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by qqq 18y ago
That's not ignoring. So you are disagreeing with Raganwald, but haven't said which of his points you believe is mistaken.
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by qqq 18y ago
> perhaps with the only light being the glow of the monitor No way, bad idea, eye strain.
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by qqq 18y ago
> How did I come off as having a 'sense of superiority'? Please inform me so that I can avoid doing the same in the future. By saying that your way of being raised -- not to swear -- was "right".
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by qqq 18y ago
Silly title. If he cooked for a living, and refused to charge anywhere near the profit maximizing price , then he'd lose money ... completely by his own choice.
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by qqq 18y ago
Your first reason is in favor of cursing infrequently, not never. Your second reason is opposed to cursing only in certain situations, roughly trying to be rational. Your third reason is in favor of cursing infrequently, not never. (Unless
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by qqq 18y ago
Do you disagree because of a prejudice, or do you have well thought out reasons? If you have reasons, could you post them?
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by qqq 18y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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Three Mistakes Karl Popper Made(curi.us)
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by qqq 18y ago
The Fabric of Reality The Fountainhead The Myth of the Framework The Skeptical Environmentalist The Machinery of Freedom etc Ideas are what impresses me most.
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by qqq 18y ago
This is why we should have topic limitations. Yeah, people will post stuff like this anyway, and I don't think we should punish them. But we also shouldn't make it officially legitimate which will encourage a higher volume of such posts. Ed
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by qqq 18y ago
It's best if the site is officially hacker stuff only. The balance now is pretty good; if other topics had explicit approval they'd get a lot more common.
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by qqq 18y ago
> Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them Cold readers can too. OMFG!
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by qqq 18y ago
Yeah. Read The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman for more on that sort of law.
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by qqq 18y ago
> I think we're all a little tired of the off-topic police. Do you think I should submit this link? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin (I read it today to satisfy my intellectual curiosity.)
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by qqq 18y ago
Sounds like they want to force web radio to run more intrusive advertising or to charge fees. And if web radio won't, then they see it as giving away songs too cheaply that they want to artificially keep high-priced.
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by qqq 18y ago
the URL is different
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by qqq 18y ago
The notion that determinism has something to do with free will is a common misconception. In fact, indeterminism would not help with the free will situation in any way. Indeterminism just means part of physics is random. The best way to rec
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by qqq 18y ago
> Programmers seem to divide into two groups when it comes to writing: nearly illiterate on the one hand, and pedantic on the other. They shouldn't say it seems that way, they should say it is or it isn't. This is weak writing.
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by qqq 18y ago
We will find another/better way, but we still have a long time to find it, and it's probably just going to be shale oil, which isn't going to run out for a very long time. What comes after that hasn't been invented yet and there is no hurry
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by qqq 18y ago
It's pretty stupid to think the accuracy rate of the degree is 100%. Or that the only way to get that degree is by being smart.
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by qqq 18y ago
The point I was making is about whether people should make computer purchases based on carbon emissions. I think people would be insane to sacrifice their own happiness by using a computer they do not prefer just to buy from the company wit
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by qqq 18y ago
While I don't deny he has a point, average selling prices are not a very fair metric. Mac buyers more often care about computers, want a higher end one, and allocate a larger budget to their computer.
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by qqq 18y ago
Umm, congrats, but I am still going to buy a computer based on which computer I want to own.
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by qqq 18y ago
The eval function contains more accurate knowledge of what matters in chess than most humans.
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by qqq 18y ago
Just know that 2^10 is about 1000, so you do 2^4 followed by 1000^6, ie 6*3 zeros.
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by qqq 18y ago
Chess programs that only look 1 move ahead and make all their moves in under a second are better than most human players. Their evaluation function to decide what is a good position is actually quite smart and has a lot of knowledge of ches
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by qqq 18y ago
Citation?
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by qqq 18y ago
> I miss that 960.gs, i put that in my list now.. Keep it up….. Maybe this blog is his side project after his Dell tech support job. edit: check out http://hiddenpixels.com/about/
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by qqq 18y ago
The more of a free market, and small government, we have, the less there is for lobbyists to buy, and the less decisions for politicians to make. Moving in that direction will at least lessen the problem. :) That's kind of what I mean about
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by qqq 18y ago
I agree with most of what you say. But consider again those cases where an individual legislator "puts his own interest first". In those cases, our system of government put officials in a situation where they have a conflict of interest.

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