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Side note: it used to be that Mexican Coke contained cane sugar instead of HFCS. Not sure any more.

Do you have a specific example where "stop being such a crybaby" is a good thing to say?

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'v…

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…

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…

Yeah, be wary of anything that is basically code for "stop being such a crybaby".

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…

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…

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, wh…

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 …

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. I…

So by definition a dictator cannot use the courts to steal from his people?

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 o…

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, thin…

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 as…

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 th…

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 so…

> 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…

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 e…

Not if we are talking about monetary worth, which is what 100 euro denotes. Unless I am severely mistaken in my understanding of economics.

> 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…