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by crusso 11y ago
Listen to the presentation around the 37 minute mark. They have an IOS compatibility layer. They claimed elsewhere in the video that Candy Crush for IOS was moved to their platform with "minimal code changes", whatever that means
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by crusso 11y ago
They factor out genes attributable to common ancestors we had with Neanderthals. They're talking about genes that were specifically modified along the Neanderthal branch of evolution and then added back to us.
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, but that's not really the same as what has happened in the Python community where Python 3 has been available for so long but there's still resistance to making the shift. Perl 6 still isn't available.
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by crusso 11y ago
It's FTL communication of 10k random bits, whatever that gets you besides a great symmetric encryption key to share between you and the other end.
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by crusso 11y ago
This is what occurred to me as well. Share the IP somehow and go separate ways.
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by crusso 11y ago
I don't disagree with the fact that there are and have been domestic Christian extremists. I was specifically responding to DanBC's claim that US citizens are at GREATER risk from the police and Christian terrorists. What informa
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by crusso 11y ago
White people shooting others is not usually considered terrorism If those white people were part of a religious movement indiscriminately targeting the larger society, then of course they would be labeled "terrorists". Do you h
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by crusso 11y ago
What's your point? That Islamic terrorism is compatible with open society because of a bunch of things were done to them over the past thousand years? Or is it that because Western society has had some bad actors/states, that we
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by crusso 11y ago
US citizens are at greater risk of harm from police officers How is that a fair or even interesting comparison, though? Islamist terrorists aren't killing people ostensibly engaged in criminal acts. Islamist terrorists aren't
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by crusso 11y ago
Are you actually going to put some lone nut jobs here and there on the same level as organized and determined jihadists? If so, you need to include the tens of thousands of murdered people that ISIS has been responsible for. You'll n
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by crusso 11y ago
Even respecting proportionality, body count is not a major determinant. For example, the first gulf war and the liberation of Kuwait was universally acknowledged as a "just" war. The Iraqis suffered casualties of greater than 150
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by crusso 11y ago
I know plenty of people who literally believe in angels, the resurrection of Jesus, the turning of water into wine, the divine miracle of statues that appear to be weeping, etc. I have had countless discussions (ok, arguments) with people w
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by crusso 11y ago
radical minority hijacked the terminology and twisted it into something different A huge part of the problem is that they're not hijacking anything. The jihadists are reading the plain text of the Koran and the Hadiths and following
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by crusso 11y ago
christians have killed many more muslims than muslims have killed christians Undoubtedly, but important questions about the ethics of war aren't usually based upon the body count. They're based upon initiation of force, hostili
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by crusso 11y ago
You're assuming that the religious/ideological choices of a society aren't contributing factors to their state of war or unrest. It's like saying, "You'd need to find a Jainist[1] population that's at war
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by crusso 11y ago
Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too If that's your contention then you'd need to account for the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam sub
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by crusso 11y ago
to direct influence on lawmaking And whose fault is that, the huge and powerful government's for being so easily susceptible to corruption or much smaller and in no way as powerful businesses for seeking easily-obtained influence? S
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by crusso 11y ago
Meh, this argument is like those pictures where you see the old lady or the young lady depending upon the part of the image that you focus on. The reality is that some corporations and most all politicians (at least at the federal level) fo
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by crusso 11y ago
How do corporations make tax law? They influence tax law, but they don't have the power to pass laws.
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by crusso 11y ago
indiscriminate prejudice But the key word there is "indiscriminate", since by definition you can't target criticism properly ever if you're indiscriminate. the targeted group is impossible to isolate Not when you&#x2
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by crusso 11y ago
So all questions about ideas are racist on some level? Doesn't that then make racism meaningless since I could say that questioning any belief whatsoever impacts some race that commonly holds that belief?
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by crusso 11y ago
I wish we would stop equating Islam with race. It's a set of ideas that are adopted to various degrees by members of every race. Generalization based upon the adoption of sets of ideas would seem to be a great deal more logical than g
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by crusso 11y ago
This is fantastic news! Notice the article is over a year old. It's hard to see if it has had any impact whatsoever on the situation.
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by crusso 11y ago
Another assumption: our government == functioning democracy Our government's apparent interests and the interests of the population are only loosely correlated in most instances and diametrically opposed to the interests of the
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by crusso 11y ago
Your argument only makes sense if you assume that: government == society
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by crusso 11y ago
Only if there is some kind of coup. Kim Jong Un is not going to contaminate the good thing he has going just because some people are dying from starvation.
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by crusso 11y ago
The "right thing" was to agree on that before the work was performed. It's too late to go back on that now. The original vesting agreements are all that should hold. If the other founders want to come to a new agreement wi
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by crusso 11y ago
The easiest way for everyone to know that you're not endorsing ads in your stream is for you to have absolutely no control over it. Once you're given any control of your ad stream, your perceived responsibility for it increases.
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by crusso 11y ago
What I don't understand is why 8 bit color isn't enough. Back when 8 bit color was released (yes, I'm old), we were told that it provided way more colors than the human eye could discern - 24 million as opposed to the 10 mil
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by crusso 11y ago
New TLDs are still fresh and people get confused I wouldn't worry about that too much. The general public concept of the Internet is really not all that old (15-20 years). People will adjust remarkably quickly.

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