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by yafujifide 17y ago
In principle, there could be a visual text editor that applied default styles to the structure of your text. You wouldn't see \jibber{jabber}, but text that was styled in a default way. Separately, custom styles could be applied to the outp
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by yafujifide 17y ago
I hate to bring this to a general discussion of capitalism/Rand etc., but I have a question: How is Rand's "liberty" supposed to be provided? It seems to me we already live in a universe where people have as much free will as we ever will.
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by yafujifide 17y ago
> if I'm right, obviously the market does not give points for effort But the market does give points for effort. How else do you explain the bonuses awarded to bankers who damaged the economy? They were rewarded despite their antisucces
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by yafujifide 17y ago
But can I borrow money at 0% interest from the Fed to do it?
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by yafujifide 17y ago
What if you're a pragmatic scientist? Science is funded by the people. If they aren't excited about research, funding may drop. If we have to devote some of our resources, even a lot, into activities that keep people excited, then that's fi
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by yafujifide 17y ago
The tubes have a kink.
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by yafujifide 18y ago
I fail to see how measuring adults' brains tells us what they were like at birth. Can't brains change? I can recall recently reading about how neurons actually can be created anew, in contradiction with ancient established fact. Can the str
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by yafujifide 18y ago
Independent of the Dubai issue, I think he is right about the "what-about x" argument. I have seen it many times before. Like in religious debates, an atheist might hear the argument, "so if you don't believe in God, where do you get your m
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by yafujifide 18y ago
By admitting students randomly rather than on perceived skill.
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Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto(arxiv.org)
3 points by yafujifide 18y ago|1 comments
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by yafujifide 18y ago
We'll see about that. As of yesterday I have started writing performance-critical software in Python. It's a large application, and many components might go slow in Python. However, my suspicion is that one part of the code will be particul
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by yafujifide 18y ago
This is wonderful. I scanned my website and found two spelling errors. I did not know "seeked" was not a word. It is supposed to be "sought".
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by yafujifide 18y ago
Having recently read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," Stallman comes across as actually being less of a hacker than Feynman. http://web.archive.org/web/20080205071249/http://www.gorgora... Even as a kid, Feynman was quite the hacker.