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by lolcraft 15y ago
Another "proof": x^n = exp((log x) n). By definition, exp(n+m)=exp(n)exp(m). By definition, a (b+c) = ab + ac (for the log x thing). QED. By the way, (the infamous calculus book) Baby Rudin has the poor reader show this property holds in ex
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by lolcraft 15y ago
CBT is definitely not about getting you to settle. Seriously. I've been there. Go.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
There is no such pernicious myth today as the "right-wing pro-business" government. An example: progress requires, above anything, a rentier class not hell bent on furthering their greed at the expense of everyone else, via shadow banking
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Things are complicated. Beware of the potential phonyness lurking there. "Instead of making a business offer, pretend to be friends long enough so that the other party will (maybe) want to make business with you." Cool and all, but sometim
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by lolcraft 15y ago
That argument reduces to: * The medieval warm period was warmed than today, which is false; thus * Solar activity might be the cause of large climate changes, which is doubtful, more so because the premise is wrong. Not enough to explain o
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by lolcraft 15y ago
I think that's more a libraries thing that a language thing. For example, you can do very cool, HTMLy things using Racket's web-server/servlet and Scheme continuations, which would be incredibly hard to do in C. But I agree with your sugges
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by lolcraft 15y ago
It's simple, really.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Time can be exchanged for money. Money can't be exchanged for time.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
This type of condescending, defensive reply enlightens no one. I mean, equating anxiety about being accused of something to actual guilt... that's thoughtcrime. Implying that the GP is so stupid that he/she couldn't distinguish racism fro
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Just saw it. Glorious. A two hour guide on how to hack the art market, and a fine piece of film. Do recommend.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
It's still a form of regulation, highly or otherwise.
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Smalltalk is social exploration. Maybe a better word might be social probing. In this stage, you can't go directly to the point, because smalltalk is useful only in evaluating the point of a future conversation with the same partner. Of cou
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by lolcraft 15y ago
The survival of your species after your death is not a vested interest (a "special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage"). It affects you nil, by definition: you will be dead by then. What affect
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by lolcraft 15y ago
Leibniz was an idealist. He lived in peculiar ideological waters: he was Christian. He had to believe that there's the mind, there's reality, and both never touch. If he ever went out the party line, the inquisition would take care of him
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by lolcraft 15y ago
C++'s typing is fairly weak. Most of the errors shown in the article were weaknesses of the type system. Now Haskell, or even Java...
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by lolcraft 16y ago
Are gifted children that much helped by the current system? For all I know, they are just ignored. Furthermore, where do you read that the objective is "low variance"? I read "higher average".
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by lolcraft 16y ago
Why do you say that? I am using AdBlock Plus in Chromium. It works fine, as far as I notice.
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by lolcraft 16y ago
It is odd to me that people care one iota about Ayn Rand the person. I'm not convinced that the ethics of any philosopher, a matter of praxis by definition, should be considered strictly apart from the values which that philosopher really
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by lolcraft 16y ago
A more interesting, if obvious, related question: shouldn't we, through our political representatives, demand that corporations carry a little bit more of social responsibility? That would be the rational thing for us to demand, since a mor
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by lolcraft 16y ago
can quite sensibly be used by atheists since it means "assuming powers which should only belong to (hypothetical) gods" Sorry, but I refuse to call atheist to anyone who believes that an arbitrary, human-made list of values can be "godlik
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by lolcraft 16y ago
Wasn't losing the savings of half a country the consequence of not doing that? See Great Depression, Argentina's corralito, etc.
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by lolcraft 16y ago
The term "suffering" in the GP's post should, IMO, be understood as "pain", which is nowadays more tuned-up to the Buddhist/Nietzschian concept of suffering. Maybe we westerners have identified too much the term "suffering" to "sadness", th
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by lolcraft 16y ago
Not really. Almost any numbers would do, since z is an int and integer division "a/b" in C means not exactly a/b, but its floor. For instance, "2/2/2".
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by lolcraft 17y ago
To pull this off, the implementation exploits templates, operator overloading and function pointers (but, remarkably, not a single macro) to construct a type-safe domain-specific embedded language. Yes, "exploiting" is exactly the word I
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Alcohol can kill you. Psilocybin can't, but it is at least possible that it can lead to mental illness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis "Alcohol is also a common risk of causing psychotic disorders or episodes. Research has shown
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by lolcraft 17y ago
I read somewhere that most content ceases to be profitable at about 10, 15 years past release. I'm sorry, I'm not able to find it now, but if that's true , it would mean that publishers would indeed have an incentive. The benefits from pri
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by lolcraft 17y ago
In the XVII century, copyright in Spain was a period of ten years long, since the first edition, not renewable. I'm talking of a country notorious for its steep geography and bad communications, at a period of both dangerous colonisation,
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Live? That seems difficult enough to me.
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Spain
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by lolcraft 17y ago
Europe (Euler, Gödel, Erdos, Hilbert, Einstein) and America (von Neumann, Shannon, Feynman) have comparably long traditions and cultural icons. I don't think lack of them is the cause.

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