dgordon

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by dgordon 18y ago
Or, you know, you could eat something that's actually in season when apples are several months out of season where you are. Strawberries would probably be a good bet. If nothing else, the variety is good for you and makes your diet more i
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by dgordon 18y ago
Hey, "Never attribute to malice what can be explained with math," right? ;-)
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by dgordon 18y ago
Yes, they can. And because I'm bored enough to argue with people on the Internet, I will. "is it OK to kill in self defense?" Yes. Someone who threatens your life has removed themself from any concept of morality, like any other person in
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by dgordon 18y ago
"Second truth isn't everything - it looks that way, but when you run a civilization entirely on truth it fails, and can not survive." When you run a civilization (whatever "running a civilization" means) based entirely on truth (the facts o
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by dgordon 18y ago
Shakespeare was a good commercial author and extremely successful as well. As others have written here, the empirical test of "great" is whether his work lasts.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Unfortunately so. We have a long way to go yet.
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by dgordon 18y ago
I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he's right on this. The United States of America is the greatest nation in the world, the nation where all things are possible, the nation that, for every time we've fallen short, keeps saying "Y
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by dgordon 18y ago
They said the same thing about CD players and video games (Penny Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/30/ ) I'm not surprised by this in the least. I always thought the "no cell phones/video games/CD players" was about gett
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by dgordon 18y ago
Screw it, maybe I'll just write in Ron Paul, even though write-in votes allegedly aren't counted. As I said, my vote doesn't matter anyway.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Near-literal implementation of capitalism? Where?
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by dgordon 18y ago
I'll probably hold my nose and give him a protest vote, considering he's not quite as bad as the Socialist Party, the Fascist Party, and the "The Constitution Authorizes a Theocracy" Party. Besides, my vote doesn't matter.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Perhaps part of the issue here is that young people are only young (for your example, 18-20) for a little while, whereas old people are old for decades.
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by dgordon 18y ago
I don't know about The Deerslayer, but The Last of the Mohicans (about which you could say the same) sold millions of copies, so it would not surprise me.
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by dgordon 18y ago
The funny thing is, that played absolutely no role in the rest of Futurama, at least as far as I can remember.
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by dgordon 18y ago
Your radical ideas about education have already occurred to Plato, Charles Murray. Considering that 230 years ago, one-fifth of a nation consisting of 20% slaves, 50% indentured servants, and unschooled farmers for most of the rest, bought
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by dgordon 18y ago
I like the idea of "Little Brother" -- the people as a whole, rather than those in power, becoming the agents of ubiquitous surveillance. YouTube and cheap digital cameras have power as well. "The courts may not work anymore, but as long a
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by dgordon 18y ago
What are the units? 10^14 is indeed far too much if it's seconds, but might not be beyond reason for a set of size 10 million if it's nanoseconds (then you have a bit under three hours.) So think about which units this would actually have
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by dgordon 18y ago
"Sorry for bringing this up" No you're not.
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by dgordon 18y ago
"P vs NP is not really that important because n^1000 might as well be NP" And yet P seems to capture pretty well the concept of "problems for which there are efficient algorithms." For whatever reason, no algorithm seems to have a complexi
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by dgordon 18y ago
How do idiots like this get reelected for forty years?
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by dgordon 18y ago
"And with that, the era of the big S.U.V. was as good as dead, done in by soaring gasoline prices and consumers fleeing to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars." And nothing of value was lost.