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by rue 16y ago
This is an interesting question because as-is, I don't think anyone can really understand what it means to be someone else. For this purpose, I can say my consciousness is something that exists currently and has memories from before, but th
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by rue 16y ago
I don't know, but it doesn't matter because this morning it was me who woke up. It could matter to the me who went to sleep last night but he's no longer here…
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by rue 16y ago
I remain unconvinced that a transplanted consciousness would really be the same person as opposed to a new, identical person. What's worse, it might be impossible to tell the difference since even the new consciousness wouldn't be able to
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by rue 16y ago
There are many martial arts in which you don't get hit in the head, as a rule (accidents can happen, of course). Judo, for example, and Aikido in particular.
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by rue 16y ago
I don't know which of us is “correct”, but I disagree with your opinion on the matter. You're making an assumption of a standard time of day when stuff's open (I agree, 11:00 is a reasonable assumption). I can, however, make that same assum
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by rue 16y ago
It's true that 8:00 can be considered morning, but I think that's useful in fewer situations than one might think. You can't know, for example, whether I'll be at the office anywhere near that time so you'll still need to ask if you want to
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by rue 16y ago
http://decimalti.me There's a few ways to do it: as you can see, I like to use the 1/100 as the base unit (it's a little under 15 minutes in current reckoning) and go decimal beyond that since you have a neat percentage as a result, and y
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by rue 16y ago
Indeed. It can also be explained as a matter of simple efficiency: Currently when synchronising something, two pieces of information must be known (the time, and the timezone). If using a single timezone, only one is required (whether it's
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by rue 16y ago
Sadly there isn't a single co-working space in this city. Starting one doesn't sound like a viable business plan either.
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by rue 16y ago
He's wrong about how pedelecs work. If you don't pedal, however, it's not a bike, it's a motorcycle.
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by rue 16y ago
Actually, pedelecs are getting rather common right here in the EU. In addition to still requiring pedaling oneself, I think most countries restrict the power output somehow; here it's max 250W and turns off at 25km/h. And sure, you probably
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by rue 16y ago
> If you're hard-wired to be impulsive and have a knack for viewing things in a negative light, it is in fact incredibly hard to get rid of such behavioral tendencies simply by "getting off your butt, man." The “fatalistic” view – in
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by rue 16y ago
Of course, monopoly doesn't actually ruin people.
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by rue 16y ago
Cigarette deaths are FDA's fault?
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by rue 16y ago
> Some people in the anti-vax crowd believe in doing things like intentionally exposing children to chicken pox. Up here in the northern EU, where there's really no discernible anti-vaccination movement, chicken pox isn't usually vacc
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by rue 16y ago
> The fact is that around 1 in 3 Americans die from drug use or drug-related causes. Cite, and cross-reference to deaths avoided/delayed by use of same drugs.
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by rue 16y ago
> In fact, the progressive taxation alone incentivizes everyone to _not_ earn more than about 100000 USD a year […] 100k is a lot . Only people who've seriously lost perspective (or living in areas that have collectively lost perspec
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by rue 16y ago
Egypt doesn't have a “communist government”, even in name.
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by rue 16y ago
Really bad on Firefox, too, but that is indeed to be expected. It'd be nice to have a non-WebKit-only version eventually, perhaps, to challenge http://everytimezone.com .
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by rue 16y ago
An electronic transaction can be customer-initiated, as well. In the EU most billpaying has been through direct account transfers for a long, long time now. Nowadays payments work across the union, too.
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by rue 16y ago
I wouldn't cut them slack just because someone else's arguable worse.
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by rue 16y ago
Up here in the dark north, bright-light sunrise-simulating alarms are becoming commonplace[1]. Mine increases in intensity over 30 minutes and uses a bird tweet as the sound alarm (I have it set to 14/20 final intensity, brighter means a he
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by rue 16y ago
Raises the question if it'd be reasonable to have the installer optionally run unit tests, if supplied, on the client device?
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by rue 16y ago
It really isn't that difficult for a programmer to learn how regexps work and construct your own rather than relying on fragile tools.
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by rue 16y ago
Or really any more recent developments. I daresay most Ruby, Python &c. projects ship with tests or specs.
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by rue 16y ago
…It looks pretty much exactly the same. I had continuous problems with Vimperator on FF4, thus far Pentadactyl's been a bit more stable although occasionally it seems to get deactivated altogether and I need to restart the browser.
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by rue 16y ago
Just yesterday I attended a presentation on the upcoming Qt Quick toolkit and QML, the language for defining UIs. Should have support for both Meego and whatever Symbians remain. QML looked quite nice in itself and a definite improvement bu
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by rue 16y ago
So the solution is to add a variable for confidence in the completeness of the equation. Perhaps range 0.5..1.5. And then another for confidence in the confidence.
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by rue 16y ago
1.9.2 is stable. It, apparently, doesn't work perfectly on Windows though.
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by rue 16y ago
Clearly the solution is to eschew the irony and just call the core technologies Web 3.0.

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