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wollw

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About wollw

http://www.wollw.com

Some of my projects can be found here: https://github.com/Wollw/

David | Rose E. Shere PO Box 2108 Glen Ellen, CA 95442

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    > One McRefugee renting a subdivided flat in To Kwa Wan, Hung said, told volunteers that her landlord charged her HK$16 for a unit of electricity, compared to about HK$1.10 charged…

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    It's forced me to think a lot more about the material worth of our economy, specifically legal tender. I took a $20 Bank Note to the Coin Shop yesterday to trade ~1g of Cotton and …

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    Comment #17056993

    One of the problems with this is our debt based economy. I would have ordained at one point if it weren't for the fact that having taken loans out for school means I'm ironically t…

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    Comment #17056988

    Sir Issac Newton was a virgin too, just to add some balance to things.

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    Comment #17056643

    The main reason I brought it up is that like the Apple "Store" the OpenBSD Ports (in my case) are a curated selection of software. I do mostly use pkg_add to install, as it is reco…

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    Comment #17055512

    I prefer the BSD port system.

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    We could also honestly say he's talented and be pretty sure he weighs at least 75 pounds[1]. It occurs to me that part of the problem is the analogous thinking in the first place, …

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    I mentioned it in the comments of a post the other day, but the English Speaking World can at least trace this kind of thinking back to Thomas Cranmer and the Articles of Religion …

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    Comment #17043808

    I find something ironic about this, but of course it's unfortunately true. Until last year my "Church" experience was mostly on and off spending time at a Buddhist monastery which …

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    Comment #17036203

    We need to start planning cities and towns in terms of foot traffic and stop assuming the need for other forms of transportation.

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    Comment #16855869

    As someone with an formal education in Art despite a background in Tech, I'm growing more and more disillusioned with currencies beyond actual Legal Tender... I almost agree with t…

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    I would think that's part of the reason he shouldn't be fired. What difference should it make to anyone mature enough to do business with?

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    A Response: "After Alan Luo" [ http://imgur.com/fmt1Kib ] Being an Artist with a background in technology I can't help but appreciate this differently than I believe intended. I've…

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    Comment #10865575

    So, time vs money is a rich persons dilemma. It's also a monk or nun's dilemma and a motivating factor in ordination for some.

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    You can also create automata with video by treating it as a three dimensional world. I did a bit of messing around with this a few months ago[1] and created some examples. The only…

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    I'm an artist (well, a student really) with an interest in mathematics and computer science abstractions. I like to create work related to and inspired by technology. Given how imp…

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    Comment #7299489

    Thanks. I guess I should expand on my previous comment... Despite what that github page says about not having any reason for making these sculptures, I'm currently thinking of them…

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    I'm more interested in the visual aesthetic, but I've built a few sculptures[1] visualizing algorithms. It's something I'm hoping to expand on when I have more time and resources. …

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    Those interested in a positive take on 3-D might be interested in reading Thomas Elsaesser's paper, "The “Return” of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the …

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    Comment #5328606

    I experimented a bit more and found if I put it before my "syntax on" and color scheme setup lines it doesn't work, but if I put it after them the fix works. Raticide's comment clu…

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    I had the same problem at first. Try putting it after wherever you're loading the plugin itself. edit: Also, thanks airblade. I think I'm going to keep using this.