monochr

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by monochr 10y ago
The problem is that small businesses are salmon.
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by monochr 10y ago
And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products. The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and h
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by monochr 10y ago
To pay for things when your bank is an idiot which won't let you spend over your limit, but will let you withdraw as much as you want in person. I paid for my first car in cash because of that. It was idiotic, but physical money beats
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by monochr 11y ago
This isn't unique to Russia. Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s The same is true for just about every cou
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by monochr 11y ago
>But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++. You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole point of Turing completeness. The only reason
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by monochr 11y ago
I quite like sagetex: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/sagetex.html A python like mathematica clone.
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by monochr 11y ago
You don't need capital if you're not expanding. Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being
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by monochr 11y ago
Again, I'm not seeing why it was 33kHz exactly. It sounds like OP just used the wrong prefix.
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by monochr 11y ago
And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better? The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in
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by monochr 11y ago
http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Part_De... The above looks pretty 3d to me.
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by monochr 12y ago
Computerworld faces endangered species status, tries to regain lost ground with click bait articles. So let's actually read the article: >the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Ap
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by monochr 12y ago
The first 5 year plan was the most successful piece of industrial policy by any country in the world until the Chinese opening of their market. What's even more impressive is that it happened in the middle of the great depression witho
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by monochr 12y ago
I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the month. Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is h
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by monochr 12y ago
Yeah, no: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/articles/2000/02/the_...
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by monochr 12y ago
This is the typical great man myth that gets promulgated by their publicists to make them seem more than human. As a rule they are either out right lies or greatly exaggerated, other myths of this type is Kennedy reading 1000 words per minu
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by monochr 12y ago
If we diverted billions of dollars to doctors or cooks we would gain the benefit of increased, more healthy lifespans. If we did the same for bankers we would get, well what we got in 2008. The difference between service jobs which are pure
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by monochr 12y ago
"I honestly don't think it's simple. How can I possibly use GPL code to reduce anyone's freedom? By creating some derivative work? By doing so, I have not diminished your access to anything that already exists!" Sup
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by monochr 12y ago
In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever. Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you do
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by monochr 12y ago
I have a new law based on Betteridge's law of headlines: Any scientist who claims to have produced a paradigm shift hasn't. You're welcome to call it Monochr Law of Paradigms.
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by monochr 12y ago
I have nothing intelligent to say without reading the full paper... ...But, how different is this from the various optical illusions humans fall for? I mean we can't exactly tell the difference between a rabbit and duck ourselves[1] so
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by monochr 12y ago
"A URL is not a mark of quality. It's not proof of honesty or approval from the FDA."
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by monochr 12y ago
You mean the tyrannical power grabbing centralized monstrosity all real Americans hated? Because that's what the Constitution was to the real Americans who founded this country and not the jack boot licking, spineless cowards who cou
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by monochr 12y ago
Oh you mean the Articles of Confederation which were so poorly thought it the country was imploding after 10 years so badly that they had to start from scratch and write a whole new document called the constitution to fix the mess of consta
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by monochr 12y ago
> Munira had falsified her educational record on her resume to Amazon and all her former employers - claiming to have both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Stanford when in fact she had earned no degrees at all. There is
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by monochr 12y ago
What I would like to know before jumping in a new programming language is what it sucks at and how badly it sucks there. Never in my life have I ever heard anyone say anything good about how wonderful it is language X is good at y which is
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by monochr 12y ago
There's this little place called the rest of the world where I happen to live.
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by monochr 12y ago
Get out of the US and ask for adjectives describing Americans. Obnoxious, fat and stupid are the most common ones.
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by monochr 12y ago
" You are European yes but at the end of the day you are still white and to some not so insignificant part of the population that fact means more than everything else that may set you apart." This is why everyone thinks Americans
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by monochr 12y ago
Stop and think what is needed for a human army to be effective. You need everything from nuclear physicists to cooks to keep things running. Each of those people was first and foremost the results of 4 billion years of evolution which solve
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by monochr 12y ago
If gays were treated 1/100th as bad as any minority in turkey we would have the gay liberation army fighting an insurgency. You are talking about the country that invented the true modern genocide, applied it to the Armenians, and stil

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