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lol, this was obviously posted by a woman who wants other women to throw themselves under a bus. The claim is that women can help themselves by simultaneously failing to acknowledg…

+1 to you because I hadn't come across this concept before and it seems like a useful thing to have in the back of my mind.

I've also got a couple of thousand. I already had about a thousand by my early 20s. I was an avid reader as a kid. I'm in my 40s now. I still like to read, but there are so many mo…

Hey, thanks for replying, your answer is excellent :) Regarding the upright stance things, how do you see Alex the African Grey Parrot evolving towards becoming a spacefaring speci…

Quiet, heretic! Who let this one in here to disrupt the omnicogitations of the vimniarchs!?

Thanks for the pointer. I guess I was more thinking about the culture involved in explicitly denouncing a from-source build. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I'm intrigued by this. However -- and this is probably a cultural thing with me being an old-timey unix guy who likes to build things from scratch -- I have a point of confusion. I…

We're talking about fiction. If you can't recognize it as technology or civilization, how do you plan to write about it? As for combustion, indeed, other planets may not have it. S…

> Because primates are a universal deterministic outcome of evolution on all worlds In all fairness, if you think of the constraints required for a species to become space-faring, …

The worst part for me is, it's the back of my head, where I can't see it. To a thousand other people, I'm a guy with a bald spot a mile wide, and to me in the mirror, it's like, oh…

I don't think you're being clear on all the details. You say this: > I just want to validate one user. This is important enough to you that you say it multiple times. And yet, if I…

Sorry if it came across as a put down. I was more questioning the use of language around calling people ignorant for not knowing how base64 works. I thought if you're older than 16…

Arguing with people who are trying to tell you how to market better isn't going to help you market better. Quite the opposite.

Well, if you're only 16, that would have been 4 years ago. Right about the time I learned about base64 as a guy in his late 30s who didn't have a computer science background. We al…

Nice to learn about the Book of Proof. I usually suggest my students read (or at least have a look through) Velleman's "How To Prove It". Book of Proof could be a good competitor t…

When you flag and downvote someone it doesn't make them wrong. Feel free to let me know some time what I said which was actually incorrect.

You seem to have a problem with literacy. The user claims it never changed the world (true) and you claim they never used one (irrelevant).

When did I say Nokia was derelict? Please pay attention to what I really wrote.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The thought arises: what's the motivation for Deutsche Welle to suddenly post an article about a derelict Finnish proto-"smartphone"?

I have this approach too. When working, I might have up to 20 tabs open at a given time, but most of them are just there passively for things like monitoring and calendars. Some ti…

> only engineers believe most of the important issues in the world actually have an objective answer to them. Was this really necessary? How many engineers do you know, and how man…

I remember trying this a decade ago with uzbl and vimperator. It was okay for a while, but uzbl unfortunately failed to gain momentum, and vimperator was nixxed more and more for v…

Thanks! Ah, it's the spelling. I took "Payne" too literally.

I tried looking up things like "Thomas Payne" and "Common Sense" but nothing quite matched what you seem to be driving at. Is there something obvious I'm missing, or do you have a …