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by sago 8y ago
Before we roll out the censorship talking points, it is worth being clear on a couple of details, I think: 1. Amazon have removed two books out of hundreds (probably orders of magnitude more) of anti-vax books. 2. The books they removed do
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by sago 8y ago
Thank you. One of my last longer writing projects last year was to update this and author a new chapter on procedural content generation for the third edition. Which is due out at the end of the month. I think they were trying to get it out
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I up-voted this, though depending on what you meant by 'productive', I can see why it would be insensitive. After I retired I wanted to write a novel. I did that with voice recognition. I did some consulting via Skype. I wrote a c
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by sago 8y ago
10 years ago I was diagnosed with a progressive neurological condition. I knew that it would put me in a wheelchair, take my ability to type, strip one by one every physical function, and eventually, but definitely not quickly, kill me. I k
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by sago 8y ago
What a thoroughly unpleasant attitude. > which consists of this bunch of mediocrity: Wiktionary I use Wiktionary very regularly, and find it incredibly useful. Presumably you don't use all of Wikipedia either, what makes you 'g
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by sago 8y ago
This is common, but sadly has always been incorrect. .test is the TLD you want, specified by RFC2606.
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by sago 8y ago
The original demographic research: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/artic... And a review of its more recent book-length expansion: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-con
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by sago 8y ago
I know criticism is rarely nuanced online, and it can unhelpfully trigger people's fight response. So I hope this doesn't come across as vicious, but: > people do get disable kids all the time struck me (a profoundly disabled p
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by sago 8y ago
If you bet at 10-1 here, your bet is 10-1 on your receipt, and your odds are 10-1. Your bet at that price may change the odds for everyone who comes later, but that doesn't affect yours. It is quite possible to arbitrage odds between b
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by sago 8y ago
I agree. I have decided not to employ people on the basis of a final on-site interview, with no hard feelings. If that isn't a realistic prospect, I struggle to see what that interview is for. But there is a difference between a dud an
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by sago 8y ago
I think the point is that there was no compulsion to begin the two-year countdown before any plan was formed or a strategy agreed. I agree that I don't think another PM would've been obviously more clear thinking. And I also think
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by sago 8y ago
> Is there anything that could have been different I certainly changed the questions I asked. And it never happened again. But I also think wilful deceit isn't that common (massaging the truth is, but this was a different league to
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by sago 8y ago
I have been on the other side of this. I didn't cancel the return flight, but I was sorely tempted. In my case it was the early days of a company, and I flew a potentially important applicant from Europe for an interview, paid for hote
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by sago 8y ago
There should be a distinct difference then between whether the paper is only referenced in the bibliography, or whether it is also cited. I wonder how many of the papers actually cite the article? An article that is only referenced is prett
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by sago 8y ago
Even a modest hobby drone is much more manoeuverable than the Air Force's most nimble fighter. I really don't fancy your chances of piloting a Cessna 150 into one.
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by sago 8y ago
I second chess.com. And the guests they have, Hou Yifan and MVL today, absolutely elite players. Yet they manage to keep them understandable.
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Fascinating that the methodology used to generate these covers is local optimisation. The shape is still fundamentally the one suggested 100 years ago, with "bits lopped off". Which immediately suggests the possibility that they a
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by sago 8y ago
I am not a philosopher, but I would respectfully suggest the problem may be more that you not keeping up with philosophy. Your timescales also seem a bit strange. I was last in an academic context with philosophers of mind in the mid-90s, a
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by sago 8y ago
There have been several of these already. Paperbacks where the spine is not glued to the perfect binding. O'Riley used one such technology at one point (RepKover, by Otabind—not sure if it still does). But it is quite a step more expen
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I find your point to be staggering. Based on your name alone, are you really suggesting that you could engage online in the systematic advocacy of killing against whites in America, and face no consequences?
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by sago 8y ago
> Now I have a little of Newton for you Sweet of you to bring me Newton. Always a welcome gift. But I think you misunderstand where my question is pitched. The solar system is rather clumped, you see. A little Aristotle for you. :) In al
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by sago 8y ago
> Fascinatingly, it is known that the interaction of the dark matter with the Earth is so weak that there would be no "clumping" of it around the Earth at all! Would I be right in thinking that also puts severe limits on how mu
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by sago 8y ago
Here's why I am immediately skeptical. People think games are easy. People think entertainment is a solution. That is almost always a sign of someone in trouble. In reality, entertainment is the reddest of red markets. It is incredibly
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by sago 8y ago
> For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme > Wikipedia claimed it was a ponzi scheme. The rest still applies. It was added to a list of Ponzi schemes with the qualification "Bitcoin has been called a Po
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> For the longest time Wikipedia claimed Bitcoin was a pyramid scheme [citation needed] Checked the entire edit history of the article with wiki blame. The phrase 'Pyramid scheme' I could find has been added four times. The fir
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by sago 8y ago
Yes. You did. Sadly. And it is very little to do with luck or numbers or the state of the industry. Good indie games: 1. are almost never distinguished by programming (the days of Doom are gone and you are not John Carmack). Far too much ti
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by sago 8y ago
I was asking about open source apps that they are selling on the store without the copyright holders' knowledge or permission. (On the basis that neither knowledge or permission is legally required.)
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I appreciate the idea of allowing utility CLI programs to be monetised by their authors. But it does look at the moment like the site is charging for git, pandoc, etc. Is any of that money going to the authors? Of course it is technically l
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by sago 8y ago
Is number five true? (Genuine question.) I haven't used QT in anger, and it's been a few years since I last wrote something in WXP. But the last project went with wxWidgets because of its built-in support for things like drag-and-
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> Universities ... are just squeezing out the last juices from the dying industry. I agreed up to this point. Can you say more what you mean? University education is a dying industry? What about the massive and growing legislative requir

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