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DeadonDreaming, please explain why your philosophy should not apply in meatspace, and why those reasons are not valid beyond it.

It's possible to successfully produce something for the web with very little or no programming, but it's also possible to go deeper and see all the attractions that Architect is talking about, within the realm of web development. Some elitists will tell you web development isn't real...

Mr. Conscience is being unfair. If he expects you to disregard emotional considerations, he has no right to call you a freaky creep either.

Receiving answers sooner doesn't circumvent the standards we have that cause them to come later. We would tend not to find the fruit fulfilling.

It wouldn't be more fruitful, it would just be fruitful sooner.

So you like dealing with concepts, and you're lazy... sounds like you would make a good programmer. ;) I mean if by robot you mean tedious, repetitive work, well... avoiding that is the whole point of programming. Programmers describe concepts to robotic machines and let them carry it out.

Everything you just said there is totally subjective, though. Throwing in objectively and tangible doesn't make it so. How do you measure "malicious insulting"? What is it; how is it more legitimate an offense than "trying to annoy"? By the way, I'm only talking concepts here, not...

Identifying two people who are walking at the same tempo and trying to mentally switch which footsteps belong to which feet. Answering any question that includes "or" with "yes".

Wait a minute... so what if the courtroom is full of objective thinkers? Does intent matter or doesn't it? The principle should always be the same.

I didn't find it confusing. Cognisant was saying it's the intent that makes the difference.

Well I don't have much of a math background, but here's how I see it: We're talking about infinitely small fractions -- in other words, 1 / infinity, the reverse of which is [infinitely small number] * infinity = 1. But, 0 * infinity = 0. That's a pretty significant difference, because it would...

You mean infinitely small time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxLZamT7Dk

Well, it's in the title.

I think the fact that people like kvothe27 (and probably most of the rest of us) exist, who need to "make an attempt" to make eye contact, invalidates the very reason you give for doing it. If I cut myself, I don't have to make a decision or put forth any effort to make blood rush to the wound...

The National Aeronautics and Moon Basketball League of America (or NAMBLA) reminds you that everyone is a genius. wat

Solitaire U never actually said that though, did he? Of course to verify that, you'll have to become 7 years younger, not go to school for 7 years, then compare the results. Isn't education an accumulation of knowledge, and can't you exercise and challenge your mind without accumulating...

Re: Shaving is self-hatret That's two narrow extremes on a spectrum. On the left end is people who only do things that strictly serve biological and practical purposes; on the right is self-haters; and the middle is people who aren't completely insane.

Well, neither can skin.

Refactor.

lol

Of course there is a direct correlation between intelligence, blueness of eyes, blondness of hair, and fairness of skin.

I vaguely recall hearing a historical explanation for paper>rock that made more sense, but I can't find any reference to it now.

(shift)+control+left/right to skip/select words, control+backspace/delete to delete words. Putting a question mark at the beginning of text in Chrome's address bar forces it to be a search, and pressing control+enter forces it to be a URL. AutoHotkey, TeraCopy, WinDirStat, Console. Type...

I'm not ready to say there is no importance to it, I'm only saying I'm skeptical of your interpretation of what small talk is and what it's for. You seem to think it's all related to first impressions and that it's the determining factor for strangers to decide whether they want to continue...

Small talk is a regular occurrence among people who already know each other, so I don't understand why you're so focused on this "judging" idea. If they don't care one bit about the topics, why are they continuously brought up after they have served their purpose? And if small talk's purpose...

So, when you say "they ARE NOT judging you", you basically mean "they are judging you".

Theorem: an angle can both 1) be itself & 2) be twice itself.

Crawls.

Re: Shaving is self-hatret I don't like where this is going.

Why? "Technically" means going by the exact definition of something rather than the general. I think "basically" or "essentially" would imply they have thought of something you haven't, because it's saying they are keeping the complex reality hidden and telling you only what they decide you need...

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Re: Shaving is self-hatret Does this only apply to yourself? If you cut someone else's hair (or wish it to be cut), do you hate them?

I'm going to be angry if it turns out not to be continuous or fully dependent on itself and we all wasted our time looking for 100% consistency (i.e each row is a self-contained pattern or something). If it's 3D rotations, it could only be around the Y axis, or only by 180 degrees around the X...

thehabitatdoctor, are you saying you actually see the pattern, or you just eliminated the rest for not following a previously seen trend? Because in that case we still can't eliminate the answer in the third column of the first row, since it's a vertical flip of an existing element, which we...

The only pattern I could find is: If each step is based on the 2 before it, it seems that 2 squares on the bottom (step 3) is an instruction to vertically flip what came before it (step 4 is a vertically flipped version of step 2; and step 8 is a vertically flipped version of step 6 (because...

This is it. To me emotional outbursts are almost calculated choices. I don't mean they are completely under my control or that they're insincere or manipulative, just that their expression is "reserved" for when they would be most effective, at which point they're deployed at full strength and...

I hate everything about this.

Yeah.

Is he really in a better position than you to know what this means?

Useless activities by choice are preferable to useless activities by demand. Wasting 2 minutes a day may be the practical response, but that doesn't affect the principle.

Maybe, but it also takes longer to lose them. People with smaller groups of friends are naturally more loyal to each of them.

The mind and body thing isn't something I dwell on, but I remember one frankly terrifying experience of feeling highly "aware" that my body isn't me and that it's small. It was like claustrophobia, but not really. I often get into a loop of wondering if anyone else is thinking about something...

When I give you actual credible sources defending Wikipedia's reliability, and you respond with a non-credible source with a counter-argument and criticize me for "using Wikipedia to defend Wikipedia", it doesn't look like satire; it looks more like you're being extremely biased and not paying...

I'm sorry? Who used Wikipedia to defend Wikipedia and when? Did you even click my links? Only one of them goes to Wikipedia, and that's because the purpose of that page is for universities to register their projects. The documents about credibility findings came from BBC news and the original...

You act as though misinformation doesn't exist in libraries. Do you have any facts to support your assumptions? Wikipedia has been tested for accuracy and measures up to similarly flawed "reliable" academic sources. The dumbing down of society is always there. The difference with Wikipedia is...

Binary / Morse code = 1 dimensional.

It seems like the ~ option is default now, which is really annoying if I want something specific, I have to put quotes around each word.

Yes, I saw that, but I mean how do you choose the "correct" site? What do you do when a .edu search doesn't include it? And so on. Again, Google results are machine-sorted; Wikipedia is a central compilation of results deemed reliable by an ongoing human-based sorting process. And following...