monochr

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by monochr 12y ago
>so honest question - what's in it for ME if I open source? You lock the market. Once there is an open source project in a niche of high enough quality, especially if it comes out first, it will essentially never be dislodged and yo
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by monochr 12y ago
"johngalt" Oh I thought for a second I was talking to a non-troll. My bad.
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by monochr 12y ago
"Do you think it's perfectly reasonable for an organization that spends $1.5billion on IT to be unable to retain their directors email?" You do realize that the IRS it budget is spent on trying to keep a database of every Ame
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by monochr 12y ago
If legs evolved for walking why are they so useful for swimming? There is a set of genes that encodes for the behavior of walking or allows us to learn it and a whole other host of adaptations from our vestibular system to the angle at whic
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by monochr 12y ago
Republican logic: Demand the strictest most penny pinching policies from the IRS while you are defunding them[1]. Complain when said defunding affects one of your pet issues because they can't afford a central server and store every em
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by monochr 12y ago
> Last week, Maxim Ksenov, deputy head of Roskomnadzor, took to Russian newspaper Izvestia to complain about an unnamed Twitter account that "published monstrous things" and called for the overthrow of the political regime and
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by monochr 12y ago
I sometimes think even most biologists don't understand how evolution works. Especially when I read about people taking the idea of spandrels seriously. Legs didn't evolve "for" walking, ancestors with leg like appendage
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by monochr 12y ago
You don't and neither does evolution. All that the DNA knows is that it got into the next generation and it will keep doing whatever it was doing before plus or minus a few small random mutations.
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by monochr 12y ago
Yes, like chromium, something I've been using as a 64bit native app since 2009 on Linux.
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by monochr 12y ago
And? I was using windows from 1995-2005 and I still didn't know half the things it could do. If you're interested in getting this working (which I doubt since you sound like you'd much rather whine about it) you can read how
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by monochr 12y ago
In 2009 or so.
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by monochr 12y ago
Unless someone went behind my back and figured out how to use quantum mechanics in macroscopic systems to beat the second law of thermodynamics there isn't a way I can be wrong.
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by monochr 12y ago
The question isn't is it an insurmountable problem. The question is if it is an economically sound way of doing things. And the answer is a resounding no just from thinking about conservation of energy: you will need an area of land at
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by monochr 12y ago
If being nice was a prerequisite for being right everyone from Socrates onwards is wrong.
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by monochr 12y ago
>The point is that they believe they can. They are welcome to believing that, just as the Catholic Church is welcome to thinking I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity for not believing their god.
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by monochr 12y ago
"but I don't see why they are insurmountable." Have you tried thinking? Start with "heating the road" to melt snow. The most efficient way to use sunlight to do this is to turn all the energy we get from it into hea
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by monochr 12y ago
> One unscrupulous individual even took our viral Solar Freakin' Roadways video (by volunteer Michael Naphan) without our permission, and has used it to create another video, in which he has embedded deliberately misleading informat
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by monochr 12y ago
The will to dominate others is as old as human kind. The idea that computers have changed anything is just historical blindness of the part of people who fail to realize how totalitarian all states were until the French revolution, where yo
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by monochr 12y ago
As someone from that region I'd like to apologize for the borderline racist algorithm they build. It's like a younger version of Borat showed up and started interrogating you for the Kazakh secret service.
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by monochr 12y ago
"a computer programme that simulates a 13 year old boy [...] If a computer is mistaken for a human more than 30% of the time during a series of five minute keyboard conversations it passes the test." In short they did nothing.
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by monochr 12y ago
After reading most of the replies in this thread everyone who thinks that maths is about answers needs to read A Mathematicians Apology: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/mss/misc/A%20Mathematician%27s%2... Mathematics
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by monochr 12y ago
Actually existing capitalism is capitalism. There is no more point in trying to differentiate it from "ideal" capitalism than there is of trying to separate "ideal" feudalism or socialism from their real world counterpar
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by monochr 12y ago
This is capitalism in government, that was the whole point behind the "venture philanthropists". Watching plan after plan crash and burn with them blaming the poor is like a getting a time machine ride to 1860's Britain tryin
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by monochr 12y ago
>Amazing that the money is all gone Not really. This is what American Capitalism is known as around the world. In oil and gas you know to sell your shares and not work for a firm that gets an American CEO because everything the article t
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by monochr 12y ago
Just at a standard which would make many former soviet states cringe.
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by monochr 12y ago
"Lastly, some of Piketty's errors were transcription errors. In other words, GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out). Therefore, using Python while there were GIGO issues isn't going to solve the data problem." More importantly th
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by monochr 12y ago
Until you realize that there is more to mathematics than discrete mathematics. For someone doing, let's say, Topology computers are so useless you could well spend your entire postgraduate life without using anything more complicated t
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by monochr 12y ago
>we're going to have a more attractive policy "Going to" isn't good enough. If the situation doesn't improve by next year we will be relocating to Eastern Europe. Yes, you heard that right, the post Soviet Klepto
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by monochr 12y ago
That is what we were using. But the plans are either ripoffs, 100GB cap with 10c per MB over quota - which resulted in a $500 over charge and a cancellation right away - or the service is terrible when the university students get out of cla
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by monochr 12y ago
Fix the internet. It doesn't matter how much it costs. I have to wait a month to get our office connected to Optus, Telstra, iiNet et al were just as bad, and as a small business that is killing our profit for this year. I called them

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