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by tps5 10y ago
The argument about "the Joker being the hero" reminds me of a Borges short story, "Three versions of Judas." In the story, Borges recounts a (fictional) theologian's slow realization that, in the New Testament story
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by tps5 10y ago
Perhaps another possibility is the supreme court deciding that gerrymandering is illegal and establishing a rule by which district boundaries can be judged to be fair. You know, like the article mentioned...
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by tps5 10y ago
Is this really the way to deal with comments you disagree with? Courts do tend to favor mothers in custody battles. There are valid reasons for this, for example: mothers tend to be the "primary caregiver" more often than fathers
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by tps5 10y ago
I don't think there's such a thing as "truth" in the idealistic way you mean it. When you seek to describe something as complicated as the economy of a gigantic country or some event involving millions of people, you nec
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by tps5 10y ago
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I felt uncomfortable with promoting its use in this way. I&
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by tps5 10y ago
Of course it's always okay to build opinionated software at any level. If you don't like, don't use it.
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by tps5 10y ago
I'm totally with you with regard to your general "moving the goalposts" criticism. I know people who first said: "This is a CIA hitjob. The FBI and the NSA will never sign on to these accusations." Of course, now
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by tps5 10y ago
Respectfully, I don't think I'm committing any of those fallacies. -The idea that some information is classified and some isn't is silly. There's just information that you're willing to divulge and information you&
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by tps5 10y ago
Unfortunately there isn't any new evidence here. First, there's no doubt that RT is Russian propaganda. That's not news, and I'm unsure why it's in this kind of report. Paid russian internet trolls is an old accus
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by tps5 10y ago
I think "always async" is the main advantage of node. My general (perhaps wrong) impression is that other languages commonly used in backends are moving toward async io, usually through maturing libraries.
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by tps5 10y ago
At 24, I've noticed there are really two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those that don't.
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Nice guide. I did this over the holidays just to see it in action. It was a pain to get the emscripten sdk installed (especially on a slow connection) but it's quite cool to see it in action. There's also a asm.js target which yo
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by tps5 10y ago
>Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses Such as?
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Instead of calling him out over his "obsession," please try to respond to his argument. Is he wrong? Is he making incorrect assertions? I am genuinely curious. I don't know a lot about cryptography, blockchains, bitcoins,
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by tps5 10y ago
I don't agree with this analogy though. Who's to say if life evolved on earth all over again, we'd end up in the exact same place? Sure, some of the same adaptations would re-emerge. But some might not. And there might be
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by tps5 10y ago
Don't basically all genetic algorithms rely on "random chance," or some simulation of random chance, to simulate a mutation rate? And haven't biologists, in recent years, emphasized the degree to which evolution relies o
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by tps5 10y ago
Yes, but you wouldn't think that strategy would extend to his own secretary of state.
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by tps5 10y ago
You're right, that does sound crazy.
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Jesus' Son has a special place in the "drug fiction" subgenre (of which I am a big fan) alongside Trainspotting and A Scanner Darkly.
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Can you explain why Rust "cannot support higher order functions very well?" I'd also like to hear about "what makes functional programming useful" if you have a minute.
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Richard Feynman, on NASA's attitude toward the space shuttle program: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
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by tps5 10y ago
It's a mystery to me how he's gotten away with handing in what amounts to the same column every week for the past couple years. Whether I agree with him or not, I find his haughty, didactic tone very off-putting.
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by tps5 10y ago
Agreed. I have some proficiency in MSA and Levantine Arabic after studying for 4 years in college and the alphabet is the least challenging part.
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Key word is reasonably.
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Described/recounted maybe isn't the best way to put it. I'm okay with description, I just find that the most effective literature tells a story that implies something rather than explicitly spelling that thing out.
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People do lie, but that doesn't mean we should assume they're always lying. I don't believe you can prove anything. I mean to say that's my perspective on the universe: that it is physically impossible to prove anything
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I think commenters who are reacting negatively to this story are reacting to the vocabulary rather than the story. Obviously I'm not a witness, but I tend to believe that these events took place more or less as the author describes the
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Oh, OK.
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What's with the knee-jerk reaction where everything is "Orwellian" or "1984-like?" I actually think this kind of hyperbole is damaging because, when something actually is "Orwellian," no one's going
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> The percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle class has fallen 10 percentage points, from a 61% average between 2000 and 2008 to 51% today. This statistic is psychological. Americans want to be middle clas

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