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by jackfoxy 15y ago
War is the father of all and king of all, who manifested some as gods and some as men, who made some slaves and some freemen. --Heraclitus
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Kudos for using begging the question correctly, rather than the popular usage as another way of saying raising the question .
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
If you are interested in this topic, you should also be interested in efforts in Congress to allow publicly funded research to go behind pay walls. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494910
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Research Works Act(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
OK, off topic, and I got down-voted last time I asked this question, but here goes... predetermined occurs twice in this post, so what is it, determinism or free will ?
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I suspected as much, but how much of that $4.8?
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Sure would like to know where Visual Studio falls in this. I would think giving away all versions of VS would only benefit Windows and Server sales by encouraging more developers.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Never heard of NAU shirts, so I did a minimal look-up, and the minimum price appears to be $72, but they claim to be sustainable , whatever that is.
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Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize(cbdr.cmu.edu)
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I don't worry about social acceptability. I have a pair of VFFs for the gym and one for daily wear. They are a great conversation starter, and strangers ask me about them a lot. The one thing they are not good for is standing around. After
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
> could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? ... Paul F. ... knows that the answer, at least 89 percent of the time, is yes. Coincides remarkably with what a former fraud investigator once to
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Russia's space chief says failures may be sabotage(newsfeedresearcher.com)
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MS Cambridge has been developing this for years. I have only done some toy tests on it a couple of years ago. I think it could be very useful, but that license...ouch! So unless you are an academic, student, hobbyist, or (maybe) charity, wh
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I've only followed F# Mono from afar as an academic interest, but I've seen comments about tail recursion causing stack overflow, while in .NET I've easily calculated the millionth power of 2 and very large fibonacci numbers with simple rec
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful explanation, which I have never encountered before. Off topic, but because you have a unique perspective, I would like to ask you a question I have been polling interesting people I meet: determinism or free w
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Jan. 5, 1943: George Washington Carver, King of Crops, Dies(wired.com)
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I would really like to hear progress reports on that one. Does F# Mono now correctly implement tail recursion? The most recent release notes suggest it does.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Really well done. One of my cherished wall adornments is a Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Airocean World map. I'd really like to see what Imus would do with that projection.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I doubt it. EDIT (after down vote): I doubt it because back in the day this problem was not as widely recognized as it is today, and no expert in the field today (that I am aware of) thinks we are even close.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Yes. I posted to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158522 outlining some of the unfortunate history of war and militarism changing the face of what was originally a more libertarian (small L ) form of government in the U.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Found this http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.10 Feb 15th, 2011 Under Runtime Notes Improved tail-call support for the F# compiler. Not enough information to determine if improved means fixed .
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I'd like to upvote condemnation of misuse of the word war too, however note real war frequently does not involve mandatory conscription, deaths of large numbers of combatants, or one side totally surrendering.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Sebastian, may I ask what your return on the one week book is to date?
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Argentine government wins control of newsprint(hosted.ap.org)
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Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University(lambdassociates.org)
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His Hour Upon the Stage(theamericanscholar.org)
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Why the God particle is an accurate term(motls.blogspot.com)
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Some time ago I ran across a post saying Mono does not do true tail recursion in F#. Does anyone know if this is still the case?
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It’s official: Windows Azure supports Node.js(gigaom.com)
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Quantum Computing Promises New Insights, Not Just Supermachines(nytimes.com)
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