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by donaq 18y ago
When you go to the movies and see a PG rating and wonder when pg went into showbiz.
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by donaq 18y ago
I suspect that the process of pursuing and attaining power would change engineer types into what they detested. You cannot win the game without becoming a player. Unless the game (society itself) changes to favour those who do not desire po
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by donaq 18y ago
And Thompson notes that our brains, unlike our bodies, peak relatively late in life. "The wires between the brain cells, the connections, are the things that you can modify throughout life," he says. "They change and they improve through y
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by donaq 18y ago
I can work around bad attitude, but I can't work around incompetence. Besides, you do not gain true technical expertise without the ability to eventually recognize a good solution for one. So while you may encounter initial resistance when
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by donaq 18y ago
I've had the opposite experience. Whenever I was down to one or two cigarettes per day, I'd find myself using almost 100% of all my brainpower trying to convince myself to not give in to the craving. In the end, I decided that it would be m
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by donaq 18y ago
Indeed it does. I've heard it costs an arm and a leg, though. :)
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by donaq 18y ago
That's a tad permanent, though, don't you think?
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by donaq 18y ago
"Under existing laws the ACMA blacklist includes URLs relating to child sexual abuse, rape, incest, bestiality, sexual violence and detailed instruction in crime," Senator Conroy said. No one interested in cyber safety would condone the
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by donaq 18y ago
None of them. Granted there is a distinction, but let's assume for the moment we've established that the sexual acts themselves cause no lasting damage. Where, then, does the damage come from? I think a large part of the damage from being e
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by donaq 18y ago
I think I got you the first time, actually. My point was that humanity might actually be worse off with an internet that is regulated in a totalitarian manner than without an internet.
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by donaq 18y ago
That was a lot of rhetoric and hand-waving, but you still haven't proven that it is all abuse, nor have you proven that the examples listed in the OP are clearly "that which caused harm or destruction or misfortune" to the people involved,
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by donaq 18y ago
I do not think humanity would be better off if, to take this theory to its most extreme conclusion, the internet became a collection of sites whitelisted by the various governments around the world.
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by donaq 18y ago
He committed suicide at the age of 44 by shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest in 1993. This is a story with a sad ending. I wonder why he did it?
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by donaq 18y ago
Well, according to wikipedia, in which metahumor redirects to meta-joke: Meta-joke refers to three somewhat different, but related categories: "self-referential jokes", "jokes about jokes" (see meta-) also known as metahumor, and "joke tem
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by donaq 18y ago
We have to agree to disagree here. There are people who take reluctance to fight for weakness. And even if you are really the turn the other cheek sort, what if you are not the one being threatened, but someone close to you? Would you sti
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by donaq 18y ago
Hmm, like the quote says, remember Friendster? Anyway, the same things that prompt all of us to drift apart from old friends, I should think. New friends and social circles, different lifestyles, different jobs, different priorities, differ
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by donaq 18y ago
Perhaps a 1) could be better served with asking a programmer why they started said interesting programming project. If they started a project for the specific purpose of learning a particular skill and they've already learned it, it would m
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by donaq 18y ago
Yes, I do think it is more likely, because "businessperson skills" are skills that an observant and intelligent person might pick up in the normal course of his life, for example, arithmetic. I think business is very simple. Profit. Loss.
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by donaq 18y ago
Vertical halves or horizontal halves? Personally, I use maximized vim and browser windows. Alt + tabbing between vim and the browser is trivial, but I need the extra screen space for vim because I often need to split vim between several fil
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by donaq 18y ago
Kids, who will inevitably want to drive a stake into the heart of former lives, may simply abandon the service (remember Friendster?) and find something new: something still unformed, yet to be invented — much like themselves. I suspect t
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by donaq 18y ago
Way before Harry Potter, there was Polgara the Sorceress and her mother Poledra. While both of them could be said to have played second fiddle to the preeminent Belgarath, there was no doubt that their power was of the same nature as that o
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by donaq 18y ago
It's all PG's fault --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
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by donaq 18y ago
One of the comments on the article offers an opposing view: Justin Feb 13, 2009 3:13 PM GMT DO NOT listen to this guy! This article is nothing but the "opinion" of an uninformed CPA. His opinions are supported by NO credible data. Here are
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Science and the Obama Administration (thenewatlantis.com)
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by donaq 18y ago
Well, what would you answer aggression with, then? Some aggressors may be turned aside by reason, but what about those who just, for instance, dislike your face? If you're not in a position to flee the situation, what are you going to do?
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by donaq 18y ago
Well, I know that Heisenberg does not apply, except insofar as - no wait, you're right, it does not apply at all. Anyway, my point in a nutshell was that making energy analytics available to all might not help that much. After all, having i
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by donaq 18y ago
I wonder if Google has managed to circumvent the Heisenberg uncertainty principle or will the act of measuring energy usage actually increase it? :)
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by donaq 18y ago
You have a point, but then again, I don't think it's the best use of the CEO's time (or the company's money) to fly somewhere just to talk to people (some of whom have also flown there) when there are things like video conferences, emails a
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by donaq 18y ago
I very much suspect that is the case. One of them even said something like "you're getting a free service, so stfu and let facebook and I line our pockets".
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by donaq 18y ago
Yes, it is. At first, I thought that maybe it's because Linux hackers weren't stepping up to help with the development efforts, but then I started wondering how many Windows hackers helped out with the Windows version.

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