philipov

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by philipov 2mo ago
The shareware version I had was missing stuff until I upgraded. It was before 2.0 came out, but I don't remember the details after all this time. I believe it didn't have all the techs? Something important wasn't available.
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by philipov 2mo ago
Wow, Stars! I loved this game so much as a child. Back then, after upgrading from shareware I had to wait for a floppy disk to arrive in the mail.
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by philipov 2mo ago
It's much simpler to change "is" to "was"
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by philipov 2mo ago
"How To Prove It" is used to initiate people. It was required reading for an introductory class on formal mathematics at university.
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by philipov 2mo ago
The problem is the hypocrisy. They scrape, but don't want others to scrape them. If they act like they've been stolen from when they get scraped, that is a confession of guilt to when they did it themselves. They should be punishe
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by philipov 2mo ago
The person you're afraid of conquering you not liking that you're trying to defend yourself against conquest is not an argument against doing that.
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by philipov 2mo ago
> Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? All the time, on the internet. People will reveal the most deranged opinions when they feel immune from consequences for them.
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by philipov 2mo ago
But that would be a link to a different website and that's forbidden. Whatever you do, you can't let them leeeeeaaaaave
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by philipov 2mo ago
The approximation is the belief that things can happen simultaneously. It is approximating along the fact that we only need to concern ourselves with a single reference frame. I think the difference in the scenario you proposed is that we c
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by philipov 2mo ago
As an approximation it can be fine to speak that way in practical matters, but it's dangerous to go drawing any deep conclusions while doing so. Approximations shouldn't be allowed to go outside their operational parameters.
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by philipov 2mo ago
It's not semantics, it's an approximation. Events that happen on the same planet are not relativistically distant, so such approximations are mostly fine in our daily lives; the same as how Newtonian gravity is fine to use in many
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by philipov 2mo ago
The idea driving this conclusion is called the Relativity of Simultaneity - There is no absolute notion that two events happened "at the same time". You want to say that a distant event occurred at the same time as a nearby event
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by philipov 2mo ago
It matters. The alternative is to use a product that doesn't leak your business intelligence to third parties.
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by philipov 2mo ago
Would that company then sell that data back to Google? The consolidation of control of information under a single actor is certainly a factor, but it's not that simple, and it's not the only factor. You shouldn't be so eager
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by philipov 2mo ago
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
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by philipov 2mo ago
Nero was just a poor boy who wanted to play the fiddle. Are you sure Caligula isn't a better comparison? He's the one who constantly tried to own the ̶l̶i̶b̶s̶ senate. That's what the whole deal with the horse was about.
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by philipov 2mo ago
"It was a big step up on my career and put me in a better position to provide for my family, which is my most important moral duty" is what every one of them will say.
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by philipov 2mo ago
Nonprofit doesn't mean you don't pay your employees. Nonprofits earn and spend money like any other corporation, including paying permanent fulltime staff. Not everything can be done by volunteers. What they don't do is rewar
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by philipov 2mo ago
and Lenovo is itself an IBM spinoff. After the company rebranded itself to Lenovo, it merged with IBM's PC business which produced its ThinkPad line in 2005, after which it rapidly expanded abroad. In 2013, Lenovo became the world
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by philipov 2mo ago
> The owners/workers at AI companies won't resist the redistribution. I find this to be a somewhat incredible claim. I don't find it easy to believe such a thing. You can bring up enlightened self interest if you want, b
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by philipov 2mo ago
Doesn't that just shift the problem away from incentivizing humans to incentivizing the godkings who own the robots? The scarcity becomes robot manufacturing. Why should the owners undermine the value of their robots by providing free
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by philipov 2mo ago
When was the last time the United States had a famine caused by there not being enough food rather than because we decided certain people don't deserve food? Everything you named is a political problem caused by the desire to concentra
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by philipov 2mo ago
There is no such thing as a post-scarcity world. Some resources are inherently scarce, such as social status, lifetime, or political power. As a result, even when productivity increases the benefits are hoarded by the few who wish to stand
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by philipov 2mo ago
Valve doesn't randomly remove stuff I've payed for from my library. Even when the ability to purchase something goes away, people who already bought it keep access to it.
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by philipov 2mo ago
And this is precisely the business model that platforms like Patreon and Kickstarter facilitate.
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by philipov 2mo ago
I'm betting that High-End Concept will win the race over Saab.
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by philipov 2mo ago
Could you name a few of the best ones?
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by philipov 2mo ago
We have both. Zero and Null are different data types.
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by philipov 3mo ago
I make typos all the time as well, on stuff I am just writing off the cuff like a forum or chat message. But when it comes to something important, don't you check it over dozens of times? hundreds of times? A mere missing semicolon wil
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by philipov 3mo ago
typos mean it's more likely to have been made by a careless human.

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