infradig

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by infradig 8y ago
Here's a good overview of some aspects: https://www.quranite.com/makkah-is-the-centre-of-a-cult/
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by infradig 8y ago
Mohammad himself was born and died in the Petra region of Jordan. The foundation myth of Islam moved the story to Arabia (as we know it) for political reasons.
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by infradig 8y ago
If you dig Can you'll also dig Neu!
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by infradig 8y ago
"...being relatively young while your kids are grown is better than being old." How so, whizkid?
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by infradig 8y ago
Yes, it can. That is the most likely scenario, IMHO.
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by infradig 8y ago
Why? The whole point of the article is about someone who chooses to remain in the background.
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by infradig 8y ago
You assume it didn't. Perhaps the universe as we know it is the inside of a black-hole.
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by infradig 8y ago
My 4GB Celery box with Ubuntu/Gnome+Chrome runs it, but slowly.
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by infradig 8y ago
I would have included Gelernter's "Mirror Worlds" as a reference.
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by infradig 8y ago
Yes, why only last year 95% of it was dead. This is actually an improvement.
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by infradig 8y ago
If you had said Henry Neville that would have been interesting. Neville was a friend and supporter of Essex.
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by infradig 8y ago
I thought meteorite transfer was one-way... Mars to Earth.
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by infradig 8y ago
I debugged many a COBOL pragram by running down the stack. In fact, I wrote a COBOL debugger for Sperry/Univac 1100's running HVTIP transactions.
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by infradig 8y ago
A contemporary of Bergson, the philosopher Samuel Alexander, put that succinctly as "Time is the Mind of Space".
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by infradig 9y ago
Only in the "Chinese room" sense.
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by infradig 9y ago
You are confusing Shakespeare the author of the plays with Shakespeare the actor and producer and theatre manager. No one I believe disputes the latter.
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by infradig 9y ago
I'm a fan of the Sir Henry Neville was Shakespeare theory. Neville was also a diplomat and could well have known North. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevillean_theory_of_Shakespe...
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by infradig 9y ago
If only such genius could be put towards doing good..
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by infradig 9y ago
Many years ago I found a bug in GCC. Reported it, it got fixed, I got thanked.
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by infradig 9y ago
Online spreadsheets existed before Visicalc (I know because I worked with them in 1977), the innovation was the visi thing.
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by infradig 9y ago
I have never met anyone else that has read a single line of Henry Greens, or even heard of him. When I read Annie Proulx's novel Postcards, at the time it came out, I thought "hey someone else gets him". Whether she actually
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by infradig 9y ago
Great. Sorry for not reading further.
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by infradig 9y ago
I only got as far the string concatenation example. That languages like Pony, C++ and no doubt many others, make programmers go through these performance hoops for common-case scenarios is unfortunate.
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by infradig 9y ago
No, the article claims the opposite of what you just said.
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by infradig 10y ago
The real culprit for coral bleaching? A swift fall in mean sea level during a major El Nino event. See: http://www.biogeosciences.net/14/817/2017/
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by infradig 10y ago
To save people time, it was Spinoza. Excellent read though.
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by infradig 10y ago
At age 59 I have come to the opposite view. I assume you are referring in passing to Erlang & Haskell. They are probably OK, never actually used either. I Prefer the real deal, which to me is Prolog. But that's just me.
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by infradig 10y ago
Meh, skip on this one.
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by infradig 10y ago
Mirrors don't swap anything. They just reflect light back the way it came. Think about it.
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by infradig 10y ago
In the actual article he mentioned a big potential customer who had license limitations... no AGPL! I can undertand someone not wanting to limit the sales audience.

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