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by glurgh 13y ago
The 'change to the average' is not small. Local changes exceed that all the time, though. I never mentioned the ice coverage of New York. It's an ass of an example. It's not like I'm calling you an ass for using it but come on. It might hav
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by glurgh 13y ago
One big difference is, nobody selling coffee is competing against a vast, easily accessible sea of competitors handing out coffee for free. The transaction cost is also much lower - you don't have to fill out a form, you dig into your pocke
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's a little difficult to believe you're actually trying to have a conversation about this when you selectively misquote what I said - you chopped off the bit where I said I was quoting/paraphrasing the OP and then claim my own words are r
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by glurgh 13y ago
That seems like a (probably inadvertently) awful example. Chicago is right smack in the middle of the 'tongue' of the Laurentide ice sheet that sticks out way to the south - even today, without miles of ice the climate of NYC and Barcelona
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by glurgh 13y ago
It definitely has ports. Right there, in the packet header. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol#Packet_s...
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by glurgh 13y ago
A number of my Steam games are DRM-free. I didn't say these features were DRM but that they are things Steam provides while having DRM so unobtrusive I've not noticed it in 9 years. The OPs contention was Valve's DRM is some heavy burden th
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by glurgh 13y ago
Valve seems to generally treat its customers decently and to describe that as some sort of sugar pill with which they cram a supposedly 'heavily DRM encumbered' Steam client down your throat is a little overwrought. I've been on Steam since
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by glurgh 13y ago
Perth, of all places! How far the legendary galactic center of .sigs must have fallen, if even its own residents disparage it so! http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth
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by glurgh 13y ago
The idea is that the (entirely hypothetical) terraforming technology would accomplish this in something like centuries or tens of centuries while the processes that led to the loss of the atmosphere took millions or tens of millions of year
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by glurgh 13y ago
You don't have to be a perl user but this has never been a goal of perl. http://bigthink.com/videos/why-perl-is-like-a-human-language Love it, hate it, it just isn't what perl is about.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The entire first few chapters of CLR/The White book are dedicated to explaining this in great, patient detail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms Just pick it up.
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by glurgh 13y ago
'Ad hominem' is not some sort of magical incantation you can simply call upon to protect you from 'stupid'. Argue your point.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Hang on, you're now arguing the rather vague second amendment is inviolable but the first caused Hitler? Come on.
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by glurgh 13y ago
No, those are caricature Americans. No thinking Americans, starting with the founders, made it a point of pride of ignoring what other people think. They may have arrived at different conclusions but the notion they did so because liberty i
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think you might be arguing against something that I didn't actually say. The operative words in "concealed carry license" and "hunting license" is "license", which was exactly my point. The number of printing press deaths in the US, and l
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by glurgh 13y ago
Ferraris aren't very common as bank robbery getaway vehicles either. My point was that it should be possible to come up with some sort of regulatory regime that reasonably covers the entire range of uses - from personal safety to collection
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by glurgh 13y ago
I have the liberty to do as I please as a human being on this planet so long as it doesn't hurt you. No, you don't. There is such a thing as exposure to risk. Otherwise anyone would have the liberty to build a toxic waste processing plant
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by glurgh 13y ago
Well, we don't see that all the time - we see it sometimes. The only reason some people can drive with neither is because most people don't. I don't think it's merely a solution in search of a problem because we seem to spend an enourmous a
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by glurgh 13y ago
the prevailing discourse in the political arena and the news is different. The prevailing argument of gun advocates, at least in the US, is that "it's not our guns. it's those other, bad people's guns". It would probably help their case i
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by glurgh 13y ago
Perfectly serious snarkless question - how would that work, financially? You're reselling S3 storage with your value-added service on top - obviously you set your prices in a way that pays for your costs, time and generates some sort of pro
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by glurgh 13y ago
The encryption happens on your end, not Tarsnap's. The bar you're setting, though, is impossibly high. Can you absolutely, positively, definitely trust that your machine is not rooted and some nefarious entity isn't quietly collecting your
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's how your data is actually stored that protects it, not whether you've paid for the storage in tinfoil shekels or picodollars.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Looking back on it now, this experience had far more in common with the Middle Ages than the world of 2013. What's the difference between watching a lecture in an auditorium and watching HD-quality video in one's living room or beach caban
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by glurgh 13y ago
No, I think I mean 70,000. It's 0.001% not 0.001. (0.001 / 100) * 7000000000 = 70000
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by glurgh 13y ago
0.001% of the global population is 70k people. Most people on the planet do not live under the immediate daily threat of sectarian violence.
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by glurgh 13y ago
This popped up in some other thread recently. It was (still is, I suppose) a standard ANSI C89 compiler with a couple of small extensions and tweaks. Ken Thompson's short overview is here - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html
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by glurgh 13y ago
Short circuit is guaranteed by the language standard. On top of that, plan9 comes with its own C compiler so the people who wrote this also wrote the compiler used to compile it.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The disambiguation from context was disambiguation of scale because there was no radix point. They did have a way to indicate a zero-valued position in a number, without that you can't really 'disambiguate' or have a positional number syste
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by glurgh 13y ago
Social is not a feature, nor is it a differentiator and it‘s not a topping that can be added like salami for a pizza. We‘re humans so pretty much everything we do is social. But it is a feature, it might be an important feature, a popular
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by glurgh 13y ago
Pay it to whom, though? Ireland? The US? Does the country with the highest tax rate get to set the global corporate tax rate? I don't think any developing economy could possibly agree to such a scheme - it eliminates a less-developed econom

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