Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
So many Nobel winners have said or endorsed crazy shit, that some people have even created a name specifically for the phenomenon: "The Nobel Disease" : http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
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by Crito 12y ago
> "As always, if you encounter problems building or using Emacs, please send a report to address@hidden with full details" What's up with "address@hidden"?
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by Crito 12y ago
No, I am suggesting that people who are not payed to search through archives will frequently lack the time to search through archives. Digging through newspaper articles at your local library to find information on the dozen politicians on
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by Crito 12y ago
What you are suggesting would further entrench and enrich the Fourth Estate. Is that your intent?
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The case the phrase is from was about placing limitations on blatantly political speech. It was a truly reprehensible decision. "A unanimous Supreme Court, in a famous opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., concluded that d
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by Crito 12y ago
Imperialism implies some sort of actual meddling. However, as previously established, nothing said on HN is going to change the EU. Without the possibility of any sort of meddling or interference, then there can be no Imperialism. Interes
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by Crito 12y ago
A few years ago in Pennsylvania, I struck and killed a deer with my car (nearly totaling my car in the process.) Another man driving down the road stopped to ask if I needed any help. After I assured him that I was okay, he asked me what
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by Crito 12y ago
There doesn't have to be a problem with that explanation if you consider the possibility that what this study observed was not necessarily always the case. Perhaps generation 1 of criminals committed crimes out of perceived necessity,
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by Crito 12y ago
Oil wars are old hat. They were useful for bootstrapping the system, but now that that is done we don't need them anymore. Oil wars are not preferred because they are fairly transparent and therefore give bad approval ratings for pol
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by Crito 12y ago
> "neutrons make other things radioactive." Source for this claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_activation Neutrons are radiation, but not electromagnetic radiation. I'm guessing that nitpi
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Firing when out of battery, i.e. before the slide has locked home and the brass is sufficiently supported (which is iffy to begin with, especially with their .40 S&W models at least some time ago), is another HUGE no no in m
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by Crito 12y ago
It's a nice idea, but absolutely impossible to implement in the US for political and practical reasons. We may as well discuss my plan to tear up all railways and replace them with canals deep enough for container ships. (Think abou
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by Crito 12y ago
Many very popular types of guns do not have "safeties" in the sense that you are likely thinking. They do not have a switch that can be toggled between "safe" and "fire". Glocks are one prominent example (the
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by Crito 12y ago
I'd say that even in NYC, you're probably around (illegal, in that case) concealed weapons more often than you would suspect. In most of the country, you will frequently be around many (legally) concealed weapons though. The tric
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by Crito 12y ago
I would put a very large amount of money on any randomly chosen civilian CCW holder outshooting any randomly chosen NYPD cop. This is partially the fault of the cop, CCW holders tend to spend more time at the range than cops, but to a certa
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by Crito 12y ago
> I can't imagine attending an event where people could carry concealed weapon Have you ever been to America? If so, you have almost certainly already attended countless events where somebody in the audience had a gun. The stagger
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by Crito 12y ago
Regardless, in this particular case it seems rather apparent that Duncan lied. If she was bleeding from the mouth and he was aware of it, in Liberia during an Ebola outbreak, then there at the very least he should have answered that &qu
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> "It's fairly widely reported that he did not know that the woman he helped had ebola. Apparently her family had been in denial, and told people she was experiencing complications from the pregnancy." She apparently die
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> "Reading/writing to/from files is a FAR lower bar than linking with the CRL."* If I want to write a unix utility in C, or Java, or C#, or Lua, or Racket, or postscript, or brainfuck..., I can . Not just in an ac
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This is exactly right. The proposal is to change elisp implementations. elisp the language won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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by Crito 12y ago
Reading/writing to/from files is a FAR lower bar than linking with the CRL. It's a lower bar than even using JSON over pipes; most languages will have good JSON libraries but none of them are as trivial as reading/wri
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by Crito 12y ago
I can write *nix command-line utilities with ease in any language that I please. Can the same be said for powershell utilities? My understanding is that you are pretty much restricted to using CLR languages. If we are accepting that sort
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Hmm, might be a decent reason to train your cat how to use a toilet.
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Yes. For instance, Vim necessarily knows how large the terminal it is in is. Vim also supports mouse input, allowing you to click around in different windows and whatnot.
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by Crito 12y ago
Sounds like he Ship of Theseus 'd it.
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Both sound natural to my American ears.
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Here is a weird quirky thing that I have been noticing a lot recently: People taking screenshots that have a tooltip window visible. Is this accidental? An attempt to make the screenshot seem more spontaneous? Did Windows or OSX recently
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I really like this experimental racket language: http://docs.racket-lang.org/unstable/2d.html I think that done correctly, this sort of concept has a lot of potential. Editor support is pretty necessary though, since
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A common argument is that they think intelligent people will become bored with the job and eventually leave it. It is certainly possible to be "overqualified" for many sorts of jobs for exactly this reason, but the police are the
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When a drunk driver crashes into somebody, we do not care that they had no ill intent. Why should it matter here? Sufficiently advanced incompetence might as well be malice.

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