gloob

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by gloob 17y ago
For the same reason Google doesn't participate in remembrance of the British subway bombing (edit: or the Holocaust, or the 30 Years War, or the eviction of Armenians from Turkey, or the deploying of atomic bombs against Imperial Japan), at
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by gloob 17y ago
Bah....I call bullshit. This is pure anthropomorphism. Humans think they are the shit, but in fact they are only story-telling animals The poster you are responding did not claim that humans are the shit . They merely pointed out the fa
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by gloob 17y ago
No; it's not scalable because most people wouldn't gain any enjoyment from it and it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to train them to do it so you can pay them. How much they "value their time" has little to do with it.
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by gloob 17y ago
the houses are only cheap because he values his time so little. An alternative way to put it is that the houses are only expensive if he places negligible value on the enjoyment he gets from doing this. Your criticism could be applied to
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by gloob 17y ago
The problem really isn't constructing rational arguments. The problem is finding premises that are either verifiable or that both parties will agree are true. If the two parties will not make such an agreement, and the premises are inhere
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by gloob 17y ago
Not quite. Science doesn't apply, sure, but rational argument still does. Two very different things. Mind you, rational argument completely disassociated from any assumptions about the verifiability of the world we appear to inhabit has
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by gloob 17y ago
Apparently the Internet knows nothing about me. That is ... rather surprising.
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by gloob 17y ago
1. Your college major doesn't determine your career. That's a flat-out myth. This is one assertion I see an awful lot here that rather bothers me. You cannot become a medical doctor without the proper degrees. You cannot become a teache
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by gloob 17y ago
I don't really disagree...except that fulfilling "potential software success" isn't the point of the GPL. The point of the GPL is to propagate Stallman's "Four Freedoms", and anything/everything else really is tangential to the issue. Whe
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by gloob 17y ago
In other words, the GPL is something that is tolerated insofar as it doesn't conflict with existing business goals. Which, for the vast majority of businesses, it really doesn't. The number of companies that distribute software, whether
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by gloob 17y ago
Well, here's a rough summary of the post: Instead of commenting on the content of the article, I am going to complain about tangential meta-issues. Dunno about downvoting, but at the least it's hardly something I feel compelled to upvote.
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by gloob 17y ago
"The", as an article, is applied to individuals in all sorts of situations. If, for instance, I say "The apple is red," I'm probably not making an assertion that should be generalized to all apples, but rather speaking about a specific one
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by gloob 17y ago
It's turtles all the way down.
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by gloob 17y ago
Rough summary: "A bunch of American politicians have worked themselves into a right tizzy over something they don't even come close to understanding. In response, they are trying to pass a law saying that they run the Internet. When asked
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by gloob 17y ago
I didn't think I would ever see the sentence "Epic fail," on the BBC.
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by gloob 17y ago
Are there different terms for intentional DoS attacks, as opposed to incidental ones like this? Denial Of Service Slip-up? ;)
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by gloob 17y ago
I get the feeling that ten years ago you would have been saying the same thing about biotech and wireless electricity. Edit: Perhaps you could inform me of exactly why you don't like this? Preferably in some way more precise than by puttin
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by gloob 17y ago
Last time I checked, curiosity was exactly what science existed to satisfy.
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by gloob 17y ago
Creating "traits of dinosaurs" in chicken is as useful as waking the dead or speaking with ghosts. I'm not sure about useful , but both of your examples would definitely be very interesting , which would be good enough for me if someone
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by gloob 17y ago
HN seems insistent on keeping me up to date about it. ;)
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by gloob 17y ago
Whether it does tail call optimization is a different question than whether you can write the algorithm in a tail-recursive manner, though.
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by gloob 17y ago
That is as total a misunderstanding of the way the FSF uses the word "free" as it would be to ask why the Black Panthers are opposed to putting cream in your coffee.
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by gloob 17y ago
I've never found subtlety to be the strong point of the FSF. The fact that this particular campaign suffers from hyperbole is...less than shocking.
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by gloob 17y ago
Lawl.
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by gloob 17y ago
Most of those questions could probably be applied to anyone who was committed a crime.
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by gloob 17y ago
Given the free choice of X number of years in jail or not being able to become president, I have a feeling the vast majority of people being tried for the various forms of manslaughter, murder, etc. would be thrilled to choose the second.
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by gloob 17y ago
I would suspect that many Americans would be willing to make such a sacrifice.
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by gloob 17y ago
In which case they're hardly infringing on his freedom of speech, now are they? I am, incidentally, quite serious: I can't see how "The boycotters are a meaningful threat to freedom of speech," and "The boycotters have negligible impact on
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by gloob 17y ago
Clearly the market disagrees with you.
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by gloob 17y ago
That doesn't follow rationally, I don't think. The argument looks like this: 1. Some people support universal healthcare. 2. Some people are boycotting Whole Foods. 3. All the people boycotting Whole Foods support universal healthcare. Ther

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