froogie

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by froogie 8y ago
For me, bangs are the actual killer feature. Because when I set DDG as my default search engine in my browser, I get to use bangs at the address bar. So for example rather than having to use Wikipedia's or Stack Overflow's search
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by froogie 8y ago
How about the case where the customers are various shareholders and not end-users?
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by froogie 8y ago
George Polya (excuse spelling) wrote book called How To Solve It, it teaches heuristic methods in mainly mathematical problem solving, but the real value comes from whem someone, somewhat rigorously walks you through methods you implicitly
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by froogie 8y ago
Why would Intel be complicit in it? Suppose they did this. Now, that the vulnerabilities are public, Intel takes the fall. Oopsie, huh?
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by froogie 8y ago
A weak point. Alcohol can not be taken away, it has been tried. Had we not had alcohol in the first place, we'd likely have other things a-ok'd, and alcohol would be treated by its merits compared to other recreational substances.
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by froogie 8y ago
But is not perfectly reasonable use of language, if you consider that the language as written there is for humans to read and understand, not for machines to expand acronyms and be confused about semantical errors? But sure, what you descri
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by froogie 8y ago
Although it is a natural state in some way (e.g. parenting, as you mentioned, but also day-to-day survival), the work many of us do today is very different from what we've biologically evolved to do. Now lots of it is stationary thinki
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by froogie 8y ago
But what I am talking about is not just nation-sized group, but any social group. You can think of religions as an example, and as an attempt to solve these problems, with all the problems that entails, of course. What makes you convinced
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by froogie 8y ago
But that does not work in practice. Social groups need cohesion to function. If you fracture that cohesion, the group may split to more cohesive subgroups which may not be tolerant of each other. Their belief systems may be so incompatible
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by froogie 8y ago
Edit: If this sounds like a off-place rant, it was not my intent. :) If you haven't smoked from dawn till dusk day in day out, you can't really say people can achieve responsibility with it. What I am saying is not to disagree, bu
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by froogie 8y ago
Well at simplest, if enforced, it will force a company to figure a way to comply. Either get rid of people who share such content or otherwise mute them. If not, you pay fines, preferrably way more than what you profit from letting such v
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by froogie 8y ago
You say that as if xorporations didn't do this by e.g. vote manipulation in Reddit.
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by froogie 8y ago
Sorry, I wasnt clear. What I find amazing is not the patent, but the company. As I understood it, behind the company was the youngest female billionaire, and turns out it was all a scam all along. Valuation in billions for essentially vapor
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by froogie 8y ago
I had never heard of Theranos before. Amazing what people can pull off.
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by froogie 8y ago
Honestly, I do not see it that way. To me it seems as if sizable chunk of people believe in nonsense, and the nonsensical beliefs and actions based on such beliefs are detrimental not only to the people holding such beliefs, but every singl
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by froogie 8y ago
Perhaps you could elaborate on this?
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by froogie 8y ago
Picked my curiousity, care to elaborate for me and others?
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by froogie 8y ago
The first routine is about 3 rands per point minus rate of discarded, about half? So 6 rands per point. Now, since the second one has three rands in it, and plenty of trig, it really becomes a question if you can make the trigonometry faste
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by froogie 8y ago
Russians run a troll factory which targets both domestic and foreign audiences. That is, they have industry with paid people spouting bullshit online with an agenda. Now, if some of those people are dispatched to troll in say /pol&#x2F