Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
Put it this way then: In America, there is a widespread perception that Taxi companies have shit service, and that Taxi drivers are frequently untrustworthy or discriminatory. Whether or not the perception is accurate, it is definitely
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by Crito 12y ago
People on HN are "murdering" taxi companies by complaining about them? If something can be "murdered" by mere criticism, then it deserves to be "murdered".
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by Crito 12y ago
I like the word "boffin". It seems like it is used to denigrate others less frequently than similar words (including "engineer" itself, which in some circles and situations is implicitly understood to be an insult).
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by Crito 12y ago
Is it really so hard to believe that a man who is abrasive has no problem dealing with other people who are abrasive? There do exist different cultural attitudes and standards for abrasiveness, tact, manners, and respect. The standards
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by Crito 12y ago
CC fraud in America, contrary to popular European belief, is not a problem for American consumers. American consumers are not liable for fraudulent charges made with their card; resolving them is a simple matter of telling your CC company
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by Crito 12y ago
> Late compared to what? I have developed a sort of notion about the inevitability of invention which I believe can be generalized to the discovery of other concepts or the development of abstract ideas. It works basically like this: N
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by Crito 12y ago
Feel free to substitute "scientific idea" with "idea within the scientific community" . Challenges to any strictly "scientific idea" as you are thinking of them are not going to come in this form of article.
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by Crito 12y ago
Caffeine is probably a good example of how weed should be handled. Caffeine is actually way more dangerous (OD'ing on it is something that is actually reasonably possible). If you want precision doses of caffeine, you can certainly
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by Crito 12y ago
Wiki has humans and chimpanzees/bonobos in different subtribes, so humans wouldn't be under "Chimpanzees ->": Tribe Hominini Subtribe Panina Genus Pan Chimpanzee (common chimpanzee), Pan troglodytes
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by Crito 12y ago
Let me guess, you'd be opposing a cure to ebola even if it didn't involve animal testing because "Why do you think that it is okay to kill poor hapless ebola?" > "Why do you see this as different/worse th
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by Crito 12y ago
"Is pot an effective painkiller if you need to really think while getting relief?" A low-THC strong indica strain leaves you rather clear-headed (I do not personally find them to be effective for pain relief, but others claim
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by Crito 12y ago
It's easy, but it is not as easy as it should be. They should be able to send me forms pre-filled for all of my sources of income (In my case, and in most cases, they already know all of that information. Some may still need to do
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by Crito 12y ago
The $10mm/year is the meager carrot. There is an implied stick, which comes in the form of much stronger support for opposing candidates come the next election cycle. $10 million is nothing; any lobbying group worth a shit can cough u
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by Crito 12y ago
I'm a big fan of recreational weed (ideally sativa strains), but my experience with indica strains for pain relieve is not good. I find that rather than making me forget about chronic pain that I currently experience (neck cramps, sor
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by Crito 12y ago
Pirates of Silicon Valley featured a slight variation on this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQEbLx6AEY
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by Crito 12y ago
Even if the established/widely accepted standards of ethics made human testing in lieu of any animal testing the clear ethical choice, it still would not be practical. Think about it, how would you work on potential cures of ebola in t
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by Crito 12y ago
The argument for animal testing would be that several drugs have had catastrophic effects on animals, and would have had those same catastrophic effects on humans had we not tested first on animals. Not all drugs effective for humans will
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by Crito 12y ago
http://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/on-the-science... (related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189528 ) The second paragraph does a good job of summing up ethica
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by Crito 12y ago
Kind of reminds me of a lot of ekranoplan designs.
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by Crito 12y ago
Maybe California should re-evaluate their relationship with agriculture. "But California grows so much of our nation's food! What would we eat without them!" you exclaim. Well, I actually agree with you. For the sake of
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by Crito 12y ago
Don't be obtuse. "Hyperlapse" is an established and accepted industry term. "Yosemite" is not. This is more comparable to if Apple made an application called "Camera" and then Google did the same.
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by Crito 12y ago
> I've never seen one of my friends or acquaintances refuse alcohol at a bar or restaurant, while others were drinking. I've never seen somebody refuse the optional free pickle spear at the sandwich line at work.
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by Crito 12y ago
The first I agree with, but I'm not sure what you mean by "Sneaking in Prime". "Fucked up search" is almost certainly not deliberate. I suspect it costs them a good deal of sales when people cannot find what they w
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by Crito 12y ago
The reason they closed down your "cable TV service" was largely because it was your "cable TV service". Compared to twitch that website must have been an absolute nightmare to run. You may as well complain "I&#x
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by Crito 12y ago
Really the only thing that Amazon Video doesn't seem to support is non-Amazon builds of Android....
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by Crito 12y ago
Would ITAR play nicely with a launch facility in Mexico? Would they need some sort of loophole or clever organization to ensure that it wasn't "exporting" the rocket tech?
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by Crito 12y ago
Their recent acquisition of HBO content has me using their streaming service pretty regularly now, but I'm almost done with The Wire now so I'll probably be using it less in the near future. In the past, I have purchased currently
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by Crito 12y ago
That has already been done. It's called ITAR: http://fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/itar/p121.htm#C-IV
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by Crito 12y ago
A lot. Going with the Saturn V, since information about it is widely available: 4 hold-down clamps that put out 350 metric tons each. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-4204/ch13-4.html Best tape I can fin
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by Crito 12y ago
Even when cryogenic (and hydrogen needs to be deeply cryogenic to remain liquid. 20K compared to liquid nitrogen's 77K) it is not particularly dense. It barely makes sense to use it in rockets since it has such poor density, caus

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