nijk

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by nijk 13y ago
What is the difference between a disorder and being a dick? What if I have Assholegers? Is that less acceptable than Autism? Why? (Aspergers is no longer a disorder, it got rolled into autism.)
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by nijk 13y ago
If you will wake up 2 hours earlier and wreck your long term performance for $40-$80/day...
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by nijk 13y ago
Are you familiar with the extreme effect to which sunlight affects human (and other mammals) systems biology?
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by nijk 13y ago
That is someone's theory? That's what 'onomatopoeia' means.
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by nijk 13y ago
Could you convert your example to phonetic english? Spelling is one thing, pronunciation another.
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by nijk 13y ago
This is the sort of unscientific wishfulness that undermines the analysis. And is directly contradicted by known animal behavior.
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by nijk 13y ago
I didn't know about Wafels and Dinges until today. Are they any better than roasting them at home? http://m.ny.eater.com/archives/2008/04/fw_wafels_dinge.php
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by nijk 13y ago
Random enforcement is fair play, and efficient. Biased enforcement is corruption.
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by nijk 13y ago
Interesing. Emitting Grill smell is an externality that should be taxed.
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by nijk 13y ago
What does affluent have to do with it? Affluent can afford highly regulated trucks. Working class can't.
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by nijk 13y ago
I actually don't know how ice cream trucks, with their hideous noise pollution, stay on the right side of the law.
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by nijk 13y ago
This where you win the billion dollar Internet sweepstakes for the first correct use of Beg the Question in a forum post. Well done.
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by nijk 13y ago
There is a paper online that proves fermat's last theorem in this way, by exploiting the C compiler's ability to optimize away non-terminating code that has no observable state changes.
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by nijk 13y ago
Since you don't have a real Turing machine, why would you care? Your computer is not Turing machine.
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by nijk 13y ago
Heh. JavaScript was famously invented in a week.
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by nijk 13y ago
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html 100 million account (including me) 4 million paying customers. Which means, almost none of MS's customers.
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by nijk 13y ago
It his hard and unreliable to get G Drive to sync files. Google does backup from your PC to web, and it downloads bookmarks from web to PC.
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by nijk 13y ago
Mods, please fix the completely bogus title. This is about cooking the books on inflation, not copyright. Everyone, enjoy feeling 3% richer today!
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by nijk 13y ago
He wasn't wrong then. The world has changed. A user has far more computers now than she had then.
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by nijk 13y ago
Or maybe Brin made an effort to learn English when he came to this country. https://www.google.com/search?q=emasculating
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by nijk 13y ago
Does he find the concept of a keyboard, using our amazingly skillful hands to punch out letters, equally ridiculous?
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by nijk 13y ago
Vocational training costs less than 0.25 of college costs. So you can get retrained every 10 years in a new skill.
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by nijk 13y ago
"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.
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by nijk 13y ago
That is a lie. Some of the arguments are provided as global variables like $_, (no need to remember its name, since its value will be implicitly used whenever you omit a necessary argument) whose value is decided by something akin to Clipp
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by nijk 13y ago
"Proper" MVC fashion.
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by nijk 13y ago
It is insane to claim that R is a language of repeatable science. Python is barely better. None of these languages come anywhere near a reliable verifiable formal model of what they claim to compute.
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by nijk 13y ago
You tried to make a too-strong statement and then backed down when honesty got the best of you. Perl has a philosophy, not a design.
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by nijk 13y ago
Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.
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by nijk 13y ago
FL has no income tax because it doesn't want retirees to rip off wage earners. It is clearly not a play to attract portable businessz since it has almost none.
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by nijk 13y ago
If you don't want someone spending our money, you just don't give to them. You don't need to hide money to accomplish that goal. Marriage is a joint partnership, and anyone is free to not enter into one.

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