BugBrother

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by BugBrother 12y ago
Israel do have everything on a different scale; multiples of times more terror against its civilians than what the rest of the western world have -- combined. Afaik, despite this the courts in Israel seems to better keep up rule of law than
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Yes, it is a common excuse in e.g. non-democracies to call democracy activists for terrorists (often combined with claims that all the democratic countries are in a conspiracy against them, because we hate Russia/Pakistan/Iran&#x2
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Most every democracy with serious and continuing problems with terrorism throw out the law book and human rights. Afaik, this goes for USA, Britain, Israel, Germany, Spain and Italy. And probably more cases. (Note " continuing problems
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by BugBrother 12y ago
A discussion of Unit 8200 I read today: http://strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20140923.aspx (I read other sources because my Swedish media is like some inverse of Fox News. Stories like that Hamas had
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Just one question: How is the weather? :-) That said, I've been to Ireland lots of times for vacation. (I should go check the job sites.)
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by BugBrother 12y ago
The first response to Chernobyl was heroic. Fire fighters later died from acute radiation poisoning. But would it really surprise you if the Soviet leaders did as "pilsetnieks" wrote and forced people to get high radiation doses w
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I am from Sweden. We do trust the state and each others. The society comes really high on the sociological metric of "trust". That said, it is just ... naive... to argue that "Some instances of X have done good, so let's
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Despite three comments I see no motivation for your claim that the paper is obviously utter garbage. Edit: Removed the rest. Not needed. Bye. Edit 2: A general discussion of the quality of papers (which everyone with some time at U ought to
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by BugBrother 12y ago
That is easy -- parasites are relatively rare (or the ones they prey on will be gone and the parasites would starve). So when those Dark Triad people are tired, they are tired mostly with the sheep -- not with other Dark Triad people.
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by BugBrother 12y ago
You find bad papers in every area. To criticize a paper's hypothesis which the authors explicitly show they didn't get good correlation for (and was surprised by), seems... well, a bit weird. Can you SHOW they are incompetent idi
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Scientists aren't idiots. Well, except for evolutionary biologists as described by Gould. :-) It is a hypothesis, to be tested. (I already wrote a comment arguing it is an unlikely hypothesis.) Edit: I might add, evol biologists routin
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by BugBrother 12y ago
So people are night owls to abuse the tiredness of the early risers? It sounds a little to pat. What use is it to be manipulative of people that say "Talk about that tomorrow. <Yawn>"?! For instance, what is cause and effect
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by BugBrother 12y ago
>> White flight is entirely about anti-blackness and racial oppression. [...] These have been studied in such great detail. Does international research really support that middle class people leave areas where the crime levels go up
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I can't find any info on how quick the page turns are? No A4 size? (The reader MaysonL mentions doesn't seem to be on sale yet? I don't see review from 2014, at least?)
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I have waited impatiently since the 1990s for a functioning E-ink reader with fast enough page turns to browse documentation. And the reason it isn't here is not technical problems -- it is because some shaved chimpanzee of an MBA thou
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Interesting point about scaling, thanks.
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by BugBrother 12y ago
There are lots of people which do better jobs in my subjects than me, while only caring about the money. Ideally, those guys should find something they had a real passion for instead. Because they/you might be really awesome doing some
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by BugBrother 12y ago
>> Nowadays nobody barely thinks about their work before they start writing code, for the most part. I am old enough to remember where this came from... I used to do C for quite a while, then I made my hobby (Perl and scripting) my d
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Just out of curiosity... you need four different iPhones to test? How many different O/S and model variants do you need, to feel safe on Android? Or does your app not do anything complex with the graphics?
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I'd argue that doing Google Maps in JavaScript was innovative. At the time, it blew me away that JS was usable for so complex use cases.
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by BugBrother 12y ago
>> Here, have a strong cup of toughen-the-fuck-up. You might have a point generally, but I think you miss some historical context. A few hundred years ago, depending on location, if you made a "random snide comment" someone(
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Nitpicking: >> A teaspoon of sewage in a barrel of wine makes a barrel of sewage. To be realistic, it makes a barrel of (maybe a bit cheaper) wine; alcohol kills bacteria. (As someone that eats lunch at restaurants most of my life,
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Salary levels at that itjobswatch site look a bit different compared to e.g. cwjobs.co.uk? (I've been considering England on and off, but am scared of the London commute.)
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I don't know much about Guile, but can't it compile elisp too? But you would need dynamic scope in Scheme to mix elisp/Guile code in Emacs? Edit: Ah, this was discussed in your link at the top of this comment thread.
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by BugBrother 12y ago
The amount of money involved is not really the problem. I've seen arguments from the end of the 80s (sci.space.tech, Henry Spencer et al) that if the launch costs went down, the costs of building hardware would go down. From that, ther
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by BugBrother 12y ago
8) You advertise any chance you get. :-) (That said, it worked on me.)
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by BugBrother 12y ago
I have no problem with what you write here, but must have missed something? Or are you mixing up comment threads? To me it seems that only you talk about libertarians, while jasonisalive talked about generic economic research. (Wikipedia co
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by BugBrother 12y ago
If you know of a non-free market economy that works as well in a complex and dynamic society with many millions of people (e.g. communism seems to be ok up to about a village), we are all ears? As far as I know, there are no successes. Most
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Without being an economist, I can tell you that the first few general books in most any education are simplified. I discussed economic models years ago with people writing code for them, it was interesting. Subjects based on complex data se
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by BugBrother 12y ago
Ok for the general area (Alaska, north of Scandinavia, etc) for stuff that needs chilling and stable geology/politics. But don't put anything close to the seed bank, which a crazy with a nuke (IS, Putin, Iranian ayatollahs, etc) m

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