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by stygianguest 14y ago
This was the reason to allow squats in Amsterdam. It was 'legal' to squat a building or appartment that had been empty for 12 months. Moreover, the burden of proof (for new plans with the building and/or use in the preceding 12 months) was
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by stygianguest 14y ago
True, Iceland is tiny. Barely a country one might say. But the argument of size needs more motivation, why does size matter? Although I tend to agree with the sentiment. We always hear the same arguments: yes [solution for a big problem] wo
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Indeed a disappointing list. A positive (logically, not ethically) prediction from my side: In 100 years, the earth will have a smaller population than now (6 Billion), concentrated in clusters of smallish cities (as opposed to mega-cities)
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by stygianguest 14y ago
By this logic Europeans should be a total police state. To find a solution we need to discover what makes Americans so afraid that no gun is big enough, no military powerful enough, and due process can be suspended.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Agreed. To some extend bureaucracy exchanges negative liberty (freedom from constraint) for positive liberty (the enabling force). The exchange has some overhead not only in terms of money, but we also seem to pay more negative liberty to o
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Then standing in line for two hours at security will be even more ironic.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Why, javascript is ill suited to this task. It is perfectly reasonable to question their choice.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Having never been there. Are silicon valley hires really that much better than those found elsewhere? The most ambitious surely. Perhaps very hard working (as a consequence perhaps). But really significantly more able?
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Very cool he's going off to do such things. I only hope he'll meet the right people that allow him to achieve even more, people that he would have met at, say, MIT.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Being suspended in a liquid and zero-g are not at all the same thing. Gravity still pulls, e.g., you will still feel what is up and down. Experiments with rats indicate that zero-g is not a good environment to have babies, but also that it
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by stygianguest 14y ago
Because the attack only works if you can also change the messages that pass by. Passive observation is not enough, that means it won't work if you're just eavesdropping.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
In the case of skyscrapers, I'd think pneumatic systems would be more appropriate. Since it's a highly controlled environment anyway.
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by stygianguest 14y ago
"Most quality software engineers today have offers of amazing work environments and 6-figure salaries from the likes of Google and Facebook." Most? Really? The thing that really gets me is the implied equivalence of salary and ability, sure
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Not to disagree with you, more thinking out loud. Shouldn't teachers provide the primary role model? In stead, teaching has become a profession for losers. The status and quality of teaches have all gone down consistently during the last 20
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by stygianguest 15y ago
So government is speding on high-tech start-ups, to (hopefully) create jobs presumably for foreign educated workers, since school budgets are cut savagely. Don't get me wrong, I am all for small government, I just believe they are forgettin
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I for one, am baffled by peoples faith in currencies. If we are to believe polular discourse, the adoptation of the euro was the primary cause of Greece's troubles and reversion to the drachme as the inevitable solution. Funny how Iceland m
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by stygianguest 15y ago
In fact, this is the origin of the verb data-mining: to find whatever you need in data. Funny how it changed from a derogative to a respected --or at least well-payed-- practice.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
It is often said that war spurs innovation, with WWII as the prime example. To some extend that might be true for the USA and in particular the bay area. But I wonder what all those great minds could have achieved if they hadn't been forced
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by stygianguest 15y ago
This is mostly about the causal link they found. Earthquakes of that magnitude are very common also in traditional gas extraction. Many tiles in my parent's kitchen and bathroom can attest to that. Small earthquakes are not a very strong ar
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by stygianguest 15y ago
I fear it will not be that easy to reproduce the current practice of peer reviewed papers in blogs. Despite its flaws, the reviewing process is quite a bit more thorough than your avarage blog. On average, reviewers take their job quite ser
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Excuse me? Not to say that creativity is unimportant, but to say that it trumps expertise is going very far, even if it is the zeitgeist. Without a thorough understanding of the world around us, aka expertise, creativity is not worth much.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
A bit offtopic, but does anybody know what typesetting system was used to produce this document? It looks like troff manpages. Is that what is used for RFC documents as well? I love the oldschool look of it.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Apparently my question is not clear. I'm asking this as a musician who does a lot of improvisation. The question is wether livecode improvisation is comparable. The most enjoyable thing in improvisation, are sudden changes that can emerge i
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by stygianguest 15y ago
That only holds for some kinds of playing. How is your experience with improvisation? Can you manage quick changes? Or does it always tend to be a slow buildup of rythms harmonics and melodies?
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Seriously? I won't take American Express anytime soon, I can tell you that. If this gets picked up in mainstream media, it is devastating.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Italy. Yes. Spain. No. Spain has a smaller debt 65% of GDP compared to most western countries, including the USA (92%) and Germany (83%). They do have huge economic problems. Right now the biggest danger is that outside trouble brings down
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Would you think France is representative for the rest of the Eurozone in this respect? In my experience French exceptionalism is strongest in the banking sector, but I have no experience with banking for business.
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by stygianguest 15y ago
That doesn't work for their example: main(t){for(t=0;;t++)putchar(t*(((t>>12)|(t>>8))&(63&(t>>4))));} use this in stead: ./a.out | pacat --rate=8000 --channels=1 --format=u8 Note that the rate only changes th
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by stygianguest 15y ago
Worse is the evolution of job requirements. I believe them to be the driving force behind this madness. No good can come of it, only lies and deceit. While I'm sure there are many true over-achievers at Harvard, I wonder how much of all thi
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by stygianguest 15y ago
To be fair. I have never lived outside of a city/town (>=200k). But living in suburbs "for the kids" (a big point of yours too) does not convince me. As a kid, I had a great time. With plenty of time outdoors too.

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