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> I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers Wait! You can get Usenet these days? Is it only for piracy or other things as well? Where can I sign up? Also, what is a…

I don't trust articles written in Word.

What section of it should I read to get an idea of what, according to the author, "philosophy of computer science" is?

Well, what is the verdict? Was there anything interesting in the source code? Does having it publicly available matter at all?

> if you want to pass more than 6 arguments Isn't the number of arguments already determined by the nature of the syscall? Are you talking about a situation where one creates new s…

Sorry, what does "ISTM" and "the ferry" mean here?

Is there no swimming pool (with a shallow part and not too many people) around where you can learn on your own?

> how to efficiently swim against a fast stream How does that differ from just swimming fast?

> Jones actively uses his platform to bully individuals Do you have an example of what you mean?

Huh, price control?

> It's a good reminder me that corporations aren't just good or bad. Do you think they do it to be good? Do you think they would have been bad if they had kicked out non-paying cus…

> Definitely some interesting applications. Eavesdropping is the obvious one. What others do you have in mind?

OK, I was just hoping that it would have found the relevant data sources for me already.

I wish we could converge on a way to tag such notifications, so that those who want to can filter them out.

Even with perfect prediction, who is to decide, for everyone, what is good and what is bad?

Does it include connections to data sources for traffic, bus departures, and such, or do you have to provide them yourself?

> It just seems a petty thing for airports to do, to try and make a few dollars or euros or pounds that way. Doesn't the party on the other side of the transaction – i.e. you and I…

I'm OK with it. I interpret "PIN number" as "the number to which we associate the expression 'PIN'".

Living the dream!

Psst! That's an arbitrary number.

Are you discussing the questions of whether computer science is mathematics? Dijkstra considered it to be, and was not a fan of "experimental computer science".

Subtitles is good so that you can speed up the video beyond the point where you can no longer hear what someone is saying. You can also watch without sound.

Dijkstra preferred "computing science", didn't he? Now, calling it "science" at all is problematic if you don't consider mathematics to be a science.

Yes. Voting patterns, for example, how do those change people's opinions? It would seem that the most they could do is give an impression of what comments are and are not well rece…

> loneliness (sophistry?) Solipsism?