lawpoop

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by lawpoop 9y ago
Oh, I agree, there's probably several /systems/ that are all-around good. My argument is that there is no organizational structure that is more likely to product and maintain such a system. People identify the bad parts of an
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I wonder if there's any form of human organization capable of producing-- and more importantly, /maintaining/-- well designed, well-thought out complex system. I suspect that even a NASA or an Apple or a Google or some other
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Yes.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> "At the end of the day, even the mightiest thinkers and philosophers are made of flesh and bone". I like how words referring to abstract properties are used to dismiss the whole notion of abstract properties.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
There has to be a name for this-- Godwin's corollary , or something. FWIW, people living in poor rural areas, the rust belt, Reservations, etc. are surviving, true, but doing so in conditions that aren't quite first-world.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
My understanding was that it was created to mobilize the military and transport resources across the continent, not to make it easy to cut off enemy routes. But likewise, I have no references either.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
> 1) Is the impact to the brain higher because of the protective equipment? Yes. > Would people tackle as ferociously without it? No. Back in the day, some ~100 years ago, American football wore leather "helmets", which were
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Where/To Whom do you give money to online?
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by lawpoop 9y ago
Well I guess it's a disposable computer then. Use until it crashes.
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by lawpoop 9y ago
In the early 1900s, when you could buy morphine at the corner drugstore, addicts took morphine daily and went about their lives, living out a normal lifespan. Because of the iron law of prohibition, under prohibition, only the most potent,
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by lawpoop 9y ago
My guess is that there would be a microkernel service that is the core OS, like the BIOS, and it could be instructed to actively wipe the memory and reload the boot files when the machine freezes
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by lawpoop 9y ago
I recall having read that it was not yet economical to mass produce memristors, which had to compete against modern transistor chips. So they went ahead with the unified memory architecture, just without the memristor component. One could a
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by lawpoop 9y ago
The scholar in me admits that you have a point, but the practicist in me says, who cares? Let's use this narrative to get the basic social guarantees that all those poor and middle class people have in Europe-- education, health care,
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I remember a line from a Harold Bloom book (don't ask me which one), something along the lines of "The Rabbis say the names of the angels came from Babylon-- I suspect more than the names came from Babylon." He was intimating
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by lawpoop 10y ago
There really needs to be a division in American universities between Computer Science and Software Engineering, the same like you would find between Physics and Mechanical Engineering.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> Were the Molex molds more complicated than that? Probably not, and therefore the manufacturer was looking for rock-bottom prices, and thereby got what they paid for.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Its always seemed to me like a company driven by committee. And that committee is strongly non-technical business types.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I had the same problem, and came to this solution: Could you park near work, and bike the rest of the way? Some 5, 10, 02 20 minutes?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Like others said, we don't really know, but most likely, they just got eaten, ingested, or sopped up by cellular life when it arrived. They couldn't have been much more than symbiotic molecules, not complex things like modern cell
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by lawpoop 10y ago
If the author really is correct, and all that exists is Reason-Type-2, then there is no actual Reason-Type-1 by which to reject their claims. It's self-reinforcing, rather than self-refuting. It's like 15th century herbalists who
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by lawpoop 10y ago
How much metal in total would be in our cranium? more than the total amount in your fillings?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Is there any problem with them remaining?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
> But the reasoning process that was used isn't actually for reaching logically correct conclusions The purpose that reasoning is bent towards affects the truth value of the outcome of that reasoning? The purpose of a building-- ho
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Reason for reasoning sounds like a tautology at best, or at my estimation, a vacuous statement. A hammer is not for hammering, but for building something. Reason is a tool, like the hammer, which is not an end in itself, but used in service
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by lawpoop 10y ago
I played NetHack for a long time and wanted something more. NetHack becomes pretty repetitious after a while. I tried various roguelikes and hit upon DF. Also, I see Dwarf Fortress as the natural progression of programming games. As program
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Uses or has used Uber... in San Francisco? Curious, do you think a reporter in the 1980s would have the same conflict of interest reporting on AT&T, the phone company that everyone used?
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Personally, I'm certain she's lawyered up, and has all the screenshots she needs to defend against a defamation lawsuit. There's no way a smart person like her would write this without all her ducks in a row.
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by lawpoop 10y ago
640k should be enough for anybody
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by lawpoop 10y ago
There is some debate nowadays about the use of alcohol as a substitute for bad water(1). I think the reason you find alcohol so interesting because of the Iron Law of Prohibition(2): 'The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Ric
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by lawpoop 10y ago
Your entire response is belied by the fact that alcohol is legal-- in fact, celebrated-- in western societies. It's even a religious sacrament (communion wine, seder wine). Nutt found that alcohol _the most harmful drug_ -- even more h

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