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by yew 15y ago
Given the degree to which Phelps has in fact monetized his craziness, I'm personally inclined to believe that it's at least partly an act. His whole family regularly engages in activities that are specifically calculated to make people angr
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by yew 15y ago
None of which justifies (or even relates to) paying the police (or anyone else, really) for intentionally endangering people's lives. The only question of merit here is whether or not keeping the speed limit artificially low is, in fact, da
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by yew 15y ago
On the other hand, it's definitely possible for a language's interpreting infrastructure to deal with ambiguity in code. The difference between "natural language vs type inference" and "type inference vs assume it's an int" strikes me as qu
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by yew 15y ago
Permutation City is definitely hard sci-fi, albeit less hard than most of Egan's work. Ignoring the "uploading" (it not being the central point of the story, and this not being the place to have that debate), his "dust theory" is very well
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by yew 15y ago
Could you provide some evidence for Mr DeChristopher's ability to acquire $1.8M in short order? The actual issue seems to have much more to do with the legality of the auction than with whether or not he honestly intended to purchase the la
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by yew 15y ago
I can't say I really care about whether or not orange juice is "natural" - it's all made of chemicals at the end of the day, so the only thing that really matters to me is which ones, and how much - but the degree to which truth-in-advertis
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by yew 15y ago
Assuming gullible 13-year-olds are the sort to think about the consequences before downloading an executable and clicking "run," anyway. In my experience (so this is really just anecdotal evidence), that's rarely the case, especially when i