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by dwringer 9y ago
I can't tell if this is self-promotion or trolling.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I agree fully. My initial comment was simply a reaction to the idea that getting racism out of video games would be a first step on the road to getting it out of politics. I think it would be absolutely desirable, but I don't see the
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by dwringer 9y ago
I agree with that. I am not trying to defend bigotry. I think there is room to point out that many people engaged in abusive behavior don't perceive their own actions as abusive. It could be valuable to understand how these people p
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by dwringer 9y ago
In the instances which are the subject of this article, I am sure you're correct. My point is that in-game behavior can be decoupled from behavior in the real world. I've seen in-game bigotry between factions in MMO's, and
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by dwringer 9y ago
People kill each other mercilessly in games all the time; that doesn't happen too much, at least overtly, in most countries' political systems.
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by dwringer 9y ago
If I show someone peanut butter and bread, but I neglect to mention that they can be combined into a peanut butter sandwich, I still don't think I've done anything polarizing. I would not consider that "showing exactly one s
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by dwringer 9y ago
As another commenter points in another thread, this article is explcitly about the red-shift-calculated velocity of stars at the outer edge of galaxies, and not about the spiral arms' apparent motion.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I think perhaps to some degree, people read "Lisp stands for LISt Processing" and internalize this as a kind of shorthand (in spite of any formal naming), so it becomes natural to call any language that operates primarily through
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by dwringer 9y ago
That certainly appears to be the perception they've created with many. I don't see it that way entirely, because it seems like any programmer using Python will have to come face to face with the intricacies of how Python 2 and 3
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by dwringer 9y ago
Regarding fad diets, I can think of times when I've seen people (myself included) act biased toward new fad diets if they resemble older, popularly discredited fad diets in some way (even if it is only a superficial similarity). I thin
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by dwringer 9y ago
I thought of Wing Commander III as the game demonstrating that video could be integrated into a game and it didn't have to be cheesy. The cast was top notch and for what it was, I really enjoyed the story (and even read the noveliza
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by dwringer 9y ago
I read it, and I think DanHulton described it in pretty much the same way I would. The charts struck me as lacking meaningful context, and loose correlations were treated as logical, causal relationships in support for discriminatory hypot
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by dwringer 9y ago
I remember reading a similar anecdote in the book Turing's Cathedral , where it suggested that von Neumann had a particular preference for loud marches. It also makes me think about what Stanislaw Ulam wrote of von Neumann[1]: "
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by dwringer 9y ago
There's a (loosely) related thread under today's article about John von Neumann's assistant[1] about von Neumann's alleged preference for working with loud music playing (something I've seen corroborated in places l
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by dwringer 9y ago
I apologize for my misleading statements. From my amateur reading of the coverage at the time, I had no idea of this; I appreciate the additional information.
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by dwringer 9y ago
As I understand it, Google actually had been cooperating with China's censorship requests, but didn't like it, and Google made the decision themselves[1] to relocate offices [ED: web search was moved but Google maintains offices i
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by dwringer 9y ago
Following the same style guide as your coworkers isn't the same as writing code exactly the same way your coworkers do. I suggest following the style of a bandleader works in the same way. Individuals still have a voice - think of al
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by dwringer 9y ago
For one thing we have no way of confirming what exact chemical compound such experimenters actually took, not to mention anything about the precise dosage. In many cases, the subjects don't either.
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by dwringer 9y ago
Somehow this makes me think of a certain Harlan Ellison story.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
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by dwringer 9y ago
Perhaps I did not word my comment clearly - I was trying to emphasize that the existing body of law, going back for many years, is all considered to be "net neutrality". That is the way it has been discussed by journalists, lawma
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by dwringer 9y ago
> if a "net neutrality" framework becomes US law, "net neutrality" is the term for the body of existing law, as it has been enforced for the past couple of years since classifying ISP's as "title II" co
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by dwringer 9y ago
If your point is that Carl Sagan may not be the foremost authority on nuclear winter, I think it's already been made (though, that is an interesting catch). I have no ability to speak on that subject, I was merely pointing out that I
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by dwringer 9y ago
I don't think we had either climate models or remote sensing capabilities during World War II adequate to assess what climate effects may have resulted from the several firestorms that occurred. The 1991 Kuwait oil fires were apparent
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by dwringer 9y ago
This makes me think of the George Carlin joke: "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
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by dwringer 9y ago
A minor nitpick, but reading it threw me for a brief loop: 2⁸2³=2⁸⁺³=2¹¹, while 8x8x8x8x8x8x8x8 is (2³)⁸=2³*⁸=2²⁴
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by dwringer 9y ago
This looks like it was posted in an Apple subforum, and anecdotally this came to my attention because of someone I know with an iPhone, so I think that might be a separate issue (or possibly a different incarnation of the same issue). Also
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AT&T Phones Adding Unknown Recipients from Different Area Code to Group Texts(forums.att.com)
95 points by dwringer 9y ago|36 comments
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by dwringer 9y ago
I don't have a Mac and don't know if you've tried this, but you might still be able to run the standalone programs directly from the installation directory for making atomic edits to photos, then import those as new layers in
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by dwringer 9y ago
There is a game in which players are shown a series of words that name colors, i.e. "yellow", "red", "green", etc. Sometimes the words are the same color as what they state - "yellow" being drawn in
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by dwringer 9y ago
I've generally interpreted it in two different ways, neither of which is this accepted version (though I would not contest that the title must've originated as described in this article). First, as in reference to gardening, where

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