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by derleth 14y ago
> cycling on the pavement (sidewalk) At speed. Don't forget how fast they buzz along now that they don't have cars to worry about, and how quietly they move. I greatly prefer skateboarders. Even if they move at a good clip, they're clat
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by derleth 14y ago
> What is the value of a skin on top of Chrome? Increased profit for the owners of Opera, who are the only corporate masters I know of who make their profits off of a web browser. Users might prefer the Opera skins, but, frankly, users
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by derleth 14y ago
A whiff of C++ would be fine, as long as they don't take enough to make people think they have to pick a subset of C. One of C's strengths compared to C++ is that C is one language with a small number of dark corners, not multiple languages
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by derleth 14y ago
> if the violinist slightly misplaces his finger, he plays slightly out of tune This depends on whether the slightly misplaced finger ends up on the correct string, correct? I suppose to a violinist, however, a finger that was no longer
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by derleth 14y ago
> Pretty obviously joking. The problem with trying to sound so stupid you can't possibly be serious is that there are people who are seriously that stupid.
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by derleth 14y ago
Whoever downvoted this either doesn't know how cyclists actually act in the real world, or does know and doesn't want to admit it.
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by derleth 14y ago
> its currencies are real because they say they are and have the power to force behind them No. Currencies are real because people trust they'll have value tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, as Shakespeare said. Otherwise, the old Zimb
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by derleth 14y ago
> These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist! And the externalities of electric cars matter quite a bit to the people who live next to coal-fi
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by derleth 14y ago
You could continue to blast full-speed down sidewalks and blow through red lights, so no change there.
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by derleth 14y ago
> I'm just pointing out that the photo is more than the headshot. Not the photo that's actually used. Every photo is cropped, and a lot of great photos were cropped after they were taken. So it is with the photo of her used in the com
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by derleth 14y ago
> Chars should be 32-bit, since 16 bits aren't enough to represent all Unicode codepoints. This would be a lot better, but even this is oversimplifying things and is going to cause problems. In this case, thinking "chars are 32 bits" ig
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by derleth 14y ago
You can’t have naturopathy without homeopathy: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/28/you-cant-have-n... > the NPLEX (Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examinations), which is required for naturopaths to be licensed in the 16 st
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by derleth 14y ago
> The last 100 years has seen the expansion of the car industry as well, I guess there must be some relation to out quality of life as well. How many people would die if not for ambulances?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Humans evolved consuming only organic material from their very beginnings up until about 100 years ago. Humans also evolved to have a dozen or so children and see four or five of them make it to adulthood. The reason you see life expe
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by derleth 14y ago
> Yeah - I got really lucky and that's about all there is to the story Meditate on what a philosophy like this, universally held, would do to morality. Personally, I think it would improve it.
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by derleth 14y ago
> DCL Sadly, DCL had (some) use beyond VMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIGITAL_Command_Language
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by derleth 14y ago
As is DOSEMU: http://www.dosemu.org/
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by derleth 14y ago
> Not only that, youth generation seems not able to separate the distintion between programming languages and their implementations. To be fair, this has always been true. Look at the old idea "Lisp is Slow", which is literally nonsense
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by derleth 14y ago
If you have immutable strings and a smart compiler, yes, you could indeed have strings and symbols that are functionally identical. In fact, in Old Lisp, there were no strings and symbols were used for everything we use strings for now; tha
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by derleth 14y ago
> Soldiers and veterans are not privileged. Some people think males are automatically privileged, and veterans (especially back then) are and were overwhelmingly male. I think that's a misunderstanding of the concept (that is, an idea t
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by derleth 14y ago
> Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior Even aside from the fact this is wrong: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 The point I was making was that Linux d
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by derleth 14y ago
> No, the best that the government can do for startups and the economy is just get out of the way. We've tried that and it failed. Does the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ring any bells?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Saying that poverty is significantly and astoundingly reduced ... is still going to get a lot of people angry, even if you explicitly limit your scope to the First World. It's a combination of lack of historical perspective coupled
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by derleth 14y ago
> Do you really think refusing to leave is going to change their mind? I think you missed my point: The fact they accused you of refusing to leave does not mean you did, in fact, refuse to leave.
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by derleth 14y ago
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html In the terminology of this article, Torvalds is firmly in the Raymond Chen camp as far as "The kernel is not allowed to break user software" is concerned. The difference between Win
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by derleth 14y ago
Harassment. Making a scene, also known as disturbing the peace. Refusing to leave, which amounts to criminal trespass. Maybe even assault, if they're really feeling their oats and are willing to claim you made them fear for their safety.
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by derleth 14y ago
Yes, it would be a big loss.
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by derleth 14y ago
> I wish they'd just fix the bug where typing "~" crashes Terminal.app (depending on your keyboard language) :( How did this bug survive the testing process? Wait. I think I just answered my own question.
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by derleth 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/
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by derleth 14y ago
Every one of these things applies about as well to adults, in my experience, at whatever age cutoff you use to define the word 'adult'. Especially this one: > They don't understand mathematics because their earlier instructors taught it

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