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by derleth 13y ago
> I would argue that if there are no technological access controls in place, there is no such thing as "unauthorized access" You can't be unauthorized if there is no authorization. The default on the internet is "can
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> However I think there is a problem in America of young people rejecting what you are saying not because they think it is wrong, but because they don't like it. Like how they expect Social Security to still be there even if they c
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This sounds like the Torre Bert recordings, which are almost certainly a hoax: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4115 Of course, the Torre Bert story goes further, with a whole passel of cosmonauts going missing and unrepor
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"llvmpy" kind of looks like an Ancient Roman trying to write down a Welsh word. And for good reason: The 'v' glyph was used for both the 'v' sound and the vowel 'u' sound before 'u' became i
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Are your notions of correctness defined by who can get publishing deals?
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Those sources don't define correctness. Especially Strunk and White, which is pretty well debunked at this point: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003463.php
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If you look at the evidence, especially the Gini coefficient, Republicans are a lot more plutocratic than Democrats: http://www.zompist.com/liberalism.html
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by derleth 13y ago
And I'd begin with basic mathematics.
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Automated translation of East Asian languages into English is typically a source of much unintended hilarity. People therefore don't trust it. Aside from that, Google Translate can be downright odd sometimes. Like what it did to Lore
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> It wasn't that bad, especially if you take the time to learn how to do string manipulation properly (which isn't really that hard). It's hard in the way that counts: It's tedious and prone to precisely the kinds of
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by derleth 13y ago
To expand on what Osmium said, a "golden age" is more like a "goldrush age": A big breakthrough opens up a new conceptual frontier, and the golden age is scientists rushing in to homestead and start mining the new landsc
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by derleth 13y ago
'Bloat' is 'any feature I'm not using right now'. We expect more out of our software, so we write more code to do it, and we complain about bloat because no individual person uses, or expects to use, every feature i
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So... your notions of 'correctness' in a language are determined by who can get publishing deals?
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> There ain't no such thing as a prestige dialect in English. I sincerely hope this is sarcasm. > In all of them, "affect change" is just plain wrong. Cite?
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> Because the teacher's puppet touched me in a bad place, and I project my self-hatred onto others. And now you're making fun of molestation victims to score points on a website. You have no idea what kind of history the people
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Downvoting linguistic knowledge doesn't make it any less true.
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Depends on the variety of English. What you said is true for the prestige dialect, certainly.
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> America doesn't have free speech. Yes, it does. It has severe restrictions on what kinds of speech the government is capable of punishing you for expressing. That's what free speech is. Free speech does not mean that you have
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by derleth 13y ago
> Reddit doesn't have free speech. The corporation known as 'Reddit' has free speech, which means they have the right to ban people from using their forum in ways they disapprove of. I'm pretty sure that's what t
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Do a Google search on 'algebra vs analysis' (without quotes) and you'll see that analysis (the broad field of mathematics where calculus lives) and algebra (the broad field of mathematics where the kind of logic you likely st
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This was said by Donald Knuth, in case anyone here doesn't know that specific bit of trivia.
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> you're just a moron! If you're so much smarter than me, why do you resort to insults? > Nice job editing your comment to remove the attack, you fucking dipshit. I can edit to remove insults, but you can only edit to add th
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> Turkey and Afghanistan share a border At this point, I'm pretty certain you've confused Afghanistan with Iraq , which also has a pretty important Kurdish minority.
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> I'd dropped out of college because I'd failed calculus - twice - and was basically told I'd never graduate without passing calculus One of the biggest pieces of BS is forcing calculus on people who have neither the need
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> I believe the answer in this case is you latch the signal, and use a local copy. So the latch is local to both, and therefore not using a signal from another module?
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> Every utterance, every decision has the inherent option of an opposition. To the extent this is meaningful at all, it implies that it is not true in the slightest, which makes it difficult to take seriously. > This is not fundamenta
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I'm a p-zombie. When is anyone going to write a book about what it's like to be me?
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> "A Novel Method for Applying a Trivial Modification of an Already-Known Algorithm to Some Type of Specific Data" This is how science builds on itself. Every well-known paper has citations to 'lesser' works which lai
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> Why do we need to bother with repeatable experiments for social sciences? So we aren't lead into error by well-known cognitive biases and/or outright fraud, both of which are known to exist as they can be demonstrated through
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It's a juvie, which is what Young Adult (YA) fiction was called back when Heinlein was writing for that market. However, I called it a 'juvie' because the book fits the older style better: A young person Gets Into Trouble and

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