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by qubex 4y ago
“Those were simpler, more trusting times” is likely the answer you’re looking for.
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by qubex 4y ago
Or how types in typed languages are expressed by in-stream sequences in the source-code made implemented in untyped text files.
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by qubex 4y ago
I have fond memories of setting up a Plan9 installation in 2000-2003 and throughly messing around with it. Really opened my eyes on what “distributed computing” could mean at the architectural level. Their backup soliton (name escapes me) w
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by qubex 4y ago
A pity but it’s reasonable.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m looking for (and haven’t yet found) any mention of v1 to v2 discounts? Am I missing something or is it an entirely new purchase?
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by qubex 4y ago
I don’t know the difference between [difference in] momentum and acceleration?? Says whom?? Δp=mΔv=FΔt
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by qubex 4y ago
I saw it yesterday, and it remained stuck in my mind because the perpetrator almost mowed my dog and I down while we crossed the street on a zebra crossing with a green light. I probably saw it the day before. I expect to see it tomorrow. I
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by qubex 4y ago
As you say so yourself that’s average acceleration. No contest there.
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by qubex 4y ago
> Bikes can’t accelerate all that quickly Interesting statement. Do you have some data? I’ve often mused anecdotally that the initial acceleration from the first pumps on the pedals give a pretty abrupt change in momentum.
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by qubex 4y ago
They call it ‘cycling’. I saw a woman on a bike in my native Milan do it just yesterday: brazenly pedalled through a red light onto a roundabout on the inner ring-road, almost ran over me and my dog as we crossed the street on a zebra cross
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by qubex 4y ago
Special rulesets can be set up for certain classes of vehicles provided that observable behaviour experienced by other road users is predictable and unchanged. Otherwise it’s just a new recipe for disaster.
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by qubex 4y ago
I thill think online shopping is a very poor substitute for in/store shopping. I bemoan the loss of physical media.
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by qubex 4y ago
The medium- to long-term upshot of all of this is that the blue tickmark will go from being a sign of value to a sign of luxury. Most freemium models don’t make it apparent to other users whether a specific user is using the free or premium
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m very impressed by the use of ‘cruelty’.
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by qubex 4y ago
It’s not a Saxon genitive, it’s a grammar mistake.
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by qubex 4y ago
Yeah, but apostrophe-s followed by ‘is’ is just wrong.
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by qubex 4y ago
What the heck is going on with the grammar of the title? A possessive apostrophe followed by “is”?
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by qubex 4y ago
I actually agree with your premise: mathematics and it’s notations (plural) are ancient. The current notations are those that were found to be most convenient by centuries of practice by expert practitioners.
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by qubex 4y ago
Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines in the world. Grumbling about the legacy of its ancient history as ‘gatekeeping’ is puerile.
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by qubex 4y ago
True, but in the fifty-or-so individuals in a high-trust environment as has been true for most of our evolutionary history, keeping mental tabs on running totals is really no difficulty at all.
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by qubex 4y ago
The “half barter” theory of the origin of money has been refuted — there is no evidence that ‘primitive’ societies use barter and eventually experienced an urge to facilitate transactions by introducing “universal tokens”. Bated is what p
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by qubex 4y ago
Yeah precisely. I think you’ve made the mistake of thinking we’re on opposite sides of the argument.
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by qubex 4y ago
You do realise that money was created to deal with a lack of trust, and that every time you ‘transact’ in money you’re actually expressing your lack of trust in your counterpart’s ability to “make good” on a barter?
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by qubex 4y ago
You’d be surprised. I’ve chanced upon operations of this kind in Malta, Bulgaria, and Israel.
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by qubex 4y ago
It can’t have a target of “100% uptake” if it’s deliberately excluding some tiny but nonzero proportion of those who might otherwise subscribe. That’s the bombastic reply anyway. The more subtle and nuanced response is this is not a compara
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by qubex 4y ago
That method certainly doesn’t work because it is absolutely predicated upon discrimination not respect.
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by qubex 4y ago
Of corse I’m aware that I’m representing a minority concern and I’m well aware that as matters and principles currently stand we’re in a mutually irreconcilable situation. I’m not saying every effort should be abandoned. I’m just saying tha
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by qubex 4y ago
Indeed. Either way those of my persuasion are the invisible collateral damage nobody cares enough to even factor into the equation.
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by qubex 4y ago
> rare as it might be, there are people of both genders who actually enjoy receiving unsolicited nudes I’m a nudist. I don’t enjoy receiving “unsolicited nudes” but a lot of acquaintances from that zone of my life do send photographs t
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by qubex 4y ago
As a nudist I find it increasingly frustrating battling all these well-meaning impediments every firm seems to be throwing up everywhere for the sake of combating pornography. Latest discovery is that iOS’s new “press to copy person” doesn’

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