phaemon

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by phaemon 12y ago
> You're making a false equivalency between the State and other market actors. This is a meaningless objection: no two things are exactly the same, but it can be useful to consider how they're similar. > You may not be usin
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by phaemon 12y ago
Frustration doesn't fill your stomach as readily as you imagine.
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by phaemon 12y ago
> it is the threat of force to take property from someone against their will. No it's not. It's the threat of force against people who use that market and then refuse to pay the fees they owe. Any service can (and would) do the
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by phaemon 12y ago
Hehe, I think you've nailed it. What was the username of the person? (they've deleted their comments, rather than just admitting they screwed up).
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by phaemon 12y ago
Usually, "refs" are things like branches or tags. A branch in git is just a text file that contains the hash of a commit (and that commit is the head of the branch). So it's a "reference" (or "ref") to tha
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by phaemon 12y ago
> Some co-workers and I haven't had great experiences with webcams under Linux. Really? Because all USB webcams should support UVC, and therefore should work under every modern OS (Windows, OSX, Linux, BSDs, etc) without any addit
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by phaemon 12y ago
> goes above and beyond the minimum needed to be in compliance Awesome. I need that line added to my CV. Something like: "Conscientious worker, who often goes above and beyond the minimum needed to be in compliance."
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by phaemon 12y ago
OT, but: > I just can't phantom a world I think you mean 'fathom' here. It uses the metaphor of something being too deep to measure.
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by phaemon 12y ago
> Nobody says "american guy" Yes they do. All the time. Well, probably not in America, cause that would be stupid (I doubt they say "Indian guy" in India for the same reason) but I've certainly heard it in the UK
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by phaemon 12y ago
> and something as simple as dividing a piece of wood in to thirds is unnecessarily imprecise. Nonsense. It's dead easy. If you have a 120cm piece of wood, one third of it is 40cm. Now, let's try that in Imperial. 120cm is 3 fo
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by phaemon 12y ago
I dunno, "Birding with citizen science" might be quite an interesting dating site...
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by phaemon 12y ago
Knuth is a remarkably odd choice of example for this, since the whole reason for the existence of TeX is his dislike of the form of the time.
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by phaemon 12y ago
Ok, so do you see now why the prime divisors of 18 (in that particular case) can't be on the original list, because otherwise they would also divide 36 (and we know they leave remainder 1). And therefore we must hit some primes that a
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by phaemon 12y ago
As you suspected, it was intended as a joke. The other primes do, in fact, quite like 2, and 9 is not in any way primier than 2 despite my previous assertion. EDIT: Actually, there was a real point to ignoring 2, and it was just so I could
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by phaemon 12y ago
> "So this means: it has a divisor not in the initial primes (actually, I think it must have two). But why should it be prime?" Ok, this is the heart of the issue. If the new number is a prime, all is well and good, but if the
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by phaemon 12y ago
I'd be interested in hearing why you're not fully convinced. There seem to be 2 parts to the proof. If you have a list of primes: You can generate another number from that list You can always get a prime from that number
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by phaemon 12y ago
Euclid's proof isn't a proof by contradiction. As the wikipedia page says: >"Euclid is often erroneously reported to have proved this result by contradiction" It simply says that if you are constructing a list of prim
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by phaemon 12y ago
Well, yes, it would have happened eventually, but consider that it's like the difference between death and murder.
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by phaemon 12y ago
I have to wonder about the wits of someone who thinks that something can't be true, because it causes so many problems.
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by phaemon 12y ago
No, it isn't. There are several different kinds of drinks in England. Again, you seem to be talking about a subject you clearly know nothing about. For example, you thinking that England uses imperial measures for its shots. It doesn&#
951.
by phaemon 12y ago
18ml is not a drink in England, which is the place we're talking about for 'units of alcohol'. In fact, most countries don't use the same measures for alcoholic drinks as the USA does. I'm surprised you don't
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by phaemon 12y ago
> There is Fox News and there is the Financial Times; neither is purely bad or good, but one is far better than the other. I used to believe so too. And I also believed that the BBC was far better than either, because they may have faile
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by phaemon 12y ago
What's your robot butler thing? That sounds interesting.
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by phaemon 12y ago
What exactly is he saying to do, that is going to lead to these deaths? I can't find any mass death approval in the linked article.
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by phaemon 12y ago
I like having a tablet around for quickly looking up stuff, or showing someone a video or photos. However, I got one free with my phone and it's good enough that I'm not sure I'd bother buying a more powerful one. On a side n
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by phaemon 12y ago
It certainly isn't. You can just do: ansible webservers -m yum -a "name=puppet state=latest" -s Or just use ansible for provisioning and install puppet along with the OS. Or something...
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by phaemon 12y ago
The steps of building infrastructure and investing outside the country, are pretty much exactly the same as was suggested for Scotland in the McCrone report in 1974. Unfortunately, that report was classified as "secret" at the tim
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by phaemon 12y ago
It's pretty commonly known. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal...
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by phaemon 12y ago
No, I meant what I wrote. Your inability to understand context is not a sign of intelligence or education (especially when the context is from your own post). Oh, and lighten up. Did you not think it was funny that you made a grammatical er
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by phaemon 12y ago
> someone who's educational experience is walking around the woods unsupervised? That would be "whose". Nobody cares about education before degree level, so I suspect they'll be fine.

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