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by maaku 12y ago
Context, context. The post I was replying to seemed to imply that Hans Christian Andersen somehow had economic incentive to create his works even though they would enter the public domain because later Disney would create Frozen . That log
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by maaku 12y ago
Yes, but how much money did the Andersen family make off Frozen ?
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by maaku 12y ago
Thank you. I have had a misunderstanding of what datalog is for years. I have always thought of it as a DSL for making queries against a database using the relational calculus. I have never considered, nor have the texts I've encounter
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by maaku 12y ago
Hell will freeze over, eventually. Expanding universe ftw.
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by maaku 12y ago
Please don't take this the wrong way, but tip4commit is a poisonous project that does more harm than good. You should shut the whole thing down. Providing monetary incentives gamifies the development process, which is not a good thing
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by maaku 12y ago
Datalog isn't what I was talking about. I would like to see a programming language where both the basic data type and the representation of code itself are relations, as is the case with Lisp and lists.
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by maaku 12y ago
Yes please!
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by maaku 12y ago
While you're at it, one related piece that I'd like to see explored is relations-as-code, code-as-relations a la Lisp. It would be interesting to see what a program would look like if represented as tuples in a relation, and able
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by maaku 12y ago
We're always open to questions! But some people have some immediate concerns and we'd like to address those right out of the gate.
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by maaku 12y ago
There's a distinction here between soft-forks, which require majority mining hashpower and a definite super-majority to avoid possible transition risks, and hard-forks which absolutely require every node on the network to upgrade.
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by maaku 12y ago
> A lot of the Bitcoin luminaries now seem to be coming around to the idea that regulation is OK and that trusting authorities (instead of just math) isn't the end of the world. That definitely deserves a citation needed. Accepting
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by maaku 12y ago
I'm one of the co-authors. AMA. EDIT: There will also be a reddit AMA on Thursday at 12pm eastern time.
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by maaku 12y ago
Southwest.
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by maaku 12y ago
Just saved me $400. Awesome, thank you.
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by maaku 12y ago
IBM hasn't been a tech (development) company since before some of my younger coworkers were born.
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by maaku 12y ago
There was, in fact, a point in time when programming was 100% dominated by women.
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by maaku 12y ago
It's not? Seriously I worked NASA and that episode was entirely plausible (except for the explosion after effects), and not as expensive as other things Top Gear has done. Why are you saying it was faked?
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by maaku 12y ago
Tax avoidance is not illegal.
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by maaku 12y ago
Not all patients are diagnosed in hospital.
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by maaku 12y ago
What you imply is correct. The Russian conquest of Siberia was basically enabled by the decline of Mongol influence, which necessarily post-dates Marco Polo's travels.
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by maaku 12y ago
It is by no means a clear-cut case. Some of the things reported by Marco Polo (e.g. paper money) were completely unknown in the west and middle-east at the time of his purported travels. He gets a remarkable number of things right, and fail
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by maaku 12y ago
This should be a top-level post.
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by maaku 12y ago
Right, but these are the exceptions for a reason. Something life is exposed to only every hundred(s) millions of years or so is so infrequent that evolution selects against so long as it introduces inefficiencies (and nothing is free). Evol
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by maaku 12y ago
The project was huge because of the amount of effort it took to assemble and purify the material needed for a bomb. The plutonium bombs were coming online faster, but it was still weeks or months to make one bomb in those days.
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by maaku 12y ago
It wouldn't have detonated. The worst that would have happened... is exactly what did happen. Lots of radiation release and the death of one nuclear scientist that should have been more careful (he died of radiation sickness a few days
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by maaku 12y ago
Are they? These aren't the multi-megaton nuclear behemoths that people associate with nukes post-cold war. Those bombs are three orders of magnitude more powerful than the one shown in the picture. This bomb is probably comparable to a
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by maaku 12y ago
It took basically the entire Manhattan project to create enough U-235 for that single bomb dropped on Hiroshima. There was no more U-235 coming, at least not any on a scale or timeline for the war. It probably would have been more efficient
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by maaku 12y ago
What does consumerism have to do with religion and spirituality? Seriously, what's the non-hyperbolic connection?
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by maaku 12y ago
The CEO is the only person who can do that. Also, DoD you read me 2nd paragraph?
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by maaku 12y ago
> Entrepreneurs = work hard Not if you're picking your battles, planning ahead, and executing right. [I assume you mean "work late". There's nothing wrong with working hard, 9-5, 5 days a week.] The entrepreneur is th

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