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by derleth 14y ago
> Copyright law says one thing, but at what point do we as humans say that the creator has died long ago, and his work should now pass to the public to retell as it sees fit? Especially in this case. Do you know why Dungeons and Dragons
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by derleth 14y ago
> "He's under, look at the readings!". I couldn't help myself, and said, "No I'm not." "I think I'll go for a walk." ... Did you feel happyyy?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Folks seem unbelievably harsh on accents they know not to be the native one, which is every time a famous actor does an accent Either Hugh Laurie isn't famous, or you don't have any idea he's British. ;) Every time he plays House, he'
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by derleth 14y ago
Here's a well-written piece specifically on the physical meaning of negative temperature, using the same definitions as the parent post: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAndNuclear/neg... It provides a specific example of a s
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by derleth 14y ago
> But only user code is required to be well-formed and have defined behavior, system headers could just as well be written in Forth as long as the actual behavior under the compiler they come with is correct. To understand this better,
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I doubt a resident can accurately answer this question.
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by derleth 14y ago
The map's wrong to the extent it implies the USA has an official language. We have a de facto standard language, but we have no laws defining an official language.
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by derleth 14y ago
Ask Sony how well security through obscurity's been working out for them.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Montana is famous for its high speed limits on motorways This hasn't been true for years. Our current speed limits are in line with the rest of the country.
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by derleth 14y ago
I of course never said anything like that, but it is a sign of how far we've come that it gets read that way. Cast your mind back to 1983 and ask yourself if 1983-you would have felt deprived not knowing the latest from Ireland unless and u
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by derleth 14y ago
> I used to own a camera, a video camera, a personal organizer, a landline phone, a cell phone, a discman, a gameboy, etc. I now have all these things in one device that's smaller and lighter than any of them used to be. And it isn't as
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by derleth 14y ago
This isn't going to last very long. In a few months, at the outside, they (the newspapers) will have a condescending piece of back-pedaling that implies we were all too stupid to understand their statements, because obviously they never
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by derleth 14y ago
Belgium... Ireland... who's next, Andorra? Frankly, 99.9+% of the world's population can get through their day without learning what happens in Ireland unless and until it affects a country with a more direct impact on their lives. The fact
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by derleth 14y ago
> We need fewer, smaller physical things, and less stuff, to enjoy life. This isn't an axiom. It's a personal preference. Don't imagine it applies to everyone else.
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by derleth 14y ago
> * Not including the Haskell runtime. Where did you get the impression Haskell was involved in any way here?
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by derleth 14y ago
> When I read these kind of comments, I am not sure if these commentators are compensated better than China's 50 cent party. Some mturk generated comments would probably provide more qualitative contributions than something like this. I
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by derleth 14y ago
> I wish he had succeed. Digital, not just email, encryption is a threat to national security. Since this comment is on its way to being killed, I quoted the entirety so my response would not be deprived of context. Twenty years ago, th
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by derleth 14y ago
> Maybe a one-off misuse could be caught, but if you see multiple instances of British English in a text block, maybe you can assume the writer intends it to be that way? Ah. No. This is clearly in Full-On Prescriptivist Peeving Mode, w
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by derleth 14y ago
> So putting pressure on international bodies to enforce crippling sanctions should count, right? You really want that moral equivalence, don't you? OK, OK, Bill Clinton is Literally Stalin. Next, we equate Gandhi and Pol Pot. Happy?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Does it go by how many people they killed? A combination of number and method. Death camps, for example, count very heavily, as do things like deliberate starvation. The intent to exterminate should also be factored in, but that's fre
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by derleth 14y ago
> Are you saying Mao is evil? Mao is evil to roughly the same extent Hitler is evil.
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> Those two are scary Right, because if you don't have a job, you don't deserve to have a house, a car, or self-respect. Also, if you're born a serf, you're bound to a manor, and smallpox is God's way of reminding you that all humans ar
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> These trends are so broad and vague as to be basically meaningless. That's how you know they'll come true.
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> the steps involved in bypassing the paywall And to everyone who objects "It's one step!", remember Step Zero: Knowing it can be done. Which implies Step Negative One: Caring enough to find out. It's hard to take those steps. There
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It was progressive compared to the attitudes of a century earlier: "Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of
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> the demo scene Is divorced from any kind of practical reality, by definition. Cease comparing apples to oranges. A sedan is bigger than a go-kart because a sedan isn't a go-kart.
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> What do you mean by 'we get it wrong?' Creating a world where some people can never be happy and satisfied. > What is 'it'? The meaning of existence and how to achieve a good existence.
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by derleth 14y ago
Think about free will in terms of a game-theoretic payoff matrix: There either is or isn't really free will, and you can either behave as if there is or behave as if there isn't. If there is no free will, it doesn't matter. The payouts are
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by derleth 14y ago
This ties into my own philosophy: We define what the universe means. Intelligent life. We're the only ones that care, so it's up to us to decide what the universe is all about. That's frightening, but freedom is always a little bit frighten
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by derleth 14y ago
> Everyone has a worldview/belief system, no matter how scientific they are. Except some worldviews aren't based on beliefs, if you define 'belief' as 'blind faith'.

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