pyrhho

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by pyrhho 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/795/
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by pyrhho 16y ago
It apparently also doesn't surpass a website which lets people throw sheep at each other.
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by pyrhho 16y ago
True, it could have. But it didn't until the organizational and persuasive ability of a small group of people could out-do the FBI, CIA, etc.. That being said, there is a lot more behind 9/11, and increasing power of individuals relativ
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by pyrhho 16y ago
The increasing power of motivated and intelligent individuals is a major force, which I feel the author missed. In modern times (particularly in the last 10 years) it has become easier and easier for the motivated and intelligent individua
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by pyrhho 16y ago
> Plus Go has easy concurrency via message passing, which is nice to have these days. Indeed. I voted Go because learning it made writing concurrent software FUN! (As it should be)
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by pyrhho 16y ago
Link is broken for me. Relevant wikipedia page for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
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by pyrhho 16y ago
Whenever people drop accolades upon historical figures (Fuller included) I always have to wonder if there is a bit of survivorship bias at play. I'm not saying that Fuller wasn't a complete genius (he definitely was), but I wonder how many
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by pyrhho 16y ago
> Somehow I can't see an internet mob ganging up on someone who remixed a song (of an indie artist) and refused to see anything wrong with it. It is a blend of the fact that the remixer was trying to make money off of the stolen content
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by pyrhho 16y ago
Slightly off topic but, I thoroughly enjoyed Jared Diamond's Gun's Germs and Steel[1]. Though his argument has some weaknesses, it makes an interesting case for why racial inequalities exist in the fashion that they do. [1] http://en.wiki
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So... It's like Unix pipes with GNU Parallel?
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Thanks! I could NOT remember of the name for it!
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Additionally, poorly structured career ladders can to lead to "Promotion Until Incompetence", where people are repeatedly promoted until they are unable to warrant another promotion. Thus, everyone is stuck at a level of mild incompetence.