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by hodwik 10y ago
Vira, actually. However, virii is the hacker subculture form. This being hackernews... I'm comfortable with my decision.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Your perscriptivism here seems misguided then, because if virus is a mass word we shouldn't be saying viruses either: just "virus". And anyway, if we absolutely had to express a plurality of virus, it would be "vira&quot
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by hodwik 10y ago
Viruses don't make any specific effort to reproduce, they too are just accidentally self-reproducing patterns.
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by hodwik 10y ago
If you find out please report back. Couldn't find information on it.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Got it. It's like honey crystals. They force other crystals to be of the same size and shape. (That's why creamed honey producers put a "starter" crystal in, which is tiny, that forces the honey to produce other tiny cry
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by hodwik 10y ago
Thanks. I would mention memes too, but I think 121C would shred their host as well. Edit: Actually, Carl Sagan wrote his memes in metal (and shot them into the universe) so I take that back.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I think that Rabies was the inspiration for modern zombie stuff, actually.
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by hodwik 10y ago
I slept through biology class, could you explain how that's not also true for virii, given that they are also not "alive"?
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by hodwik 10y ago
Okay, then he's comparing fat people with rape victims. Is that better?
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by hodwik 10y ago
You're rhetorically associating systemic injustice against black people with critiquing fat people. You understand that right? The phrase is from the book Blaming the Victim, about the legacy of slavery. I'd avoid using that tacti
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by hodwik 10y ago
Could you explain why GIL wouldn't make it CPU bound, rather than memory bound?
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Brazilian President impeached, ending 13 years of Worker's Party leadership(yahoo.com)
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by hodwik 10y ago
That's a really cool idea.
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by hodwik 10y ago
In Japan in most places the height limit for wooden structure is 4 stories (higher than most of the US), they have fewer restrictions on building spacing, and fewer restrictions on how much sq. feet per person is required. That makes it pos
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by hodwik 10y ago
>"and to the environment" That's a great point, and one that has been largely missed here. I used to live in a city with aggressive green-space initiatives. (85% of the city had to be green space.) Locals would tell me th
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by hodwik 10y ago
I say this as a conservative: Building limits are systemically classist and racist. They maintain a geographical segregation system. If you want to fix the country then remove all limits, let developers develop whatever and whereever they d
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by hodwik 10y ago
LunaSea is making an interesting argument that I hadn't considered. You on the other hand have levied a substance-less complaint about a user's attitude. Who is really undermining discourse here? Pessimism ought to be welcome here
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by hodwik 10y ago
These days most linux distros support all laptops well. Just buy by the specs.
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by hodwik 10y ago
UMD has a great class where their cyber security students do pentesting on the school network for credit, simultaneously securing the network and providing a great education. http://www.cyber.umd.edu/sites/default/
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by hodwik 10y ago
Construction and food are run by good old boys, who aren't going to waste a bunch of money going to IBM for their tech, when they can go to the local company which charges half as much. In so doing, they accidentally hired better tech,
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by hodwik 10y ago
There's organizational pressure to cut costs in the government, but nothing like the market's bonuses to excite people into excelling. With the only serious motivator being to cut costs, most agencies will contract their project i
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by hodwik 10y ago
The simple difference being that we are humans, and can easily extrapolate to the rest of our species from ourselves. As for other animals, I'm not so convinced that the same extrapolation stands.
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by hodwik 10y ago
Just because something has complex self-preservation behaviors does not mean that thing is displaying consciousness. Complex behaviors are witnessed in insects and microscopic organisms, yet they have nothing like a brain. What's more,
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by hodwik 11y ago
I recall reading a post on OKCupid's great blog where-in they were saying that women over-estimate their attractiveness relative to men at the same level.
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by hodwik 11y ago
You say men are still looking for attractiveness, and women are still looking for stability? Imagine that. Glad to hear Tinder hasn't uprooted our most basic animal instincts.
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by hodwik 11y ago
His argument for cleaner energy is that we use Methane? Isn't methane 30x more potent as a green-house gas?
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by hodwik 11y ago
Given that now we cannot trust the identities of any Turkish citizens, I'd like to suggest we start by banning Turks. Sorry guys.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Feith Systems and Software -- Philadelphia, PA -Java Developer / Java Programmer -Project Manager -Support Engineer http://www.feith.com/about-feith/careers-at-feith/
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by hodwik 11y ago
How in God's green earth did Canonical think helping Microsoft with this was a good idea for the Linux community?
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by hodwik 11y ago
Right. I don't understand how people get any real work done on a Windows machine. What should take 2 seconds to type takes 20 seconds to find in godawful menus, that get harder and harder to find with each new version of Windows.

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