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« on: January 03, 2016, 06:56:20 PM »
I know how you feel, but it's been working out fine for me:  Not pictured: Spoiler Successful Drawing
ANSI C 2nd edition
The Master Switch
Notes from Trigonometry
Elementary number theory
Linear algebra done right
Linear algebra done wrong
Linear algebra
Linear algebra (a different one)
Foundations of infinitesimal calculus
Elementary calculus and infinitesimal approach
calculus 7e I have to say, reading multiple books at the same time is especially helpful for maths, the number theory book keeps proving things in terms of sets and all the algebra books in terms of functions.
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« on: January 03, 2016, 06:38:56 PM »
spybot search and destroy.
If I can be assed to set up a virtual machine and have it run smoothly i may just switch to linux.
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« on: January 03, 2016, 06:37:44 PM »
It devalues relationships between people, increases the spread of STDs, and provides no long term benefits. You can influence people to spend their time and effort improving themselves by taking up a skill or hobby and get tangible benefits out of it, or you can influence people to chase orgasms and get a bunch of used condoms.
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« on: January 03, 2016, 06:03:03 PM »
Mother fucker he's going to die before he finishes them all.
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« on: January 03, 2016, 05:48:29 PM »
As a kid our car was a piece of junk held together with spare parts, and my grandparent's car was even worse (it's been passed around the family for a few decades now and only recently died), so I guess I've grown to appreciate how reliable tech can be. We didn't have a television until I was five and it was a stupidly large cathode ray tv, and we didn't even get dial up internet until a bit later; even then I thought they seemed outdated and I couldn't for the life of me work out how to use the internet (but having your hair stand up on your arm if you put it next to the tv was the coolest shit), so i just played those cheap "5000 shovelware games on one disc" games, and rented a ps1 with crash bandicoot (but we couldn't rent a memory card for it so I had to try an keep the game running all night in order to keep my save progress...it never worked). later on we got a gamecube and xbox and it blew my mind what they could do, especially compared to the really shitty games that you could play on certain tv channels using the tv remote. we got a ps2 even later and I finally understood why nobody had an xbox except for halo. Much later we got a 360 and a real computer with non-dial up internet, that was another mind changing moment seeing how much better the tech was, but it still took me a long time to understand how to even find anything on the internet. Spoiler did anybody else have to resort to image searching "girls in bikinis"? A few years ago I finally got a laptop and ever since i've been able to understand technology quite well, but I only got a cellphone this year and I don't think I'll ever understand the culture around it (and for fuck's sake the word is application). Also I was amazed that I could drag my finger across the keypad screen and the phone is able to accurately predict what i'm trying to type based on where my finger changes directions, it's far better than what my parents had with having to press the same key 3 times for the letter c.
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« on: January 01, 2016, 10:33:49 PM »
As a kid I thought it was the coolest shit that I could have my spaceship and build up a crew and do space things. I don't want to play the game again in case it doesn't hold up, which it probably wont.
Though if I ever do play it again I wouldn't make the mistake of having all my save right before getting sent to court for attaking that one sith base and then getting executed every time...
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« on: January 01, 2016, 10:08:58 PM »
I don't support gun control precisely because of these salami tactics.
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« on: January 01, 2016, 10:07:45 PM »
It was a pretty fun year actually, but this one's going to be better. 
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« on: January 01, 2016, 09:43:49 PM »
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
I recently started going through the new testament so while I can't vouch for the other quotes, you're certainly taking this one out of context; the entire book of Mathew is literally Jesus preaching to everyone that they've fucked up and need to change their ways, and that it's gotten to the point where he has to speak in parables to most people since they wouldn't understand the truth if he told them directly. The quote you cherrypicked is him referring to how he's disrupting the current state of affairs. Also here's a quote from the same chapter: 5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses Why would he command his disciples to do such things if he actually wanted fighting? And here you are failing to understand the parables...
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« on: January 01, 2016, 09:21:34 PM »
For the longest time I thought this was something you had to assume using the logical negation of truth tables, but you can prove this using the field axioms instead:
1 * -1 = -1
-1 = -1
1 -1 -1 = 0 + (-1) = -1
(-1)(1 -1 -1) = (-1)(-1)
distributing across brackets:
1 * -1 + (-1)(-1) + (-1)(-1) = (-1)(-1)
-1 + (-1)(-1) + (-1)(-1) - (-1)(-1) = (-1)(-1) - (-1)(-1)
-1 + (-1)(-1) + 0 = 0
-1 + (-1)(-1) = 0
1 -1 + (-1)(-1) = 0 + 1 = 1
0 + (-1)(-1) = 1
(-1)(-1) = +1
negative one times negative one equals positive one
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« on: December 31, 2015, 05:01:36 AM »
It's 2016 now!
I hope you've made your new year's resolution.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 10:06:44 PM »
That was a good article and it got better the more I read. I don't know what Trump is playing on, because it's clearly more substantial than people hating political correctness
Well... 
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« on: December 24, 2015, 09:10:41 PM »
if said irish person doesnt want people of color living in his town then yes, that is racist.
not going to humor the ridiculous particulars of this thought exercise. i hold everyone to the same ethical standards regardless of ethnicity/race. if a black person doesnt want white people living in their community, that's racist. if a white doesnt want chinese in their community, that's racist. if an arab man doesnt want indians in his community, that's racist.
I'm glad your consistent with your words, but how is that racist? what definition are you using of the word are you using? because it sounds like you define anything that isn't in favor of forced diversity is racist. and id just like to point something out to you.
America and every other Western country is predominately white (White people, White language, White morals, White culture, White technology, and so on) this train of thought reflects a severe lack of knowledge/critical comprehension of history and multiculturalism. your impotent rhetoric doesnt do your argument any favors and it makes you seem like an ignorant white supremacist.
