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by shader 16y ago
Thou/thee/thy/thine are singular forms, whereas you/ye/your are plural. Just as we and our became royal pronouns, where a monarch would emphasize that they spoke for a whole country by referring to themselves in the plural, it became popula
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by shader 17y ago
They would still probably be trapped under parts of the plane, and if it's floatable, it can be punctured/crushed.
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by shader 17y ago
I'm guessing that as many people as are probably trying to log into his account, he probably doesn't answer his phone any more, or even use that email account. How would he know if the access he just authorized was him, or someone else? May
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by shader 17y ago
Sell it to as many customers as you can find first, and then go to them for the extra $10,000. You get more money than you would have otherwise, and you also save innocent people from being unduly compromised. It's a win-win situation ;)
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by shader 17y ago
And there is the essence of the need for captchas ;) You need to scale, so you employ computers instead of people. Now you have to have computers run a reverse turing test. Otherwise, it's much easier for spammers to scale as well. It's eas
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by shader 17y ago
Generally it's "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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by shader 17y ago
I think this is one of the major reasons that Americans have so many divorces. They marry for the "feelings", and as soon as those change they want out. The Indians marry for more than that - financial support, children, family name, cultur
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by shader 17y ago
This works really well. For some cool examples, check out http://tineye.com/cool_searches Also, I recommend that you click the "compare images link" under each result image after you perform a search, to see which part it matched. I've us
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by shader 17y ago
You're right, I forgot about the radiosity - but couldn't that still be split up to multiple cores per frame? i.e. simulate one "bundle" of photons per core, and then presuming that you're not too badly i/o bound, you should be able to do s
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by shader 17y ago
Why stop at one frame per core? Once you have easily scalable renderfarms, you could switch the the somewhat slower (though currently less heavily optimized) raytracing approach, and run almost as many cores per frame as you like. That way
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by shader 17y ago
I should also have stated that in the reverse: What if he had patented the thing, when I have also independently created the idea? Looking over his curriculum vitae, it looks like he already has: "Patent Pending: Methods, systems, and compu
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by shader 17y ago
Most game replay systems work this way - they store the chain of user inputs, and then just resimulate it in order, with the same random seed. Thats the main reason they don't give you the option to rewind the replays and you have to start
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by shader 17y ago
WOW. Just WOW. I have always believed that you can't have a good idea without someone else having it at about the same time, but this is the most uncanny experience I have had yet. I had this exact same idea in January, or at least a very s
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by shader 17y ago
Not always. My uncle's real estate page for Wake County in North Carolina shows similar figures: http://kengramley.com/city.php That's calculated directly from the county's tax data. It's a bit out of date; from February, I think. I'll se
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by shader 17y ago
I think this article explains the idea much better: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35391/title/Do_su...
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by shader 17y ago
Also, even court enforcement of contracts has its limits - you just go outside the borders of a country, and they can't (easily) make you fulfill your contract. That said, I am all for court enforcement of contracts. In fact, I wish that th
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by shader 17y ago
I don't think that the project can be 'subverted' from bringing freedom to users. A fork of it might be made "un-free", as in your Microsoft example. But Microsoft did a lot of their own work, and the original project is still around - comp
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by shader 18y ago
I like freedom. Freedom is good. The only question in this instance is - freedom for whom? Freedom for the developer to write code without comments, so that you can't hack it? Or freedom for you to read his code? I think that javascript cur
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by shader 18y ago
Certainly excessive usury is wrong, but being able to walk away from debts causes it's own problems. Because of the ability for people to just walk away from debt, they acquire more of it without the attention of paying it off. This can cau
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by shader 18y ago
Why - are you writing an essay on the topic? ;)
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by shader 18y ago
Certainly. The two things are rather related: if you remove the appearance of danger, people will get themselves into more tight spots. It's amazing how many more people with four wheel drive get stuck in mud than normal cars ;)
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by shader 18y ago
Indeed. I didn't say that risk was bad, necessarily. Rather, encouraging risk to avoid a non-existent paradox of thrift is a dangerous thing. Personally, I think that the news about people losing less money at casinos is a good thing. They
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by shader 18y ago
Unfortunately, I don't think that stimulating production or innovation is a good idea either. When you just stimulate production, it is true that production will increase but not in a way the consumers actually want. The evidence for this i
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by shader 18y ago
Certainly. But by saving you allow someone else to consume what you have produced, and you refrain from consuming things yourself. This permits businesses to invest in future production even if you don't personally do it. Investment is a co
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by shader 18y ago
Unfortunately, the reason that we are in this recession is that people took too much risk. We have been living with a net negative national savings rate for a while now. That consumption of capital is partly what has allowed this downturn t
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by shader 18y ago
The problem is that the marginal value of the employee to the company is relatively low compared to the amount of extra in taxes they'd have to pay if they wanted to give that employee a raise. It is often a much better idea for both the co
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by shader 18y ago
That particular disincentive is already handled properly by the decreasing marginal value of money. Unfortunately, taxes add even further pressure. Most people won't change their habits, but it is always the marginal earner who has to decid
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by shader 18y ago
J. K. Rowling did most of her draft work on lined paper: "There is only one thing that annoys me about living in Edinburgh - well, two, but I'm pretty much resigned to the weather now. Why is it so difficult to buy paper in the middle of to
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by shader 18y ago
Most of the top 30 look like a recommended reading list from Mises.org. Not that they're bad books, it's just an interesting coincidence.
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by shader 18y ago
Posterous seems like a logical place to add support for webhooks, as an alternative to rss and email. They practically have the whole system already, but in email instead. Any plans to add webhooks functionality?

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