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by Padding 11y ago
Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?
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by Padding 12y ago
I never understood why cookies receive so much attention in various privacy discussions. They are the one thing the user has full control over. Yes it takes some effort to delete them, but so does looking left and right before crossing the
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by Padding 12y ago
What you're saying isn't wrong, but I doubt that societies where rulers have a monopoly on violence have existed long enough to have had an impact on evolution.
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by Padding 12y ago
> That suspicion is not a personal failing any more than a software QA tester who doesn't trust the latest build. There’s no reason to assume software being innocent/bug-free unless proven otherwise. This is not the case with h
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by Padding 12y ago
Maybe that's because gluing together limbs is still an open research issue while gluing together ideas is merely a mental excercise?
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by Padding 12y ago
There’s probably a lot more than what is obvious here. Compare a modern clip to something that was made in the 70/80s. I guess it does take some skill to not end up with 2 bodies just lying atop each other and properly cutting away the
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by Padding 12y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Charging for pirated content is among the worst things someone can do. It’s also why I was at least a little bit glad when the megaupload/rapidshare sites were taken down. There may be an argument to be made
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by Padding 12y ago
We did/do that in German too. Some people still ended up being offended. Go figure.
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by Padding 12y ago
> a malfunctioning sandbox is worse than useless Are there any sandboxes in existence which are definitely not worse than useless?
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by Padding 12y ago
So graphical programming counts as not programming these days.
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by Padding 12y ago
Chrome OS and Android may seem similar from a distance – they’re technically similar and do similar things, but they have very different goals. Android was trying to imitate iOS and needed to establish itself and survive in a harsh market e
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by Padding 12y ago
> As for where the money comes from, doesn't that just fall out of supply and demand? As demand for electricity increases, prices will go up, funding the infrastructure improvements needed to accommodate the increased demand. Lookin
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by Padding 12y ago
There's bound to be people out there (other than me) that hate dealing with other humans - let alone other humans who barely understand the language you speak, have bad hearing and work in a noisy environment.
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by Padding 12y ago
Reading that article, isn't that what Rich Hickey would call "incidental" (and thus bad) complexity?
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by Padding 12y ago
> 'continuous tactics' I think the words you're looking for are "micromanagement" (if it's about dealing with more than one unit) and "mechanical skill" if it's about having twitch reaction ti
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by Padding 12y ago
Except that atoms are not homogenous entities. Even assuming you'd somehow manage to produce and combine atoms to a spec, there's positively no way of obtaining that spec.
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by Padding 12y ago
> Let's exclude things like rigorous scientific studies for the purpose of the discussion and focus on day-to-day human reasoning I think you'll need to look at the other end of the spectrum to see an abundance of (wrong?) mode
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by Padding 12y ago
> I think that in 99% of cases a traditional storage engine approach works just fine. We all tried to reinvent the wheel, but ultimately it turned out to be a lot of work for fairly little benefit. Please publish this in a paper or at le
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by Padding 12y ago
I feel exactly like you, and I'm glad I'm not alone. For some reason though we're the exception here. Most people seem to have enjoyed ME2 more than ME1 because nobody seems to care about having an actual coherent storyline a
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by Padding 12y ago
> Why would a human? Because evolution graced (cursed?) us with a reward system and parents that utilize (abuse?) it. Having something capable of high-level reasoning, while free from the desires, fears, moods and other emotions humans s
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by Padding 12y ago
> Doing that is still abuse Based on what? I'm not for drugging people and using them as zombies. And obviously drugging people against their will is already forcing onto them something they don't want. But, striping away all h
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by Padding 12y ago
How do you pull the plug on a self-driving car? You asume that computers will remain tied to a wall socket, which may not be necessarily true forever. And even if, given all the bugs prevalent in our software, what are the chances of contai
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by Padding 12y ago
You use so many words, yet none of them with precise meaning. > none of it is elegant What is "elegant" to you? A biological brain, for all intents and purposes, is a big mess. By comparison an ALU in silicon is much neater. Th
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by Padding 12y ago
> Historically, slavery never worked out for anyone, at least not in the long term. This is a rather contentious point I think. "We" wouldn't be the "developed" part of the world had we not enslaved the rest of i
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by Padding 12y ago
> despite decades of working solutions Which "working" solutions? Has anyone solved creating a type system that offers OO/inheritance, generics, mutability and isn't mind-bogglingly complex? What is your definition fo
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by Padding 12y ago
Who can win against lisp anyways? The reasons we aren't seeing more lisp/clojure are not technical/objective ones but attitude, social and nework factors - which are just as relevant though.
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by Padding 12y ago
So how would one implement Erlang-like functionality in Plan9, where the code of a server can be hotswapped while still keeping all existing sockets to the clients open?
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by Padding 12y ago
This may or may not be an issue for targeted attacks on high-profile individuals (which in turn likely have the means to avoid them). But I don't think crosslinking moderately-reliable browser identifiers across different websites, so
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by Padding 12y ago
> It is important to remember that when we are dealing with scientific theories, we are not really all that concerned with truth. Isn't truth the only thing science cares about? Of course truth alone doesn't mean much and we
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by Padding 12y ago
> If P is true, its negation is false. Where's your proof?

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