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by maze-le 8y ago
I found it to be pretty sensationalist and ripe with historical inaccuracies. Senators with beards in full military attire in the senate house is only the most obvious one. The portrayal of most costumes is not accurate. Rome itself was not
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by maze-le 8y ago
Brainfuck is esoteric, C++ Template Metaprogramming is pretty esoteric. But once you wrap your head around the pattern matching, the erlang syntax becomes pretty straight forward. I found it interesting because it explicitly didn't loo
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> "please don't assume I'm a Labour/Green supporter just because I read the Guardian" So, its essentially an apology for being an open minded conservative... Sounds pretty much like a premature capitulation t
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> I don't always agree with their opinions or editorials I really don't know why this always has to be pointed out when it comes to classic mass media. I would say: "Good thing" because if you'd always agree,
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by maze-le 8y ago
Wow, never thought about it this way. Its probably a nice plot for a crime novel.
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Everything's about instant gratification, creating and maintaining persona for the outside world to see There are quite some of video games, where exactly this is the encouraged behaviour. Just think about the controversy over
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by maze-le 8y ago
Love it! What I find very interesting is, the stability of the system. There must be quite the heavy load on the machine: retrieval, analysis, tempo matching, mashup creation, encoding and all on a ~11 hours HN-related stress test.
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by maze-le 8y ago
This one is great! My grindcore experiment wans't too successful, but it gave me a chuckle anyway. Nasum & Napalm Death: Face the Children [0]: https://rave.dj/yjDMS4Pu0a81ZA (Napalm Death: Suffer the Children vs.
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by maze-le 8y ago
Really? Interesting... whenever I am in Poland I stand in awe and bewilderment before a (seemingly) never ending successions of consonants (mainly c,s,z,r,l,w and k) -- and I am never able to tell how a word is pronounced. Its probably a bi
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by maze-le 8y ago
German, or like mark twain said: "The only virtue of the language: After one short lesson in the alphabet, the student can tell how any German word is pronounced without having to ask;"
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by maze-le 8y ago
Right up until someone in your company decides it is a good idea to introduce this new piece of infrastructure...
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> The average Greco-Roman was impoverished and had a life expectancy of around 35-40 This is more a problem with statistics than anything else. If anything, the median life expectancy should be measured. The reason that the average l
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by maze-le 8y ago
Yes, single letter variables do have their place. But this place is very limited. Consider these lines in ruby data.reject{|e| e.value.nil?} data.reject{|element| element.value.nil?} I would always prefer the first one. My gen
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by maze-le 8y ago
I am german and have some polish friends. They are among the most liberal people I know, sometimes a bit crazy, but always open for new developments and people. This is why I find it so strange, that all the Poles I know seem like a direct
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by maze-le 8y ago
GPS devices are not on themselves active senders, you can choose not to have Wifi or cellphones. You can opt-out to do face tracking on Facebook, its just your friends you have to worry about. MACs can be spoofed. In short, you can pretty m
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by maze-le 8y ago
As you pointed out: " there is a category of people who can be said to be in need of help, there are others who are quite within their right to do with their lives whatever they please". But, if you only provide help to those who
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by maze-le 8y ago
Credit, really? For pursuing the only sane course of action after all others have been played out?
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by maze-le 8y ago
I think thats a bit far fetched... Pacifism because of the reasons you just described(I'm not going to work for the military because I disagree with current US foreign policy) is a perfectly valid stance. The problem could only arise i
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by maze-le 8y ago
"Peak Oil" is a theoretical model for analyzing oil supply and production cost. It was first conceptualized in the 1950ies, in a time where hardly anyone was claiming that we're almost out of oil. Indeed "Peak Oil"
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by maze-le 8y ago
Its not that much, but it's a start: https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/international/negotiatio...
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by maze-le 8y ago
Already happening: http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/09/14/infant-annihilator-bann... That was the moment when I cancelled my spotify account. Oh and to be sure, they don't need to "working with the ex
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by maze-le 8y ago
How do you come to the conclusion that Newton predicted computational complexity?
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by maze-le 8y ago
I can see this development as well, and I think it is the influence of postmodernism. As a philosophical thought the postmodernist school states (among other things) that all knowledge is sociol-culturally conditioned, so no bit of knowledg
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by maze-le 8y ago
I don't know how old you are, but my bet is: its an age thing. Actually I miss the web from 1999-2004 for the exact same reasons you do, and 2008 was already way downhill for me. But when I think about it a bit more carefully... How ol
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> I noticed that it's a bit socially looked down upon to be privacy conscious Where I live, the exact opposite seems true. If you are an ardent user of social media, you are more likeley than not to be under a bit of scrutiny.
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Feelings are fine-tuned over millions of years to be good signals. If you're going for a hunt on large mammals, gut feelings about your peers is probably a good way to judge a person. An interview for a job is (usually) an ent
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by maze-le 8y ago
If so, does this contradict the original statement? Just because one group is acting overzealous, it does not imply, that the premise is false.
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by maze-le 8y ago
Yeah, thats a great one, especially if you are in a big office and forget to plug in your headphones. There is a simple trick though: about:config >> Search for "autoplay" (media.autoplay.enabled) >> set it to "fa
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by maze-le 8y ago
I'm pretty sure propaganda can be very authentic, as well as incitement. It really only depends on the audience...
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> neither you nor your project have connections to famous companies or people It may come across like this, but most often, a decision is made against a solution by an individual, because the risk of a project like this not being mai

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