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by gimpf 15y ago
Sanity does not include one specific moral system. For humans, it also does not include being bug-free given some morality, What would make you think so?
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by gimpf 15y ago
You are by far overestimating the general public interest into such topics. Also, there are enough people who think that banning internet for something they think is at least as much a crime as shoplifting is absolutely appropriate. Howeve
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by gimpf 15y ago
So you have used up nearly 70% of your vocabulary to write this comment? I have to admit, your proficiency in English grammar is extraordinary given this.
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by gimpf 15y ago
I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: h
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by gimpf 15y ago
Nice video on their page. I especially loved their "caution fragile" marker -- on a rocket!
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by gimpf 15y ago
Thanks to emerging low-cost satellite launches (like from http://interorbital.com/ ), fun projects like http://sat.mur.at/ are already in the real of being possible. I may be an hopeless optimist, but some relatively low-bandwidth hacke
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by gimpf 15y ago
> +new Date() // ... Title: Milliseconds since epoch
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by gimpf 15y ago
It is already clearly recognizable at the default font size.
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by gimpf 15y ago
Until it was a problem worth noticing. Opportunity costs.
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by gimpf 15y ago
AFAIK you do not hire programmers in India, you hire a CMMI level 5 certified "team" having at least 50% Senior Software Architects on board. More to the point: I doubt that any company paying a salary in the above mentioned range which is
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by gimpf 15y ago
The live CD with an actually really cool configuration of zsh. Whatever linux distro you're using, get the zsh config from grml!
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by gimpf 15y ago
Creating another startup to reduce the number of pointless startups is obviously the correct solution to everything! The review may or may not be worth 100+ points on HN, but who am I to judge that. Better I start my own HN, so I can decid
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by gimpf 16y ago
It works without problems on WinXP, there is no difference; throughout the beta-versions Firefox incrementally used some minor tweaks of Chrome (for instance, where the link-bar on mouse-hover or the status-information on loading the web-pa
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by gimpf 16y ago
Until further replication I think it is more probable that three months of waiting resulted in somebody using a text editor.
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by gimpf 16y ago
Hmm. Here in Central Europe this would probably read: "However the events unfold we can rest reassured that scientists have to acknowledge that any use of nuclear technology for electrical power generation is inherently unsafe and therefor
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by gimpf 16y ago
Even more important: Windows uses _very_ aggressive hinting for its default fonts, especially the new set introduced with Office 2007 and Windows Vista (Calibri, Cambria, Consolas). Though I very much like the effect for my programming fon
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by gimpf 16y ago
Strangely enough, your primary example always directed me to videolan in the past, and continues to do so. I very much prefer DDG these days, but those statements are just not true. And I do not believe that Google would purposefully provi
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by gimpf 16y ago
_worse_? I'd expect worst-case no-change, if it would hurt, the vendor would make TRIM a NOP. However, I'm always open for a source. (AnandTech for instance writes, TRIM just doesn't help, at http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-verte
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by gimpf 16y ago
The "hard problem" of consciousness only exists if you start out with a dualist prior. Otherwise it is mysterious in the same way as the non-symmetry of matter and antimatter is mysterious -- it is not explained . Lightning may look perfe
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by gimpf 16y ago
Dualist priors have not yet been shown to be useful.
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by gimpf 16y ago
That depends very much on the question. If I just want THE ANSWER as my tld, and care about nothing else, then it IS the answer.
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by gimpf 16y ago
There is not really much there yet, but the idea seems to be aggregate all your information related to interaction/social-networking/communication in one place. One place under _your_ control. That's feature number one. Then, it could pre
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by gimpf 16y ago
He describes a situation arising due to the conflict that we need more and more 3rd level education for work skills, simply due to the more and more demanding problems, but currently the only, at least partially, working 3rd level education
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by gimpf 16y ago
Related: The Germany-based IT book and magazine publisher Heise ( http://www.heise.de ) did this back on 2010-09. The test has been such a success (practically no problems, for their share of readers, though) that they made that permanent.
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by gimpf 16y ago
Then we won't need to remap caps-lock anymore.
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by gimpf 16y ago
14.000 suicides in 74.000.000 people (about 19 per 100.000). Too much, but not way more than to expect, there are western countries with higher suicide rates. I'm sure there are too many suicides because of micro-loan depts, but I doubt th
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by gimpf 16y ago
The people are much more pragmatic than the project sounds; they are thinking about how much autonomy is even possible, realistically. Maritime laws are seemingly one of the simplest issues out there.
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by gimpf 16y ago
Ähm... has the page changed? There is not a single mention of a Kindle crash, and the DDG summary of the page when searching for the title shows something completely different than what I see there. Hm.
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by gimpf 16y ago
However, "tu quoque" is not an argument either...
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by gimpf 16y ago
My dear, you just lost the "don't".

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