If you have sources or examples of how i'm wrong I'd be happy to read them, but as far as I can tell the legal and moral framework of the West goes back to Ancient Rome and Greece, White; with serious influence from the French revolution, White; The English language being both English and an amalgamation of European languages, White; and most of our modern day technology being developed by White men; And from that it's only natural that the culture of America and other Western countries is White. If that makes me a supremacist then I'm fine with that, it's nice being White.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 08:46:48 PM »
all I need to say is that there is nothing wrong with White people wanting to be surrounded by other White people in their own goddamn countries.
um..
i disagree.
Could you explain why? do you hold the same belief for other races?
because that's racist? i shouldnt need to explain this.
How is loving your own people even remotely the same as hating other people? You do need to explain this because what you've said makes no sense at all. Is an Irish person racist for wanting their small Irish town to be just that, a small Irish town? More importantly are you holding non-whites to the same standard? Are black Ghettos racist? Are Middle Eastern Ghettos racist? Is India racist? Is China racist?
and, yknow, the "their own goddamn countries" thing is pretty funny, considering how white people kind of took america from its original, non-white inhabitants by force.
Yes they did take, and now it's theirs, this fact doesn't change my point at all.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 08:12:00 PM »
all I need to say is that there is nothing wrong with White people wanting to be surrounded by other White people in their own goddamn countries.
um..
i disagree.
Could you explain why? do you hold the same belief for other races?
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« on: December 24, 2015, 08:03:17 PM »
The fundamental point that these kinds of articles always deliberately ignore is that America and every other Western country is predominately white (White people, White language, White morals, White culture, White technology, and so on); According to the writer it's perfectly fine for black people to look out for themselves and group together, but when White people do the exact same thing it's RACIST, and only White people can be racist.
If it wasn't Christmas right now, a fantastic White tradition, I'd go through the article point by point and criticize it, but for now all I need to say is that there is nothing wrong with White people wanting to be surrounded by other White people in their own goddamn countries.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 05:32:33 AM »
brb suicide
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« on: December 24, 2015, 05:21:03 AM »
so that the Prime Minister
You're British?
New Zealander, we're both isolated from world affairs and caught up in them.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 05:13:14 AM »
That's amusing:    I took the test again and only the culture slider changed:  I'm sure as hell not a left winger and probably a bit more Authoritarian; The problem I have with these kinds of tests is that my support for ideas depend significantly on their implementation ; for instance I don't support my government's war efforts against ISIS because they haven't achieved anything and were only done so that the Prime Minister could wank his ego, and at the same time I support Russia's efforts because they work and because Putin's probably playing a game of political chess with it. Also protecting the environment is typically left wing but in theory I support it.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 05:01:54 AM »
Living in the future is great but I should be going to sleep now.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 04:35:21 AM »
I started keeping a dream journal a week ago.
Last night I was walking along this road going by some kind of nature reserve with friend whens lions and tigers started chasing me, and every-time I tried to parkour up some buildings to escape but they could parkour as well so I kept getting eating and having to try again.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 04:20:00 AM »
Does the $500 scale with inflation? Does it scale with any price of food? If every product in the world and every paycheck suddenly had 2 zeroes added to the end, is my $500 now only worth $5? Is this just free fuel until oil runs out or will it just keep coming from nowhere until I die?
This is important, I could be an oil tycoon or just lame depending on how much I get.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 04:10:28 AM »
basically the speed of light is the absolute limit for any information or interaction in the universe.
I've been wondering about this before, It's fascinating stuff that I look forward to studying.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 03:53:45 AM »
It's pretty silly to think that an ideology which has been around for centuries has nothing of value to offer. I disagree with social conservatives on a lot of issues, but on the macro (or cultural, if you like) issues they have something of value to say about things like the Protestant work ethic, the importance of social order and the value of in-group loyalty. And this isn't the esoteric ramblings of bigots, it has a fairly solid empirical basis in social psychology.
You can delineate between "smart" and "stupid" values and pin the stupid values like opposition to gay marriage on the social conservatives, and then claim the latter doesn't exist. . . But it's pretty clear it does exist in a politically meaningful way, and it's disingenuous to disregard the entire thing by redefining it into a paradigm of stupidity.
well, whatever
factoring in social values:
Turkey = Meta < Slash = Das < Cadenza < PSU < Door < Mordo
i actually don't know much about cadenza, so that may be a specious placement
From what I've read that's probably right, but I'd really have to have more discussions with all of you first and also make clear some of the vague statements I've already made; and for that I really need to spend more time fact checking my views and compiling folders of sources which isn't happening until after Christmas.
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« on: December 23, 2015, 04:52:17 AM »
Go Go Gadget meanness!
literally who the fuck even are you
youre not even notable
That was surprisingly mean.
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« on: December 23, 2015, 04:31:13 AM »
Go Go Gadget meanness!
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« on: December 23, 2015, 04:14:04 AM »
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« on: December 23, 2015, 12:01:10 AM »
The two options in the OP aren't mutually exclusive.
Can you read? "More important" doesn't imply that they're mutually exclusive.
No I clearly can't read, I didn't even see the second question on the poll and thought the options referred to "What is the role of a moderator?
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« on: December 22, 2015, 11:57:38 PM »
The two options in the OP aren't mutually exclusive.
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« on: December 22, 2015, 11:44:20 PM »
The reason I'm finding myself drawn to Christianity is precisely because I'm afraid of what I'll do if I don't have any guidelines or restraints, and instead let everything be relative. It's mind control in the same way that education is mind control, you take a person and you make them act in a certain way because they don't yet know enough to realize the consequences of acting otherwise. I'm aware of my flaws which is why I try to fix them and this is another method to do so.
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