devijvers

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by devijvers 15y ago
No, it's correct. The light actually gets slowed down in material (anything else than a vacuum.) That has nothing to do with observation, it's an actual physical effect. The speed of light in a vacuum is constant and so is the speed of ligh
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by devijvers 15y ago
Be careful who you call a dictator. While Ataturk has been President of Turkey for 15 years (until his death in 1938) he encouraged a multi-party system. However, during his lifetime several parties were formed and again self-dissolved or d
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by devijvers 15y ago
Serious people don't care about games.
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by devijvers 15y ago
I agree with you on the energy balance thing, I don't agree Lulz is creating that energy. What we're seeing is the consequence of letting docs you want to keep a secret out. Lulz is just fishing and reporting what they caught. To the people
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by devijvers 15y ago
Is this the prototype of the cheap product that's been promised years ago (although it still uses platinum & titanium)?
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by devijvers 15y ago
The euro is fine, the EU banking system - including UK banks - are not. Banks are too big, why can't I pay with my phone like is possible in Africa? We're gonna have to bleed one way or the other, I'd prefer to have less and much smaller ba
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by devijvers 15y ago
"Scientific certainty" is not a popularity contest as you describe. Everybody can agree and still be wrong. Einstein's work is a good example of that.
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by devijvers 15y ago
I would be happy to leave it to academics if they hadn't transformed into a political body. Too late.
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by devijvers 15y ago
The canonical problem of health insurance is not profit making, it's that most of the people who contribute have to be excluded from receiving benefits. Not sure how a distributed model is going to do a better job at that than current model
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by devijvers 15y ago
There's also operation turkey: http://anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1005
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Operation Turkey(anonnews.org)
1 points by devijvers 15y ago|0 comments
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by devijvers 15y ago
+1 for reprap link.
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by devijvers 15y ago
1/ Calculate which mobile subscription on the market would be cheaper based on your mobile activity of previous months. Needs a way to keep track of hundreds of subscription rules and way to easily scan and OCR paper invoices and/or pdf inv
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by devijvers 16y ago
It comes from the book Business Model Generation: http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/ A very very good book, I can recommend it. The way the book was written is also very inspirational.
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by devijvers 16y ago
The medium is the message. This means any alternative money systems that would be based or linked to our current forms of money will always suffer from the same problems we're facing today.
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by devijvers 16y ago
I would swap snake oil salesman Kurzweil for Clay Shirky's institutions vs collaboration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw
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by devijvers 16y ago
"You'll note there's lots of uncertainty, but a rough rule of thumb is that each doubling of carbon dioxide will raise the temperature around 3 degrees Celsius. Of course people love to argue about these things: you can find reasonable peop
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by devijvers 16y ago
This is the raging Ayn Rand view. Net neutrality is a valid concern for government since it's res publica : a common good that can only be achieved when every citizen have it. Individual citizens or even groups of citizens can not procure
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by devijvers 16y ago
Exactly what I mean with linguistic/logic side-effects.
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by devijvers 16y ago
Both "rationality" and "free will" are vague terms. Your line of questioning won't get you anywhere beyond linguistic/logic side-effects.
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by devijvers 16y ago
Actually, it's not financial illiteracy that's killing us. Image for a moment that we were financially literate, what would be able to do that we are not able to do today and what would be doing differently? Being financially literate would
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by devijvers 16y ago
Macros are important, that's why I seeking guidance in Let Over Lambda . The most suitable lisps for writing macros are lisp-2, hence the preference for a lisp-2 dual namespace.
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by devijvers 16y ago
It might one day become a general lisp for javascript but for now the concurrency-free server-side environment of node.js is assumed.
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by devijvers 16y ago
I've scanned the Parenscript docs and it doesn't seem immediately obvious how to combine node.js and Parenscript without having to include Common Lisp. Also, there's a number of things on my wish list that compelled me to write my own lisp
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by devijvers 16y ago
Thanks for the reference to Parenscript which I'm unfamiliar with. The main point of lisp.js is to benefit from node.js' event-loop/non-blocking-i/o environment. node.js will be able to handle far greater loads than web servers that use blo
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by devijvers 16y ago
Basically, the server "knows" (as in can know) the references that exist on the client and vice versa. When a watched reference changes value on the client an HTTP request/response is sent over the wire. The request carries the old and new
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by devijvers 16y ago
Good to hear! What do have in mind when you say "client/server distinction"?
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by devijvers 16y ago
My thoughts instantly go to Deleuze & Guattari's rhizome Idea in A Thousand Plateaus. Why wouldn't our brain run small connected pieces of software that together emulate how the world works and especially how other people are expected t
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Introducing lisp.js: a Lisp for node.js(lisp-js.posterous.com)
64 points by devijvers 16y ago|30 comments
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by devijvers 16y ago
If you want to get a feel of what Tuva's like have a look at the Mongolia episode of Long Way Round: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5538321375706386968 They drive through the Altay mountains which is next to Tuva and is the myth

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