throwaway1980

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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Side note: it used to be that Mexican Coke contained cane sugar instead of HFCS. Not sure any more.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Do you have a specific example where "stop being such a crybaby" is a good thing to say?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Things which are polar opposites are actually identical, in this case 0% ego and 100% ego, because 0% ego is all about how spiritually pure you are, a.k.a. 100% ego. I'm sure you've met some of the seemingly enlightened meditators I'm talk
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
This gallery was going around recently: http://imgur.com/a/mN8Zs Apparently a journalist asked one family in each of 20 different countries to gather all of the food they bought in one week and take a picture. It's a fascinating look at
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
When Google first came out with "don't be evil", this was exactly the kind of thing I thought they wanted to avoid, especially since the corporate bogeyman of the day was Microsoft and they were doing exactly this (Apple too). Turns out I
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Yeah, be wary of anything that is basically code for "stop being such a crybaby".
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
You can't reject your ego, you can only detach from it. Egolessness and egofullness are two sides of the same coin. And fabrications of the mind, if you will, are all that there is. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Reality and illu
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Look, the non-essential details here are all the particulars of this conversation about some religious precepts. The essence is that you and I trying to connect on a human level to each other across the internet for some reason or another.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Well, ok, two things. First, it sounds like we basically agree that legal theft is possible. Second, even in the US there is corporate lobbying to influence government spending, which amounts to taxation without representation (i.e. theft
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
From my perspective I was giving a counterexample to challenge the claim that all theft is unlawful. You're saying that if legal money collection benefits society it is "tax", but if it does not benefit society it is "stealing"? Sure, if y
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Does anyone else feel kind of confused and guilty when they read this? It just seems so condescending to me. I like eating and sleeping. I pay a lot of attention to these things. If you're eating well and sleeping well, your life is prob
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
So by definition a dictator cannot use the courts to steal from his people?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I have never encountered this distinction between activity and computation before. Assuming that you are okay to define (sequential) computation as transforming an input sequence of 1's and 0's into an output sequence of 1's and 0's, can y
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I was referring to this sentiment by Millennium, who started this thread as far as I can tell: "But once you stray from awk's niche, things start to get awkward, and the further you go, the tougher
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I used to think the split between vim and emacs users was roughly 50/50, but reading posts here it seems more like 90/10. Why is it that people here prefer vim to emacs? I'm not asking why is vim better than emacs, but what is it about HN
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I'm sure you've heard this before, but all you have to do is ask whether you can build a Turing machine in whatever language. If you can do this, then you can compute answers to the same things computed by any other Turing complete languag
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I understand when it comes to something that is normally bought and sold, but I guess it changes for me when it comes to something that is normally given away for free and never sold, except as part of a larger system such as OS X or enterp
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
> The SKI combinator calculus is Turing-complete, but you can't read a CSV file with it. Of course you can, it's just a matter of input handling. For that matter you can read a CSV file with any Turing machine. It's just easier elsewh
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
So you're saying that this person was implying that even though the price is 0 euro, the consumer surplus is greater than 100 euro? I can understand this reasoning, so thanks for explaining it. I'm not sure I believe that consumer surplus
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Not if we are talking about monetary worth, which is what 100 euro denotes. Unless I am severely mistaken in my understanding of economics.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
> Vim is certainly worth more than 100 euro (original title) The monetary value of a copy of free / open source software is effectively zero, provided that at least some people are distributing it without restrictions and free of charge
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
> I believe in our product, but I don't believe in our business model. This sounds like you'd be okay if the business model was different. Tell them that either the business model changes or you're leaving. Then it's up to them whethe
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
What I meant was, why don't browser implementors balk at it?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
What about JS?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/art-is-useless-because....
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I'd found this before posting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-com... where the top answer gives a Rule 110 solution, but I was satisfied with this comment: "BRILLIANT!. However, I don't think this qualifies as tu
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Also browsers. Also JS and CSS both have at least one 'S'.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I like this idea of a classical quantum computer. Do we also have CC, QC, and QQ computers?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
So that's my understanding of figure drawing too, but in his final paragraph he says it again: "Figure drawing isn’t easy." as if he was talking about figure drawing the entire time. I guess it just needs clarification or something.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Sounds neat, thanks!

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