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91.
How many pieces can a puzzle have?(gottwurfelt.com)
105 points by sfg 6y ago|67 comments
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by sfg 6y ago
Thank you.
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by sfg 6y ago
"Quantum Country is a new kind of book. Its interface integrates powerful ideas from cognitive science to make memory a choice." What were the powerful ideas?
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by sfg 6y ago
If UBI allowed me to live my life, which is not extragent, then I would not do 'nothing', but I doubt I would do anything that raised tax revenue. I pay more tax than the median tax payer in the country I live in. I would be a net
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by sfg 7y ago
Thank you.
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by sfg 7y ago
What else did Busy Bee Software do? What became of them?
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by sfg 7y ago
It's impressive how you've taken a simple two word response to your start of discussion that aimed to succinctly demonstrate problems with your general directional statement with so much worthless blather. Do you always fail so ma
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by sfg 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/891/ is one, but I believe there are others.
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by sfg 7y ago
This makes me feel even older than the XKCDs that point out its longer from now to not-that-long-ago-seeming X from your youth than it is from X since very-ancient-seeming Y from your father's days.
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by sfg 7y ago
Yes, your plan, the solution as you called it. If the solution is that those people should try to remove those loopholes from the definition of income and there is nothing beyond that to explain how those people should do that t
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by sfg 7y ago
Why would I define wealth? I am not proposing anybody does anything with, for, of, or in any way related to wealth. "The goal should be to remove loopholes in those definitions" So, define income, without loopholes. Your plan depe
102.
by sfg 7y ago
Define income.
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by sfg 7y ago
Only the government for privacy's sake?
104.
by sfg 7y ago
The word 'emergency' is being used to freshen up the rhetoric.
105.
by sfg 7y ago
That is a disturbing quote. Was it something one of his characters said, perhaps a villain, or is that just Isaac Asimov being Isaac Asimov?
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by sfg 7y ago
I'm so glad somebody sane has shown up. The guy is doing well, relative to his own aims and objectives, and has found a way to work within his limitations to hit a sweet spot that allows him to support his family in a happy life and pr
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by sfg 7y ago
Nicely done. https://xkcd.com/208/
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by sfg 9y ago
Everywhere is different, but generally front-ends/clients are less scary to rip up, replace, and completely re-write. If you're going for the unsackable by dint of arcane knowledge in the long lost technology from another age you
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by sfg 11y ago
When I think of hierarchy - in the context of a shared task - I think of who gets to make decisions about how a task is done, but here it seems to be about who gets to decide how the bounty is split when the split happens after the task is
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by sfg 12y ago
The strategy with the tablets might be broader than this project with other (perhaps coming in the future or from different teams) functionality that the handhelds you mention cannot deliver. How capable are these wireless handheld computer
111.
by sfg 13y ago
Has the comment been edited? It does not, as it currently appears on my screen, mention any particular race for the people in the dialogue given.
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by sfg 15y ago
Indeed they do, and if an English version comes through parliament I will appreciate protests from Wikipedia. However, as things are, this is disproportionate and unhelpful. Something like the HN approach of blacking out the logo would be f
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by sfg 15y ago
I am unable to influence US politics. My point is not that SOPA would not affect me, but that I am unable to actually do anything about it. Thus, this protest is annoying, without achieving anything. Google, far more sensibly, and with the
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by sfg 15y ago
"Doesn't explain why it's blacked out in a concise manner, it was unable to look up the House rep for my zip code" Yeah, I couldn't see how to look up my house rep either. Probably because I don't have one, not living in the USA. Why did th
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The importance of Geography(tofspot.blogspot.com)
2 points by sfg 15y ago|0 comments
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by sfg 15y ago
It would be a bit confusing to have two 'Steve' offices.
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by sfg 15y ago
"It would save a ton of time coordinating with speakers beforehand making sure everything is in accordance with their (and our) expectations," Saving time is a probably one of the main motivations for this document. From the rider: "I have
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Who Should Get A Life?(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by sfg 16y ago|0 comments
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by sfg 16y ago
"commit to giving the majority of their wealth to the philanthropic causes and charitable organizations of their choice" Would that not include non-profit research into the areas you outlined?
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by sfg 17y ago
I do not know much about processor benchmarking, but is it not a little weird that the bench markers use software that is not independent of the hardware they are testing? It seems like they are asking to be manipulated: why do they do this

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