randomracker

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by randomracker 13y ago
I think some of the fear of crashes comes from the Great Depression. The magnitude and unpleasantness of that makes a great deal of fear seem quite a rational response.
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by randomracker 13y ago
It's probably better to resist the temptation to ascribe meaning to models. The model is the meaning, nothing more or less. If we observe these artifacts, it means that's a property of our universe. Really, we're completely l
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by randomracker 13y ago
A woman can have 13 or more children in her reproductive lifecycle. I think you'd have to call this a large family, or at most a very large family, or else I have to call a family with 13 children super extremely large, which is just g
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by randomracker 13y ago
Windows can't open a raw socket. I find that really irks me for some reason. Overall, I find Windows superior after using Macs for a couple of years. The UI of Windows feels much better for getting things done, there's more third
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by randomracker 13y ago
This statement implies that you know better than Crick and Watson what contributed to their discovery. That's absurd.
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by randomracker 13y ago
If he didn't have any real insight and just pretended to, he'd be a con man.
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by randomracker 13y ago
I believe his experience was authentic. I don't think he's any kind of con man. Sometimes I don't like some of the details of his writing, or the spin he puts on things. I think the Zen traditions have the most highly developed methods of t
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by randomracker 14y ago
I think that depends on your attitude toward it. People who are self-consciously smart and think it's worth something are irritating, like beautiful people who feel like they don't need to have a good personality. It can develop into a comp
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by randomracker 14y ago
It's a vision not fully realized. It's not any more anti-consumer than an unfinished bridge is anti-motorist.
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by randomracker 14y ago
avoid retyping the file name: nc -l 8888 | tar xf - tar cf - file | nc host.example.com 8888 Also, unnecessary process spawned with cat: nc.host.example.com 8888 < file