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by sbmassey 7y ago
They change the reality we think we live in. The school of hard knocks separates the ones who believe in viable world models from those who don't.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
So to summarise, from what I can gather by browsing the various links, it is essentially the web but with a built in payment system for document publishers, and mechanisms for publishing new documents using sections of existing documents.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
Well at least the far right groups will be safe from having their emails harvested by marketers and criminals.
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by sbmassey 7y ago
He was the first author I read where I couldn't get away with my typical habit at-the-time of skimming the boring bits, rather than paying close attention to the text, and which was interesting enough to warrant reading more carefully.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Or zero lifetime from its own perspective, I suppose
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by sbmassey 8y ago
"it will be extremely detectable to make our civilization difficult."?
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by sbmassey 8y ago
A lot of journalist types seem to have switched to Twitter in the aftermath of Google Reader. But yeah, RSS never died in the real world.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Only software developers with no honour would ever do that.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Someone needs to create a programming language called Real.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
No mention of the Solid technology from Inrupt that TBL is meant to be touting.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Well he did have the advantage of birth and education.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Mathematica/the Wolfram language does that. e.g the Flat attribute denotes associativity, etc. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Flat.html
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Legislation requires more precise definitions if it is to be useful in court.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
That would be a bit drastic, it's just a report.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
If that applied, then major changes to the structure of the European Union such as Maastricht or the Lisbon treaty should also have required the >50% vote.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Anki also supports Mathjax natively, so you can put the latex-ish code between a \(\) or \[\] and you don't need the image file step.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Can't you just right click and search from the context menu, since you just highlighted the term so the pointer ought to be in the vicinity.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
I wonder if the punishment for murder ought to decrease as world population increases.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
The impact of the body that created the moon is meant to have taken place in the early Hadean, long before the Earths surface cooled enough to support life.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Niven has FTL all over, and lots of psychic powers type stuff to boot.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
The point being, I assume, that as a left-wing person they would be more sensitive to right-wing lies, so that they would get a more accurate model of the world through right-wing media.
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Can you summarise what that shared understanding is?
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by sbmassey 8y ago
Personally, it is better to have functions small enough that they fit on a handful of lines, and the if-else structure makes it obvious that you are doing one or another thing, rather than having separate if structures at the top of the fun
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by sbmassey 8y ago
What solution solved more problems in history than violence?
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by sbmassey 9y ago
By 'society' here, I take it that you mean the interests of large, highly taxed countries?
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by sbmassey 9y ago
He apparantly wrote a number of his novels in very short periods of time https://interestingliterature.com/2014/11/23/michael-moorcoc... , though I'm not sure that is an excuse really.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Not really, but it has enough memorable scenes and ideas that you will want to read it again in a few years, and you will then get a lot more out of it, assuming you are anything like myself.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
I doubt normal people even used RSS directly during its heyday. Even so, all sites that regularly publish content still seem to have RSS, and very useful it is too.
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by sbmassey 9y ago
The meaning of "lo" was changed from the original existential meaning to its current grammatical meaning under the recent "xorlo" change, I believe. https://mw.lojban.org/papri/How_to_use_xorlo
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by sbmassey 9y ago
Or perhaps locations of good sources of food, shelter and so forth

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