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by derleth 13y ago
> Rule by competing gangs is not a dystopia, it's the natural state that we were born into as animals and that we'be been living under for most of our history. Which doesn't mean it's not a dystopia. > We live largely under rule by
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by derleth 13y ago
> This is like an argument against integers because integers can express so many things: age, number of arms, days of the year, and so forth. And each of those uses should be given its own type, and the compiler should refuse to compile
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by derleth 13y ago
> would strengthening the economy even more help the situation and modernize perspective or serve to increase class divisions? Initially it would do the second. As we see from the modern PRC and our own Gilded Age (1870s-1910s), it take
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by derleth 13y ago
It saddens me that there are people with friendships that would disintegrate if they left their current job.
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by derleth 13y ago
> In order for this to stop, the entire society and way of life would have to change. Is the United Nations looking to do this? It needs to be done. And here I thought "Cultural Imperialism" was a bad thing. This is a dangerous road dow
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by derleth 13y ago
The golden rule is that everything has something to do with security.
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by derleth 13y ago
Right. FF21 on Linux. I will.
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by derleth 13y ago
> scrapnel The usual word is 'shrapnel', but this actually makes more sense in a portmanteau word sort of way: It's scraps that were hurled around as shrapnel. Scrapnel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
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by derleth 13y ago
Doesn't load at all for me. I can load other WebGL demos on this browser, just not this one.
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by derleth 13y ago
But we do know how to handle bad latency, don't we? Speculative loading, which got a bad name because it makes wallhacks on FPSes work but really has almost no downside once the client can't do anything malicious with a little information t
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by derleth 13y ago
And if you still Kant see how this would be a bad thing, look up the Categorical Imperative sometime: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law." https://en.wikipedia.or
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by derleth 13y ago
Which of those legitimate strategies are not just common sense? Honest question.
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by derleth 13y ago
Opera doesn't have multiple tabs so much as little mini-windows in the main window. You can tile and overlap Opera's windows, which is nice, but they're not quite the same as tabs.
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by derleth 13y ago
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
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by derleth 13y ago
> Untyped Assembly language is untyped. Dynamic typing is not the same thing.
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by derleth 13y ago
Pollan's work has been questioned: http://saywhatmichaelpollan.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/in-defe... > Pollan’s central thesis is that introducing science into our food system has done more harm than good and that the best thing for all
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by derleth 13y ago
> I would like to add that recursive calls can be nicer than loops Having a good library of higher-order functions that encapsulate common recursion patterns is a lot nicer than doing recursion by hand, or having to read code where some
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by derleth 13y ago
> Lua in kernel space This sounds like something which, were it done by Microsoft, would be taken as evidence of terminal senility on the part of the technical leads. What is NetBSD's reasoning for doing it?
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by derleth 13y ago
Minimizing the pain of others is never right. It is, in fact, one of the underlying problems here.
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by derleth 13y ago
> if one assume that sexual assaults are male->female. Which is not valid.
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by derleth 13y ago
This is the kind of idiocy that just brings everyone down. It would be a better world if we could all agree that this kind of nonsense was no longer acceptable.
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by derleth 13y ago
> In France it is ok and even polite to tell a girl (say, a coworker) "you are beautiful today", but I think this would not be considered very tasteful in other places. It's worse in some places, in that it can vary by the individual, a
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by derleth 13y ago
You're aiming at whatever is in front of your barrel. Never point a firearm at anything you're not willing to destroy. Besides, in this specific case, the whole point of DU is massive penetration, so of course it's going to eventually end
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by derleth 13y ago
If you think that's what's going on you're not paying attention.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Like click and drag to select text, dragging and dropping of icons. double clicking. All idiotic ideas. > UNDO. An obvious invention. Not one requiring much thought, only the resources to implement it.
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by derleth 13y ago
You have no idea what Fascism is and are doing more harm than good to your side of this debate. People like you can get the whole group painted as historically illiterate idiots with nothing to contribute. http://www.anesi.com/Fascism-TheU
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by derleth 13y ago
Nonsense. If you do more work than you take in calories, you will eventually die of that work. If you work through injury, the injury will get worse and may well kill you.
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by derleth 13y ago
> we now favor instant gratification, quick results, getting started easily, all accomodating short attention spans. This is not new. It is part of being human. Humans, being mammals, are inherently lazy and eager for shortcuts; it's wh
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by derleth 13y ago
> inflation is hardly a bad thing The idea that inflation is always and forever a bad thing, PERIOD, is religious dogma for some people; they will not be budged, nor swayed, nor convinced to look at any evidence that inflation is part o
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by derleth 13y ago
The French were inspired by the American Revolution.

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