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by sprout 16y ago
All one would ordinarily do to check call strength is look at the home screen. For me the dialpad is a very infrequently used app, and I rarely use it to make calls. In any case, why are you so hostile to the idea that Apple was being inten
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by sprout 16y ago
There have been a variety of hog-farms that have experimented with generating heat from methane from the hog pens. But putting humans in the sorts of conditions needed to make it viable would generally be frowned upon by society.
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by sprout 16y ago
1, 4, and 5 are all called for in certain circumstances. I've seen a lot of 2 in shell scripts that aren't under version control, and it's necessary. Though I once slimmed a script I didn't write down from about 1000 to 200 where a lot of t
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by sprout 16y ago
If you finished the first sentence after the bullets: >Yes, there were other languages with some of these characteristics before Perl. But Perl had all of them...
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by sprout 16y ago
>This isn't unfair - it just means that some people are unproductive. Sure, but in another 50 years many of their children will have just as much land through none of their own doing. If others could have used the land better, I'd say t
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by sprout 16y ago
It's marketing designed to make the Droid X look bad. It's by definition malicious.
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by sprout 16y ago
We're still living in a world with artificially inflated housing prices. While yes, people will be foreclosed on, this is a necessity to bring the market back to reasonable levels. If hosting tourists becomes standard practice, this will be
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by sprout 16y ago
Starting with the land, water, and air of this Earth, there are many resources that no one created, and no one has the right to give you. We parcel it out, and we say that this patch belongs to me, and this patch belongs to you, but the 'fa
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, I never read proofs on the first pass. I mean, I read each expression, but I don't bother trying to assimilate them into a coherent thought until I've finished any plain-English associated text. And even that I'll sometimes wait to pr
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by sprout 16y ago
>it would hardly be a 1984 scenario, especially given that there are no criminal penalties for failing to file the 1099s. I think that's the key of it right there. The worst the IRS could do if you failed to file the 1099s is... force
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by sprout 16y ago
Yes, but in that it's empirically indistinguishable, from an ethical standpoint we should assume it exists when we see the hallmarks of consciousness (though perhaps the primary hallmark is an intrinsic understanding of the concept itself.)
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by sprout 16y ago
>if I'm in the same state. And that happens what, 8% of the time? Most online services are evading sales tax.
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by sprout 16y ago
It kind of reminds me of Schneier's explanation of cyberwarfare as if an enemy army invaded and all got in line at the BMV. Except in this case it's a horrible tyrranical oligarchy that instead of making your life hell gives you a few extra
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by sprout 16y ago
I'd say it's pretty impressive even for a human. We also have the advantage of having some 'physics simulation' software if you will that lets us do some runs in our head before doing it physically.
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by sprout 16y ago
I tend to hold with Anne Foerst, who was the theologian working on the ethical side of the MIT robotics project back in the 90's. http://www.cs.sbu.edu/afoerst/ If it is relatable and seems to have human-like consciousness, we have to tre
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by sprout 16y ago
If we're to assume that consciousness only exists where it is observable, only I exist. All of you are automatons. In fact, because of the fact that it is unobservable, you cannot even make a reasonable argument that the netbook I'm typing
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by sprout 16y ago
I've gotten a rash from just about every deodorant on the market after half a container or so. The only ones I trust are the simple white cake ones. And they usually say 'dermatologist tested' since they require a gimmick to be sold. I wish
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm really looking forward to maintaining your code.
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by sprout 16y ago
'Good enough' is largely a political problem. I don't think the FSF would have gone into politics if it were possible to rewrite the world in the style of Emacs. That's a political goal, that's not a technical one. I think we're sort of in
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by sprout 16y ago
Can't you do that with an otherwise complete digital camera? I don't see why one can't introduce kitschy design flaws in the LCD... and furthermore putting an LCD with standard inputs creates even more opportunities for hacking.
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by sprout 16y ago
Bah. Assuming 2 cookies a person I can manage that with one oven. 500 though, then I probably need a second oven to put out that many cookies at a reasonable rate. I mean, you're not going to get them all at once, so it's pretty simple to s
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by sprout 16y ago
I actually took a weeklong shell course through work where the instructor said not to put whitespace in there. However, I've never read of any systems that have a problem with whitespace, so I suppose it's just as well to include it.
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by sprout 16y ago
Personally, I'd much rather be compared to phpBB than SO. PhpBB has a proven track record as one of the most powerful and widely-used forum tools on the web. SO is still young, and could very well peter out. I've always found its ad placeme
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by sprout 16y ago
Yeah, personally I think his reaction at hearing Knuth reads his blog wouldn't really be any different from mine at hearing he reads my blog. That said, Knuth reading my blog seems outside the realm of possibility, ESR less so.
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, then there's no such thing as altruism. But generally I think such quibbling is silly. It's impossible to completely suppress the ego.
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by sprout 16y ago
Selfishness would be not sharing knowledge of this with others, since keeping silent would make people less altruistic (humans being strong pack animals who tend to avoid doing things others are not also doing.)
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by sprout 16y ago
I actually voted both yes and no, since I do pirate software, but only software I own. I don't consider it piracy, because it doesn't impact anyone's ability to make a living off of it (it usually just saves support costs) but the law sees
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by sprout 16y ago
>AT&T wants to cripple features and sacrifice customer experience because it won't invest in it's network fast enough Alternately, AT&T makes mass-market products, and wants to insure a baseline level of usability for everyone,
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by sprout 16y ago
> Google’s plan to cut out the middle-man from the sales plan (that is, the mobile operators) sucks (unless you’re talking about Apple). Except Apple hasn't cut out the middle-man. In fact, the notion that carriers are middle-men is sil
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by sprout 16y ago
But they can't pull in library APKs on install like in a fully functional package manager.

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