Crito

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by Crito 11y ago
I disagree, I think people use it to emphasize the possibility that it was accidental. Without that phrase, such assertions tend to be interpreted with implicit "deliberately". > neutral speech Is not ideal or practical in the
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Easier to already have a gun from when they were allowed, then to acquire a gun after they were banned. Of course the later would never be hard in America, considering just how many guns there are that would not get swept up... But the fir
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> "Wouldn't the first act of an evil government be to outlaw civilian armaments and confiscate these guns?" And now you know why gun registry laws regularly get torpedoed. Hard to round up all the guns if you don't
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Something that kills me today is many modern games still have worse facial animations than Half-Life 2.
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You might as well claim that you think that dogshit makes for a fine breakfast. It doesn't warrant a rebuttal.
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If I didn't think it would negatively impact the rest of the industry, I'd pay to watch that.
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True of Federal grand juries. Less so of state grand juries.
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Just tacking rehabilitation onto our existing system yields a hybridization of rehabilitation and punishment, where people are release either when they are rehabilitated, or when we have determined that they are punished enough. Whichever
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by Crito 11y ago
Incapacitation is an essential part of rehabilitation, unless you believe that every criminal can be fixed with a simple out-patient procedure. While rehabilitation is in progress but not yet complete , incapacitation is essential. As I
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by Crito 11y ago
The non-existence of supernatural free will is largely irrelevant; despite it not existing it is abundantly clear that we can modify expected behavior by offering rewards or punishments. Supernatural free will is not necessary in the sligh
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by Crito 11y ago
The argument is (and again, it is not mine) that it would have been better to kill everyone currently in the camp, if it meant that the camp was taken out of commission for the future. The holocaust survivor I first heard this from was tal
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by Crito 11y ago
Flying low and fast means that the heavy AA can't hit you, but it leaves you vulnerable to light AA. If you're low and fast enough, then they won't have much warning and your angular velocity will be pretty high, making you
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by Crito 11y ago
Bridges have been known to take quite a beating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanh_H%C3%B3a_Bridge#Operation... That's a bit of an exceptional case, but still, it isn't trivial.
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by Crito 11y ago
You have your bombing run at an angle to the rails, not parallel or perpendicular. Like the RAF did with Operation Black Buck in the Falklands. Anyway, what I've usually heard is that they should have bombed the camps themselves, not
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Not every German in the Luftwaffe was a member of the NSDAP (aka, "a Nazi").
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> was overblown and now is Was overblown? Now is? So, it's not a lie. It's just not an accurate picture of the current state of affairs on that site. Or is your position that it never happened in the first place?
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Words of a late 19th century poet. The way people quote it, you'd think it was straight out of the Constitution or Declaration of Independence or something. The fact that the poem was written after the Chinese Exclusion Act was writ
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by Crito 11y ago
I'd argue that LessWrong is even closer. They even have a devil, who's name must never be mentioned!
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> "The human perception system sees a checkerboard with a cylinder, while a basic SSR measurement shows squares A and B read the same. “Illusion” implies that our system is fooled, but as far as useful information goes, the checker
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by Crito 11y ago
I have not played the game, but found the manual on google: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/238010/manuals/... The section on the audio settings says: "Adjust the game’s music, dialogs
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> "MAME's source code has long been freely available, but it's never technically been open source. Instead it's been available under a modified BSID license that prohibits, among other things, commercial use of the c
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by Crito 11y ago
"Modbombing"? Your comments have been voted down by regular users of HN. You've been here long enough to know how this works.
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by Crito 11y ago
I am sure that in the 21 minutes that elapsed between this comment and the one left by you above it, you could have just hit the page with curl. Stop making embarrassing excuses and just read the article.
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What other business models for written articles are driven off these sort of fine-grain metrics?
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Bad for society. Accurate metrics seem to drive down the quality of publications. Websites with near-omniscient metrics often find that the best way to drive traffic is to deliberately produce shit-tier articles that drive clicks through c
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That's quite the false dichotomy. Why would the opposite of "bumbling moron father" be "action hero" , rather than "competent father" ? The John McClanes of this world, if in fact they exist at all, a
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They are often at odds, when the pressure to discuss your feelings is external. Many times in my life people around me have pressured me to express how I feel about some recent event. I often resist this for a number of reasons. I might c
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I thought they already had these specifically for avalanches, minus the drone. Some sort of tracking beacon that you can carry around, that will lead them to your body.
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There actually are two sides of this story. First off, the lawsuit was justified, but not because of the temperature of the coffee. The coffee was being served at industry standard temperatures (defined in terms of what _other_ comp
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> "Crime is all about risk management. Sloppy purchases could leave a trail, yes, but video evidence can also leave a trail. One trail is easier to cover than the other: lots of people buy paint and guns, not many rob trucks."

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