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by 08-15 10y ago
To a German, "Uber" means "I cannot spell." (SCNR.)
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by 08-15 10y ago
Indeed, but why? Any professional is responsible for the damage they cause, whether on purpose or by neglect. These forensic "professionals" are not. And that's messed up. Besides, if you are both a professional and dumb o
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by 08-15 10y ago
After two or three decades behind bars, you don't care about your freedom anymore. (Watch "The Shawshank Redemption" and see what happens to Brooks, if you don't get what I mean.) I really don't get where this ridi
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by 08-15 10y ago
I don't get why anyone views this as a positive thing. The announcement effectively says "We took it down because we didn't think about it, but then we changed our mind." Okay---and a lively discussion on HN had nothin
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by 08-15 10y ago
> cop acting [...] at the best of the people that hired him See, that's precisely the problem. Cops don't act in anyone's interest, they act to enforce the law. Because they are bound by the law, they have a monopoly on
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by 08-15 10y ago
I don't see an issue of free speech here. All I can see is a thug using the cover of a police uniform to beat up people he doesn't like with impunity. In a just world, Hawkins would be charged with "inflicting grievous bodi
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by 08-15 10y ago
The point being made is "I think a fetus is valuable." I get that. Duh. But even if everyone agreed, a fetus is still a different thing than a child. Believe it or not, there is hardly any disagreement about whether "abor
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Well, we abort children legally Fetuses. A fetus is not a child . I don't care about your opinion, but I do care about precise use of language.
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Competition within the rail industry? I doubt it. Not within the rail industry---ownership of the track network makes that impractical. I'm saying DB was protected from other modes of transportation, which ensured their monopol
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by 08-15 10y ago
It doesn't work, plain and simple. Never mind what many others have said, that a greedy algorithm might work, that you can reduce it to TSP and apply heuristics, etc. The application of simulated annealing is also crippled: Suppose y
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by 08-15 10y ago
Do you actually think these documents remain destroyed for technical reasons? Of 90.000 official and 200.000 unofficial employees of the Stasi (secret police of the German Democratic Republic), a whopping 20 have been convicted. Do you th
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Private competition almost always ends in monopoly or trust [truce? oligopoly?] anyway. Doesn't seem so to me. As far as I can tell, all real life monopolies or oligopolies only exist because of intervention by the police state.
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by 08-15 10y ago
If the officer doesn't get knocked out, there is a loaded gun on the table under the control of a uniformed thug. For some reason, that scares me a lot more.
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by 08-15 10y ago
I really wonder why farmers don't run their equipment on biodiesel or bioethanol. (Actually, the answer is bloody obvious. Admittedly somewhat off-topic, too.)
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by 08-15 10y ago
> because reviewing is unpaid labor Indeed, and that's a strange situation. I submit that it is immoral to review for a for-profit journal without receiving appropriate compensation[1]. Doing so and then complaining about the extor
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by 08-15 10y ago
The real problem isn't storing the data, it's accessing it. There is no way to address DNA, you can only "shotgun sequence" it. In doing so, you get random fragments of around 200 bases (400 bits). You can't get
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by 08-15 10y ago
> Is that incorrect? Yes. The Sr-90 from a nuclear explosion will immediately oxidize in the atmosphere, so it is not a soft metal much like lead, but a brittle ceramic much like lime. It also has a half life of 28.8 years, not 29.1.