selven

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by selven 15y ago
> saving under your pillow, especially if you had a non-inflating currency, isn't good for the economy. It actually is. It you earn $100, by producing $100 worth of goods for the economy, and you don't spend it, you're producing more th
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by selven 15y ago
Philosophical question - why do people with disabilities have the right to higher priority than everyone else? Let's say you've calculated that there are 4000 blind people who might be interested in your website, but 11000 Spanish speakers,
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by selven 15y ago
I agree. If I got an email with "lawyer pomposity" in it, I would likely pretend I never got it and deliberately push back any accessibility plans out of spite. You don't have to stick "please" in every sentence, but you have to phrase thin
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by selven 15y ago
Isn't the fact that entropy increases over time itself just a result of a priori statistical laws and the condition of zero entropy at the Big Bang 13 billion years ago, rather than a physical law of the universe?
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by selven 15y ago
The apps are all moving onto the web these days anyway - Ubuntu can run anything Chrome OS can.
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by selven 17y ago
"/.../Desktop/project_name" contains all the files for that project. Every project has its own directory.
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by selven 17y ago
Stalinism has two widely known parts to it. One part is starving millions of people. This is not happening. Another part is killing enemies of the state. This, and some other high-profile political murders in and relating to Russia, fits th
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by selven 17y ago
The University of Waterloo ( http://uwaterloo.ca/ ) is in Ontario, Canada.
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by selven 17y ago
Bias your comment ordering system in favor of new comments so that every comment gets its 5 minutes of fame before staying around with a good score or floating to the bottom with a bad score. it's not perfect, but it should mitigate the pro
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by selven 17y ago
For the website, I would recommend putting some of the non-content bits (links, buttons, login, etc.) on the side, not on the top. Studies have shown that reading is faster and more comfortable with narrower columns, and the 30-45 cm found
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by selven 17y ago
I have written very many games using Python and Pygame. Very nice language (I like the syntax much better than the C-like languages) and tools. If you're going to do this, there is one very important tip: use psyco. It ( http://psyco.sourc
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by selven 17y ago
It may be true that it is a company's legal responsibility to serve its shareholders first, but that's not the way it should be. With this mentality, corporations will minimally follow the law (if the fine is less than the profits, the corp
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by selven 17y ago
And what is wrong with commoditizing the complement? Google's working hard to make operating systems free and we'll probably see Microsoft working hard to open up search engines. End result: both operating systems and search engines will be
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by selven 17y ago
We don't just kick them out without basic economic support. Especially for some classes of criminals, like sex offenders, we put a large sign on their back saying "I'M DANGEROUS". We ostracize them from society and make them feel like they
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by selven 17y ago
Or have non-engineering people willing to listen to their employees.
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by selven 17y ago
I don't mean the big missile, I mean the payload that InclinedPlane's strategy described - a missile shooting out a few thousand mininukes a short distance away. Such small payloads, even if we give them engines (which also makes them shine
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by selven 17y ago
You could put some water or other substance and have it swimming around the ship and when you use weapons or engines send it through them and fire it out the back of the ship. It's a limited supply, but so is whatever is powering the engine
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by selven 17y ago
I would imagine that depends a lot on what the distance is. Release too close and you get blown up by a laser before you can release. Release too far and by the time they get there the ship will have moved away.
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by selven 17y ago
Don't think of changing direction, think of changing velocity. Space is a Newtonian movement system, so accelerating 20 meters per second in some direction is just as easy at 0 km/sec as it is at 10000 km/sec. As for missiles, I really don'
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by selven 17y ago
Anything that doesn't travel at 299792458 meters per second will not be a viable weapon in space. Two spaceships coming toward each other will be hundreds of thousands of kilometers away when they start firing on each other. The time lag wi
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by selven 17y ago
The second time I went in I got to the New Scientist article as well. It's probably fixed now.
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by selven 17y ago
I got redirected to a site that "scanned" my C drive, found 431 viruses and trojans including some MS Word vulnerabilities and offered (once every 5 seconds or so) to download a .exe file that would supposedly fix everything. I was running
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by selven 17y ago
And this is why captcha's aren't that effective. They don't slow organized malicious hackers who can simply hire a third world worker to solve them for $1/hour, make a botnet make its victims do it like here, and so on. Meanwhile, many peop
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by selven 17y ago
Launching orion from the ground would be extremely unfeasible. The best space-colonizing strategies all involve setting up a base in Earth orbit, with some space elevators attached, and building ships for colonization from there. It has to
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by selven 17y ago
It still has many improvements over C. Compare: void func(x) { if (a == b) { do(c); do(d); } else{ do(e); } } vs: def func(x): if a == b: do(c) do(d) else: do(e)
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by selven 17y ago
"Remark 2: my parenthesis-removal rule turns out not to work very well for programming :-)." This is why everyone should learn Python.
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by selven 17y ago
One grammar question that I don't know the answer to. When you have a statement using "than" (eg. A cow is bigger than an ant) using pronouns, what case is the word after "than" supposed to go into. Is it always: I am bigger than him. I see
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by selven 17y ago
And it's not just one off-handed comparison - the article goes on and on about it. It really trivializes the hardships of people who couldn't just leave and get another job, and where the stakes involved torture and death.
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by selven 17y ago
What about languages? Does English work fine there? What about Russian? The native language is very unlike any of the Indo-European ones I've studied.
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by selven 17y ago
The last name "Chartrand" is pretty close to the start of the alphabet. If you subscribe to Malcolm Gladwell's theories ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3294546/Is-y... ), the first letter of your name is a big factor in yo

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