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by racer-v 9y ago
The obvious solution to this is to build taller Why is this the obvious solution? Why not spread people out instead of trying to cram as many as you can into the same place?
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by racer-v 9y ago
Could you provide a reference as to how "human genomics can easily refute the idea of brain functional changes in the last 10K years"? Furthermore, this is why Cochran is considered a racist; correctly so. I'd caution that
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by racer-v 9y ago
it took a really, really long time to transform wild plants and animals into useful domesticated varieties. Really? The wild plants and animals were already useful. So from day one, the transitional forms to the domestic varieties were us
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by racer-v 9y ago
A favorite from Jack Handy: "I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science?" While today saying &quo
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by racer-v 9y ago
People’s brains were actually biologically less functional fifty thousand years ago. This is correct; there's been a huge amount of brain evolution in the past 50K years. See for example "The 10,000 Year Explosion" (Cochran
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by racer-v 9y ago
"That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
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by racer-v 9y ago
Each step along the way must produce a net benefit or it gets discarded. Maybe so, but the benefit could have just been individual fitness signalling (like a peacock's tail) without providing any advantage to the species as a whole u
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by racer-v 9y ago
But that doesn't explain its popularity; other ideas are simpler than fascism and don't spread. Fascist leaders gain an audience because they address concerns which their opponents (liberal globalists) won't bring up, for fea
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by racer-v 9y ago
Fascism is coming back in some parts of Europe and we won't get rid of it by simply asking politely to go away. Maybe you could get rid of it by having better ideas?
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by racer-v 9y ago
The most seasoned programmers have been using functional programming since the 60's.
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by racer-v 9y ago
There are already legal mechanisms such as a judge's order (not to mention technical methods) to address such cases. Banning every convict from using a phone is like swatting a fly with a Buick.
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by racer-v 9y ago
My advice to graybeards: when somebody is excited about a new technology XYZ, don't say "oh, we did that 20 years ago and called it ABC". It annoys people, because generally XYZ has important differences that prevent ABC from
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by racer-v 9y ago
I presume you wouldn't hire someone who expresses a strong distaste for your software stack, regardless of age (unless their job is specifically to replace it).
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by racer-v 9y ago
There's a perception in computer programming that any experience outside of the specific language, library and toolkit being used on the project is irrelevant. Or worse, an impediment; "I don't want somebody with bad habits a
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by racer-v 9y ago
In these cases, isn't it the dayjob that's the "side" project?
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by racer-v 9y ago
> he has conflated single-step in situ debugging (which does in fact suffer from limited utility in the context of an OS kernel) with debugging writ large. Where does he do this? The quote is only about single-step debugging. > So as
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by racer-v 9y ago
I know, but the possibility of getting rich is a nice booby prize for the unlikeable and unattractive.
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by racer-v 9y ago
What you're describing is actually the way the world is. People who find it easy to be pleasant get further in life, while those with antisocial tendencies experience rejection - even when they're make more of an effort to be pl
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by racer-v 9y ago
Maybe it's just easier to predict which people are going to be successful than which technologies.
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'm trying to identify exactly what the borders of "the Delphi" are. UNESCO identifies it as "between two towering rocks of Mt. Parnassus". Liakouras is said to be the highest peak of Parnassus - would the Delphi be
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by racer-v 9y ago
I think we're in agreement that Linux is in a better state than the browser. To nit-pick at your argument, Linux development is driven by people who are interested in working on it; many of those are lucky enough to have employers who
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by racer-v 9y ago
This looks pretty interesting. Could Nakama be used to build a federated, decentralized application (let's say, game world) where each user self-hosts on his own Docker instance?
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'd love to see the client-side state extended so that this could be a framework for decentralized turn-based games, without using a centralized server. One concrete cause of centralization in today's Internet is a difference in
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by racer-v 9y ago
> If GNU/Linux were to die But there is no such entity as GNU/Linux. It's hundreds and hundreds of independently working engineers who would all have to be hit by buses at the same time.
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by racer-v 9y ago
> most Linux distributions are just cosmetic variations of the largest upstream distros. Plenty are not. I am impressed by how usable community-based (non-corporate) distros are (e.g. Gentoo, Arch). This is truly indigenous technology. &
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by racer-v 9y ago
> the Brendan Eich story unfortunately shows that pitchfork mob tactics work on Mozilla. Yes. If anyone wants to do a git bisect to find when the Mozilla Corporation lost its integrity, we can say it was definitely "bad" by the
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by racer-v 9y ago
Ask around for community-friendly ISP's in your area (including Monkeybrains and Sonic in San Francisco). EDIT: OK I suggested sharing a T1 but apparently that hasn't been a good deal since the 90's.
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by racer-v 9y ago
No, GPLv3 and v2 have always been incompatible. v2 forbids placing additional restrictions on distribution, whereas v3 adds more requirements (e.g. patent grants). So if you receive code under v2, you can't distribute it under v3, nor
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by racer-v 9y ago
Eh, what? Safari and Chrome are not GPL - they're Apple / Google freeware built on BSD and LGPL. OSX is proprietary based on BSD. Android is notable for refusing to include GPL components other than Linux. Not sure what you'r
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by racer-v 9y ago
The GPL ship has sailed. It used to be every free license could be converted to GPL, so it became the "universal recipient" license. Then Stallman forked it and created two incompatible GPL's, effectively killing his own drea

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