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by msg 16y ago
I don't think I'm asking exactly the right question, but what makes life good, in the sense of our nature as human beings? I'm trying to understand what you take as the origin of ethics, or the final arbiter of good and evil.
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by msg 17y ago
I've read Ayn Rand's books, so I feel confident in stating with Wikipedia that for the Objectivist the moral purpose of the individual life is the pursuit of happiness or rational self-interest. I don't feel like I overstated the position.
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by msg 17y ago
For the Tl;dr ers out there, here's the short version. And no, I don't agree that the Objectivists get off so easy... The atheists claim to be able to explain ethics, but they provide no ultimate foundation for ethics. Instead they point to
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by msg 17y ago
High-IQ risk taking does not just come from the school system or immigration. It also comes from the freedom to fail. Increasing the safety net and taking the edge off failure will help people step out on the tightrope.
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by msg 17y ago
There is a demo video! Hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw
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by msg 17y ago
Say this paragraph out loud: I don't use Gambit, I use Skeem. Yes, I know Gambit is Scheme. Skeem is also Scheme, just a different Scheme.
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by msg 17y ago
I appreciated the self-referential nature of the page. 1. We created a web page long enough to tell the story 2. We infused the headline with curiosity rather than overt "buy me" language 5. We augmented the message with video Et cetera. If
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by msg 17y ago
I have a soft spot in my heart for this one. http://colors.napcsweb.com/colorschemer/ There are several schemes to choose from (complimentary, contrasting, triadic, etc) and knobs to adjust. You get 5 colors to look at next to each other
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by msg 17y ago
If you're interested in more research on image steganography, Hany Farid and Jessica Fridrich are writing great papers about it.
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by msg 17y ago
I take the point to be that if the judge doesn't uphold the DMCA safe harbors, they need to tell Youtube what they can legally do. Viacom's stated alternative is for Youtube to divine the intent of the copyright holder. Arguing that the alt
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by msg 17y ago
I'm sure you've already thought of this, but it seems like now that you have input of OCR sheet music, you should strongly consider output of OCR sheet music. Allow your player to set the metronome, then capture what they play on Etude. Out
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by msg 17y ago
Sorry, a stray click downvoted your comment and I cannot undo. I upvoted another one of your comments to balance out the universe.
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by msg 17y ago
(defun strlen (str) (loop for i from 0 for char across str finally (return i))) Works in my emacs... I (require 'cl).
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by msg 17y ago
I give you a file of words, one per line, which may contain duplicates. Output the words in sorted order, removing duplicates, with a count of the number of times it appeared in the original file. Your program should be small and efficient.
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by msg 17y ago
My problem with the coding questions (other than the fact that everyone has seen them) is that they're too shallow. So the questions are binary. If you can't do them, interview over, sure. But if you can do them they don't say that much. Th
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by msg 17y ago
Berlusconi's Italy might also qualify.
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by msg 17y ago
As a user who endured many crashes in Team Fortress 2 with the edge versions of Crossover Games, I'm happy that I'll become a first-class citizen soon...
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by msg 17y ago
Lesson learned for that interviewer. Lead with the math problem, then go over resume, boost Google, and end the call.
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by msg 17y ago
Your argument is still circular. What do you think proof and disproof mean in this context? Why don't you think that materialism suffers from the same flaws? This is why scientists make bad philosophers. They do not acknowledge the boundari
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by msg 17y ago
If a scientist tells you something doesn't exist, remind them of the problem of induction. If you hold a prior belief that the physical world is all there is (or that physical explanations are the only valid explanations, which the physical
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by msg 17y ago
Ubiquity
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by msg 17y ago
Good questions. Gestures, yes. Look and feel, yes. (Without infringing trademarks.) Drivers, yes. Duplicate the code, no. If someone can follow you fast into innovation, it's not innovative! If you can't stay ahead you'll get eaten by the w
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by msg 17y ago
Or the community interest. Is the plural of self-interest community interest? How much pain does it take to show the harmful effects of the monopoly outweigh the benefits?
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by msg 17y ago
My most positive takeaway from the book is that there is still a lot of room to create new social interaction models for the internet. It doesn't have to stay fragmentary and relatively meaningless, as in status updates. The dangers Lanier
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by msg 17y ago
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/preventionprogram/ Here's one better. It's a type 2 diabetes study that compared exercise against metformin against a placebo. The conclusions were so overwhelmingly in favor of exercise that the stud
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by msg 17y ago
Use this Greasemonkey. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46822
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by msg 17y ago
Like the troll article the other day. It was very hard not to write a troll acting like it was trying not sound like a troll.
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by msg 17y ago
Sometimes I'm out at a restaurant with my engineer buddies and we all want to know something. So I whip out my phone and start Googling. In that case I'm not just diverting attention from them, I'm serving them. I think similarly there will
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by msg 17y ago
Or you could have a canonical repository like the Ministry of Truth. Fixed that for you.
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by msg 17y ago
There have been some attempts to study language drift over time and geography. The proponent that springs to mind is Joseph Greenberg. His work is an attempt to work backwards to the common core of language, the starting place. If you knew

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