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by nardi 12y ago
> You misunderstood my first comment. I meant new C-like-in-syntax have nothing revolutionary semantically across the board. Are you saying that the new features in Swift/Rust/C#/etc. aren't revolutionary? Or that th
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by nardi 12y ago
You complained about new C-like languages (C-like in syntax) not being any better than C. I mentioned some ways that new C-like languages (C-like in syntax) are much better than C. Now you're complaining that other languages already ha
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by nardi 12y ago
Are you kidding? Swift has a TON of revolutionary stuff over C, including algebraic data types, optionals, destructuring pattern matching, and a lot more. Rust too. There are a ton of new "C-like" languages that are light years be
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by nardi 12y ago
A long-range rocket without a payload is probably still pretty expensive. Edit: Let me rephrase—"probably not much cheaper."
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by nardi 12y ago
> While this is pretty cool, due to distance limitation we are not getting telephone line modems that can outstrip fiber optics. From the article: "XG-FAST can help operators accelerate FTTH deployments, taking fiber very close to c
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by nardi 12y ago
Regardless, at least it's attacking the problem at its roots.
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by nardi 12y ago
If you want less corruption and cronyism in Congress, and you want your voice heard again in D.C., I honestly think the best thing you can do is give Lawrence Lessig your money, before the day is over.
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by nardi 12y ago
I have donated twice, and I hope everyone here donates as well. This is the first step toward fixing our democracy. If you want to get corporate bribery and cronyism out of politics, it's time to put your money where your mouth is.
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by nardi 12y ago
I was going to take a crack at breaking this apart into component functions, but I realized that I don't know where to draw the lines, or what to name the functions, without understanding the internals of this part (and probably other
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by nardi 12y ago
This argument boils down to: "People don't know what's best for themselves, so we shouldn't give them what they clearly want." I can sympathize with that somewhat, but I think that's a dangerous direction for a
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by nardi 12y ago
I don't commute.
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by nardi 12y ago
Another anti-Copenhagen argument by Carver Mead: http://www.cns.caltech.edu/people/faculty/mead/Nature_Of_Lig...
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by nardi 12y ago
These documents have just now been disclosed. This is a huge scandal that should give us immense pause in considering future interventions in Iraq. I'm completely positive that we don't know the whole story, nor the full extent of
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by nardi 12y ago
So more lanes don't reduce congestion, but this article ignores the fact that they obviously DO increase quality of life, by giving people the freedom to live and work where they choose. We should build more lanes for that reason alone
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by nardi 12y ago
I totally understand that, and I realize that I sound stupid to anyone who follows sailing. What my comment was intended to do was represent the viewpoint of someone who isn't used to that interpretation of the word "fair." M
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by nardi 12y ago
That's not basic income. Basic income by its definition goes to everyone. That's what makes it an appealing substitute for minimum wage, welfare, etc.
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by nardi 12y ago
Yeah, that probably shouldn't be buried near the end of the article. I felt deceived. Obviously I don't follow sailing, but it seems really silly that they could lose by 4 days and still "win."
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by nardi 12y ago
Disagree with PUT. As stated above, this request is not idempotent (multiple requests result in multiple honks, not one), so it should be a POST (the only method intended for non-idempotent requests).
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by nardi 12y ago
This study has an enormous sample size, but an incredibly small effect. They're measuring effects of less than 0.1%. Admittedly, they have the statistical power to do this, but it's not a very impressive result. "Reading Othe
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by nardi 12y ago
Even better, it wasn't a satellite dish. It was a pizza dish. Source: http://youtu.be/F3Hoz7_s6pQ (about 2:40)
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by nardi 12y ago
How has no one mentioned mobile ? Smartphones/tablets? You know, the largest segment of general computation devices?
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by nardi 12y ago
> money is more renewable than energy This is a nonsensical view of the concepts of value and money.
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by nardi 12y ago
Consider: the vast majority of people who have money to spend on home automation have Apple products.
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If I understand the basic premise, then other mostly stable and abundant gases (like Nitrogen, or even air) could probably be used as well, if the transistor size and voltage are small enough. (That's wholly conjecture, though. I also
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by nardi 12y ago
You're getting confused by the word "idea." You patent a machine, not an idea. If you insist on saying that you patent the "idea" for a machine, then what you can't patent is an "idea about an idea.&quot
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by nardi 12y ago
An abstract idea isn't physical. You can patent a machine, or a drug. You can't patent a method for dividing two numbers. However, a machine for dividing two numbers—assuming it's novel, not obvious, etc.—is fair game.
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by nardi 12y ago
If the book was indeed a disguised one-time pad, as the article and evidence suggests, then no one's going to get anywhere cracking the code without the book.
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by nardi 12y ago
> Will they be willing to die, given that operating a large pool must be quite lucrative? I'm not an expert, but I think that they wouldn't have a choice, since they would be outnumbered, and no one would recognize the legitima
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by nardi 12y ago
> Edit: with that said, I don't agree that eliminating mining pools is a good thing; that just rewards those who can enforce cooperation by some other means (say, having the capital to personally run the farm), which has a far more
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by nardi 12y ago
Thanks! It's called Massive Dungeon, and is heavily inspired by Dungeon Crawl. It has a retro pixel graphics aesthetic. The goal is 10,000 players in a single, truly massive dungeon, all trying to beat each other to the bottom. No rule

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