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by wfn 12y ago
Take a look at PhilPapers Surveys, maybe: http://philpapers.org/surveys/ the rough gist (from http://philpapers.org/archive/BOUWDP.pdf ) seems to be 14. Meta-ethics: moral realism 56.4%; moral
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by wfn 12y ago
Also the words that follow the above: "From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright f
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by wfn 12y ago
As much as I like pg's writings (honestly, I (usually) (kinda) like/appreciate his writing style, content, etc.), re: hackers&painters, obligatory link to Maciej's retort/comments "Smushing Paul Graham": h
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by wfn 12y ago
Project idea: start another one of these sealed gardens, but also include various sensors within the bottle/compartment (CO2, CH4, O2, temperature, humidity, pressure, whatnot; but also light levels.) They can be pretty small and made
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What the large scale structure of networks can tell us about complex systems(santafe.edu)
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by wfn 12y ago
These are called hardcore survival servers. They are basically what made me attracted to the idea of playing minecraft multiplayer, actually. I remember seeing a picture of someone discovering a random build in the middle of a forest (in a
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by wfn 12y ago
Yup. Both vanilla minecraft and bukkit are terrible at multithreading. Bukkit's plugin API doesn't use locks (iirc), so having the plugins be able to run in a safe multithreaded fashion is a clusterfuck. It's possible to do t
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by wfn 12y ago
Honestly, the code is a mess. (Really.) I'm trying to determine/recall how far I was able to get by looking at it (at least the initial goal was to have functionality akin to jmc's original paper, with syntax from pg's r
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by wfn 12y ago
I had once started writing a Lisp interpreter in Python, only to realize that I was leveraging a lot of pythonic power (most notably at least for me at the time - garbage collection) - i.e. more than I had planned to use. So then I switched
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by wfn 12y ago
Well, fwiw this seems to be the last pdf/lecture from a total of 16: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/14sp-cs240h/slides/ Unfortunately there don't seem to be any accompanying notes/etc.
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by wfn 12y ago
> but there still doesn't seem to be a way to sparse-checkout without fetching the entire .git repo. I'm not entirely sure if this is what you want, but sparse-checkouting only parts of the repo is possible: http:/&#x
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by wfn 12y ago
#startups currently has >480 people, and iirc it's a kind of (totally) unofficial HN channel. At the very least the intersection of crowds is very high. #hackernews makes sense.. currently a whopping total of 10 people there. :)
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by wfn 12y ago
Would be nice if someone set up a relay bot between this thing and freenode's irc (e.g. #startups, or whatever.) Fragmentation is kind of stupid. e.g. i2p dev channels work in a similar fashion: you can join OFTC, freenode, i2p-interna
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by wfn 12y ago
Thirded. Before Diaspora, I first read "Wang's Carpets"[1] which is a short story of his. Then found out this story had later been incorporated as a chapter into the book. I remember basically immediately ordering said book t
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by wfn 12y ago
(If it's not a total secret, would be interesting to hear what your team is doing / up to!)
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by wfn 12y ago
Yes indeed, and now I recall my curiosity about the fact that kissing with our eyes open doesn't really work (in most cases / as a rule, etc.) You can't really explain it away by saying that 'one needs to divert (cogniti
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by wfn 12y ago
> Our for-contract bitcoin dev team already uses 2 of 3 multisig escrow for all bitcoin payments. Nice! > Once crypto assets which track USD, Euro, Yen, RMB pop up with turing complete scripting build in... man that's going to
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by wfn 12y ago
Yes, I see your point. Or at least, this made me re-think things that I've also been considering, namely: this kind of 'shunning'/etc. of explicit techniques is a biased selector of certain kinds of people (natural woman
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by wfn 12y ago
This is BIP-level stuff only, but fwiw BIP 0011 ( https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawi... ) is kind of interesting. It would thence (uh, can i use that word this way?) be possible t
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by wfn 12y ago
Sure, but i think there's a nontrivial difference between these kinds of (usually) spontaneous and (often/usually) unconscious filters, vs. a whole streamlined process (which takes a longer time; though it does yield more inform
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by wfn 12y ago
If this happens organically, then that's one thing (e.g. going on a hitchhiking/whatever journey for two weeks or more, etc. - it does kind of work (get to know person as side effect, and so on)); but institutionalizing it (so t
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by wfn 12y ago
Yup, quite a few of them are happening around the world - the overall 'movement' is / can be called the 'cryptoparty movement' (if one could say it was indeed a 'movement'). We did our own event in our loc
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by wfn 12y ago
> I'm always suspicious of the advise to work on open-source projects, or practising programming on your own, or online coding academies, etc. I feel these are without purpose and people soon lose interest since there is no goal (a
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by wfn 12y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. The handbook is an interesting read indeed. You could maybe interpret it as shameless advertising on the part of the company (which it is!), and you could question their famous flat structure (classical po
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by wfn 12y ago
Oh, is it now a built-in module in 9.4beta? I've used it in 9.1 (downloading the patch, applying it, recompiling postgres..) - have found this article re: postgres caching mechanisms (and pg_prewarm use in particular (though re: pg_pre
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by wfn 12y ago
I'd start with going over the points of this article (assuming you haven't done just that:) -- https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...
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by wfn 12y ago
Thanks for this. :) Indeed, I think I actually mostly agree with you. See my longer comment / explication of Descartes' argument (if it's an argument) above: I personally (also) think that "I think" already presuppo
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by wfn 12y ago
Hmm. I don't think so, but, feel free to expand your opinion (why do you think it should be "I am, therefore I (can) think"? Maybe you have an interesting point to make?) Re: etymology, it's pretty much "think =>
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by wfn 12y ago
Ahh, very nice. While at it: here's a very nice etymological explanation of why the Ubuntu-Yoneda lemma is called the Ubuntu-Yoneda lemma: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/03/spivak_on_categ...
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by wfn 12y ago
jaxytee: fyi, you are shadowbanned; there's no contact info on your profile, and your previous comments suggest no reason for the shadowbanning.

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