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by plesn 17y ago
It reminds us the hard way that school is an ambiguous beast: it has an educational side, but it has also a disciplinary side, as people like Foucault where pointing. It is made to prepare children to obey to their superiors, to follow stri
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by plesn 17y ago
That's the theory. In the actual world, unumployment keeps a pressure on salaries that increases the difference between rich and poor (which leads to problems with consumption and credits...), capital saved by the share holders isn't proper
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by plesn 17y ago
Well, depends on the religion. (As an atheist, I'm still looking at my screen and waiting for my app to self-generate...)
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by plesn 17y ago
I only had that kind of experience with my macbook, never on linux unfortunatly.
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by plesn 17y ago
This seems nice game theory but I don't see it practically unforcable for copyright laws. - Punishment is not automatic: people are innocent unless proven otherwise (spoofed ip address, pirated wifi network, etc...). - People are finding an
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by plesn 17y ago
Exactly, I would even argue that without OpenCL on CPU (which can serve e.g. as a fall-back when your GPU can't do it), OpenCL wouldn't make sense.
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by plesn 17y ago
Farming always has been dirty and bloody. It is maybe more cynically bloody because we use ways of killing animals directly taken from extermination camps, and maybe eating meat nearly every day is not worth it. And there is no such thing a
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by plesn 17y ago
If there were programmer companies that would be putting those farmers into bad situation by using there monopolies in order to tax them or to misuse their data or to put chips in there heads, they would ;-) We hopefully not always listen t
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by plesn 17y ago
The true revolution changes social relations, changing people in power is quite superficial and it is foolish to blindly believe in it. Revolutions is the usual sense happen when current structures are so rotten that something else is neede
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by plesn 17y ago
This guy had vacations, he had a trip, but he did not travel . He just brought his "occidental" mental conception of living elsewhere, he didn't even seem to have really met and lived with other people.
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by plesn 17y ago
What ?? One of the first books of sociology was about suicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book) . A person is doing it of course, but all the circumstances and environment around count! Otherwise, exaggerating a little bit thi
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by plesn 17y ago
"hardwired"... hmmm?? Nothing new under the sun, it doesn't tell anything new that can't be based on the fact that we are social products and learn our roles (which were specialized during our history). So it doesn't at all explain why, but
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by plesn 17y ago
So the debate is: what's wrong with high-schools? Is it the kids? is it the (lack of) discipline? is it because of social reasons? I went to public schools in different ditricts in France, and it changes a lot... It's not surprising that a
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by plesn 17y ago
I found that this talk about ways to do entrepreneurship to 'make the world a better place' transmits a lot of optimism and I hope it will be on topic here. Recently I read and think a lot about finding practical ways to live AND work more
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Gunter Pauli on sustainable businesses [Lift'09](vimeo.com)
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by plesn 17y ago
Naïve question I'm genuinely asking my self: why? What is the reason it is so difficult to implement WYSIWYG not top of HTML/CSS (i kind of feal it thinking at latex,but can't put a reason other than "organisation of the source")? on top of
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by plesn 17y ago
Just one though as I was looking at opera unite right now: if things go bad with the net, this will be important, everyone, even non technical, will easily host a proxy e.g... By the way, in France our 3-strikes law was found unconstitutio
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by plesn 17y ago
That's also what I'm looking forward to see. Personally my solution here would be distributed P2P: encrypted content dispatched through neighbours/servers (for some part of the content only, you could choose, for your blog but not necessari
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by plesn 17y ago
Sure, using and creating/improving open teaching material (wiki{pedia/versity}...)should be one major disrupting point in such a university. But even online you can't neglet two kinds of human interactions: with teachers (much greater level
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by plesn 17y ago
Who said those rules ought to be static? Parliaments are busy places...
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by plesn 17y ago
I know people on HN are very liberal, but this is extremely cynic about institutions. I mean: I know we are not living in wonderland and this is close to true. Here in France I even have the impression that key institutions have mostly been
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by plesn 17y ago
We are more than our genes. Let's not be reductionists here. So yes, we have brains which can make some of us do things like die for others or even die for ideas. That's quite something for your uncaring individuals. And I think your view o
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by plesn 17y ago
This is not very surprising, "Science" is a human playground as many other fields: scientists produce publications, and are confronted to other schools. So yeah, they can slightly cheat sometimes. Moreover even something as big as the Sokal
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by plesn 17y ago
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding: I thought your comment was about the technology itself.
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by plesn 17y ago
What do you mean?
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by plesn 17y ago
I agree that the main weakness of the unix cli is in discoverability. This would require at least a limited standard interface (for declaring options and help) but it would not be enought for specific usages. So the overkill solution is rea
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by plesn 17y ago
Languages are a way to communicating both to other humans and to your compiler, and doing both well is really hard. Sometimes syntactic sugar makes it easier for humans even in powerful and dense languages: think of the "do" notation in Has
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by plesn 17y ago
I definitely agree that there is a missing spot to take in the language design space: python-like clear code and static typing without bulk. Cobra, Nimrod have other interesting features but really, the point is: Python is cool to read. Whe
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by plesn 17y ago
Do you have any comments on it (or is it still a preorder)? I see we can't even have a peek on the table of contents. By the way, HN, what would be your advise for a good technical book on "cracking". I mean, not a collection of ad-hoc rece
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by plesn 17y ago
Social interaction requires you to relate to other's experiences. When I'm often in the zone, I not only feel more distant, but also have less to say as usually I read less then, don't go out much. Moreover, I often feel dissatisfied of mys

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