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by lsd5you 16y ago
I've added some documentation. Far from complete, but it should shed some light on the situation for the curious.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Actually I have my own contribution to this space: http://ebuild.origo.ethz.ch/wiki/ebuild Although unfortunately the documentation is not ready yet, it is quite capable and is designed to solve what I perceive to be critical short coming
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Every generation is wrong about that, of course. Since you've proved it with your powers of induction. Not saying that you are wrong about the next generation, but you might be.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
No, I'm fairly sure this is not possible for me. Although it is not a practical consideration, I do wonder what would happen if everybody followed the nothing ventured nothing gained advice and sent cold the 'optimal' amount of cold solicit
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Yes that is a comprehensive list. Reminds me of this similarly canonical list, the great universities of England: Cambridge, Oxford and Hull. Particularly on the criteria of plot 'Requiem for a Dream' can surely not be considered a classic.
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by lsd5you 16y ago
As has already been said, private finance simply does not fix this problem, although it does increase the scope for the working generation to avoid their obligations - through stock market crashes and bouts of inflation. In fact that is pre
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by lsd5you 16y ago
Government provision does not have to be based upon savings. In its simplest form it is just an obligation (of the current working generation towards the elderly), and if this is not tied to monetary figures then it is much less vulnerable
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by lsd5you 16y ago
"My “New American Cyclopaedia” (1872) tells me that in 1855 there were 25,858 people in New York who could neither read nor write, and 21,378 of them were Irish. This may well have been true, but why exactly did it need to be emphasized? We
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by lsd5you 17y ago
That is pretty condescending. I am not a libertarian and I even agree with the sentiments of the article, but the analysis offered in the article was very weak and the OP is right to be skeptical.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
poorly-Capitalized uk Start-up seeks Money
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by lsd5you 17y ago
You are equivocating. Not all paths are equal, or at least in the completely subjective/nihilistic universe in which they are, the words good and bad have absolutely no meaning. We have to have some value system, if only to maintain our sta
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Quatsch. It has everything to do with it. If it were not for the collective cognitive dissonance underlying the popular support for this kind of position - i.e. that meat is ok, but blood sports and zoos are bad - then almost any kind of mo
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by lsd5you 17y ago
I trust that you are a vegetarian.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Snow boarders cause more accidents and add risk and higher insurance premiums to skiers around them. In europe at least, there is enough demand, mostly from older people for such a ban, in more than one resort (i believe). I don't want to s
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Yes. It was pretty weak when he tried to tie the whole thing together with an optimistic message at the end... His plan for a better future is mindlessly optimistic: everybody is observed -> everybody behaves better. Apart from being ba
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Apostasy! Anyway, the problem is not the policies as such, it is the lack of explanation/feedback. Depending on the nature of the heuristic employed, feedback could perhaps be given in a users profile or during the action of voting (or even
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by lsd5you 17y ago
The economic equilibrium.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Because the alternative - survival of the fittest - is incompatible with contemporary/democratic human values. In deed, and sometimes in thought, we pretend evolution does not apply to humans. The issue cannot just be avoided, in the long t
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Is it not possible that the stock of quality items has been 'depleted'? When a site such as HN starts out there is a back log of posts people want to see.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
I have a theory that artists do not have the same desires as the public. In cinema a bias towards cinematography and SFX could arise because the plot actually does not interest the artists as much as it perhaps should. Even a good plot will
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by lsd5you 17y ago
I would argue it is to do with the medium. The feature length film needs a plot to sustain interest, for me and apparently at least a few other people. If it's just a technology demo then it can be over and done with in 10 minutes - in Avat
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Yeah, although the trade off is that as class construction is procedural with prototypes you know longer have a declarative type system. Any type checking will have to come from type inference (when possible).
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Well there is the prototype programming model, which in terms of power of expression can be considered an advance over class based models.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Geez, os x is completely riddled with tricks you 'have to know', usually achieved by some obscure key combination. Which UI book did they get this out of ? ...
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by lsd5you 17y ago
On making money, to a first approximation he is right. Value can of course be created, but the majority of marketing activity ('money making') is concerned with a market share land grab and nothing more. Banks aren't intrinsically sociopath
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Normative writing as wide ranging as 'The Virtues' is quasi-religous and an all or nothing proposition. People are not receptive to having their values changed in such a direct manner.
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by lsd5you 17y ago
When you say 'not true', you mean you disagree, right? Population shrinkage is certainly not a problem for the environment and it was not implied that it was not a problem in other respects. The value of a human to society is a positive? Ca
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Or elect to not have a child - something even more significant. Though arguably that is essentially 'freeing up' a permit for someone else. It conflicts with our view of family values and wholesomeness, but in general a wasteful consumerist
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Yes. In my view it probably did so about 20 years ago. Are there any works from the last 2 decades that could be even mentioned in the same breath as dune, foundation, ender's game, neuromancer, hyperion ...etc.?
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by lsd5you 17y ago
Thanks, that is educational. You are right, at this level of discussion I only have 2nd opinions ... Yet seemingly there are academics that disagree with you, in plain english - http://www.jstor.org/pss/3291643 . It does raise the question

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