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by restalis 10y ago
"Isn't the CO2 density issue far larger than the Ozone layer holes ?" The Ozone layer affects us directly on anatomical level. The rising quotient of atmospheric CO₂ will affect us more economically than in other ways. &qu
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"GUIs can follow or violate the Rule of Silence just as well." It would have been nice if this was permitted to be violated only by GUIs. Ask about the first-time *nix experiences before the GUI-embracing era and one of the few
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by restalis 10y ago
"Did those cultures have writing?" Well, it seems that they were just working on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%83rt%C4%83ria_tablets
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by restalis 10y ago
I thought about that too. The people around Carpathian Mountains had a habit of playing hide-n-seek with invaders all the time, it's too tempting to think that they somehow haven't learned to do this just recently. But then there
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Software optimization resources(agner.org)
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Religious groups may stay with their own calendar if they wish, it wouldn't be the first nor the last thing kept conservative out of religious reasons. The secular society, however, may look for whatever works best.
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by restalis 10y ago
Not that I disagree with you, but we're less dependent on the daylight than we used to be and it may be even more human to get to know the peers' schedule instead. A lot of us will be more bothered to be waken up from our mid day
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"Months are hardly necessary, anyway. Wouldn't quarters be better?" Months are, more or less, related to the moon periods, just like the year is to earth period. And most of the world has year quarters, called seasons. Seas
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by restalis 10y ago
Having 7-days week concept is not necessary. That 28 days being divisible by 7 can be used to create a smaller group of days that we currently use for week. I presume that in such a 4-days group the ratio of 3 days for work and 1 for leisur
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The only problem I thought of was the month/moon period disconnection.
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by restalis 10y ago
Why having (7-days) "weeks" at all? Divide 28 into 7 groups of 4 days each and use these. Three days of work followed by one off, how does it sound?
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I was quite a jerk in the teenage years and regretted that too until not long ago. I come to convince myself that turning into a jerk was only an adapting reaction to fend off abusive people. From what I've noticed in the pool of abuse
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by restalis 10y ago
I keep telling myself that I should apply game theory investment rules on all decisions but it's hard for me to do that in practice, and I know I'm not be the only one with this problem. Our optimistic side does not always eagerly
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by restalis 10y ago
"Even the setbacks were valuable learning experiences, and often were good experiences." Unless these said setbacks have permanent, unassailable bad consequences that you have to live with. Add here "that others have to liv
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by restalis 10y ago
I regret being hard headed in a lot of my decisions. About accepting more mentorship, more critique, more guided challenge, and more help in general, especially when these weren't that expensive in terms of commitment and moral debt. T
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For the same reason the said games fell out of favor in the public perception. Christianity gained power. Not to say that torture and murder were not taken place under christian priests' sight if not command, but in the later the cause
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by restalis 10y ago
"Certain systems can best be understood as black boxes. Git was not designed to be such a system" "In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that exposes details and limitations of its underlying implem
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Extraterrestrial space is an expensive medium, and not only for putting things into. We may want space manufacturing capability but we definitely don't want space junk orbiting around. In the long term, the most important thing for all
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by restalis 10y ago
Well, there definitely is some value in studying the extraterrestrial space medium. Regarding the ISS, just think about its sheer size -- how else can the knowledge about constructing and maintaining such structures be gained? Besides that,
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by restalis 10y ago
Dictatorship (or totalitarianism, my preferred term for it) is not assured to be unstable. If done right, the totalitarian regimes manage to periodically weed out the internal threats, including dissidence, and thus keep the remaining masse
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by restalis 10y ago
Contrary to what we like to imagine from outside, in prison you don't get the most favorable conditions for meditation. It's still an effort to get your mind serene and ready for heavy lifting like math. It's way more product
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by restalis 10y ago
I think almost everybody will encourage the imprisoned to meditate ...about their imprisonment reason. Joke aside, it's not uncommon to hear former convicts mentioning about "back then" having "time to think". The t
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by restalis 10y ago
The "American Revolution" was just a struggle for independence. The "revolution" in the true sense assumes a change in values on multiple levels.
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by restalis 10y ago
Democracies are demanding the political leaders to limit their power both in mandate time-span and share of it by seeking consensus among parties with different views. This forces the governance to be moderate by design compared to chosen m
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by restalis 10y ago
"ipcin" and "ipcout" then?
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by restalis 10y ago
"I suggest state-run work-camps or mini-work-cities for the sane and able-bodied." My take is that you failed to understand how chronic homelessness works. Excluding the mentally ill, most of the said "able-bodied" ind
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I walked away with something different. Homelessness is supposed to be a complicated problem if you don't get into details. The key is not to treat the mass of the homeless people as a whole but to understand and consider each of the f
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Example: "warning, the x is in y condition and thus z will take place affecting the computation in progress" or "error, could not perform x (out of many x-like things to do, but I'll continue because you instructed me to
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by restalis 10y ago
Maybe including dependent switches to enable/disable different parts of shown information? For example just "--help" would show a short description and the existing switches for further debriefing. Then you'll have to ty
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by restalis 10y ago
"it needs one of --list or --del or ... so why not just list or del or ?" That's all good and everything but what about the parameters for which optional is only the explicit digression from an existing default value?

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