cried wolf in the past, there was indeed a damned wolf stalking nearby, but the idiot villangers refused to acknolwledge that, and then they wonder where their damned sheep might be. Maybe we s
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by crpatino 10y ago
You are missing the forest by looking at the trees. You need a foolproof way to determine 2 tests: 1. Is the contents of the bottle what I think (or the label says, or the nurse told me) it is? 2. Is the verified contest of the bottle what
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by crpatino 10y ago
Another possibility is to look at the compensation for upper management. C-level officers are usually paid in stock as well as cash, but the staff reporting directly to them are salaried employees. If you actually look at the graph (present
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by crpatino 10y ago
The gut-to-hip ratio is a rough, but effective, alternative. At least if you start from an overweight/obese body type.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, and probably lots of spatial-intelligence in general. Memory is also attributed to them by folk lore, but that's debatable. Due to their body size, elephants need to move around a lot for forraging and, in the African Savahna at l
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by crpatino 10y ago
I don't know about Pekingese specifically, but some races of small dogs were intentionally breed to arouse larger dogs in a hunting party. Others were breed to fend off vermin. It is not unusual to see ill-tempered small dogs at all.
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by crpatino 10y ago
Anyone who has ever had a dog (or cat, I suppose) as a pet can tell you that animals do have mental states. And any farmer across written history (minus last 120 years, perhaps) would've agreed. The myth that animals are nothing more t
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by crpatino 10y ago
Yes, it is a software development thing. Labour market is crazy. Employers are obsessed with "acquiring talent". If you can show "growth potential" (as in, being able and willing to learn and extend your expertise), they
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by crpatino 10y ago
> I haven't made assumptions, demanding group guilt or deference, based upon a simplistic caricature or stereotype. Ok, the reason privilege is taboo in this society is because it often gets mixed up with prejudice and injustice. Pr
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by crpatino 10y ago
Privilege is multifactorial. There are such things as white privilege, and male privilege; but those are not the only (nor arguably, the most significant) privileges there are. Being "blue collar" and "from a small town"
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by crpatino 11y ago
What is the false premise? Why do you think 'faith' is required in a logical argument? What future?
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by crpatino 11y ago
That's when being in good terms with Vinnie Nine-Fingers and Tony Fatso begins to pay off.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Why would it be "distracted" by it? There certainly can be a bot that pays more attention to any feature the programmer instructs it to, but to what purpose? What is the bot supposed to do with this particular stream of bits that

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