MarcusBrutus

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by MarcusBrutus 8y ago
The integers are totally closed under multiplication. They lack an inverse under multiplication that's why they aren't a field.
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by MarcusBrutus 8y ago
For those who had the misfortune to suffer the consquences of his folly, he is not controversial at all. He is a conceited man-child with very bad manners. There's readily accessible, amble evidence for that by looking at photos of him
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by MarcusBrutus 8y ago
I wrote a Javascript visualization of this (using React) some time ago: http://mperdikeas.github.io/stack-piling-and-tumbling/index.... (click "start dropping grain" to start) Github repo: https://
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by MarcusBrutus 8y ago
The problem with chess is that what makes it so addictive is the effect of memorizing openings. Opening theory adds strategic depth, flavor, and a landscape to what would otherwise be a dry, abstract, overly tactical game. It also allows ps
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by MarcusBrutus 9y ago
Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured. All the great econom
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by MarcusBrutus 9y ago
Flow is not a transpiler, there is no concept of "emitting code", only of stripping away the annotations. In contrast, TypeScript is a transpiler. TypeScript being a transpiler means what gets executed at runtime is not what you w
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by MarcusBrutus 9y ago
I 've used both. Flow wins hands down: (1) It is less intrusive. Flow's type system is built on annotations which are simply stripped away at runtime (as opposed to writing in another - albeit similar - language that gets transpil
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
In your database always store time as seconds since the Epoch (or milliseconds since the Epoch if you need more precision). Forget about SQL date/time types, they are useless. Then convert to "civilian format" only in the pre
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
It gives me a very warm feeling to know that those simpletons now have you to care for them and prevent other people from taking advantage of them. I do hope they show some appreciation for your efforts on their behalf.
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
I know very well what these systems are and, more importantly, I also know what they have in common (with German National Socialism, Maoism and Arab Islamism too): contempt for the rights of individuals and belief in the right of the state
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
... asks the one who can't write 11 words without a syntactic error (in case you edit it: "Do you even know the meaning of the words to use ?"). Also be advised that it's not correct typography to prepend the question ma
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
If a business is willing to offer me free soda refills and I freely choose to patronize thar business, then it takes a hardcore Stalinist to dare stand between us two and prevent by the force of guns this peacefull, voluntary exchange. Does
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in 17 official tran
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
It most definitely is and it takes a very starry eyed sort of person to expect otherwise. The idea that 20 or so different people with different languages, religions, mores, histories, frames of reference, economies could somehow achieve mo
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
Yep, obviously.
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
For a man, a brothel operator, a private detective, or a drugs purveyor would make more sense for blackmail. How would a waiter in a nondescript location gain access to information that would allow him to blackmail? It's not like the h
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
The story doesn't explain how a spy working as a waiter, purchase manager or "artist" can gain access to military secrets.
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
Ubuntu LTS with i3 window manager. Community size matters and after having experienced i3wm I find it impossible to use any other window manager.
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
Scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability are not societal constructs. Plus all metals have some inherent value. On top of that you have desirability which you could perhaps explain as a societal construct although I think there is so
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
Bitcoin fails to satisfactorily answer von Mises' regression theorem. It also has no scarcity since it can face competition by an infinite number of similar conceivable algorithms / block-chains / virtual currencies that offe
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
Even in OO languages (such as Java and C#) people are routinely advised to favor composition over inheritance whenever given half a chance. Classes definitely smell (or rather reek) of the infamous 90s that inflicted such atrocities on huma
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by MarcusBrutus 10y ago
I've used Clojure in a few cases and I totally adore the simplicity of its Lisp syntax as opposed to the baroquesque abomination that is Scala. However, lack of strong typing is sorely felt. I 've done a little playground-style OC
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Herd immunity is a "tragedy of the commons" type of game. Case closed. Unless you can prove that a rational actor would chose in his own self-interest to cooperate in which case you might get considered for a Nobel prize in econom
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Whenever I read the words "herd immunity" my eyes roll over. It sure feels good to be a free loader every once in a while. And let's not forget that medicine is not engineering or mathematics. I 've met quite a few doct
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
People will not be amazed, at least for more than a day, by anything that's widely shared. Never had, never will. Human beings, being what they are, a few enlightened souls excluded, derive happiness by the advantages they enjoy and th
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Shouldn't that be 1.5X instead? Unless you are factoring in that limestone's permeable.
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I am not convinced that the Egyptians could build watertight channels at this scale, especially those shown climbing up the slope of the pyramid which would have to be watertight at the top too, and under great pressure. Also one or two pac
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Maybe it can't buy happiness but it can definitely buy off unhappiness, some of it anyhow (adapted from a line in "Psycho").
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Perhaps, in a broader sense. One particular account I've read in a autobiographical book by a person who fought in a distant civil war and had been on both sides of the table, so to speak, recalls how he felt the same kind of bonding -
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I find it strange that if Mr. Nagase had been a rather indifferent PoW camp "administrator" who did not actively participate in torturing him, the late Mr. Lomax would likely feel no great urge to meet him and make friends with hi

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