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They looked at people's facial expressions, it wasn't based on self-reporting of emotion. The subjects were treated as animals in a biology experiment. You can look it up easily enough, the guy's name is Silvan Tomkins and the work is known as "affect theory".

> crimes officially sanctioned by the state.

Isn't this an oxymoron?

That's like the worst thing you can do for a delusion.

Firefox is ancient.

Personally, I think the question of the effect exercise has on my lifespan is irrelevant.

A lot of people talk about exercise being valuable because it makes you healthy. I like all the wonderful benefits of being healthy and in good shape, yes, but I also genuinely like exercise. There is basically nothing as incredible as the right kind of physical exertion for me.

If exercise is a vice, who cares? It's worth it.

Fire.

> It ensures that this data structure is an instance of the specified type.

But downcasts are unsafe.

Type checking is a conservative analysis, and the type correctness of a program is undecidable. But you can still rely on the knowledge generated by your type checker without having to run your program. Among other things, this allows you to optimize your program automatically.

Maybe that's just on average though. My guess is that when you look at high-IQ groups, learning to read early is better.

The sentence means that Apple haven't simply / only / just followed the law as written, they have gone further than that and carved out specific exemptions in the law for themselves.

When you said, "I think they have followed the law as written." it sounds like you are challenging a claim that they haven't followed the law as written, but that wasn't the intent of the sentence. More clear? No laws were violated.

A) I have not hit you, I have given you a hug. -> you did not get hit, you got a hug

B) I have not just hit you, I have given you a hug. -> you got hit AND you got a hug

You're either with us or against us?

You missed the word "just".

So the double Irish is cool?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

RMS uses "freedom" to mean "the best thing you can have", kind of like, but also kind of opposite to, the way people use "freedom" to describe America. It's just propaganda, who cares. Many people view permissive licenses as more free, whatever, it's a buzzword.

Kunstler has been writing about peak oil for ages, and is something of an expert in this area, despite being "crazy" - I mean, he definitely sounds crazy, but then again, there's a reasonable chance he could be right about the pending apocalypse, it's not like we're below the carrying capacity of the planet (given our resource usage) or anything.

When people try this kind of thing on me (frequently it happens if I mention that I shop at Walmart on occasion), I just ask if they own any mutual funds (including pension funds). If they don't, I ask if they pay taxes. If they don't, I ask if they ever give money to someone who might own mutual funds or pay taxes. If they don't, I ask if they ever give money to homeless people.

I understand the general argument about taking a bit of personal responsibility, even if it's basically just symbolic. Rather, it's the absolutism that irritates me. In my opinion, eating less at McDonald's and shopping less at Walmart is about as good as never going to those places.

Besides, if you're really a loving, compassionate, open-minded citizen of the planet, wouldn't it be good to spend some time in these places next to the most downtrodden members of our society?

If you publish it, it's libel. There's a difference between "so-and-so is an asshole" (not a fact, haha), and "so-and-so committed a crime" (a fact). Whether it's a civil or criminal matter depends on the jurisdiction. The UN is against criminalizing defamation because it limits freedom of expression.

The labels are based on experiments and are cross-cultural.

Hey, thanks for the report. I've been contemplating ditching my technical books for a while but never looked into it. I'm hoping I can tolerate them on an iPad mini at 326ppi, will definitely look into PDFs.

The original Tomkins model had dissmell in place of contempt, but it's similar. I think it's limited because it's based on facial expressions and doesn't account for things like shame and guilt and compassion.

I think part of it is a greater social bias towards capitalism. You used to be awesome if you made art, now you're awesome if you make money.

It's also easy to get copyrighted ebooks for no money. You can even go through the exercise of borrowing them from libraries if your moral principles would be compromised.

I know what you mean, but sometimes it isn't pure nostalgia. I like hand-drawn non-CG animation a lot, but there aren't a lot of animated movies coming out now that have it. And cultures can change dramatically too. I liked it better when people weren't so distracted by their cellphones. (This is a fairly small change.)

For me the oversold part about OO is inheritance and design patterns. I find classes plus composition are really natural and helpful for a lot of problems.

GTD has some useful parts and advice, for sure, but it also has a lot of bookkeeping that just gets cumbersome once you lose enthusiasm. Like, why do I need to tag all my todo items with a context? Just make different todo lists according to category, who cares if there's overlap? But the advice to start each todo item with a verb is great.

Why can't you just cover them?

The argument is something like workers owning the means of production is akin to users having control of the source code. Which although maybe debatable, is not a slur in and of itself.

I wasn't counting dual-licensing, because what you're buying isn't a copy of the software but the permission to ignore the GPL, but fair enough.

It's ~90dB and bikers routinely retrofit their bikes with loud, illegal exhausts that are louder than that to show off and because they believe it makes them safer on the road - "loud pipes save lives". 100dB+ is common, that's 10x louder than the already generous limit.

Learning to program can teach you approach other areas of your life with more rigor: separating concerns, minimizing dependencies, iterating fully or with a short-circuit over a collection, refactoring, eliminating cruft, keeping history, reducing constant factors, task decomposition, etc. etc. etc.