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by theoh 9y ago
Maybe it was this person https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1303300/
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by theoh 9y ago
Uh, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_(modern) (I'm a Dubliner and I would accept the label.)
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by theoh 9y ago
The genetic distribution of the European population is not blended to the point of indistinguishability. https://www.eupedia.com/europe/maps_Y-DNA_haplogroups.shtml
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by theoh 9y ago
I guess you mean illness as opposed to malicious behaviour. But what human behaviour is not conditioned by biological and environmental factors? There's nobody we can point at and say "this person is evil, not sick, and should act
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by theoh 9y ago
It's wrong to assume that "everyday artists" and people who actually care about art are insulated from this. Some worthwhile artists get promoted into this high-prices world of prestige, and their production/careers get
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by theoh 9y ago
There was a vogue in the first half of the last century for writing speculative things involving time, generally with little physical basis. I think it was a new idea in those years to theorize and think formally about time. It's less
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by theoh 9y ago
Also worth noting is that some people (Erik Meijer for one) really prefer this first edition.
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by theoh 9y ago
Well, the prohibition of infanticide is a norm that presumably derives from a perception that killing babies harms the person who does it or others with a relationship to the child (possibly in a very indirect, diffuse way). It is perceived
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by theoh 9y ago
I didn't mean that happiness wouldn't be considered, just that that appropriate thing to worry about is suffering (can we call it negative happiness?). There is obviously not going to be a simple happiness score at each moment of
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by theoh 9y ago
Not sure about the meaning of your second paragraph, but in theory, animals bred for human consumption could live happy lives up to the point of a painless, instant death. The issue becomes whether they would be missed by other animals. Som
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by theoh 9y ago
For some technical discussion of the order of evaluation of arguments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Non-strict... (Short-circuiting is specifically mentioned as having relevance) Note that even in
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by theoh 9y ago
There's no need to police the direction the conversation takes. I was responding only to the GP, as a matter of fact.
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by theoh 9y ago
The "hub" aspect of GitHub takes a decentralised protocol and adds a trusted third party (github). The whole point of blockchain is to avoid creating trusted third parties, something people like Nick Szabo identified a long time a
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by theoh 9y ago
It's important to know that the Barbican was built as luxury housing. Trellick or Alexandra Road were social housing and they still have a much broader social mix.
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by theoh 9y ago
I've read about unstarts before and never got the impression that the engine in question stopped. It was the shockwave configuration at the inlet that had to be "restarted"?
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by theoh 9y ago
Also mostly plywood: the Spruce Goose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
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by theoh 9y ago
Is it not that they gained 110% of the performance (125% of the mass) that the control group gained?
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by theoh 9y ago
Similar niche business keeping monitors going (catering to contemporary art) in London: http://www.the-block.org
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by theoh 9y ago
Film running along both "walls" of a space which then became a "corridor".
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by theoh 9y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygalski_sheets for a similar system.
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by theoh 9y ago
Real 100% serious art world talk: "Paradoxically, an object whose image is very widely spread is a rare object, in the sense that few objects have their images spread widely." This is from McKenzie Wark, who is not known as a joke
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by theoh 9y ago
The origin is this book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_R... It's probably fair to say that PKD would have found ideas like "consensus reality" (Charles Tart) or "reality
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by theoh 9y ago
That "low level violence", within a city (for example) is best fixed by settling the disputes and inequalities which cause it, rather than intervening with force. So my even more optimistic view is to expect spending to shift away
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by theoh 9y ago
Bear in mind it is a way to own unique outputs from the creator's own "instrumented" NES emulator. So, as with commercial software, the price reflects the r&d cost. In this case there's also an "art print"
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by theoh 9y ago
"Artists that make a killing open galleries and provide for emerging artists to make their mark" This is not generally the case in art. While there exist informal "artist run spaces" set up by struggling young artists, i
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by theoh 9y ago
Yes. I would argue, though, that the really striking thing about new bits of London is the expansion between 1918 and 1939, which increased the built-up area by 200%. That was real inflationary growth.
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by theoh 9y ago
In that respect it is the inverse of the shunting yard algorithm (which converts infix to postfix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
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by theoh 9y ago
The original map dates from 1682, which didn't jump out if it was mentioned at all on the linked site. So "new" is relative, i.e. less than 335 years old.
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by theoh 9y ago
I wish we could diagnose this as a mild case of narcissism (maybe just unfounded smugness) and not be scratching our heads about what is going on with this guy.
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by theoh 9y ago
I'm not sure about the idea that a miner could guess -- the point of a cryptographic hash is to make that impractical. We're not talking about CRC32 here. If there was discussion out there about protocols that involve keeping salt

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