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by riprowan 11y ago
My friend's mom was very concerned about our D&D gaming. This was 1982. She even went so far as to provide us with tapes of ministers decrying D&D as satanic (which we found hilarious). However I have to hand it to her. A ch
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Obviously, since the US is not a democracy, but a representative republic.
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Exactly. If an app requests a permission it should not need, then it should simply be considered malware and rejected with a big 1-star review.
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In the USA, the overwhelming majority of terrestrial radio is owned by ~3 corporate behemoths with profit-sharing arrangements with the Big Three labels and their thousands of subsidiaries. What used to be decentralized to the local market
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> the probability that you are on Pandora if you are discovered is 1/10. But what is the probability that you are discovered if you're on Pandora? Likely very, very, very small. I'm not sure that's what the analysis i
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As long as a politician can say the words "Too Big To Fail" with a straight face this will continue. "Too Big To Fail" should mean "Too Big To Be Allowed To Exist" but apparently it still means "Open Che
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> hadn't it been resolved by investing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, would've tanked the global economy First off, it was trillions AFAIK. Secondly, the impact of the bailout on the global economy is still playing o
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In 2009 the USA embarked on a radical strategy of creating base money at a previously unheard-of rate: http://imgur.com/MjdJNbz Basic Econ 101 tells us that inflating the base money supply should eventually result in higher
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It has a versioning feature IIRC but I can't vouch for how sexy it is.
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Well it turns out that you aren't alone. Radio is still the most important music discovery media: https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm... . Notably, that chart puts Pandora discovery at
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aw shucks
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As a non-hit artist, married to a non-hit artist, and who's produced a bevy of non-hit artists, I can say that roughly none of a non-hit artist's income is likely to come from Pandora / Pandora discovery. At $0.0001/stre
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by riprowan 11y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm checking out Arq now! FWIW I've been a big fan of Syncovery (formerly SuperFlexible File Synchronizer) for years. It's a Swiss Army Knife of backup/recovery. https://www.syncovery.com
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by riprowan 11y ago
I think the argument generally is: people will spend most efficiently and effectively when they spend the money on themselves, based on their own unique needs. This lowers the cost on everyone else, while providing maximum benefit to those
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It seems evident to me that once these machines prove their value in both safety and efficiency, the companies that insure trucking firms will compel/persuade them to switch from human to self-driven vehicles. These machines can safely
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I was referring to " the sort that has only existed on Earth for a couple of decades." That's why I said that ;) Actually my mistake was here, where I wrote: > actually a new form of intelligence than individual intellige
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How is money = free speech only when the recipient is a politician? For the record, money is just an idea shared between people, and the communication of said idea. For strong demonstrations of this, consider hawala or consensus-based cryp
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"You get what you pay for," is probably what my grandfather would have said about this problem.
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The US constitution prohibits unreasonable search and seizure on its face.
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But in the example, the character in the game actually is moved to the invalid location, then the test is run for invalidity. Not sure why I'm downvoted, this seemed like a reasonable objection to me. Like I said I'm not a game
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The strategically-placed hole-punch through the diskette will always be my favorite.
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Came here to point this out. My Apple ][ shipped with "Beneath Apple DOS", the Apple ][ programmer's guide, and the Apple ][ Reference Manual which included a full fold-out schematic! The original Apple ][ was more than a com
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by riprowan 11y ago
As a non-game-programmer, the idea of "collision detection and prevention" seems like a case of bad modeling. In the real world, two objects don't start by occupying the same space, then deciding that's not a valid state
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That's right. We humans are individualized at the organism level and tend to think entirely from the perspective of a single organism. However it seems clear to me that networked intelligence, of the sort that has only existed on Eart
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You're certainly right about one thing: the people want privacy and will reward a company handsomely for delivering. In theory government is supposed to also be responsive to the will of the people especially with regards to things lik
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I searched the link. Satoshi did not post in that thread and there is no mention of "x^n" Maybe you should present the argument, since it wasn't presented where you said I'd find it.
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What you're looking at right there is the very high cost of the toxic environment being nurtured by Theymos and his supporters. For those who don't know, Theymos is the name of the person who controls the most important communicat
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> Bitcoin could be easily made Turing complete. A simple increase from 1MB blocks as proposed in 2010 by the software's creator is treated by obstructionists like Greg Maxwell as "theft" and a violation of social contract
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It is a myth that Bitcoin requires every node to validate all transactions in the long term. That's why the white paper explains the need for spv clients. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Moreover it a red herring to as
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by riprowan 11y ago
This is maybe an OT reply, but crouton / dualboot still brings up the scare-screen on boot. Which is fine if you're a dev. Not so good when you hand the computer to your brother-in-law to check out a web page, he opens it up OS V

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