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by v-erne 4y ago
My thoughts also. Greed has no limits. I have lots of absurdly rich family members and friends and all they do is talk and think how to have more (I once witnessed a coversation where someone was complaining that he have to drive 2 hours t
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>> Being exposed to this faux imagery of war messes with people's perception of war. That seems true on the surface but I do not really buy it. Otherwise I believe that I would meet more people enamored by serial killer life afte
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>> Made me stop playing war games and watching war movies. Thats really interesting reaction - probably totally opposite of mine. I honestly believe that war is one of mankind's stupidest invention and suspect that there are no h
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>> Will I actually use the internet for what it's good for, or just keep browsing Hacker News? I find HN to be one of the best aspect of the internet. And I really do not know what actually internet is for - care to explain?
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>> The most meaningful things in my life revolve around my significant other and family. Im happy that this works for You but Im not sure that this is universally good way out of existancial dredd. I would rather prefer people foundin
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Belief can be fragile too and can easily be lost. I am not very spiritual or religious myself but from what I observe with religious parts of my family and friends there is really nothing resilient about their beliefes - they need constant
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I had been to two book signings of his and had a chanse to listen to him answering q&a session, reading his book and telling some stories (and even talk for a brief moment when my friends from local fun club tried to ask him for intervi
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Strata was first Sir Terry book for me - I read it when I was teenager and was reading science fiction only. Imagine my suprise reading Colour of magic next, having strata in back of my head, waiting for the damn space ships to appear. An
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Imagination is not reality. Reality have constraints that can be so complex that can be really hard to imagine. This is why we run simulations on computers when it comes to lets say weather and not do thought experiments only. I can even gi
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It seems to me that this is na obvious heuristic - that experience matters when applied to well defined roles. The more simplified role You look at (just look at chess or go players) the easier it to defend this intuition. But being busines
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Three top spots for Knizia games? Hear, hear! He is the true master craftsman of eurogames.
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With movies - especially remakes and adaptations there is additional motivation to see another take on familiar material (I suppose it also works with music and covers). I personally love to watch adaptations of Count of Monte Cristo - desp
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I always believed that saying that Monty knowledge affects the odds is just more people friendly way of saying that those are not independet events and simple probabilistic model does not work when Monty is not allowed to select prize when
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That seems like main reason any high level language exist - to give us abstraction layer with better building blocks to solve problems. The trick is to choose which DSL to use in project so its maintainable (and cost effective). I even long
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It depneds on the comment and the article. I actually had some contact with prolog (did a semester in university mamy years ago) and still up till today did not find a reason to use it on real life - mainly because I have responsibily to ke
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I believe in general purpose languages - from the business point of view its better to invest in one platform/language/ecosystem (if possible of course) than to spread too thin - each specialized language is potential liability (i
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So You are saying that there is really not much difference between prolog and lets say constraint solver written in Java (DSL on top of another language)? Because if this really true than now I understand why this language never caught on.
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>> To buy a gun in a walmart requires a background check and more thorough vetting than to buy this revolver in Poland. Oh wow I did not know that they require this now - this is somehow amazing because You are actually providing argu
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>> It definitely motivates me to continue conversations So get a thicker skin? >> Yes, I really enjoy being insulted by perfect strangers on the interwebs. Ok, your loss. I will give You a little secret about communication with
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I do not think you understand the difference between being able to buy the gun in Walmart (or rather Biedronka in hypothetical nightmare land) and the ability to procure one by looking for dealer on the internet or accessing foreign interne
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>> Lack of political will = the voting public doesn't want it, literally Since when this stopped the politician from serving their own intrests (and intrests of the money behind them)? But You are right it would be better to chan
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As far as I know this kind of weapon is not freely available in shops and even if they have it for sale You need to have speciall european gun card. And this kind of guns requires skills to use - I do not believe that mass shooting is even
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>> Encrypted data should appear no different than random noise right As far as I know its not true - usually there are statistical anomalies that gives away encrypted data. The other part is the the randomness of background noise of
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>> would it all be undetectable to us if it were encrypted? Encryption as far as i know does not deal with hiding information in background noise of communication channel. So most types of encrypted communication still can be detected
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Isn't "churning out garbage that technically meets requirements" a motto of IBM Global Software Services (or whatever they name themselvs these data). But jokes aside one of my friends seen this kind of setting degrade to &qu
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This is not an argument, just description of your immaturity (defined as a lack of control of emotions). You are not going to get far if you are not willing to try to understand the other side and adapt. I am able to talk with all kind of p
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>> Yes coding is a different language than most people are used to speaking, but it isn't as difficult as some like to make it look. I'm afraid that You are mistaken - literally no one tries to make the coding (or rather sof
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>> That's an interesting point though. In Poland, you can own certain guns, right? A Polish friend of mine told me he owned various guns, including semi auto pistols.I know you can own these in other central European countries to
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I still insist that this seems like lack of political will rather than means. I'm sure that there are a lot of ways that this can be done. It's like with this old saying about how You eat an elephant (a piece at a time). Same here
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>> It is my opinion that if someone murders another person for most of the common reasons (robbery, relatively minor interpersonal disputes, nonsensical rage, etc...) something is wrong with the murderer. This seems like wishful think

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