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by discojesus 18y ago
So you have to buy specially-compatible earbuds or a remote extension cord? Hrm.
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by discojesus 18y ago
"The reason 12-14 years olds seem immature is a social one, and NOT a brain one. I come from a rather different social culture and in my social circle a 12-14 year old was more or less an adult - and we acted that way. If you assume someone
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by discojesus 18y ago
Apparently someone likes to downvote posts they disagree with without replying, so allow me to elaborate: The prefrontal cortex is the section of the brain responsible for executive function, impulse control, and long-term decision making.
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by discojesus 18y ago
Anyone who's ever bought a Spiderman comic book as a child has been subject to sales tax without any form of representation. Should we therefore conclude that three-year-olds should be able to vote?
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by discojesus 18y ago
No, for the same reason children shouldn't have the right to enter legally binding contracts. No pre-frontal cortex, no votey.
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by discojesus 18y ago
I think Kurzweil should be more explicit in step two.
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by discojesus 18y ago
"Hot Standby"? Sounds like a porno movie set in an airport terminal.
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by discojesus 18y ago
"[Kurzweil] says computers will have human consciousness in 25 years." Wait is this one of those 1980s AI-in-25-years predictions or is this a new 2009 We're Really Serious This Time, Guys prediction?
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by discojesus 18y ago
there is (sort of); it's available nearly in its entirety on Google Books.
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by discojesus 18y ago
"I mean, submarines? Really?" Yeah that's the point at which I would have declared the billionaire to be a complete fucking nutbar, and would decide to immediately stop trying to replicate his behavior.
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by discojesus 18y ago
"My take on Strauss is that he's a prep school kid trying to play Hunter S. Thompson." +1 for nailing it. He's not nearly as insufferable as Tim Ferriss, but it certainly seems like he's in the same zip code sometimes.
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by discojesus 18y ago
I sincerely doubt anyone who runs a company that makes bug-tracking software loses any sleep about software bugs being eliminated forever. Regardless of what happens in the software industry, to-do lists ain't going away any time soon.
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by discojesus 18y ago
>The point is, choose whats best for you. Agreed 100%.
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by discojesus 18y ago
> The first post I quoted did exactly that. Not exactly; he took a "canonical" example of such a layout from an authority on the matter and showed that even with such an idealized example from such an ideal source, changing the order of
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by discojesus 18y ago
> No. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'm sorry to say your assertive "No" doesn't negate the fact that my experience is that CSS-based layouts are very often not cost-effective compared to table-based. We had 15 people doing slicing
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by discojesus 18y ago
> Your argument, perhaps, but that's not what the post was about. But while your post was correct, it was a straw man - nobody makes the argument that it's impossible to do a markup-order-independent, three-column layout in CSS, especia
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by discojesus 18y ago
My condolences - I too know the pain of IE debugging. But it seems you're making the same error that the linked article is. The relevant question is not "is it theoretically possible to do layouts in CSS?", it is "CSS-based layouts vs. tabl
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by discojesus 18y ago
> We'll the author says intent was to prove it is possible. Which is a straw man - nobody's arguing that it's impossible. The argument generally centers around valid, web-tested, academic-approved CSS layouts being practical for use in
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by discojesus 18y ago
> It took me about 30 minutes to knock up a demonstration Really? >Both are visually identical in appearance, both use CSS to control the positioning of the columns, but one is in "correct" logical order in the document (left, cente