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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
Thanks for the link! This passage stuck out at me: "But we were all told a decade ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, that hierarchical organizations simply did not work as modes of organizing economic life--that you needed a market
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
While maintenance is certainly undervalued, I don't think that means innovation is overrated.
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
I think I will have to disagree with that. The type of object is not enforced by the compiler, but that's a long way off from "you have no idea what the type of that object is."
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
> Once these checks are cleared, you now know that you can materialize an object with valid values in it, something the rest of your business code will be able to manipulate. So you instantiate that new object, return it and... all the k
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
I suppose then the mystery has now shifted to why no one is seemingly doing anything about it? I hope that does not come across as sardonic. If a functional mechanism to curb these kinds of excesses does not exist anymore, that is something
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
Not GP but I believe he is saying that unless we've been in an underwater cave the diver's perspective may be difficult for us to really appreciate. To us, continuing to dive seems like an unacceptable risk. To the diver, it seemi
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by harpiaharpyja 9y ago
While factually true, I think that misses GP's point? If you take a look at the context of their question, they are asking why no one has killed the iPod by copying it. I suppose the answer is probably as said by rokhayakebe elsewhere
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Structural Coloration(en.wikipedia.org)
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
While I am not terribly knowledgeable about it I think permaculture is probably a search term you might be looking for. From what I have read, there have been some successful attempts to develop ecosystems that can sustainability produce fo
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
How would one go about mirroring these documents?
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
I don't hold any bad feelings towards Google for banning AdNauseam. What I do hold against them is that they are not being open and transparent with their reasons.
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
In my experience there is significant coupling between external events and one's ability/willingness to maintain physiological health.
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
Sorry if I'm reading into this too much but are you implying that medical conditions cannot have environmental causes?
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
> You're making the argument "If I apply good crypto plus crypto which might or might not be good, the worst case scenario is that I end up with crypto which is at least as good as the good crypto." I'm really not see
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
This makes me think about the importance of being able to separate the content of a message from the presentation. I wonder how much better off we'd be if everyone was just able to do that (or if we just took for granted that other peo
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
They can cause neuronal damage through excitotoxicity [0][1]. I've never heard of keto before, but I would be wary of aspartame and MSG. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7854587 [1] http://americ
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
> Being a larger country simply gives you the option to organise it at a larger scale. The argument that it is merely an option assumes that you are able to rationally choose the best option from the ones available. Not the case when w
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
That is a TL; DR of an article to which this article is a rebuttal to. Your TL; DR thus omits literally the entire content of what the author has written. Please read the article through before you make a TL; DR. It's well worth the
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by harpiaharpyja 10y ago
You're being disingenuous; The GP is talking about the luxury of not needing a car.