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by zxcdw 12y ago
Did I interpet something wrong, but isn't "confidence" here something like " inverse herd mentality"? As in, while herd mentality[1] is " Herd mentality, or mob mentality, describes how people are influenced b
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by zxcdw 12y ago
According to Wikipedia, Carl Pfeiffer[1] researched mental illnesses, mainly schizophrenia, from the point of brain chemistry imbalances and dietary changes to alter it. The theory is, that there are chemical imbalances with patient's
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by zxcdw 12y ago
You are making two assumptions. First, everyone goes to their cottage every weekend. Second, none of those wouldn't own their own car. I can see no reason to believe these two to be even remotely true, hence why I see no argument there
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by zxcdw 12y ago
I've been training for a 10K run in September for the past 4 or so months, and I have two more to go. I attended last year's event and it was quite nice, so in a sense it is mostly about speed this time around. I'm aiming tow
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> Personal accountability is something that is socially learned. But the problem arises, when you then need to take things into account which you simply can't anticipate. Consider this (overly simplified) exampe: I have to choose
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> I see Google's censorship as an attack on "freedoms and rights". Have I misunderstood something, but isn't this exactly about giving people a right to choose about the online visibility of their name? If that is the
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by zxcdw 12y ago
What is the problem being solved which makes it possible to do this? Or, in other words, why don't we have this as a standard way for chargers? Is it cost? I understand nothing about electronics really, but I'd guess at least one
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by zxcdw 12y ago
But that has nothing to do with the fact that just because the site emails you a password doesn't mean that they store the password in plaintext. The catch here is that if they email the password upon the user having entered it (made
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by zxcdw 12y ago
It indeed is, no doubt about that. Why are you asking? Edit: What is this, constructive and sincere question getting downvoted?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
What about situations in which someone deliberately tries to cause misery to those suffering a loss? A prime example would be a family losing a child and someone just deliberately mocking and teasing them over it. What can you do? How can y
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Why so? Of course it is fair to make an assumption -- it would be a different story if there was a claim made based on that assumption, as in your comparison. In other words, you made up a silly case and attacked against it to argue against
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Why? Is your income limited by lack of discoverability or lack of people willing to put in money for it? First you need the audience. Without big marketing budgets free sharing of music is the best you have. Even if people were willing to
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by zxcdw 12y ago
I think there's a distinction to be made between Computer Science and Software Engineering as separate disciplines.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Is Conway's Game of Life form of intelligence in the same sense that a plant can be "intelligent" for making seemingly optimal "decisions"? Whatever the answer is, it's almost certainly a different kind of &quo
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> That didn't happen. Are you saying that thus far it has never been the case that NSA or some other US Governmental agency has intercepted Snapchat images off the wire? How would you know whether or not it has ever happened? I
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by zxcdw 12y ago
As a small detail, Peter Sunde ran for the European Parlament with the Finnish Pirate Party.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> "The fish oil capsules I don't think will stand up to a critical review. They simply don't do anything for you," he said. "The people should know that it doesn't help to prevent heart disease." This s
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by zxcdw 12y ago
To who and in what situations? To businesses(hardware and software) sure, they get products out faster and are motivated to push new stuff out. To end users, not so much, because they wait more and their batteries drain faster. They also pa
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Let me play devil's advocate here: So what? Apart from an ideological view on "privacy is good mmkay", how exactly does it hinder your life if Google knows that you are pregnant, or that if Facebook knows that you are plannin
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Could the first also imply towards that all code is buggy, absence of proof doesn't equal proof of absence. As in, if you don't find bugs yet, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
What else have you got, really? Hackerspaces and Github don't count. IRC is dead for the most part. Some ezines seem to struggle along with a few mailing lists, but that's it. Most active members in these "underground" c
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I think the point is that these days we live in an era of abstractions over abstractions which are all very well documented and ever-changing. There are not hundreds of them, but thousands. There's no way to actually push the boundarie
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by zxcdw 13y ago
But is that a bad thing if it is something one enjoys? I find it saddening that people should be ashamed of their fetishes and whatnot, like it's a taboo. Why couldn't we just express our sexuality openly and the way we want to wi
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I think the quote refers more to people who use alcohol as a form of escapism.
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Strangely enough I started to feel the same with morning tea, until I quit having any. Now I function "normally" even in the morning and can take a "boost"(hardly noticeable) if needed as long as it's not more than
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Is this supposedly amusing or are you just venting off because of something, with no intent of contributing to any form of civilized discussion?
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I understand this as in that younger ones have more wild ideas than pragmatic engineering solutions, unlike older ones tend to skew towards the engineering solutions rather than the ideas. In a way I see it as ideas vs. implementations. A g
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by zxcdw 13y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. There's this woman[1] who ran 366 marathons in a year -- that is one per day and two durnig the last day of the year since she started. (And despite the interview was done after she had ran 100 marathons, sh
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Doesn't matter who ships, as long as it can be done without reasonable tradeoffs. The nature of the Web as we know it gives so many benefits in form of e.g. ease of deployment that it'd be outright wonder that there wouldn't
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by zxcdw 13y ago
Building and maintaining muscle consumes lots of calories in the long run. But then again, it takes lots of time and hard work too, so there's that. And of course, to actually gain any considerable muscle you need to eat relatively cle

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