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The real shocker is that it took until 2012 for this pivotal algorithm to win a Nobel Prize. David Gale had passed by then! The Nobel committee must be backlogged to Hell and back.…

I see this sort of application having a lot of use in the kinds of derivative pop music developed by ensembles of songwriters and manufactured purely to generate radio hits. Bacon'…

In other news, bananas have surpassed OS X in daily Caloric consumption. I knew Apple couldn't make it without Jobs. People conflate the purposes of various products under the umbr…

I have thought of a fundamental fallacy in my argument. If the Universe is a computer, then it should be able to be entirely simulated within a program. Ergo, this simulation must …

I've spent some time with Stallman in real life. There is very little variance between Ubuntu and OS X to him. They both have free kernels (Linux, XNU) that come with nonfree binar…

I noticed that myself. I clarified my point. IQ is heritable within observable socioeconomic brackets.

Perhaps my subjective belief of the Valley rhetoric is wrong.

In a philosophical sense, it is not helpful to perceive the difference between "ideas" and "execution" as a binary reduction on two sets. Instead, I view it as the idea-execution g…

Yeah, I definitely agree that iOS is a walled garden. It sucks and I hope Android continues growing in the high-end smartphone field so it can demolish the restrictive ecosystem th…

I guess in a superficial sense, OSS is still losing. But it's losing less than it was losing 10 years ago. Its been steadily growing in popularity. F(x) is still negative, but f'(x…

Good points. Developers need to make a living. In Microsoft's heyday, Microsoft could abuse their monopoly to coerce developers to care more about making a living than they cared a…

Minor question; is it just me or is the "Results of Interview Simulations by Mean Score" a bit difficult to parse? I understand that observing the behavior of any singular cohort i…

>[something semantic and pedantic about maritime vessels vs taking other's property] Piracy, or copyright infringement, or whatever the fuck you want to call it, and theft have the…