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elektromekatronon I deduce you are studying logic

Yeah, but you made a statement about the kind of logic you cannot study, so we can begin by formalizing that.

elektromekatronon I deduce you are studying logic

I think Godel may have disproved you on that.

elektromekatronon I deduce you are studying logic

Never mind true or false, it is completely irrelevant that you are studying ternary logic.

edit to add -

I can imagine an even greater being studying ontological logic.

elektromekatronon “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

Citation needed. I'm not aware of people who have been persuasively shown to be innocent post-execution.

In that case you have done very little research and cannot really be trusted to have an informed opinion on the matter.

elektromekatronon “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

I think you are underestimating polemic.

elektromekatronon “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

Cynic is not a pejorative term, is more of a philosophical outlook.

elektromekatronon “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

A Mobius strip is, and it seems in this story you whichever direction you take, you end up back at a single mans testimony for a plea.

elektromekatronon “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”

Only one off the top of my head. Pilot did get pretty famous for it though.

edit - Vlad the Impaler probably also counts, given he was the Voivode of the Polity of Wallachia, so he was basically a military governor.

elektromekatronon School Bans Distribution of Sombreros, Says the Hats Are ‘Racist’

I think Hobbes said it best - http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/09/30

elektromekatronon How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”

Then why are you under the table?

elektromekatronon How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”

I do wonder though, given the outcome, whether they did get a knock from the wolf.

elektromekatronon Trading Meat for Tires as Bartering Economy Grows in Greece

shoes

elektromekatronon Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy

Precisely - you're not arguing against the article at all here.

Yep, I should have probably made that clear. Was more side commenting through the metaphor. In general, learning English like that works quite well, but then it throws you when you are then asked to conjugate the verb 'to be' in French class and nobody has ever asked you to ever conjugate a verb in English. You end up knowing how to use English, but do not learn the technical terminology required to dissect it.

elektromekatronon Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock

From my understanding of American culture derived from a thorough reading of Peanuts, I thought you were supposed to bring hastily assembled items to school. You wouldn't dare say something like that to Sally Brown about her leaf collection.

elektromekatronon Snowden: Can you hear me now?

This provides a rather nice extra punchline to Stewart Lee's joke about Twitter being a state surveillance agency staffed by gullible volunteers.

elektromekatronon Avoiding the Adjective Fallacy

I went to school here in the UK, getting good marks in English and I have never heard of the Royal Order of Adjectives. It sounds like some official lackey the Queen might call on when she just can't find the right word.

I remember our English teacher giving us one single lesson on conjugation, and that was only because we were so confused by all the stuff about conjugating verbs in French class. Other than that I cannot remember us going near any kind of formal grammar.

edit - I just thought, it is also not that hard to construct a context in English where 'old little lady' can work.

I looked again at the little lady sitting across from me. At first, from her height, I had assumed her to be young. However now, looking closer, I could see she was a very old little lady indeed.

elektromekatronon Built for Eternity: The Hoover Dam

Might be a good job for CERN.

elektromekatronon The True Cost of an Expensive Medication

In that environment, you need better resources for doctors to keep up with research, based on clinical requirements. And that is very very far from what marketing does.

elektromekatronon TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]

Fair, I may have got the wrong end of the stick. I often do.

elektromekatronon Porsche 919 – Racecar Engineering

Is interesting to see how hybrids now dominate Le Mans.

elektromekatronon TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]

The insane need a bit more leeway. Ignoring him would be sweeping it under the carpet.

elektromekatronon Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock

You know, not every situation calls for belittling the achievements of children in the news.

elektromekatronon Gravity-Powered Solar Tracker

I would presume so, as that is what it has been designed to do.

elektromekatronon For San Francisco Cab Drivers, Once-Treasured Medallions Now a Burden

Street hails work when my phone battery dies.

elektromekatronon How a $2.7B air-defense system became a 'zombie' program

More a department.

elektromekatronon The strange economics of open-source software

On the contrary, I am saying that there is a lot of crossover.

elektromekatronon The strange economics of open-source software

If they were around today, I suspect Marx would see much of open source as communist and Lenin wouldn't, but then communism has a few definitions, and the one you are latching on to is state communism, which isn't even communism by its own theory, but is supposedly the state of struggle that has to be gone through before communism is eventually reached. Not that I have ever bought into that view, as it seems to be an obvious con by people to seize and hold power with promise of nice stuff round the corner.

elektromekatronon The strange economics of open-source software

I know that this will annoy some people, and believe me, I mean this with a very small 'c', however I think that the open source movement is far and away the most successful communist experiment in history.

elektromekatronon E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead

I think Douglas had a point here.

“Douglas said…Books are sharks,” Gaiman told a packed audience at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

“I must have looked baffled because he he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. Books are sharks … because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.”

Adams told Gaiman: “‘Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books and no matter what happens books will survive.’ And he was right,” said Gaiman.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/03/06/neil-gaiman-sa...

Though funnily enough, the one thing that has got me wanting to buy an e-ink display is for technical reference.

elektromekatronon Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal

Just for Volkswagen - 11m vehicles.

Average price of new car is around $35,000

So, for this recall, we are talking a list price of over 350 billion dollars.

And that is just from what we know of VW.