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by Dove 15y ago
It's a question of magnitude. A phone is a necessity. A TracFone, where you can make a $10 phone and $20 of minutes last three months if you're careful, is reasonable if you think a mobile phone is a necessity. This person apparently had
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by Dove 15y ago
My major reactions while playing the game tended to follow a theme: Game: Mobile phone bill's due. Me: I have a mobile phone?? Game: Landlord wants pet rent for the dog. Me: I have a dog?? Game: Car payment's due.
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by Dove 15y ago
Take-home lesson: To be successful, (1) Practice. (2) Network.
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by Dove 15y ago
Of course. That's why it makes sense to do things on a small scale before doing them on a large scale, and to act slowly. If there are regions that need mosquitoes or effects that manifest over decades, we can correct mistakes -- or at lea
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by Dove 15y ago
But every time there is a large scale intervention like this . . . We could try scaling slower. Say, eradicating mosquitos one 100 square mile block at a time, over the course of a century.
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by Dove 15y ago
Good on you for reading and trying to respond! Most folks would not take the time, but I see from your notes that you did. For the sake of keeping a reasonable thread of conversation, I'll let the topic as a whole rest. I trust you'll be
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by Dove 15y ago
Well said. I am aware that much of the venom projected at Christians by atheists is a result of the worldview, not the cause. By some accounts, our willful ignorance is endangering civilization. I'd be mad, too. And I think some of it is
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by Dove 15y ago
> Lastly, I didn't want to be a huge bother to anyone. I'm really not trained in any of this so do take my words as someone who is just that. If I say anything sophomoric or otherwise annoying, I'm sorry. If you point it out I will try
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by Dove 15y ago
> You know who would interpret it as evidence for God's existence? People who already believe in him. And actually, that's probably not even true. If what you described literally happened, I wouldn't entertain for a minute that it wa
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by Dove 15y ago
That's just off the top of my head; apologetics is a big field. Of course, all of these and more warrant a lot of study and consideration, and if you go somewhere like infidels.org, you will find answers for all of them (of varying quality)
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by Dove 15y ago
> There is no shortage of evidence that he is real and acts in history. I think it's clear from your response that you're not familiar with the broad apologetics topics I'm referring to. Tell you what, let me expand a bit, so you can s
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by Dove 15y ago
> > I know what the voice of God sounds like. > And you are certain that it isn't from another agent like the devil? Yeah, pretty sure. Experience. When your mother talks to you, are you sure it's her? > I kind of wonder h
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by Dove 15y ago
> Proof that God exists: everyone in the world wakes up with a plate of cheesecake next to them and a note saying "I'm sorry for all the stuff that's messed up. I'm trying my best. -Yahweh" Done. Just an example. You think that would wo
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by Dove 15y ago
(Note--To avoid confusion about sock puppetry, I am Lotharbot's wife; we've been discussing your ongoing conversation a bit, and I wanted to say some things, too.) > > God continues to act in this world by truthfully instructing His
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by Dove 15y ago
You know, bible.org has a wonderful online theology course. I often recommend it to people as a primer on how theologians function in an academic context. It's not hostile, it's not an argument or apologetic. Just televised classroom dis
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by Dove 15y ago
Also at http://planetsysadmin.com/ Admittedly not as pretty.
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by Dove 15y ago
Unicorns also persist remarkably.
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by Dove 15y ago
Fantastic insight that people tend to say "no" when offered a chance to pursue their dreams. But I disagree about the reason. I don't think it's that they don't want to be different; having an interesting dream is already being a bit di
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by Dove 15y ago
Yeah, I'm curious about that. When article said, "He lists benefits of Scala development for Android as speed , easier programming, . . . ." (emphasis mine), that turned my head a bit. I would think the best Scala could hope for would be
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by Dove 15y ago
It could be, "When Java idioms wear you out". Idioms, of course, vary by language, and I think Java's tend toward the excessively architected. Architecture is a fine thing at scale, but Java doesn't seem to understand that you don't want s
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by Dove 15y ago
The cool thing about reason is that it uses the experience of the whole community, rather than just your own.
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by Dove 15y ago
I'm a mathematician as well As am I, by training if not by profession. As is lotharbot. You're in a thread full of mathematicians. :) Which is what I would expect on this site, actually. I'm always timid making technical claims here un
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by Dove 15y ago
What is "indeterminate form"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form You see, 0^0 = 1, and it's obvious to a mathematician . . . we define 0^0 = 1, to be consistent with exponentiation rules Well, you're going to be inconsist
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by Dove 15y ago
I disagree. The client is much more interested in what you get done in a day than how much time you spend doing it.
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by Dove 15y ago
A logarithmic graph is the right way to graph money? Why is that?
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by Dove 15y ago
You mean the statistics demonstration? I'm sure I've seen it in several places. I know of two tricks for detecting the students. The first is to look for six or seven heads or tails in a row. Over a hundred tosses, a coin will probably d
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by Dove 15y ago
Knowledge of the pattern has nothing to do with it. That 2048^4 figure is what I mean when I say such a password is strong, and such a figure presumes the attacker knows what system I am using. Recall that since the passphrase is randoml
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by Dove 15y ago
Yeah, a lot of my passwords look like "securesecretpassphraseA1!" There's the secure piece, and there's the obeisance to the stupid website piece.
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by Dove 15y ago
How many failed 0x202Egp registrations do you suppose there have been in the last hour?
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by Dove 15y ago
I find the discussion surrounding the XKCD strip alarming for the superstition it reveals about password generation. The particular theme I am alarmed by is that people seem to think that if a password looks alien, or was difficult for

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