enave

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by enave 10y ago
I don't doubt that Bataan is the original, original context, but as far as software engineering goes, the term comes from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013...
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by enave 10y ago
Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate
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by enave 10y ago
Is there a reason why the company spells their name with an "e" instead of an "o"
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by enave 10y ago
I'm surprised the government hasn't just sent a banal request to everyone along the lines of, "you are required to disclose every known space alien who uses your service and you are prohibited from disclosing this order.&quot
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by enave 10y ago
You have a common misconception. Antibacterial soaps don't cause bacterial resistance. Antibiotics do, but that's because antibiotics must selectively kill bacteria while inside the human body and without harming human cells. Anti
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by enave 10y ago
Maybe, but it's a much better name than mysql. I feel like a little kid every time I say "my" anything.
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by enave 10y ago
> the MRM seems to be not limited to trying to make things better for men but also endless attacking women ?? Are you implying that feminism is limited to just helping women? Surely you're not that naive. If we were to play a game
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by enave 10y ago
> Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism. But the evidence of sexism is the existence of the imbalance. This whole thing is circular.
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by enave 10y ago
Yes but there's no alternative to living, so it's not a factor to consider.
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by enave 11y ago
> if you're sitting on the train, or waiting in the Doctor's office, would you rather wait in VR Other than the added privacy, I'm having trouble imagining the advantages of that. I'm reading my facebook feed, but now
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by enave 11y ago
This is true. The reason there's a scene in the movie, 2001, in which HAL plays chess is that at the time it was thought that playing chess well required real human intelligence. But as soon as chess programs got good, we all took them
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by enave 11y ago
After the show peaked girls who had grown up watching it entered puberty. They remembered the lessons
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by enave 11y ago
>Cultural absolutism: us good, them evil. >Cultural relativism: under these social circumstances, those moral preferences are likely to emerge. This strikes me as the fallacy of the excluded middle. Many people believe one culture is