Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
An individual does not evolve, it either reproduces or not. Individuals have never been the "biological unit" of evolution; evolution is a process of populations by definition. Edit: To make it a little more clear what this means, treating
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by Cushman 14y ago
This is an interesting article, but there's something about it that bothers me I'm trying to put my finger on. I think I'm a little wary of using this sort of analytic argument to validate a theory like this ex post facto while ignoring a
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by Cushman 14y ago
Oh, I don't doubt he's earned the bad reputation-- just goes to highlight the degree to which they bungled the arrest and prosecution.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm a pretty savvy internet user, and I'll confess to having used Mega for the odd video when nothing else was working, but I've never heard much about Kim before this case. Now he's a folk hero. Considering the weakness of Mega's position,
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by Cushman 14y ago
I feel like you didn't really read my post, since I was making a case that the "effect of removal from the environment" will fade that you didn't address... That aside, I think you're making a good point. Part of the promise of the inform
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by Cushman 14y ago
Some people who have interacted with Glass testers feel that sometimes people seem to temporarily drop out of a conversation to process something they see on the display. How does Glass avoid being something that removes us from our physic
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by Cushman 14y ago
Looks like Mozilla clears placeholders on focus, while Chrome and Safari clear on the first input. In Internet Explorer they don't show up at all...
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by Cushman 14y ago
Completely devoid of politics: A military is based on force; open source is based on consent. That is a fundamental philosophical gap.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The last section nails it in a nutshell: ...imagine we lived in a world where we used the letter h to represent “one half” and had no separate notation for 2h. We would then observe that h is ubiquitous in mathematics. In fact, 2h is the m
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm realizing now I misread the OP, and we are talking about a verbal contract-- for which I'll agree different rules apply. (Not legally, but practically.) My question is more about whether there's any practical distinction between an info
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by Cushman 14y ago
But it's not a verbal contract if it's over email, right? It's right there in writing, we both have copies of it, it can (theoretically) be verified by a third party. If I go to small claims with a copy of an email, what can they say that t
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by Cushman 14y ago
How much does it really matter in these situations whether or not you have a "signed contract"? My understanding is that any agreement to do work for compensation is a contract, and these days even a "signed" contract is likely to just be
853.
by Cushman 14y ago
My current hypothesis is that it's an individual moderator (perhaps showing off) running a script without official sanction, hence the silence from the admins. The way the post on the subject[0] was buried without official comment after ove
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by Cushman 14y ago
Who thought "It's Playtime" was a better title for this than "Light Table Playground released"? Why does this keep happening to Light Table posts? Edit: Now "It's playtime - Light Table Playground released", after ibdknox altered the blog t
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by Cushman 14y ago
Because it's a petition, not an online poll. Because petitioner signatures are given to the petitionee, and should represent real people, not faceless internet folk. If you're not willing to publicly support the cause, you clearly should no
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by Cushman 14y ago
The story is just as sad on the other side of the desk. Funding has been cut so far the hospitals have a few percent of the beds they need, and not enough staff to treat even those. Non-emergency outpatient services are even worse. Most of
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by Cushman 14y ago
Based on this and the biannual stories of how many great teams there wasn't room for, I wonder: how long until the YC partners aren't advisors so much as the deans and department heads of YC University? I realize that's a hugely loaded ques
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by Cushman 14y ago
Conversely, I see zero value in this kind of reactionarily pessimistic you're-average-at-everything-and-even-if-you're-good-you'll-probably-fail-anyway stuff that always turns up on any encouraging article. You get zero points for being abl
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by Cushman 14y ago
Thanks for asking: We are not. Even in the United States, undiagnosed and untreated illness, especially mental illness, is a far more prevalent and far costlier problem than the inverse. Data shows this conclusively. Anecdotal experience, w
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by Cushman 14y ago
Isn't it more like fighting consumerism with replicators? It doesn't solve the root issue of people having desires based on material things, and it's not necessarily going to make them happier, but at least it solves the immediate symptom o
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by Cushman 14y ago
A lot of people really hate the present tense, I think.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The Golden Compass screwed itself. Trying to appease the protest, they softened the message, thus losing fans of the book in favor of conservatives who were never going to see it anyway.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I wasn't trying to say it's a "smart book" per se; it's certainly an exercise in indulgent cyberpunk fan service, for better and for worse. Only that calling it a "dumb action movie" implies that the reader is not particularly aware of the
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by Cushman 14y ago
The passage you're talking about is specifically about the fact that Hiro feels a sense of relief from the fact that he will never be more badass than Raven. That's a very particular angle on the situation, and you can read it at least pa
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by Cushman 14y ago
Of course. One of the themes in the book is the adolescent fantasies of male badassitude which follow them well into adulthood, with a diminishing but ever-present sense of possibility. Not to sound too pretentious, because it definitely pr
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by Cushman 14y ago
Your desktop computer was called a microcomputer in the era when normal computers filled rooms. Reason's a depleted uranium gatling gun which is man-portable... that's small. Hiro is counterattacked by guns of a similar type which are way
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by Cushman 14y ago
> The coolest moment in the entire book involves somebody saying "I'm sure they'll listen to reason" and then pulling out an enormous gun labelled "REASON" It's actually quite a small gun, labeled "Ultima Ratio Regum", and the original
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by Cushman 14y ago
"We're sorry about the current downtime. We know some of you are frustrated, so we thought we'd take a moment to explain why this happened. "Running a web server is very expensive. After we've built the site, if we want to keep it running,
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by Cushman 14y ago
It does seem like even a very consistent shooter would be too different between slow, aimed shots and rapid firing. Perhaps one would be able to record a great number of pulling patterns in different stress levels, and still have the lockou
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by Cushman 14y ago
> UTC is basically TAI plus leap seconds This part seems a little muddy. UTC isn't a number of seconds since an epoch, it's a number of hours since midnight, a number of minutes since the beginning of that hour, and a number of seconds

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