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by Produce 15y ago
>Secondly, the author doesn't make a convincing argument that the fact that the reason why men get all the risk and all the reward is because of something innate, instead of a self-perpetuating social system that actively encourages one
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by Produce 15y ago
>It's farming, versus hunting and gathering. I like that. Another way to frame it is that it's single vs multi-tasking. I remember reading that contemporary research found that those who multi-task are worse at everything they are doing
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by Produce 15y ago
As an alternative explanation for why we procrastinate, I'd like to introduce the idea that modern society is fundamentally broken. If we have social structures (software) in place which go so deeply against the grain (wetware) then the pro
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by Produce 15y ago
I agree that this is a good thing to add to the poll but I've always had a funny feeling about the importance of experience in programming. Some people learn faster than others and can get 10 years' worth of (average) experience in 5. I thi
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by Produce 15y ago
And I'm supposed to be against piracy? I have no problem giving money to people who deserve it but these people do not deserve a single penny from me. The other issue is that by paying for CD's, I'm directly funding the unethical legal bull
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by Produce 15y ago
>The purpose of patents is to encourage companies to publish their research. I would agree with you if it wasn't for this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent : >certain subject areas are excluded from patents, such as business me
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by Produce 15y ago
I think we have this all backwards in a sense. When the internet was new and governments were not involved, hackers claimed sovereignty in the anarchistic universe called cyberspace. Now that controls are being forced upon it, we are up in
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by Produce 15y ago
Really, it depends on what your goal is. The point of enlightenment is to stop suffering, so if you're trying to do that then our emotional responses must be transcended. If you're not, then what you say makes more sense. I think that the t
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by Produce 15y ago
Again, you are missing the point. Imagine if the USSR and the US cooperated and spent all that money they used to make their dicks look bigger on, for example, flying to mars.
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by Produce 15y ago
Imagine if MS, Apple, RIM AND Google all cooperated and said "this is silly, let's get rid of all our nukes (patents) and live in peace". Collectively, they would be $4.5 billion better off and could use it to build something instead of sto
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by Produce 15y ago
>if these patents were say, automotive in nature, and a coalition of automotive companies bought them for 4.5 billion, would we immediately jump to the conclusion that automotive patents are bad? Without going too deep into a philosophi
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by Produce 15y ago
I think that the argument for why software patents are dangerous is the $4.5 billion figure. If companies are shitting their pants to this extent then clearly the patents have a huge impact on business from their perspective.
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by Produce 15y ago
I had a lot of trouble with this aspect too and your logic is perfectly valid but your assumptions are missing a key piece. Part of accepting things the way they are is understanding that you are an integral part of the world. This implies
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by Produce 15y ago
They could have elaborated on how to achieve this a bit more. At it's core, the thing which must be increased is awareness, of both yourself and the world (which, from the proper perspective, are one and the same). The concrete method is me
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by Produce 15y ago
I wish they taught this back in school, math would have been so much more interesting. Anyway, I lack the knowledge to ask any more meaningful questions so I'm gonna go do some digging. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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by Produce 15y ago
From what I gather from jpallen's response to my other message the properties you're talking about are things like being able to add, multiply, subtract and divide, right? What's to stop one from coming up with novel properties which are un
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by Produce 15y ago
I would argue that Sweden does have a minimum wage since, from wiki - "There is no minimum wage that is required by legislation. Instead, minimum wage standards in different sectors are normally set by collective bargaining." I think that h
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by Produce 15y ago
This is pretty fascinating, do you know of any good sites or books which will get me up to scratch on different number systems? I haven't studied math in a long time, so do you think it would be worth going over the basics, like calculus an
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by Produce 15y ago
Why are there no 16, 32, 64, and so on, dimensions of numbers? Would multiplication not be invertible with them? Is there a possibility of things that are distinct from our concept of numbers but are none-the-less useful being discovered in
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by Produce 15y ago
Thank you for posting this. I remember trying to understand quaternions a few years ago and didn't get it. Your comment combined with this article made it click. I wonder if there's anything of numbers in infinite dimensions and, more inter
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by Produce 15y ago
You are attempting to understand the impact of a minimum wage from from an intellectual perspective but the map is not the territory. Just as having low taxes and few public services intellectually makes more sense but in reality reduces th
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by Produce 15y ago
Companies tend to save money at all costs, even at the expense of decency and Doing The Right Thing™. It's the same reason a lot of them have clauses in their contracts forbidding people from discussing their wages, even though it is in the
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by Produce 15y ago
Anyone who's ever created anything knows that it has little to do with money and everything to do with love. The love of the action, the love of seeing other people appreciate it and the love of self-expression. Copyright enforces monopolie
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by Produce 15y ago
To simplify the argument you presented - 'they need to use the system while simultaneously attacking it'. This makes the assumption that they want to preserve and modify the current system as opposed to outright decimating it. One way of fr
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by Produce 15y ago
Just out of interest, what drove you mad in 1.x? I've been working with it for the last few years and, by far, the most annoying aspect is sfForms, especially when trying to do anything more than simple tasks (e.g. embedding forms).
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by Produce 15y ago
I saw an interesting point in a scientific paper recently which I, admittedly, only got to read the abstract of (scientific journals are littered with paywalls). It basically stated that the corporation is a form of social technology which
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by Produce 15y ago
Like the other guy said, that's more of a software issue. A minimal linux distro with a lightweight WM tends to work well. An easy way to aid the lack of RAM is to use an SD card or USB drive as swap (to save the SSD from overuse). The keyb
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by Produce 15y ago
To provide anecdotal evidence of the contrary, anonymous discussions have helped me to become more honest about what I actually think and feel in real life. This comes with a side effect where one's social circle needs to be redrawn to refl
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by Produce 15y ago
Someone should fork the damn thing.
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by Produce 15y ago
Except that bad programmers in other domains will typically shrug and say "so what" when you point out the lack of code quality while enterprise programmers will try to convince you that their twisted ways are actually better. IME, ofcourse

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