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I read the whole article, but stopped taking it seriously at: "a vicious collection of roadblocks"

I think it's fine for people to desire quieter neighborhoods in this era of high population density. I don't think that the people in all of those examples were pursuing change for the financial gain.

I was simply demonstrating, as everyone else in this thread is, that the tool doesn't match one's intution of what is bullshit.

"I am a beautiful flower. I sway in the breeze of my meadow, drinking in the sunshine. I love the little bees who come to visit me."

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Your text: 130 characters, 28 words Bullshit Index :0.05 Your text shows no or marginal indications of 'bullshit'-English.

"Sorry officer, my speedometer was blurry."

Ever been to Japan? The burgers and fries at McDonalds there are not lukewarm or squished like you get here in America, rather they're hot, toasted, and all puffed up.

They're also more expensive.

> "So, though now I have started working again in cognition (but in isolation), I can’t avoid seeing the problem coming."

Quoted from just above the heading: "What can be done?"

It appears that he continues to work on the simulation of human cognition.

Here's a pile more to blow your mind with: http://www.dabeaz.com/coroutines/ [2009]

I would have liked to have seen mention of this while loop instead of the index-based one.

    while my_list:
        v = my_list.pop(0)
        print v

Although it doesn't fit the theme of the others because it consumes the list, it is certainly a more natural use of "while" to loop over a list.

That was refreshing. It reminds me of letter invaders.

I wonder whether there would be any significant difference in first-game performance between qwerty/dvorak/azerty/etc touch typers.

I've been using Python2 now for 4 years but have been dragging my feet upgrading to Python3.

Finally, I started learning it just a month ago and now I don't know what ever stopped me before. In fact, the most annoying thing I've found about Python3 is that my searches for documentation on DDG or Google all go to the Python2 docs.

Well, no worries. I was on a school computer with an outdated version of Chrome.

Just a note to the author:

I'm getting a lot of [Math Processing Errors] when I view your article: http://imgur.com/PSeMX I haven't looked at the source to see what was going on, so it might be that I'm blocking flash or something.

Otherwise, it was great! :) Thanks for a fun read!

Me too.

.bashrc:

  alias cookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/cookies"
  alias nocookies="/usr/bin/chromium --user-data-dir=$HOME/.chromium/nocookies --incognito"
  alias chromium='echo "cookies or nocookies?"'

Please note that I didn't say the future of recycling is the reduction of consumption, but rather that it would be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption (than by 3d printing).

Oh, and sorry for briefly turning into Al Gore there. :P Good catch!

ZBrush is fairly intuitive. You paint the mesh into empty space. http://www.pixologic.com/home.php

> Your future soda bottle will become a toy will become part of your shoes will become...

Our current and past soda bottles have become the great pacific garbage patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

I think the future of recycling is going to be more largely affected by a reduction in consumption.

They also neglected to mention http://www.thingiverse.com/

> RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution.

(from http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap)

I believe this is one, but you'll have to build it yourself after sourcing parts.

It's not a big thing, but it was enough for me to stay with Arch:

Slackware's package management tools doesn't do dependencies. In Arch you can easily remove a package and everything that is no longer required.

pacman -Rsn package-to-remove

I've been using Arch on my HP Mini since May 2010. I haven't had any serious stability issues. Once in awhile I have to resolve differences between old and new system configuration files.

Arch is easy to set up with the installer. You get a minimal shell system which is good for focusing on code. Most things work out of the box if you just pacman -S the-package-you-need.

The hard stuff (wireless) is very well documented on http://wiki.archlinux.org/. Failing that, community on #archlinux is very helpful.

I'm sure it's not for everybody, but I like to spend my time creating things in code, and not arguing about what's the best environment to create things in.

Perhaps the "neckbeards" and "outcasts" you refer to prefer to fix the motorcycle when it breaks, instead of paying somebody else to it?

http://google.com/search?q=zen+and+the+art+of+motorcycle+mai...

My bots are neither spectacular, nor especially smart, but I had fun and wanted to share.

My code is linked to from that blog post, but for the impatient here it is: https://github.com/plredmond/ants.py

My take:

Please don't lobby. Shed light.

Instead of making a platform which would further solidify the role of lobbyists in American politics, why don't we make a platform which puts a spotlight on the shady dealings of Washington?

A tool which aggregated all legislation moving through both the House and the Senate along with the supporters and opponents of each would benefit the public's ability to keep an eye on what Congress does.

Done right, giving such visibility to the Democratic process could go a long way toward fixing it.

From the wikipedia blackout page:

  > They [the bills] put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed
  > material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are
  > not to infringing material. Small sites will not have the sufficient
  > resources to mount a legal challenge.

This is beautiful. It succinctly puts forth the problem that SOPA/PIPA and similar legislation will create: chilling innovation.

For posterity: http://imgur.com/sU5CO

I agree that the attitude which some torrent users have (feeling good when they actually pay for things) is annoying.

However, nobody can deny that computers and the internet have irreversibly changed the game. It is simply no longer default that one must purchase information. Information doesn't want to be free, it just is free (for better or for worse).

Is it louder? Is it heavier? Is it less able to stop and turn at a moments notice?

Certainly innovative, but does this make things better?

Why does it matter who came up with the idea for bitcoin? The protocol and the code are freely available for anyone to review.

I don't understand why people are pursuing a guy who didn't do anything wrong and doesn't want to be found.