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841.
by derleth 14y ago
The prevention of the potential horrors of the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands justifies the nuclear bombs many times over.
842.
by derleth 14y ago
Is anyone else's page massively wider than it should be? (Firefox 19.0, 32-bit build on x86_64 Linux.)
843.
by derleth 14y ago
> some shitdick excuse No reason to associate gays with people who can't program and/or design software competently.
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by derleth 14y ago
Apple's maps for iOS.
845.
by derleth 14y ago
There's more formats available, for one thing.
846.
by derleth 14y ago
If fructose is removed from the GRAS list, that would imply fruits are no longer considered safe to eat.
847.
by derleth 14y ago
Yes, it is. http://web.archive.org/web/20070102024642/http://www.fda.gov... > FDA calls aspartame, sold under trade names such as NutraSweet and Equal, one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever a
848.
by derleth 14y ago
> One explanation is that they act out of ignorance. Another explanation is that they act out of some sort of knowledge that we have written off. The first explanation has served us amazingly well and continues to do so. The second expl
849.
by derleth 14y ago
> But in what they do, they seem push humanity forward, to give a reason, a hope. They were the best way to do this in the past, but we have better reasons to hope now: The world is comprehensible and our efforts to understand it meanin
850.
by derleth 14y ago
Breaking Bad is certainly more challenging than Gilligan's Island. And yes, the broadening of television did save it.
851.
by derleth 14y ago
> It gets to the point where often I want an author to be formulaic rather than stylish and idiosyncratic because it makes it much quicker to reorganise and internalise. Hence legalese, and bureaucratese, and any number of other things
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by derleth 14y ago
> television on the page By which he means most novels, I suppose, which, in turn, means it's nothing to do with television. Add to that all of the wonderful programs on television, such as the films on TCM, the serial dramas on AMC, HB
853.
by derleth 14y ago
> since while goto makes it hard to follow the program flow, longjmp makes it /impossible/. Only if you don't use it tastefully. It can be a nice way to bail out of a recursive function with an error code, which is precisely how I've us
854.
by derleth 14y ago
If your appendix gets infected and ruptures, you will likely die in horrible agony. The fact we know (not suspect, know ) you can live a healthy, full life without an appendix means that once it begins to cause problems, there's really no
855.
by derleth 14y ago
What kind of clock rate could this achieve? As fast as a historic 8086?
856.
by derleth 14y ago
If we want a microcoded architecture, I'd prefer the PDP-10, but that's me. How much more complex is a mostly-microcode VAX implementation compared to a MIPS? The point about being able to move stepwise up the hardware complexity ladder by
857.
by derleth 14y ago
To amplify/correct what's been said: The parts of his post that look like Bayesian poisoning are what he believes to be God speaking to him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html
858.
by derleth 14y ago
> At some point we should be able to do a VAX You mean a processor where all of the complex opcodes are implemented in loadable microcode?
859.
by derleth 14y ago
> Freedom planes for me, with sane boarding procedures, and safety planes for you, with 4 hour waits while everyone is xrayed, strip-searched, and cavity inspected. Thank you for trying to skew the Overton Window in such an obvious fash
860.
by derleth 14y ago
The actual quote is a lot better, because it immediately invites debate over what is an 'essential liberty', which is entirely the point. That is, in fact, the entire point of having a government in the first place.
861.
by derleth 14y ago
> you can not license z/VM Isn't the whole point of z/VM that you can't tell it's there from the guest OS?
862.
by derleth 14y ago
Enforced servitude is when I'm forced to work to make money to fund your military.
863.
by derleth 14y ago
> actually, it is. Why is a socialized military fair when a socialized healthcare system would not be?
864.
by derleth 14y ago
Why don't people do things like this for Dialects of Algol? Is it because most of them got new names, like Java, C, and so on?
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by derleth 14y ago
I will consider it theft if and when the government stops using MY money to fund YOUR military.
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by derleth 14y ago
> we should all be treated fairly/you have to pay for MY health care How about "we should all be treated fairly/you have to pay for MY military"? Is that fair?
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by derleth 14y ago
> But if something isn't expressible in plain language It is expressible in plain language. The scenario I brought up states that the person responsible for expressing it in plain language did so in a way that might have left a loophole
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by derleth 14y ago
> Hard reality: a thing is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it. Harder reality: I'm willing to pay precisely zero dollars American for the military.
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by derleth 14y ago
> where they have a very human-understandable summary and some clickable (albeit relatively simple) legal writing underneath. OK, let's say someone relies on the human-understandable summary and does something the legal writing forbids.
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by derleth 14y ago
Another advantage of C over Old C++ is that there's one C, defined by one standards document and maybe a few common features that are not standard but reliably present on most compilers and hardware. There isn't a list of features you're th

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