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by frig 17y ago
Right, but this applies to other basic aspects of american society: - you have a right to trial by a jury of one's peers, but people have better things to do than sit around and listen to you defend yourself or slag on the accused...you don
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by frig 17y ago
Not as helpful as I'd want, but yeah, I recall one that was getting some traction as a signals-processing aide for tasks like, eg, radar or video analysis and possibly DPI. Totally blanking on the name, it had a pretty similar kit: it seeme
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, but cf your copy of The Protestant Work Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism to see this argument brought out in full; I'll also handwave and point out that in general, even when the nitty-gritty specifics of belief systems are the st
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by frig 17y ago
It's part of the american folk mythology (for a real obvious-in-hindsight example, consider Star Wars (original trilogy): Luke goes from farm hand to ace fighter pilot with no training, and becomes a passable jedi with a few months of train
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by frig 17y ago
Are you doing naive speed adjustment or taking more of a recycle-esque approach?
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by frig 17y ago
That line of conservation disappeared b/c it was essentially attention-bait for people predisposed to believe it; upon any real inquiry (eg: reading the actual text of the CRA, understanding what it did and didn't do, and the total size of
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by frig 17y ago
Server-side rendering actually will turn out to work amazingly well, and will surprise most of the naysayers. I think the strategy around bandwidth and latency is going to wind up being parking container datacenters near various isp's so ev
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, keep in mind Soderburgh had a budget; Tarkovsky did his on a shoestring budget, and some of the wtfs (like the driving sequence) result from budgetary issues. Soderburgh certainly improved a lot on the cinematography, no argument. For
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by frig 17y ago
Solaris by Tarkovsky is not uncriticizable, in the sense that "yes, it could have done what it tried to do better". But a lot of what makes Tarkovsky's film sometimes bombastic is also what makes it work. Solaris is ultimately about encount
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by frig 17y ago
You can get it with a 3g datalink built in. Telephony, sadly, not yet.
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by frig 17y ago
But even more to the point: the objection is that no particular 'computer' (like some physical device or at least a performance spec) could be a universal computer in his terms, b/c past a point it can't keep up. The same idea rules out the
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by frig 17y ago
Thanks for posting this. There's a reasonable argument that APL and derivatives are more expressive than lisp and its derivatives, at the expensive of having a much larger startup cost in terms of things you have to know. I suspect that in
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by frig 17y ago
Oh agreed, (I was assuming I could easily use eg 20 unpadded bits or whatnot for unique_library_size # but not necessarily get away with it easily for library_size; when that's the case it's always true that unique_library_size # needs less
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by frig 17y ago
Probably the most perceptive comment in this thread.
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by frig 17y ago
There's something of an argument for naturalness wrt rows-versus-columns, but it's not conclusive. When it's developed it's usually stated as that a column store encompasses a multiplication of metadata (eg: suppose each row has some kind o
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, that guy's writing is muddled and obscure, but I think your points are closer to (what I think is) his intended point: Column-oriented dbs are essentially a "heroic engineering" way to optimize a datastore for a particular workload --
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by frig 17y ago
You seem informed. You know if there've been any peeps on transrelational stuff since 04-05?
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by frig 18y ago
I know what you're getting at. I was commenting specifically because I hate sloppy language and sloppy thought: there's just no meaningful sense in which "a particular kind of contract becoming non-enforceable" simplifies into "not being ab
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by frig 18y ago
It has nothing to do with your imputed (in)competence. All a decision like this would mean is: the state of MA has decided it's not in the interests of the state of MA to enforce noncompete clauses, so from here on out it will not enforce t
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The Land Tenure System of the United States(spatial.maine.edu)
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by frig 18y ago
APL/J/K/Q fit the bill. The Larrabee instruction set is like a pipedream for old APL(and similar)-ers. Edit: for the unfamiliar, http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/APL-hist.html . Edit: and for the other side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr
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by frig 18y ago
And, having read his blog post that was referenced in the linked article, this sounds about right. Strategy-to-win is step 1: get a jury trial going. Step 2: build an argument that the notion of "fair use" is one of those constitutional not
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by frig 18y ago
Nesson's a character, no? One of the most distasteful aspects of legal practice is that most legal arguments take the form of factual statements (or at least claims of fact), but the factual content of the speech is secondary to the effects
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by frig 18y ago
In the interest of charity and good-naturedness I'll address your points and explain myself further. It was clear from the outset you weren't interested in or thinking about "existing law" (because you were claiming to have rights that you
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by frig 18y ago
I could argue with some of your raw assertions (what constitutes creativity, and what doesn't), but I won't, b/c that's rather besides the point. I am interested in a very simple question: why do want "final control over your creation" (in
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by frig 18y ago
Yeah, you've answered my question: you want it because you want it. Your opinion is: "I feel that I should have final control over my creation" (which, apparently, extends to summaries and commentaries, etc.). When asked "why do you feel yo
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by frig 18y ago
I would take the controversial opinion that if somebody's going to make a Sparknotes for a novel I wrote, they need my permission. I feel I should be allowed to deny people who want to take my hard work and simplify it while removing its
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by frig 18y ago
Are you talking law or your ethics or what? I would take the controversial opinion that if somebody's going to make a Sparknotes for a novel I wrote, they need my permission. Why would you want this?
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by frig 18y ago
Eh, but such a slippery slope lies that way, no? 3rd party how-to-use X guides? Software training videos? The content at gamefaqs? Microsoft office for dummies? Cliffnotes? Sparknotes? Test prep? Movie reviews?
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by frig 18y ago
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/one/freewill-theorem.html When the floor was opened for questions, one member of the audience questioned Dr Conway's use of the term "Free Will". She asked whether Dr Conway was "confusing ra

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