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by rjprins 18y ago
I always find it fun to imagine things topsy-turvy: What if the Nazi's won, and we were now looking at some device built by famous Nazi crypto experts. Suddenly it's Nazi propaganda! What does that say about us?
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by rjprins 18y ago
I know some people who believe in God pretty well, but I don't blame them. I've realized they're not stupid, they just don't give it any critical thought and at same time it's a socially acceptable position.
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by rjprins 18y ago
In my last application (I got hired) it was the programming guy who asked me what Latex was.. (and not to test me!)
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by rjprins 18y ago
Well get impatient about yor own human rights problems in the black ghetto's and US prisons.
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I don't really like it, I guess it's a personal preference, but I need a game where skill is just a little bit more important. When I play Catan I just feel like I'm following a train track - zero options. I prefer Warcraft, the board game!
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by rjprins 18y ago
To paraphrase Churchill: Democracy is a horrible system, but it's the best we've got. Democracy opens the way to power hungry people, it's also very sensitive to information manipulation. I always thought it must be possible to create a gov
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by rjprins 18y ago
In the Netherlands, squatting is regulated: It's actually allowed to live in a building you don't own, if that building has been vacant for a certain period. It's a way to combat the other side of squatting: Property owners who don't use th
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by rjprins 18y ago
Clojure is still something of a small hype. Python is a 18 year-old programming language.
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Blogs for Developers(noop.nl)
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That's the idea: The error message reveals the server type.
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No, Ham grabbed "Greeting.com" not "Greetings.com".
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by rjprins 18y ago
Sigh, you first need to define consciousness before you can answer any questions about it. What is consciousness? My dream is to develop artificial intelligence, so I've thought about this a lot. Generally people have it very wrong. I would
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by rjprins 18y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7O4Sa8sGXk This video refers to "experts", but I am pretty sure you can find more of the same via Google. And apparantly the propaganda was in the 20s-30s.
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by rjprins 18y ago
I use weed rarely nowadays, but have consumed my fair share. The effects differ a little bit per person, but in general: Weed makes you think you're sharp and insightful, but it actually makes you really stupid and slow. You forget things c
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That is an interesting observation! If you realize we come from non- or low-interactional media like newspapers and tv channels, you could say society has been low in discussion because of media limits. And the internet resolves this, givin
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by rjprins 18y ago
All I really read in here is that China is pumping money in to the US, so the US is safe. Because of this the dollar is obviously the safest bet for investments, creating a spiralling effect. This leaves other currencies somewhat less attra
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by rjprins 18y ago
So, that is a pretty big statement. Why do you expect this? You think there are people who are not using drugs because it is illegal? Or because they can't afford it? People who don't use, don't use because they know it's unhealthy. Legaliz
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by rjprins 18y ago
Browser comparing is always a bit of a fan-fest, I wonder why. For me, there is only one reason why I use mostly Opera: It's the only browser that actually correctly resizes every page (including images and some videos). Which is pleasant w
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by rjprins 18y ago
Peoples minds work on such a strong relative level.. You can be upper-middle-class in California and kill yourself from depression. You can live in a slum and work all day and be happy (Theoretically that is, if they weren't constantly remi
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by rjprins 18y ago
This is like reading a review of a music concert: It seems wonderful and amazing, but you have no clue what it actually all means.
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by rjprins 18y ago
The discussion is old and tiring because this problem is like drugs. You can't solve it by fighting against the "torrent". Pirate bay or no pirate bay, p2p filesharing is here to stay and any truly effective measures to stop it will do more
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by rjprins 18y ago
This isn't actually about money, that was the reporters conclusion. The real incentive is the social pressure. It's a challenge to perform better than your mates.
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Google and Nasa back new school for futurists(ft.com)
1 points by rjprins 18y ago|1 comments
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So basically, virtual memory and the filesystem become one and the same thing? Very interesting concept, especially if you combine it with the soon-to-be-ubiquitous solid state drives. But what happens when your system crashes? And the last
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by rjprins 18y ago
You must add a loop to find any nodes that have not been visited at all: the graph might not be fully connected. This is always the case in a directed acyclic graph.
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"New generations don’t invent institutional practices. These practices are passed down and evolve." This is simply incorrect. Institutions are made by people and can be changed by them. As said in the article institutions can be very import
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Bollocks, "clicks" are not required in the EU. Privacy is important, but trying to save it by making silly demands on user products is not the way. Instead focus on government policies or corporate laws.
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by rjprins 18y ago
So far, Sobcov has tested his flying falcon-shaped decals on the sunroom of a cottage neighbouring his family's cottage. "Immediately the birds stopped flying into those windows," he said. Haha, awesome..
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by rjprins 18y ago
I disagree, there is definately no hate-hate relationship here in the Netherlands. Everybody who drives also cycles, so they are aware of the fear cyclists have for cars and are always give cyclists space. This respect is then usually abuse
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by rjprins 18y ago
The "software-expert" meaning of 'hacker' is really being pushed out in popular culture. I don't think there is much we can do about it, so I guess we should think about another moniker..

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