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811.
List of unsolved problems in physics(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
This might come as a surprise, but not every philosopher is a postmodernist. Postmodernists aren't even in the majority. They're a relatively small minority in an ocean of different philosophical outlooks. Even many so-called postmoderni
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by gnosis 14y ago
This essay should be required reading for anyone who thinks science is or should be the only legitimate way of understanding the world. For more information, I strongly recommend: "Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against scientism" by F
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Why math is painful to read(matusiak.eu)
70 points by gnosis 14y ago|104 comments
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Voyager: Dark Highway Ahead(centauri-dreams.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Literate programming tools are mostly obsolete(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
817.
by gnosis 14y ago
Why does Microsoft have to be involved in the signing process? After all, you're not buying the computer from them. Can't there be some sort of independent signing authority? In fact, why couldn't the user just sign and install his own co
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by gnosis 14y ago
"The way I did it on my new laptop was to disable "secure boot", wipe the hard drive, and install Ubuntu from a live USB." Would doing this void your laptop's warranty?
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by gnosis 14y ago
Yeah, it's a real shame. I wonder if any kind of antitrust case could be made against Microsoft for this, as it's clearly putting an impediment in the way of installing other operating systems.. and this is a form of anti-competitive behavi
820.
by gnosis 14y ago
"The issue is getting binaries you build signed" How is the shim binary signed? "Debian can't build Shim and get a signed binary at the end" Why can the shim's author sign his own binary, but Debian can't sign theirs?
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by gnosis 14y ago
According to the article, "it does have one disadvantage though for some Linux distributors. Since the shim is a pre-compiled binary, distributions such as Debian, which insist on having full source code availability, may choose not to use
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On being sane in insane places(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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Relax ladies, I'm a scientist(mindhacks.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
The OP says he "Only sells to people with significant positive feedback", "Only ships to CONFIRMED Paypal addresses", and "Requires Signature Confirmation for items over $250" Does ebay policy allow this? I thought the seller had to sell t
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by gnosis 14y ago
Being forced to buy a new motherboard every three years could wind up being very costly. First, after a few years, a new motherboard will probably require a new type of RAM, which can be quite expensive to fully populate. It's also possible
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by gnosis 14y ago
The story is called "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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Cooking in the airport(tynan.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Mixminion[1] is the next generation anonymous remailer that was designed to fix some problems with mixmaster. You might want to use that instead, if you can. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion
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Gaining Confidence in Confidence Intervals(blog.regehr.org)
3 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
All companies should be employee-owned.
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How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood(salon.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
There's also the little publicized matter of Rand's hero worship of a child killer[1], which fits her sociopathic "philosophy". [1] - http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-c...
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Turning a sphere inside-out [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
The time to initiate an asteroid defense project is long before a threat is even detected. There needs to be time for technology development, deployment, and testing. Tackling an extinction-level event is not something we want to scramble
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by gnosis 14y ago
Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4HL_-VT2Y
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Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883(technologyreview.com)
109 points by gnosis 14y ago|60 comments
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Eisenhower on the Military-Industrial Complex [1961](h-net.org)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819832
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by gnosis 14y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819877
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by gnosis 14y ago
You don't even need cards with magnetic stripes or QR codes. These are relatively modern inventions. Schools did just fine without them for millenia. I went to school without either, and the school managed to serve their student body jus

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