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   by ebcode 7y ago

   > Theoretically, half of everyone’s weekend could be half as crowded, two-thirds of the time. Excellent analysis, and I particularly liked the above line. The phrase, "The tyranny of the clock" kept springing to mind as I was r
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   by ebcode 7y ago

   If it's "overreaching", I'm pretty sure it's not "securing the nation." Dragnet surveillance just makes me paranoid, and my intuition is that it stifles, rather than accelerates, innovation --- well, exce
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   by ebcode 7y ago

   If that's seriously canon, then your reward is "citation needed."
4. 244.▲
   by ebcode 7y ago

   It's the first one.
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   by ebcode 7y ago

   Some people do. Check out the works of Victor Basili and Barry Boehm.
6. 246.▲
   by ebcode 7y ago

   Highly recommend. I dabbled a bit and almost got a remote-control draw-bot working. Sometimes you gotta move the pan from the back-burner to the front-burner.
7. 247.▲
   by ebcode 7y ago

   I like your ad-hoc verbal experimentation. It reminds me of a study awhile back, something about how we use rhythm in our communication to keep things flowing. Along with the subtle power dynamics of short and long responses, there seems to
8. 248.▲
   by ebcode 7y ago

   The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens
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   by ebcode 7y ago

   no, they didn't; but they did redefine the definition of teleportation. > Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. ... [1] if they te
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    by ebcode 7y ago

    Actually, he was the first. In his speech at the Second Virginia Convention, he spoke the immortal words: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me voting dollars or give me death!"
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    by ebcode 7y ago

    I'm not horrified, as I've had similar thoughts to yours lately. I do think you might get a better response if you could extrapolate on your reasons for moving the logic into the database. Maybe a blog post? Your argument that a s
12. 252.▲
    by ebcode 7y ago

    thanks for posting the link. looking forward to the day when we can run post-2012 cpus knowing we'll be able to lock the backdoor.
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    Experimental Software Engineering(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by ebcode 7y ago|0 comments
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    by ebcode 7y ago

    Brings to mind a lyric: My guard stood hard when abstract threats Too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then,
15. 255.▲
    by ebcode 7y ago

    Have you seen the VoCore2? Ameridroid has them in stock. https://vocore.io/v2.html
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    by ebcode 7y ago

    Is it true what vessenes said above about the Internet Archive receiving a dataset of book spines? And would it be possible for the IA to release that dataset publicly?
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    Are We Automata? (1879)(psychclassics.yorku.ca)

    1 points by ebcode 8y ago|0 comments
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    That's another good point. Then the only way I could see it working universally is if you assign a price to the water consumed, where it's costlier in CA than VA. Then you can say that a single almond grown in CA uses $.001 H2O, b
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    That's a good point. But I wouldn't classify the water usage label as "penalizing". It's more, um, informational. So if you're in CA, you might set an ideal "virtual water budget" for yourself (100 kl
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    It's interesting to think of the state of California as one ginormous mining-town. Only instead of some rare mineral that will one day be exhausted, it's the groundwater in the aquifer that underlies the entire valley. The concept
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    The Platonic Solids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    Too true. On the other hand, you can start out as an outsider, and end up an insider[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    I see a couple take-aways here. The first is that it hardly matters what the "real story" is (about an endeavor/person/etc), it's what the media reports the story as being --- and that's the story that is going
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    Sheepwrecked (2013)(monbiot.com)

    1 points by ebcode 8y ago|0 comments
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    i wouldn't be so sure. it might be me. we might need to have some sort of "fool-off" to determine the greatest fool.
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing this. It's an interesting trend that I was not aware of (but maybe intuited?). It does seem that, while on the one hand, upvotes are necessary for ranking crowdsourced content on HN and reddit, on the other hand, the
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    > who is the greatest fool here? Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not; it does sound like one. In the case of a single indie developer making an app for a single app store, it seems the developer is the greater fool, since th
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    How's it coming? Have you spent any time with any fellow (aspiring) hackers yet? :)
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    I think interactive storytelling is awesome. It's where the fun comes from in D&D, CYOA books, and many video games. Also, Ayn Rand wrote a play, "Night of January 16th"[0], where the audience plays the role of the jury,
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    by ebcode 8y ago

    Professor Hewitt, I am a big fan of your work, but I am struggling a bit with understanding this claim from another article you wrote in CACM[0]: > Actor message passing machines can perform computations that a no lambda expression, nond