hetman

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by hetman 14y ago
And yet a major part of his point was that "discussion" is not enough. If someone presents facts in a way that causes the person they are responding to, to almost inevitably ignore everything they've said, then they've wasted their time (as
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by hetman 14y ago
If hostility is the only way for someone to get their point across then I suggest they may need to work on their vocabulary.
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by hetman 14y ago
I find it odd that you've decided to equate communism with poor education. The Soviets put the first man in space, I'd say they must have been doing something right (edit: I should add they were still doing plenty wrong elsewhere but we're
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by hetman 14y ago
I suspect a lot of these issues have a deeper cause and one that might be summarised rather simply: there is an assumption teenagers are incapable of contributing to society. This is not an original idea but I wonder if it gets enough notic
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by hetman 14y ago
As another poster indicated, it is to benefit society. This makes a lot of sense on a practical level. If society is going to expend energy protecting such monopolies, it should be getting something in return. It seems that the letter of th
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by hetman 14y ago
That may be a bit simplistic, but it does make you wonder to what extent Apple's currently chosen strategy was good business sense, and how much of it was the desire of a man facing his own mortality to desperately protect a legacy that wou
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by hetman 14y ago
What I think is fundamentally wrong with the way the patent system is applied today is that in many instances it serves as nothing more than an artificial monopoly only benefitting the patent holder. The idea of the patent system in itself
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by hetman 14y ago
Strangely I didn't even notice there was a background image until you pointed it out, then I had to go back to the site to see what it was.
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by hetman 14y ago
That is an awesome tip! One question: is there any reason why you do 'dv/,$' rather than just 'd/,$'?
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by hetman 14y ago
Here we go again...
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by hetman 14y ago
I remember seeing this a year ago. It's a bit worrying that in that time they still haven't gotten around to building a prototype that will be as quiet as the claimed final product. While that doesn't mean it can't be done, it may point to
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by hetman 14y ago
It's likely some of the alleles allowing for very dark skin were simply lost. This would be unsurprising since these people are descendants of lighter skinned people who had no need for dark skin anyway and so there was no selective pressur
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by hetman 14y ago
You may also want to "c" into insert mode ("cib", "ct:", etc...). I seldom have a problem with this since I usually don't hang around in insert mode anyway (if I'm using gVim the cursor also lets me know). The one I do have a massive proble
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by hetman 14y ago
There's so many ways to get into insert mode in VIM he's going to need pedals from a church organ to make this work.
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by hetman 14y ago
Or the suffering that lead to the innovation was just that much greater ;)
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by hetman 14y ago
I think car pedals are overkill, their travel is too long because they're used to input an analogue range and not just an on/off signal.
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by hetman 14y ago
I use "jk" which works very well for me (fingers stay on the home row).
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by hetman 14y ago
Indeed, I didn't mean to suggest realism is no longer an interesting art form. It is certainly well established, and perhaps this is a testament to the fact it has plenty to offer. I was simply attempting to bring across that many artists a
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by hetman 14y ago
I don't know how Google show up for you, but when I do a search for a term such as "cars" I get ads that appear very similar to the actual search results at the beginning and end of the same list. In fact all the high contrast features are
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by hetman 14y ago
A lot of people (including in this thread) seem to have this idea that art is about realism. The more a piece of art, or its components, bear a resemblance to reality, or the more technically difficult the methods involved in its execution,
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by hetman 14y ago
He meant the ads are in line with the content. The fact that it's an ad is certainly highlighted but it is intentionally subtle.
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by hetman 14y ago
But then Microsoft never obstructed anyone from using Macs instead. That line of argumentation didn't seem to interest the courts much.
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by hetman 14y ago
I suppose that depends on how one defines "engineering". I consider engineering to be a way of formalising methodology to get consistent, repeatable, and verifiable results. My opinion on this topic is based both on this view of engineering
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by hetman 14y ago
I think there's another variable the model can't really account for (and I'm surprised wasn't mentioned much in the article, though perhaps it was already covered previously). People actually do like some songs better than others. I expect
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by hetman 14y ago
I on the other hand rather liked it. I think it's rather odd to expect everyone to share one's own taste in music.
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by hetman 14y ago
I also enjoyed the early history of the transistor (pre Bell Labs) linked to from that site: http://www.porticus.org/bell/belllabs_transistor1.html It really does emphasise how most inventions are collective efforts building on many incre
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by hetman 14y ago
Hoarding is always good after all right? The attitude in some of the posts in this thread remind me of how open source might have been viewed a few decades ago. Perhaps different people simply have different priorities. I'll just add that i
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by hetman 14y ago
Yes, seriously it wouldn't hurt the guy to smile to actually make me even want to believe him.
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by hetman 14y ago
I suspect they wouldn't have gotten the insurance payout without a legally sound excuse.
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by hetman 14y ago
Although your sources indicate Bose did so after Tesla.

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