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by gohrt 11y ago
Only 2 of the words are unique to HBTY. The others are taken from GMTU
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by gohrt 11y ago
Any citations? Why would I agree to pay someone per performance, instead of paying someone for a license to each performance? If I break the license agreement, Warner can void my license, and then pursue their copyright claim against me.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Have you read the Constitution recently? > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, < by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors > the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. The whole p
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by gohrt 11y ago
Title is misleading. Jeb Bush _says_ that if elected... No one knows was an elected President will actually do.
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by gohrt 11y ago
What did the nurse do wrong?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Getting it right is cheaper than getting it wrong.
937.
by gohrt 11y ago
Because I consume more music than video -- music is on all day, movies are not.
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by gohrt 11y ago
marco claims Deck doesn't track, per link above
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by gohrt 11y ago
get some kids; they'll keep you busy.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Still, when two writes of a Perl program is less code and time than one write plus one modification of a C program, Perl still looks good.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Venturing rather off-topic, but: young folks today learn the epithet "gay" as in "loser" separate from the homosexuality aspect. It's nearly a homonym now. Still, the potential for confusion is great enough that one
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by gohrt 11y ago
The Wikipedia translation disagrees. Add your information to the page, please.
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by gohrt 11y ago
If you are going to the effort to learn all the ways you need to tell MySQL to not corrupt your data, you may as well spend that energy learning PostgreSQL
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by gohrt 11y ago
Why is HN upvoting someone's poor-quality school homework assignment?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Ironic as it may be, posting this story on HN was a mistake for YC.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Many black people have lighter skin than many white people.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Money, or more properly, _currency_, is not a store of value. Oil, timber, or woool is a store of value -- it is actually something you can use. Money is an abstract "IOU", a right to demand someone give you something of value. At
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by gohrt 11y ago
No, parent is asking for the rendered document. Analogy: The source is like HTML; parent is asking for the rendered document as you would view it in a web browser.
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by gohrt 11y ago
I don't know, if counted every modulation in every wire in a computer (CPU, RAM, cache activations, etc), you might get a signifant multiple of its FLOPS count, right?
950.
by gohrt 11y ago
For a given piece of text, pattern-matching is (if P!=NP) exponential in the number of back-references (one measure of "size of the pattern"), in the general non-lucky cases of patterns.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MscGen
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by gohrt 11y ago
Schools love spending tons of money on crap like this, instead of paying teachers. Blackboard is a huge company in this space.
953.
by gohrt 11y ago
I once worked on a system that had more than one user logged in at the same time, and my global variable got soo confused.
954.
by gohrt 11y ago
What a bizarrely unfair tax. Why not just drop the cost of (public) transport 50% ?
955.
by gohrt 11y ago
What does it mean to "maintain control of your own fate", if a Mind can predict your future actions and therefore you lack free will?
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by gohrt 11y ago
I see two separate ideas: one is "transformation", and the other is "immortality". The desire for "immortality" seems far stronger than "transformation". But we admit that we are going to die one day
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by gohrt 11y ago
Is there any conceivable experiment to prove or disprove MWI is true. I'd think not, since it has "I"nterpretation in it.
958.
by gohrt 11y ago
watching TV, and playing video games, does feel social! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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by gohrt 11y ago
So? Lunch is waiting in line and sitting at a table -- often sitting quietly, in schools where the adults are strict. Recess is physical activity.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Pediatric Occupational Therapists are basically "professionally trained parents", people who spent a few years studying child develpoment. You can quibble with the price and the necessity, and in some regions the practitioners mig

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