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by voldacar 6y ago
The pace at which the EU discovers new rights is truly impressive
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by voldacar 6y ago
There is definitely such a thing as moral virtue or character. Maybe "bad" and "good" are too simplistic but there are definitely more virtuous and less virtuous humans
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by voldacar 6y ago
This is a good observation. There needs to be some kind of feedback loop to suppress the tyrannical bureaucratizing tendency of the modern state. It is obvious that our own society does not have any such feedback loop. However, the answer i
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Well, the original meaning of casuistry is "the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; sophistry", which seems apt to this article. Yeah very true. Before I clicked it I thought it wou
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by voldacar 6y ago
Unless the actual physical F35 planes end up delivering some kind of value to their purchasers (let's face it, they basically won't), funding the F35 is a lot like breaking Bastiat's window. It's a case of the seen vs th
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Under casuistry, communities themselves deal with those accused of disturbing the community’s peace or of harming some of its members To think that this turns out well displays either staggering ignorance or the naïvete of an infant. T
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by voldacar 6y ago
Aren't there some things that WA can do that mathematica can't? like step-by-step explanations of how to do an integral
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by voldacar 6y ago
Is there something that would make it impossible to write the equivalent of SoftIce for Win7/Win10, or has it just not yet been done out of difficulty/laziness/lack of market/etc?
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by voldacar 6y ago
About how much does a CCD like that cost?
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by voldacar 6y ago
> reference counting is faster than garbage collection lol, not taking the bait
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by voldacar 6y ago
> Burke was certainly a child of its time, as progress through many individual actions (and their recombinations) vs. centrally planned progress is essentially the narrative of the Cold War. I have to disagree - this theme, though reachi
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by voldacar 6y ago
No I totally get it. Is the implication that the monolith marks a human grave?
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by voldacar 6y ago
I don't know if it's true or not, but of all the text I've seen on the internet, this comment has to be the most likely to make the people who read it reply with "tell me more!!!" well done
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by voldacar 6y ago
When I saw the obviously 3d-printed plastic, I thought it would include some kind of step by step guide to make your own, with a BOM etc. lame
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by voldacar 6y ago
It felt incomplete in some ways but Spore was so cool. I don't think there's been anything like it in the sim genre since tbh
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by voldacar 6y ago
modern usually seems to mean means algol syntax and not having macros :) aka the status quo of 60 years ago
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by voldacar 6y ago
I don't want to sound mean but I think the world has enough algol clones already :/
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by voldacar 6y ago
this is your brain on category theory
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by voldacar 6y ago
it's a serious stretch to call the US healthcare system an open market in any meaningful sense of the term
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by voldacar 6y ago
Quis accendet ipsos accenditores?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Even more pathetic is not the fact that she feels that way, but that she exists within an inter-institutional matrix of power that rewards and incentivizes her for feeling that way
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by voldacar 6y ago
Ok I misread the numbers somehow. This is interesting - I wonder what it means for the future of conventional desktop computing, when considering peripheral chips like GPUs that already have DMA capability
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by voldacar 6y ago
Regarding the state of computing - there are so many cheap critiques but so little construction. For years now, cutting edge OS research has just been reimplementing unix with $new_security_feature. So many lines of code are written but so
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by voldacar 6y ago
>Is it as fast as having more DRAM in all possible scenarios? Is it as fast as having more DRAM in any scenario?
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by voldacar 6y ago
Yes, the lack of a windows key can be a little annoying - I have F8 mapped to it in my soarer's converter config, which seems to be a pretty convenient location. And I have yet to encounter any software where F8 does something super cr
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by voldacar 6y ago
I have this exact keyboard, an '83 XT! Built like a tank (seriously, you could bludgeon someone to death with it) and the smoothest, most pleasurable keyswitch out of the dozens I've tried. The F keyswitch makes all cherry clones
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by voldacar 6y ago
I saw his interview on justin murphy's podcast - he seems like a super interesting guy! Glad to hear the book is doing well
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by voldacar 6y ago
With wings, you have to be moving forward to stay in the air. With rotors, you can hover if the control circuitry is up to the task
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by voldacar 6y ago
>lybia is not generally considered an advanced country true. Second world, maybe? And where in Europe would one go to buy a human?
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by voldacar 6y ago
> It's not that long ago that you could go to an advanced country where people could be bought and sold. I believe this can be done in Libya today

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