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by w0utert 12y ago
Mad cow disease (BSE) was not related to hygiene or how many animals were crammed into how little space. It was caused by mixing their food with the ground-down remains of other cows, especially their brain parts.
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by w0utert 12y ago
Which instantly expands the topic and provides you with other things to chat about, which was exactly the point ;-) I would qualify myself as slightly introvert but adequately sociable (I value my 'alone time' but I'm very ea
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by w0utert 12y ago
Second that, I can hardly believe this story is for real. When I grew up my parents left me (and my brother and sister) alone in the car all the time. Never for more than a few minutes obviously, but otherwise it was perfectly normal. They
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by w0utert 12y ago
You shouldn't upgrade between major Ubuntu (-based) releases like that, as it doesn't account for certain configuration changes, you are bound to hose your system if you do it that way. Ubuntu has another script 'do-release-u
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by w0utert 12y ago
>> Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see what's "wrong" about Apple using private API's and workarounds that are not available to
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by w0utert 12y ago
Why should the 'emotions' animals can or can not experience have to be like 'human emotions' though? Maybe the dog can be 'sad' in a way that isn't exactly like sadness as experienced by humans, but it&#x2
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by w0utert 12y ago
Oh I think about these things a lot , just because I prefer a nihilistic, cynic (realistic) world-view does not mean I don't care about people, my surroundings, or anything in general, or that I go around telling people they are doome
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by w0utert 12y ago
What you are describing is not 'basic income' but 'social security', and many developed countries already have it.
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by w0utert 12y ago
I'm not sure if I'm following you. What does having kids change about the future of society as we know it, and how does worrying about this future more because you have kids make your (or their) life better or easier? As a thought
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by w0utert 12y ago
I wouldn't call myself a cynic (I prefer realist), but yeah, in the medium-to-long term I think society as we know it is going to pretty much disintegrate, and it won't be pretty. Not because of technological progress by the way,
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by w0utert 12y ago
Claiming some kind of magic smoothie will improve your health is the type of health-nonsense we need less of, not more, it doesn't serve any purpose improving anyone's lifestyle. That's probably why you got downvoted into obl
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by w0utert 13y ago
Well, that may be true, but what advantages does Ada offer over C++? I understand it may be one of the (very few) workable alternatives for this kind of systems, but I can imagine has many disadvantages over C++. Where do you find enough de
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by w0utert 13y ago
You are being voted down because your comment was completely unsubstantiated. Maybe if you had thought about it a little longer you'd have figured put there aren't actually that many (any?) viable alternatives for C++ for the kind
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by w0utert 13y ago
I assume the 70MB binary statically links in all kinds of assets that blow up the file size, static arrays of pre-calculated data etc. There's no way it compiles to 70MB of assembly. The code size would still be massively bigger than t
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by w0utert 13y ago
Thanks for that, you basically described exactly how I feel about tipping in the US. I'm from Europe myself, and where I live, a tip really is a way to explicitly express appreciation of service, instead of some kind of unwritten rule
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> There are much larger forces at work. What these forces are exactly is...difficult to determine. How about: "lots of people who bought at the top of the BTC hype are now abandoning the BTC market because they lost faith in t
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by w0utert 13y ago
Agreed, the whole article can be summarized as 'Mozilla is working on a new browser engine made for multi-core systems, in a new language they are developing called 'Rust' which is made for speed and safety'. Not much mo
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by w0utert 13y ago
I think he made some really good and instructive points though, these are really relevant if you want to get better at game design. But I also agree that you have to look at this game as a demo and not expect it to be perfect in any way bes
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by w0utert 13y ago
Maybe open-source does actually need marketing and an appearance of quality and modernity to 'succeed', whether you like it or not. Code quality or complexity is often invisible and largely irrelevant to end-users (as long as th
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> Did he say there was an "insult to the dollar currency" when Lehman Brothers went under? He didn't say as much, but it wouldn't have been that inappropriate if he had. The fall of Lehman Brothers actually was
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by w0utert 13y ago
So everything is great because you (still) happen to be among the lucky few that have profit from holding BTC? Got it...
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by w0utert 13y ago
Isn't BTC supply also artificially limited? I though that was the whole point so it wouldn't become 'inflationary'? I can't stop being amazed by the persistent denial and non-sequitur arguments made by many BTC fans
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by w0utert 13y ago
Again, I assume the article only served as an example of how in Python you usually end up using dictionaries or classes, which have fundamentally different performance characteristics compared to C-structs. Yes, you could use tuples instead
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by w0utert 13y ago
It's just an example. There are many cases where you need more than what you can safely stuff into a tuple, which means the choice becomes 'naked dictionaries vs. classes', it's a tradeoff I've had to make many time
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by w0utert 13y ago
And that's putting the article in perspective by referring to someone with talent and experience in music, a universally enjoyed skill that also happens to combine very well with typical feel-good scenario's where people are more
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by w0utert 13y ago
That doesn't make sense, your body needs minerals as well but that doesn't mean you have to eat dirt, rust, or chalk. As far as nutritional value goes, sugar is one of the least healthy sources of energy, especially in its refined
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by w0utert 13y ago
I'd argue almost anything can be part of a healthy diet, when consumed in moderation. But in itself, there really is nothing in a doughnut your body needs, except energy. I wouldn't even call it 'food' in the sense that
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> This makes good sense, but it also suggests that Google is more than willing to handle these headaches without profit incentives. I'm not an Android developer, but judging from what I've read about the experience Androi
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by w0utert 13y ago
>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people... Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter. I'm not so
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by w0utert 13y ago
People are not just required to work because there's so much work to do, but because they need income, so they can consume, take on debt, service it, etc. No work means no income means no consumption means no economic growth means we w

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