jcromartie

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by jcromartie 11y ago
Why scramble to shut them down? Isn't this a valuable source of information? Wouldn't we want to know what they are saying, who is engaging with them, etc.? Why push them further underground? Hell, why not just make a social netwo
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by jcromartie 11y ago
No, even then, the constituent parts (organelles) of single-celled organism likely began as a symbiosis of separate organisms. The history of life is more complex and fantastic than we can possibly imagine.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Richard Dawkins gives a fantastic and compact illustration of this problem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz8KEF8oid0
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by jcromartie 11y ago
And not just humans, all life is this way.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I could imagine a naive Bayes classifier would do the trick when it comes to figuring out which ads were written by the same person.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
And can't care about stopping it.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Every mental state is precipitated by the physical state of the brain. The only difference between a criminal who does something "intentionally" and someone like this is a difference of degree. Unless someone wants to demonstrate
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Isn't most of the debris moving in the same direction? I'm imagining that being in orbit is like being on the freeway, where the traffic is all running the same direction. Yes, getting hit by a car going 70 MPH would normally be c
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by jcromartie 11y ago
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-japanese-shrin...
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I really don't understand what college has to do with it. Are well-rounded interests and a high-paying job not enough to be ahead of the pack anymore?
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Grace periods exist as an incentive for these companies to take action. Maybe Cisco thought they were calling their bluff... but they weren't bluffing.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
> any price it considers reasonable What if the "reasonable" price is set by a delusional sociopath?
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I'm not sure what kind of policies he's outspoken against, but if someone is against policies that they perceive to be hostile to Muslims, how does that make them Islamists who want to establish Islamic rule? He is a Sufi (mystic,
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Aren't some of the worst performing school districts also the most expensive?
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by jcromartie 11y ago
They'd be stupid to confuse him for someone dangerous. He's benign.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
His father has been in the news several times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/muslim-at-koran-trial-s...
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by jcromartie 11y ago
How do you define Islamophobia?
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by jcromartie 11y ago
That's always the lesson from these sorts of things: don't try, don't explore, or possibly don't trust people in authority to know anything.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
It boggles my mind how glossy and polished and professional the site is, and that it gives credit to the people who make it happen, but gives no recognition to the people who make the content that everybody feels entitled to.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I disagree. As soon as the justice system has to pay for its mistakes, the mistakes will go away.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Pharo is an effort to make a "grown-up" Squeak. It's hard to get the kind of interaction that makes Smalltalk work when you're inside a general-purpose text editor. When I'm working in Smalltalk, even though it&#x27
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I read a bit of the content first and knew it was the inimitable Hitchens before I saw his name.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
The data is not anonymous to begin with if it contains plain identifying information (like an email address).
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by jcromartie 11y ago
In the USA, people who own guns are likely to own more than one gun. They may be hunters or collectors. Per-gun is fairly meaningless.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I started doing the same thing and lost 30 lbs pretty quickly. At times I just eat one very large meal per day. I've found it much easier to control my appetite and make better choices by exercising a little bit of discipline every day
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by jcromartie 11y ago
The equivalent code in Racket is exactly as complex as your Clojure example.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Racket has a displayln that is similar to puts or System.out.println.
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by jcromartie 11y ago
Is this just trolling? Why a let and "hello0"? Is that just to make it look weird on purpose? (define (hello) (displayln "Hello, World!")) (hello)
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by jcromartie 11y ago
One of the skills I truly want to learn is game development (not just for games, though). I'm learning Unity at the moment. I find that to be much easier to do on a powerful PC, although it wouldn't be a total obstacle if I just h
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by jcromartie 11y ago
I think that we'll just see magnetic disks go away, and tapes pick up the long-term storage market. Pretty much nothing happens when you drop a box of tapes.

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