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by gagege 9y ago
This is the part I'm always surprised people don't seem to get. If someone makes an exact copy of me, the original me is still going to think "I'm me. That other thing is a copy of me." So, if the original me has t
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by gagege 9y ago
Google and Re-Captcha reminds me of the TechnoCore and farcast technology in the Hyperion series. An AI conglomerate gives humanity a free gift, farcasters, instantaneous teleportation to pretty much anywhere in the galaxy. But, SPOILER, it
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by gagege 9y ago
You have apparently committed comedy homicide. May VALIS have mercy on your soul.
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by gagege 9y ago
Yeah, I wasn't saying I think the photo is real, just that the clouds looking like they're behind the moon isn't such a telltale sign that it is fake.
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by gagege 9y ago
I think it's important to note that the clouds are behind and in front of the moon. I suppose some clouds could look like they were behind the moon if they are thin enough and the moon bright enough to punch through them.
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by gagege 9y ago
That's something I've been noticing since I was young. The artists who imitate and even "rip-off" other artists were always the ones who seemed the most successful. They always end up finding their own voice eventually.
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by gagege 9y ago
You just explained the reason I don't like writing fiction. I do not enjoy the process of writing more than the pain of being bad at it. I've been trying to write for years but just can not seem to enjoy it. It's a hobby that
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by gagege 9y ago
I recently sat through one of those company/product mission presentations at work. It was one of those "am I the only sane person working here?" moments. I like our product, I want to see it succeed, but I really can't s
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by gagege 9y ago
Or port it to a different language and go with the deep cut, Zephyr. Makes a lot of sense because reactive programming is inherently lazy. :)
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by gagege 9y ago
Poor lady. It sounds like she may have been fully aware of what she was paying, she just never did any research to find out that she was overpaying by about 500x. Which, is almost as bad as never looking at your bank statements.
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by gagege 9y ago
Apparently not where I live, in South Dakota. The machines ask for my pin every time. Edit: I just figured out why. My bank is apparently providing the chip and pin functionality.
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by gagege 9y ago
Pretty much every store I go to, I use the chip and then enter my pin. I haven't had to sign in over a year. I'm in South Dakota. Edit: I just figured out why. My bank is apparently providing the chip and pin functionality.
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by gagege 9y ago
Pretty much every store I go to, I use the chip and then enter my pin. I haven't had to sign in over a year.
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by gagege 9y ago
Huh? I'm confused, I live in the midwest and chip and pin is everywhere. Do stores not use it in other places?
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by gagege 9y ago
Gmail, and other big email providers, are exactly what we don't want these open/free social media protocols to become. Gmail reads your emails regurgitates them as AdSense. Personally, I think we need to be encouraging people to p
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by gagege 9y ago
To monetize you could make referral deals with web hosts. I assume this setup means that gramma is paying the web host a fee.
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by gagege 9y ago
I like to call it the Hot Topic phenomenon.
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by gagege 9y ago
Do you really think that's how it works in any but the most abusive families?
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by gagege 9y ago
Translates to the Gollum-esque "You can makes a fine program in Fortran" lol
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by gagege 9y ago
Ah yes :) I was talking more about being "near" the star, haha.
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by gagege 9y ago
Imagine how, on a super sunny Earth day it's hard to keep your eyes open outside. I imagine it would be like that, but way worse.
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by gagege 9y ago
I'm curious, in your periods of interest in religion, did you ever come across systematic theology? Systematic theology applies critical thought, and yes, even empiricism to the study of scripture. I would recommend R.C Sproul's &
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by gagege 9y ago
> it's an easy filter that many companies use to quickly weed out candidates. That's going to have diminishing returns though, and become a useless metric. It won't get that bad in our lifetimes, but in 70 years, for our g
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by gagege 9y ago
My wife, for one, did not grow up in an environment that encouraged critical thinking. In school she did the work and got 'A's, but admits that she never really questioned anything. And apparently her parents never tried to get he
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by gagege 9y ago
> I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. I would hope they decide in my favor since there seem to be other people offering their own brand of semi-spiritual advice.
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by gagege 9y ago
I think chasing happiness will always leave you disappointed. I mean, eventually you die, right? Then what was it all for, if you spent time trying to be happy? I have to approach this from the perspective of a Christian, because I am one.
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by gagege 9y ago
And I'm going to point out that many poor and uneducated people throughout history have willingly given their lives so that future generations could have more freedom. The point is, it was their choice to put themselves in harm's
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by gagege 9y ago
Same. Opera.
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by gagege 9y ago
I think you're forgetting what it was like to learn your first programming language. A lot of concepts in procedural programming and OOP are hard to wrap your head around at first (static, by ref or by val, the difference between base
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by gagege 9y ago
The state is the collective will of a relatively small group of people with money and power. Most people have no influence at all. That's how it always has been. I think the only way to maximize freedom is to support small, local gover

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