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by jk4930 13y ago
>natural human behavior, that the wealthy people have only few children It's a socioeconomic phenomenon of the Industrial Age's middle class, the upper class continue to multiply like in the good old times, having 3 to 6 kids i
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France Eyes EU Data Transfer Tax(tax-news.com)
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by jk4930 13y ago
I'm not an experienced C programmer but I assume there's missing some '*' somewhere?
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by jk4930 13y ago
Berlin. :)
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by jk4930 13y ago
To make your comparison more useful (and on-topic), you should compare this to a Pascal or an Ada program. You won't find such a syntax massacre there. In fact some verbosity is a design feature that actually helps programers maintaini
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by jk4930 13y ago
We can run controlled experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_economics especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_computational_econ...
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by jk4930 13y ago
Too sad. Just want to say that the mentioned book "The Right Stuff" exists also as a 3 hours movie from 1983. You'll find it on youtube, too (two parts). I really recommend this movie to everyone who's into spaceflight.
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by jk4930 13y ago
It's not wasted. I've seen the design concepts of HURD as an inspiration for other projects and people experimented with them. Even I got some (dumbed down) ideas that I didn't limit to software. Sometimes I think there'
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by jk4930 13y ago
Just to give my view: Because it's an engineering approach. We don't have to completely understand a highly complex system before we can make some fixes. Intervening before it breaks frees us from the work of repairing what we can
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by jk4930 13y ago
There's another term from the mentioned "Selfish Gene" (which is a book by the same title): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics It's a view on how ideas spread and use hosts (e.g., human brains)
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by jk4930 13y ago
Pretty much related text: "NASA’S SUCCESSFUL QUANTIFYING OF COMEDY TIMING" http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-qu...
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by jk4930 13y ago
Principia Cybernetica's entry http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HAPPINES.html World Database of Happiness http://www1.eur.nl/fsw/happiness/
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Multi-Agent Simulations of Scenarios for Syria(syriafutures.ch)
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by jk4930 13y ago
Ada (Pascal-inspired) was designed to be a language that's safe against (mediocre) programmers. And it's case-insensitive. Note that Ada is especially made for reliable systems and they really look for error sources. Case sensitiv
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by jk4930 13y ago
C'mon, I somehow have to put a higher meaning into those barriers. I've to rationalize the pain, it's a coping mechanism. :)
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by jk4930 13y ago
>single moms who don't get anything for their children. Which is good, because then there's no incentive to produce many children just to cash in their basic income. Being a single mom in Western nations is mostly a business mo
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by jk4930 13y ago
Of course. Imagine, during the assembly process, someone eats his sandwich while hanging over the mirror of some space telescope. Do you think the all those dots you're seeing on the NASA images are stars? And once they discover the pe
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by jk4930 13y ago
Actually it's a filter, keeping those away from doing business who aren't able to handle little annoyances. I often hear people complain about (German) bureaucrazy and funding difficulties and they say "I just want to do X&qu
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by jk4930 13y ago
And this (Ham Internet) is what comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet Years ago I found some software (on SourceForge?) for operating Linux over Ham. Can't find it.
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by jk4930 13y ago
Hey Arnold, there are several ways and I don't know--given the current situation that you're not the only one--which works best. So let me give you a series of suggestions to follow up: First, see the German Foreign Office's
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by jk4930 13y ago
Usually one bad apple won't kill the area rating, they filter for that. Image search for "schuldneratlas" (a detailed map of private households in distress) to get some impressions. Or see there: http://www.boniver
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by jk4930 13y ago
"In terms of software, the languages Ada and C have very different attitudes to freedom. Ada introduces restrictions and checks, with the goal of providing freedom from errors. On the other hand C gives the programmer more freedom, mak
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by jk4930 13y ago
I assume you'll enjoy the five chapters on human systems, inspired by "Systemantics": http://www.draftymanor.com/bart/systems1.htm
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You might be interested in the Artificial General Intelligence Conference series: http://www.agi-conf.org/ See also the "artificial toddler": http://wiki.opencog.org/w/OpenCogPrime:Roadmap#Pha
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by jk4930 13y ago
I also recommend Pianomania (2009): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1331115/ There are clips on youtube.
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by jk4930 13y ago
He just learned the lesson that you have to follow the path of "Continuous Visible Productivity" to get up in the hierarchy: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/21/how_to_get_paid_more... You bette
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by jk4930 13y ago
Here's why Perl is great: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_1/tpj0101-0002.html
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by jk4930 13y ago
According to Firefox's page info, this is from Fri 17 Oct 1997. But yes, I remember when I studied there (2001), things like Echelon and Total Information Awareness were the current topics. It was clear to us few "paranoids"
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Doug Hoyte's Lisp (Macro) Book: Let Over Lambda(letoverlambda.com)
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by jk4930 13y ago
Please don't forget the immigration of fertile religious traditionalists.

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