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by drostie 15y ago
I remember cheating on Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum . If you've never read the book, it's spent in double and triple flashbacks: "To understand where I am now, I must tell you about that night in the observatory. // There I was, cower
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, maybe. There is a very clear admission that yes, IE5 did drive us crazy. At least, that's how I see it.
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by drostie 15y ago
While I agree that "America has been very successful in preventing a repeat of 9/11," the truth is that this is utterly separate from what the TSA is involved in. The US has focused much more counterintelligence on al-Qaeda and bombed the c
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by drostie 15y ago
It's a couple days too late to wish Arch happy birthday, but if you're very quick, you can still wish Albert Einstein happy birthday. He'd be 133 today. Unfortunately there's no real location of his corpse that you can visit as he was crema
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by drostie 15y ago
It's definitely geared towards someone who likes an exciting story but has to get to work sometime today. Very appropriate for this audience.
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by drostie 15y ago
I'm not sure you understand the context -- for that matter, your terse replies make it hard to know what you think you're saying. But to respond anyways: there is a legal definition of the idea of copyright and the question is pretty well-s
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by drostie 15y ago
There is no idea of copyright distinct from copyright. o_O.
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by drostie 15y ago
No. Copyright is always fundamentally a legal discussion. Everyday copying doesn't have deep ethical ramifications, because the most everyday copying we do is called 'memory' and remembering something is almost never unethical. And ethics i
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by drostie 15y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is, "look one level down." You're very concerned with who has the monopoly on force, but that's not actually vital to your concerns. What the government, or a government-like institution, does that you don't
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by drostie 15y ago
Sorry, you're pretty much right. The equation I wrote is correct, but I naively plugged in a bad number: yes, P₀ V₀ = n R T = P₁ V₁, but I used the known number for V₁ (the final air in the container) as V₀. The proper formula is indeed P₁
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by drostie 15y ago
Aww. At first I thought this was You Have to Burn the Rope[1], which I can say is probably better than whatever you've got in the Windows 8 App Store. [1]: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Mazapan/you-have-to-burn-the...
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by drostie 15y ago
I guess in the pseudo-analogy (universities are government-like), there is also indeed a pseudo-analogy of the form, "if you don't like your government and its tax system, move somewhere else. Oh, you don't like any taxes? Well what did you
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by drostie 15y ago
It's a cool building, but I was a little less thrilled when I read about their tech. It's true that an isothermal process is a reversible process, and isothermal air compression is therefore a great way to get high efficiencies, but compres
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by drostie 15y ago
I agree partways with what you're saying; the normal fears of losing precision in your floats don't really apply because you're always adding the smallest numbers first. On the other hand, your worker process is still in my view a worker pr
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, it's not about what you have the "right to open." If you start using that terminology then anti-libertarians will just start to say, "a government is sovereign and has all sorts of rights on their land, including a right to tax." Sud
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by drostie 15y ago
That's a little bit harder for me to answer, because I'm not familiar with anything which explained it to me the way that I presently understand it. Most of the really insightful books start with sigma-algebras and Borel sets, which are a l
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by drostie 15y ago
It's worth publicly observing that the only libertarian movements that I've seen which really attack not just governments but also government-like institutions, are bizarre anarcho-socialist libertarianisms. I like to put this in concrete t
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by drostie 15y ago
An implementation of exponential decay could quite possibly solve this problem, but it might mean that they'd have to dramatically rethink the "new" page. Exponential decay is important because it is, as they say in statistics, "memoryless"
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by drostie 15y ago
Perhaps. But on the other hand, when I see children sitting in nice orderly rows quietly to watch some adult scratching chalk against a blackboard -- I really can't help it. It's like there's a knot in my heart and an odd feeling of, "what
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by drostie 15y ago
(1) I don't have "effects" really; I don't have some delusion that someone other than you is reading this. I am perplexed because you defined a problem as, "if the unwillingness of people to buy copies because they can easily avoid paying,
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by drostie 15y ago
In my Master's work I'm using NumPy and SciPy, which are Python packages to do very fast numerics, but there is indeed a lot of Fortran, and there's also a lot of Mathematica. It's not completely related, but the idea of expressing complica
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by drostie 15y ago
I liked the comments in the video more than the presentation itself. "What, you can't do online corruption?!" stuck with me as an :D face moment.
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by drostie 15y ago
What exactly do I need to type into a console to run this? I've taken step #0 and installed ghc, but I don't actually know Haskell -- so what else?
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by drostie 15y ago
Just about the second thing he does in that video is to start editing settings.py, where he edits line 14, line 15, line 119, and deletes lines 118, 120, and 121. He then jumps over to urls.py and deletes lines 12, 13, 14, and 15 while unco
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by drostie 15y ago
I always like presentations like this. I think most languages really just need screencasts where people show you, "here is how you start using this language." One of my favorites was Ryan Dahl's introduction to Node.js, which had the same g
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by drostie 15y ago
Let me get this structure right, so that I can be sure that I understand you, before you go on. (I'm a little perplexed because if the first copies weren't produced, that would obviate the willingness of people to buy copies in the first pl
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by drostie 15y ago
(1) I didn't need to and I'm not sure that it was in fact an insult. (2) Well, the first thing is that I don't know what "all copyable digital goods are like water" means. Perhaps in context you mean "all copyable digital goods should be of
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by drostie 15y ago
Erm, at least in cognitive science consciousness is generally ascribed to most mammals, if it's ascribed to humans at all. Self-consciousness and higher-order consciousness might be more limited terms, but the idea that a dog can really fee
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by drostie 15y ago
I actually explored some of the possible ends towards the end of my essay "On Copying and Owning," http://drostie.org/on_copying.html . My point there is that the copyright lobby is facing an existential struggle: and if they really want
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by drostie 15y ago
If one could guarantee that the money paid were a "reward to content creators" I suppose I could agree with you. I find that description quite problematic because there is very little transparency in these sorts of processes. I find another

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