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by codebolt 9y ago
I'm enthusiastic about finishing a project I helped start at work, which involves migrating tens of thousands of lines of complex and undocumented VB6 code into a functionally equivalent C# program. I get a kick out of doing things tha
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by codebolt 9y ago
Norway already has very generous social welfare programs, and nobody who is willing to look for help is dying in the streets. The notion of undeserving youth abusing the welfare system is also far from hypothetical. Consider: I hold univers
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by codebolt 9y ago
> My guess is that automated driving systems will have to err on the side of caution and that this will result in seemingly (to the passenger) unnecessary slow-downs. How are you expecting to be able to regulate implementation specific d
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by codebolt 9y ago
As a Norwegian with extensive personal experience with the drug community (both from my parents generation in the 60's/70's and from the millenial generation), I just want to say that I really don't agree with the victim
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by codebolt 9y ago
In the grander scheme, it seems plausible that there will be one or a few cryptocurrencies of the current era that will withstand the test of time and emerge with large-scale adoption rates in various markets. But with BitCoins technical li
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by codebolt 9y ago
> Coders who understand their domain well are immensely valuable, and are easily worth at least 3x, because they don't over- or under-engineer a solution, and because they can conjure up with technological solutions for problems tha
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by codebolt 9y ago
In an atheistic culture, "social progress" is just a moniker for an increase of liberalistic nihilism and hedonism. Modern western society has so much to thank Christianity for, it's a real shame if it ends up going this way.
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by codebolt 9y ago
Even then, you are trusting the app to do what it says it's going to do. The only way I feel 100% safe is encrypting the file manually before sending (through whatever platform), and sharing the key through some other medium (preferabl
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by codebolt 9y ago
I don't understand what you people are seeing who make these performance complaints. I switched to Firefox last year because Chrome was giving me a lot issues (often hanging and crashing when I had many tabs/large pages open). So
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by codebolt 9y ago
No, but I did have a workout buddy for the first year or so that I was going, so that probably helped. But anyway, I'd still recommend a trainer as he might be able to identify any weak spots in your posture, mobility etc and give bett
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by codebolt 9y ago
I used to hate any type of training for years, but I'm really glad I was able to coax myself into starting & sticking with it in spite of my resistance. Few things in life have so many upsides and so few downsides. Anyway, I think
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by codebolt 9y ago
One calorie of vegetables is a lot less carbon-intensive to produce than a calorie of meat. As for meat replacement alternatives to help people adjust to a diet with less/no meat: Plant-based meat substitutes (these have become a lot b
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by codebolt 9y ago
Agreed, we should tackle the biggest sources first. And meat production in particular is one of the biggest contributors. Scale back the subsidies for these types of farms and replace them instead with taxes. Consumers will change their hab
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by codebolt 9y ago
I was never a phil major. On the contrary, I have degrees in physics and computer science. My introduction to this idea came from reading the books of Roger Penrose, a man I have a great deal of intellectual respect for.
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by codebolt 10y ago
All I know is that I experience qualia. And I believe that you and all other humans do too, but perhaps some people just aren't aware of it in the same way as I am. As someone who has a pretty good grasp of both physics and computer sc
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by codebolt 10y ago
Like I said, I don't accept this physicalist assertion, because it ignores the problem of qualia and the Penrose-Lucas argument (which demonstrates quite clearly how the human mind is able to violate Gödels incompleteness theorems, and
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by codebolt 10y ago
To me, even if we ignore the God debate, there are some big problems with theories like these because they irreverently presuppose that everything including the human mind can be reduced to mechanical/mathematical principles. This igno
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by codebolt 10y ago
Yeah this article is completely half-baked. If we had only grown enough of these staples to feed humans, it would require a whole lot less than growing enough to feed animals who feed humans. The author here is making it sound like there wo
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by codebolt 10y ago
Of course it's political. Western culture has moved away from glorifying the nuclear family as the ideal way of living, so generations are being brought thinking that having a family is not all that important. I believe that a lot of i
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by codebolt 10y ago
Yes, personally I believe that the past, present and future states of the universe exist as a kind of eternal structure. This is commonly known as the "block universe" view. In that context my life is but a small (but nonetheless
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by codebolt 10y ago
Personally, I'm not really worried about death at all. Having spent years of my life studying physics and coming to the conclusion that an eternalistic view of (space-)time is more likely correct, as seems to be implied by the theory o
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by codebolt 11y ago
Just like I always say, all a man needs to succeed in life is maths and squats.
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by codebolt 11y ago
But that difference is diminished when you also take into account that you would be earning interest on your capital in the period you were out of the markets (e.g. through a savings account or short-term bonds).
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by codebolt 12y ago
I don't see how that's problematic at all. If my ideal society is different from that of most other people, it still doesn't mean I'm not entitled to my own opinion.
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by codebolt 12y ago
I've been pondering these same issues for well over a decade as well, but I've become partial to the Penrose-Lucas argument which implies that there is some sort of non-computational (perhaps even non-physical) component to human
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by codebolt 12y ago
I appreciate that the author wants to get something back, but really? Why would I have to click through 4 or 5 pages just to get the download started, while nearly being tricked to click several abusive CNET "Download Here!" ads.
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by codebolt 12y ago
Sure, everything can be questioned, but if you reject all assumptions then you're not left with much. There's no guarantee that the contents of your memory aren't all false or that the universe won't stop existing 1 minu
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by codebolt 13y ago
This is exactly why I'm not buying bitcoins in the current dip. Counterparty risk on the exchanges. http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-2.pdf
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by codebolt 13y ago
This holds for financial markets, but I can think of several examples where the opposite is true (i.e. bulk buying gets you a better price).
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by codebolt 13y ago
I'm guessing one factor is increased global media coverage, especially after the whole Silk Road incident. A lot of non-tech people are just now learning about bitcoin. We'll see if this rally has any legs to stand on, personally

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