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by Crito 11y ago
Reddit is extremely unpopular here; mentioning it is a good way to start a flamewar. Can't say I've seen many flamewars about HN on reddit though.
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by Crito 11y ago
To me, "divide A into B" sounds like a some sort of anachronism that you might find in a 17th century one-room schoolhouse, while "divide B by A" sounds perfectly natural. I went to school on the US East Coast, so yo
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by Crito 11y ago
Is a slave/conquest/plunder economy any less an economy? We shouldn't confuse "strong economy" with "moral economy" .
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by Crito 11y ago
That seems very short-sighted. With (what appeared at the time as) a looming epidemic, what made them so confident that conditions at the sanatorium would be maintained in the future?
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by Crito 11y ago
The actual paper by Nick Brown, Alan Sokal, and Harris Friedman (longer, but pretty easy reading): http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7006 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio
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Nick Brown Smelled Bull (2013)(narrative.ly)
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by Crito 11y ago
Are we supposing religious monkeys now? It wouldn't surprise me if earlier hominids were religious as well, but to call any other possibility "quite ridiculous" is really overstepping.
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by Crito 11y ago
Forget the English, marriage has been along longer than even the Anglo-Saxons in general.
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by Crito 11y ago
I wonder what the reenactment community thinks of all of this.
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by Crito 11y ago
The industry isn't going to just hand Google a monopoly. Of course they are going to develop their own as well. Even if Google's software was the absolute bees knees, what if Google deprioritized it? Left the industry? Made unre
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by Crito 11y ago
When you come into direct contact with something that cold, it causes a sensation that feels very nearly identical to being burned.
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by Crito 11y ago
Is it really reasonable to expect any automotive manufacturer who wants to remain relevant to not start working on self-driving cars? You can't seriously expect this to be "just a google thing".
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by Crito 11y ago
By no means was I trying to provide a comprehensive list of reasons that people make fun of libertarians. That would take far too long.
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by Crito 11y ago
Maybe the reason everything runs so well for you at 1080p these days is because the creame of the crop in PC gaming now is way higher? GTA V on PC will do 4k, but you'll need a beefier computer.
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by Crito 11y ago
Google has a history of acknowledging the existence of consumers on Linux, and has published Linux binaries for various closed source products in the past. I am writing this comment to you at this moment using one such piece of software. D
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by Crito 11y ago
My understanding is that they absolutely will not mention it by name, or even elude to it, but will instead ask questions which would cover it. For instance something like, "Are you willing to carry out the law as it is written?"
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by Crito 11y ago
Okay, since you've only responded with a pathetic ethical objection to a very narrow part of my post, I take it that you concede that his post was full of absolute horseshit.
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by Crito 11y ago
> "The reason why libertarians get made fun of is because they just keep shouting the same thing over and over, even after an answer in the affirmative has been given ("Am I being detained?" "Yes" "Am I bei
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by Crito 11y ago
Surely it only results in a mistrial if you don't get the rest of the jury to go along with you? Or are there cases where the whole jury comes back with "not guilty", and a mistrial is declared because they didn't say &q
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by Crito 11y ago
I don't know if this is actually what happens, but I think in theory it could work like this: 1) They ask you during selection, while under oath, questions which amount do "are you aware of jury nullification, and/or, are yo
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by Crito 11y ago
Games with a critical mass of followers will receive better support from open source communities than they ever will from companies. Try to get Quake 3 support today. Then try to get support for ioquake3. Alternatively, try to get suppor
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by Crito 11y ago
> "Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails." Now I'm no expert, but I wager it was used for anything that needed picked or poked, particularly dirt under fingernails. Just
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by Crito 11y ago
None of that makes the study good science.
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by Crito 11y ago
What do you mean by fake account? People not using their real name on twitter? Or spam bot accounts and stuff? I fear they might be tempted to attack the later by attacking the former.
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by Crito 11y ago
Has it really come to vilifying a haircut ? The haircut is not to blame for anything here, it is all the people who may happen to wear it. Short hair is pragmatic, but more importantly, it is a personal preference. Nobody should be criti
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by Crito 11y ago
It is a failing of a vote-based ranking system that a comment with nothing but a complaint about the HN title remains at the top of the discussion, after the title has been corrected ( http://i.imgur.com/fItX7pd.png ). Perh
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by Crito 11y ago
> "That's what I understand if I see "Thanks" instead of "Many thanks!"" That probably says more about you, or the particular dialect of your region, than him. "Many thanks" is not the pr
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by Crito 11y ago
Put it this way, I find that what other people think about me has more impact on my life than what sort of cloth is hanging from my body. I think that anyone who actually stops to consider this, actually weighs how their dress effects how t
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by Crito 11y ago
> "You've been down-voted, probably because this assertion seems somewhere between weird and offensive to most people here, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you believe it." I have come to believe it because I ha
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by Crito 11y ago
That case was an aberration. That's why it became such big news. If that were the norm, it would not have become national news. This said, helicopter parents are real. I've ridden on amtrak many dozens of times, but never saw a

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