OrganicMSG

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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I know a few of them, they are all game developers.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Technically, this would seem true for a lot of things.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Well, we have progressed to philosophers like John Gray (the author of Straw Dogs, not the relationship counselor who wrote that Mars/Venus thingy), though he would presumably argue that we haven't, given his views on progress. h
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Make or commission an observational sculpture from nature, a bust being the most common example, carved in stone or cast in metal.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
People are providing a useful service and getting paid, the madness, the madness!
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Also true.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Not adjusting your overall rules to the actions of single bad actors can be fatal. Single bad actors can sometimes wreak utter havoc.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I've been working a theory that what we are seeing in the last 10 years or so is the escape of these techniques from government into private industry. With a single powerful player, you get a consistent, but slightly false narrative.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
With the ones powered by sails, it sounded to me like something out of a Studio Ghibli film.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>Each island house has its own wagon — some used to be wind-powered, using sails, but today they run on diesel. Is that pretty standard?
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>It was a thoughtless mistake to bring the explosives on the plane Certain thoughtless mistakes are worth fining a company into oblivion over and maybe jailing some people for a bit, just to make sure you have made the point. Someone smu
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>the actual number of people attempting to zero the amount of oil they use? Much lower than claimed concern. How do you know how many there are? Anyone doing that couldn't travel except by foot, buy any commercial products or use an
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
> "If people were deeply individually concerned about the risks vs. rewards of these technologies, they'd stop using them." Why do you think that? It clearly doesn't apply to stuff like oil, for instance. I could give
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Mass surveillance is not really for investigating individuals. The game being played is not '1984', it is 'Foundation'. It is for steering entire societies, and this works far better on the boring people who think they h
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Don't use *.io anyway. The domains are being sold under a very morally dubious arrangement, given the UK kicked all the people off the island of Chagos and gave the domain registration to a private entity. https://gigaom.com
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
The cod wars between the UK and Iceland would suggest that fisheries policy is often not exactly the most calmly rational of human endeavours.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>Rather than developing the more creative innovations which bring together disparate pieces from other areas into new ones. Go buy a copy of the Three-Body trilogy by Liu Cixin.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>induced demand, where adding capacity can actually create more demand. The timeline on induced demand for number of houses required has to be pretty long. Also, if you are worrying about induced demand from housebuilding, then you are a
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Did anyone sensible think automation was largely responsible for the job loss in the richer countries? Manufacturing has chased cheap wages globally since the 1960's. I always thought the widely accepted narrative was that automation m
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
I just looked on the news. Apparently none of that matters.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
That was put well enough to make me wince on reading. Ever thought of going into politics?
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Without that view, we wouldn't have most of the works by Kafka.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
>If the author changes his views, it wouldn't be acceptable for someone else to print new copies of the book. That depends entirely on the publishing contract's rights reversion stipulations. An author deciding that they do not
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
"so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?" This brief fit of apparent competence is probably just a temporary aberration. Norma
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
It meshes well with reality though.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
It is the right of all librarians.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Anything you have ever published is no longer entirely yours and the act of doing so is also a relinquishment of control. Only secrets can ever really be regarded as possessions. Archivists should not require permission to store that which
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
This is cool. Though as you take into account more of the detail of the shape of the surface, your straight line can get a lot longer. I would be interested to see one that takes into account the large scale ocean surface topography, to see
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Code all long term business logic in magnetic core memory running on hardened valves with dixie tube displays.
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by OrganicMSG 8y ago
Presumably one could simply work out the required degrees of freedom for eyes nose and mouth and assign each one a float and make something workable with metafont. I may put some time aside to have a play with this.

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