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by mafribe 10y ago
invariably makes these discussions fall off a cliff That is of course the political purpose of such remarks. Demonise the other side, brand them as beyond the pale, as not even worthy a reply. This is a well-known rhetorical devi
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by mafribe 10y ago
You are phrasing this rather politely. The "Social expectations" are enshrined into law. Just a quick look at the legal rights involving paternity vs maternity leave make that pretty clear [1]. So do the regulations regarding divo
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by mafribe 10y ago
If you are interested in the history of automata, artificial creativity and artificial intelligence, the following two are also interesting. - D. Summers Stay, Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine. - W. Zhao,
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by mafribe 10y ago
By GDB, you mean the GNU debugger? I have not used it for over a decade. Is it a convenient interface for toying and experimenting with x86 assembler?
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by mafribe 10y ago
I wonder if there is a nice and easy to use x86 simulator like the MARS simulator for MIPS [1]? Some place where I can run (step through) little x86 assembly programs study their effect of the each register. [1] http://courses.mi
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Also of interest are some of his other innovations: - Plankalkuel, by some criteria the first high-level programming language [1]. - Digital physics [2]. I have no idea if this is taken seriously by physicists. - First chess program, predat
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by mafribe 10y ago
intersex is considered a very normal To a quantitative biologist, maybe. But that's the wrong point of reference, as they don't make mainstream culture. Sexual reproduction so as to perpetuate humanity is the single most
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by mafribe 10y ago
This seems both unjust and irrational. Why? As a rule of thumb, humans start thinking about something when it doesn't work for them. And for gays in particular, the traditional structuring of gender roles has been deeply probl
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by mafribe 10y ago
gender is more relevant than sex No it's not. The underlying biological reality is that humans reproduce sexually. All gender roles are social elaborations and heuristics that evolve(d) to regulate and structure the biologica
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by mafribe 10y ago
Have you considered the possibility that your family has been putting strong pressure on your son (probably against your conscious wishes) to like pink, and that he has been trying to satisfy what he perceived a parental demand? Children le
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by mafribe 10y ago
the actual intent We cannot look into people's head. We have to take into account what they say they do. Yes, we can question to what extent they were telling the truth, possibly even to themselves. wouldn't be the f
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by mafribe 10y ago
conflation between communism and USSR dictatorship. It's a simplification, but historically warranted, in the sense that the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society as described by M
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by mafribe 10y ago
None I'm aware of. That may change in the future, given that we now have a lot of female scientists. OTOH, given the statistically undeniable inability of highly educated women to procreate, society will probably soon revert back to th
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by mafribe 10y ago
I put the vast majority of the blame on the advisor One of the social functions of a PhD supervisor is a a'lightning rod' that enables the failed candidate to blame the supervisor, rather than themselves. Highly conve
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by mafribe 10y ago
International captial cities like Berlin are major destinations for travellers of all stripe, and will be for the forseeable future. Indeed, the boundary between tourists and residents is porous. Capital cities attract a transient populatio
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by mafribe 10y ago
your imputation is incorrect. You confidently assert that ... gender stereotypes in the 19th century, but magically believe they don't apply to you. What pixie-dust gives you that superpower? Babbage wrote a program we ha
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by mafribe 10y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9415429
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by mafribe 10y ago
people with low incomes should be able to live in the city. Steglitz, Spandau, Koepenick, Lichtenrade are all in the city. And all have excellent public transport that gets you to Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg etc in a few minutes. Peo
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by mafribe 10y ago
Right to live where you work seems to be a good one. The people who work in the center (often government, large companies) are usually also the most well-off, so living close to work is to a good approximation what you'd get w
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by mafribe 10y ago
The former Soviet Union, and its satellites were remarkably destructive towards the environment, much more so than the democratic West. The nuclear accident in Chernobyl is but one example. And that doesn't even factor in that the Sovi
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by mafribe 10y ago
£310k near Seven Sisters That's not expensive relative to London income levels, given that property is typically financed over 25 years or so, basically over the most productive phase of one's working life, so it's p
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by mafribe 10y ago
I agree that some property is left empty, but this is extremely rare. There are just not enough lazy Billionaires that can afford this. In most cases empty means unable to sell or rent out. You'll notice that most developments in Londo
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by mafribe 10y ago
Berlin is jam-packed with undeveloped brown-field sites. Get rid of the restrictions on height, and build 50 - 100 floors Hong Kong style, at least in the center. Tempelhof shows the stupidity of the Berlin voter. The refusal to develop eve
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by mafribe 10y ago
There is no human right to rent a 100m2 flat in Mitte for €200 per month. Even central Berlin is full of brown-field sites that could be developed -- Flughafen Tempelhof most prominently. If you go for Hong Kong style density there, a lot o
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by mafribe 10y ago
Berlin has an extremely affordable rental market, unless you want to live in Mitte or nearby. Even Mitte would be more affordable, if 50-100 floor skyscrapers could get building permission. I'm not sure how familiar with the London pr
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by mafribe 10y ago
It would be rather easy to increase supply of housing. Berlin is full of brown-field sites that could be stacked with housing. 1. Remove density and height restrictions (e.g. "Berliner Traufhoehe"). 2. Remove unnecessarily strict
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by mafribe 10y ago
Babbage also proposed a packet switching semaphore network Interesting. Could you point me towards a description of Babbage's ideas?
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by mafribe 10y ago
Hopper both invented the concept of compiler and wrote the 1st one. No. A_0 was a simple linker in 2016 parlance, not a compiler. In Hopper's own description: "All I had to do was to write down a set of call number
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by mafribe 10y ago
it is uncontested this is the 1st published program for the Analytical Engine. Babbage constructed the AE to execute programs, so he would certainly have written some. Bernoulli numbers are old hand have been calculated since a
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by mafribe 10y ago
Which of the original content is from Babbage, which from Lovelace?

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