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by ctdavies 9y ago
Das Kapital. You know why.
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by ctdavies 10y ago
"The thesis melded George Boole’s nineteenth-century Boolean algebra (based on the variables true and false, denoted by the binary one and zero)" I just have to complain about this clause referring to the values true and false as
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by ctdavies 11y ago
Sorry, but it does sounds to me like you are blaming the victim when you write "The problem is probably mostly emotionally, on her side." It's her stalker who has the emotional problem. Calling her emotions the problem appear
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by ctdavies 11y ago
What about when a "usage of technology" itself limits the rights of others? I believe in that case it may be best to limit rights-limiting actions, such that the net rights protected is greater than it would be otherwise.
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by ctdavies 11y ago
This claim is unfounded: "the vast majority of the legion of logical punctuators are not consciously rejecting illogical American style, or consciously imitating the British. Rather, they follow their intuition because they don't
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by ctdavies 11y ago
Gardner calls Searle "the scoundrel of Hofstadter’s book." He is now also the scoundrel of this thread.
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by ctdavies 11y ago
Huh, are you the famous philosopher John Searle?
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by ctdavies 11y ago
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
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by ctdavies 11y ago
lisp lisp lisp lisp lisp lisp
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by ctdavies 11y ago
I think pain probably still occurs when injured, too.
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by ctdavies 11y ago
The belief in perpetual growth is a cultural malady. But you're right, no startup ever said that!
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by ctdavies 11y ago
Hey Airbnb, don't further optimize: you'll lose your hipster cred.
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by ctdavies 11y ago
What!? This correspondence doesn't correspond at all to their love affair as depicted in the film Young Einstein.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
No Noyce?
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by ctdavies 12y ago
Lisp is Sirius.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
I'm writing this just to comment on your use of the word "meme"; it's not intended to be a criticism* but the expression of an observation. In your fourth sentence, it seems that are using "meme" to specificall
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by ctdavies 12y ago
"We hold that organisms are constructed in development, not simply ‘programmed’ to develop by genes. Living things do not evolve to fit into pre-existing environments, but co-construct and coevolve with their environments, in the proce
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by ctdavies 12y ago
I just want to play Mario
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by ctdavies 12y ago
Ah I see. Thanks for clearing that up.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
I'm confused by the use of "accuracy" and "precision" in this article. From the IEEE article: "[ultranarrow lasers] will make it practical for us to achieve an accuracy below 10^-18–more than 100 times the prec
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by ctdavies 12y ago
As an aside, the Manhattan cocktail was invented for Churchill's mother.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
This article doesn't even mention Fermi! Anyway, I thought most people already knew the Manhattan Project began in Manhattan.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
I think this might be the singularity
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by ctdavies 12y ago
I'm pretty sure it's already found its way.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
Why not just use Clojure?
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by ctdavies 12y ago
This is making an unsubstantiated claim; there is no evidence provided: it's just talk. Just sexist talk.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
Z80; TI-83, what up.
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by ctdavies 12y ago
ACT-R is silly; please see Douglas Hofstadter's criticisms of the architecture (published in Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies).
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by ctdavies 12y ago
Wonderful!
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by ctdavies 12y ago
:( I wish everyone else did.

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