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by grkvlt 10y ago
Similar to the UK academic network JANET's problems with computer science department emails in the late eighties/early nineties. JANET used X.25 before transitioning to TCP/IP, with its own idiosyncratic email addressing that
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The definition in this case was how many deaths had a 'prepared' obituary. news organisations will write obituaries in advance for 'famous' people, in order to be prepared if they die unexpectedly; they simply print the
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Interesting that they are selling the hardware as a subscription, although they also seem to offer it for actual you-really-own-it purchase, but I couldn't find the price for that: probably the equivalent of three years of monthly fees
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by grkvlt 10y ago
FYI, the URLs for USENET look like this, with the name of the group you want substituted for 'alt.silly-group.radish-therapy' which is an alternative hierarchy group I proposed, that was created in 1992 and is still ... going, at
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That just leads you down the road of discarding probabilities. Since something either happens or doesn't happen, the probability is either 100% for the things that will happen or 0% for those that do not. This is not a helpful positi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Is there any way to tell that you are not, in fact, a Boltzmann brain with simulated memories and inputs that just imagines everything else exists? I assume it's hard to refute, like Solipsism?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The question is, what is the probability that a person picked at random from the human population, would be born during a technological era. We can work this out. Then, what is the probability that the part of the technological era they w
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by grkvlt 10y ago
However, point two is somewhat correct - we did make things better for the indigenous population. Imagine if Western Europe had been subjugated by the Native Americans somehow - our standard of living would have declined, we would have lost
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by grkvlt 10y ago
If the present day is a 'dystopian nightmare' to you, then I'm pretty sure you're projecting. Out of interest, if you feel we are in such a situation now, what would you classify the Soviet Union between the fifties and
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, Groups still contains USENET archives, ported from the DejaNews acquisition, I believe. I have searched for my earliest posts as a first year undergraduate in 1991 and they are all there, for instance.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
As well as the accent, the last title on the video also does that French thing where they get English tenses wrong. It's peculiarly French to say 'Since ten years we have the best prices', when you mean 'For the past ten
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by grkvlt 10y ago
But the law says nothing about cores or clock speeds etc. just transistors and their sizes. The regular reductions in feature size on dies are still happening, as I understand it.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I guess he could go, play using the same mechanic (i.e. rotating cards to give him an advantage) but deliberately make losing bets. Then reveal that because of the rotations he could have won (I guess, show them that ke knew the card valu
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> Erratum: [...] Some of them where pointed out [...] And Muphry's Law[0] strikes again! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I actually agree with your points here! I'm not trying to say all homeless or drug addicts would waste a UBI or other benefit. I think it is a great idea, and will work for the vast (some number of nines) majority of people, of any (
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And really they are SI units, the 'International System of Units', which may or may not 'privilege' them, but is certainly both correct and normal usage.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> That said Null is still a valid response. [...] I'd expect to return Null or Default if available for an unset property. There are many cases for null but that doesn't mean that it isn't abused. We use a `Maybe<X>`
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Perhaps better to say "I thought [the creation of] antimatter was still theoretical ." i.e. as opposed to practical?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, it interacts identically. This is a good question - so much so that there was an experiment[0] done at CERN before this one to find the answer. You are in good company asking this, despite downvotes! [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
That's neither necessary or sufficient! Notice that they could be bilaterally symmetric and two arms/hands positioned vertically on their front (anterior?) so no left/right hand distinction (but top/bottom instead) or; t
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by grkvlt 10y ago
And also attached to different sides, not in a vertical row straight up the front of the creature, for instance... (When asked "What do you look for in a woman?" the Mathematician answers "Bilateral symmetry, of course!"
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Its the company you choose to associate with. You probably don't hang out with the drug addicts,[0] unemployed[1] or the surprisingly large number of DUI arrestees.[2] Everyone has their own filter bubble of community, but I could pret
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Also, don't most pre-pay SIMs have an online top-up service, usually made available automatically if you try to use data without having any credit. As well as that, most ATMs have an option for 'top up mobile' here in the UK,
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by grkvlt 10y ago
You're right, it's a partial 'supercube'. I hadn't known the correct term before, thanks!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, the center piece on a particular side has a preferred orientation with regards to the pieces on its left and right assuming the cube is like this, with S M G standing for the Samsung logo and o being a standard plain coloured square:
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Doesn't this exist already? It's called DNS, along with E.164 representation of numbers.[0] You can map a telephone number to its E.164 representation by reversing it, so +447123456789 would become 9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.7.4.4.e164.arp
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> in 2016, roaming rates were still quite high in Europe Actually, European roaming is incredibly reasonable, and set to get even better. Since July 2014 roaming charges were set to EUR 0.05 per minute, and since April this year that was
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Sure, but if hyper-inflation results in that USD 500 buying me a loaf of bread each month, I think 'better off than before' is kindof irrelevant. There have to be tangible benefits to the recipient over and above, say income from
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The addition of other ingredients is required to make an actual dish containing the relevant pairs. So it doesn't matter if A and B, B and C, and A and C all taste good together; if A, B, C, D, E, F and G together taste good, that&#x27
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I tasted some cheese-flavoured speciality chocolate once, you can buy them from the Barcelona chocolate museum.[0] I will not be doing that again. Possibly the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten... [0] http://www.museuxocola

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