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by msg 16y ago
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -- Kierkegaard
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by msg 16y ago
Remember Nelson in Ep 3F17 after seeing Naked Lunch with the fake ID: "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title."
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by msg 16y ago
"Reverse pool shark hustle" I would call this pulling a W.
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by msg 16y ago
"morals have no scientific foundation" Your consequentialist philosophical views also have no "scientific foundation". Science reveals the world as it is, not as it should be. You claim that somehow you are beyond values by applying this cr
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by msg 16y ago
I know how to read. The concept I am criticizing in your argument is "data". And I am saying that taking a statistical approach to these questions is misguided. "Maybe if it would save 1000 lives per month? Or one million lives per month? I
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by msg 16y ago
This is a bullshit argument. Torture does not save shit and it is good for nothing. What if destroying the earth would save the universe? What if Batman wanted you to torture someone? What if cutting off the eyelids of a brown person meant
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by msg 16y ago
You can't evolve out of the meaning of life.
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by msg 16y ago
Recording music, reading sf/f and classics, parenting, and Team Fortress 2.
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by msg 16y ago
You should be able to get a beta key if you preorder it, and you could start right now...
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by msg 16y ago
It's apt. APT! http://xkcd.com/606/
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by msg 16y ago
ehsanul is lying. The computer is your friend. And there will be cake.
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by msg 16y ago
I've been on T mobile for a year and my G1 is still running Android 1.6. I can't complain, because the phone is weak sauce and at least everything needed for turn by turn navigation is supported.
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by msg 16y ago
It seems to me the main problem is then the keyboard. As far as I can tell, there's no way I can run Emacs with the iPad soft keyboard (brother in law bought one, so I got to try first hand). But I just have a clunky laptop if I attach an e
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by msg 16y ago
He he, I did a double-take when you said you didn't like smalltalk. I was like, hey, object-orientation isn't so bad. Guess I am one of those introverts too.
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by msg 16y ago
At least in my master's program, I was advised that an MS without a thesis was essentially a terminal degree. If you want a research job at Google, you need the PhD, and if you want the PhD, you must do the thesis.
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by msg 16y ago
A coworker and I were talking about this today. We think preconditions, invariants, and postconditions are less intuitive than recursion and base cases. We are aware that recursions and iterations are dual, we just seem to like the recursio
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by msg 16y ago
Hehe, those are pretty good, but xkcd makes too much sense. The king of this particular block is Marmaduke Explained. http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/ http://www.29-95.com/time-suck/comic-strip/marmaduke-explain...
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by msg 16y ago
The world I was in had a long roller coaster run around the outside. Nothing special, just a big counter clockwise loop. I worked my way up to the top, then made a wall in the run and started pitching people off it into nothingness (a bunch
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by msg 16y ago
Writer's block is caused by lack of information.
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by msg 16y ago
This got long, but hopefully there is some good knowledge in here for you. Steve Yegge wrote some great starter posts on Emacs. He essentially inspired me to get out and learn it. He provides some good starting defaults that you should use.
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by msg 16y ago
Your way makes more sense. You use it to post things and it isn't preposterous. They need to fix the pronunciation.
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by msg 16y ago
They made Flood-it and included Google Ads. I'm sure they're way ahead of this curve...
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by msg 16y ago
But as a player there are many things you can do to ensure that it ends quickly (draw 4, play all, let's do that again, take another turn). You might not always be the beneficiary but the game will be over shortly. I'm a fan of the zombie v
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by msg 16y ago
If there was an auction for the tickets the price would be driven up too. Shows do sell out in minutes and not just because of scalpers. Imagine an auction that increased ticket prices until just before the show began. Now stop imagining it
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by msg 16y ago
http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-challenges
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by msg 16y ago
I think it's a little disingenuous to say you can't find evidence of secondary economic implications to health, education, welfare, and social security, and can't imagine how or why they contribute to economic growth.
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by msg 16y ago
The safety net encourages people to create value by taking on more risk, e.g. starting a business. If you are going to talk about all the economic side effects of creating bombs and surveillance systems, you need to talk about the side effe
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by msg 16y ago
It was by Barbara Kingsolver, a great author and biologist in her own right.
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by msg 16y ago
6! This is a cool game. "55AA AAB6 AAAA F6AA AA9A AAA2 AAAA AAAA 009A AAAA AAAA A977 0AAA AAAA A755 AAAA AA40 02AA AAAA AAC0 6AAF AAAA AAC2 6D54 30AA AAAA A805 400A AAAA AAB2 9AAA AA9D AAAA AAAB 0000 2AAA AAA5 AAAA AAA0 AAAA AAA3 0FD5 575A
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by msg 16y ago
We are the authors with last names not Q. We are the ones being rejected and leaving the platform. Look at what is being rejected: our personal ideas of the best ways for us to do work, our molding of the computer to the vision in our head.

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