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What's wrong with idempotent? It has a precise, useful meaning

No, arguing about semantics does not mean what you think it does! It means arguing about what words mean instead of arguing substantively about the meanings themselves.

It hurts everyone. It uses up screen space and reading time and has absolutely zero value.

Proxies make it impossible to ban anyone. You can detect open proxies like slashdot does and prevent anyone from using any open proxy, but offenders can still use non-open proxies.…

you can do that. take whatever normal healthy food you were going to eat and put it in a blender with water or milk. then drink it.

This is not the world's first conversation game; there are many others. The best one I know of is a text game called Galatea, by Emily Short. The entirety of the game is a conversa…

I can tell you how it works. You maintain your initial jumping velocity almost all the way up to the top of your jump. The peak of the jump occurs suddenly, and it's when you relea…

Yeah, terminal velocity is relevant over a short drop if the acceleration is high and the terminal velocity is low (both true in mario) Looking at the table they made, most of the …

This is an extremely poor analysis. It ignores terminal velocity, which is a huge factor, and it doesn't even acknowledge this in its "Sources of Error" section. The graph they pro…