sageikosa

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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Whatever people choose as their monuments of highest value reflect directly on what sort of world they want to live in.
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Reminds me of Andy Warhol's use of soup cans, except the subject of the art is itself an "art".
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Energy input and heat in the "thermodynamic system", versus energy output and heat remaining stays in balance. If energy input (in electric current) is higher than energy output, then heat is added to the system. If energy input is lower
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Possibly, I immediately substituted one dollar plus ball for bat, then saw I had 2 balls and a dollar making up $1.10. Or 5 cents a ball. I honestly didn't pull out the algorithm sheet, it just sort of worked itself out in my head before
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   I sort of realized I was already primed for "gotchas"! Of course I can't sing my own praises without showing some bias, since the whole article was about bias.
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Got the ball and bat one right, and the lily pad one. I must not be as smart as I hoped :-( I think it comes down to having a value system where you'd rather be wrong and corrected (even if you have to do it yourself), as opposed to always
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Thanks, I sometimes only read the comments on HN. My first thought was: Civ III is over 10 years old.
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   by sageikosa 14y ago

   To an extent, this happens withing larger nations and federated economic blocks such as the United States and the EU. Businesses that have mobility will move to where they have more favorable conditions. Automobile manufacturing in the US
9. 819.▲
   by sageikosa 14y ago

   Reminds me of the Fifth Element: "You have 5 points left on your license"
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    And thus we lost dozens of episodes of Doctor Who, and almost lost all of Monty Python (if Terry Jones hadn't stepped in), because someone thought the material was no longer relevant and archival not a chartered function (thought the econom
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Been working on a turn-based role playing game framework (the Ikosa Framework) for 7 years. Originally because I got sick of all the rote pencil pushing or being a game-master and wanted an optimized database of game-play mechanics and dat
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    By the time I find myself doing something for the third time, I start thinking: automation.
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Comic Sans makes me remember I have a slight astigmatism. Lobster makes me want to buy some soup, or order a la carte. Well, at least I don't cringe looking at it.
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    I seem to remember F-tests or something like that when I did multi-dimensional variant analysis as part of my statistical geography courses back in the day. Even though you may have data along 7 or 8 dimensions, you may be able to develop a
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    I was fairly certain that the infringing material was Sam Suede, which was the Wisecrack game...not Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, which is the Replay game. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1787675232/sam-suedetm-i... http://www.kickst
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Dawkins doesn't have religious views. He has views on religions.
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Reminds of the Beagle Bros code snippets for the Apple ][. Ah, the simpler pre-Michelangelo times.
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Or the converse. There could be $6T in the money supply, but circulation is high. Sort of like a self-contained ornamental fountain that can flow more gallons per day/month/year than it has capacity to hold. The real insidious part of suc
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    When you outlaw cookies, then only the outlaws will have cookies. I tend to hold the belief that consumer protectionism laws don't really protect consumers, in that it lulls consumers into an inattentive stupor when it comes to things they
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    Without having read anything, his course of action to address his "felt unease" (if I may borrow from von Mises) was to attack individual innovators whose only crime in his mind was pushing technology forward. He didn't try to convince his
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    by sageikosa 14y ago

    If humans have hard-wiring for facial recognition, then likely a lag between the processing of the facial system and the refresh of other optic-visual processing nodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface The rods in the eye responding