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by Dove 15y ago
Ah, but we also have threads with neither, or threads where the jokes have simply plonked to the bottom of the page with no discussion.
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by Dove 15y ago
what will it mean to the world if religion was "proven" to be man-made A successful and complete theory of the origin of life wouldn't do that . Not every religion claims seriously that God directly created life. To my knowledge, it's
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by Dove 15y ago
To be strict, a completely successful theory of the origin of life would mean that God was not necessary to explain that . He could still be necessary to explain other things.
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by Dove 15y ago
I don't know about that. I don't know what the legal threshold for such a thing would be, but it doesn't seem arbitrary to me. I mean, scrolls are a major element in fantasy games, just like swords and wands and potions. If you could clai
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by Dove 15y ago
Data > anecdote, but in my book anecdote > bald assertion.
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by Dove 15y ago
However, laid off militants are likely to apply for unemployment benefits + whatever other entitlement programs they have. Perhaps initially. The military population in general is disciplined, educated (or even technically inclined), pro
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by Dove 15y ago
If that is true -- people universally don't save what they need to -- than the proposed social security program of taxing everyone to give to the poor will be identical to what we have now. It isn't entirely true, though. If you look at an
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by Dove 15y ago
That's kind of what I mean. The fact that null-terminated strings can get arbitrarily long doesn't seem like a big advantage. I mean, if you're working with really long strings, you probably want to use something more sophisticated than a
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by Dove 15y ago
Right, so you'd need a BigString analogue to BigInt for that case. Which wouldn't be that bad, really. I mean, a 64k string is plenty for your everyday string needs. And in cases where you're handling really long strings, you'd probab
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by Dove 15y ago
The equality of humanity is not an empirical judgement. It is a value judgement. It rests, not on scientific grounds, but on ideological grounds.
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by Dove 15y ago
Well, I certainly don't agree with your description of what software development entails. You need a text editor, but you also need to be familiar with a whole ecosystem of tools, libraries, platforms, procedures, and general technical kno
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by Dove 15y ago
Actually, I didn't mean using the OSS world as a model for the original research, but for the gatekeeping aspect. That is to say, conducting all work in a public and open manner, and letting the community of interest sort out the quality
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by Dove 15y ago
I like the old testament standard: (Deut 19:16-19) If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime, the judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, then do
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by Dove 15y ago
I find it hard to believe the current system -- a secret scientific sanity check by a couple of people -- is the best we can do as far as gatekeeping in this day and age. I would much rather see original research managed OSS style -- publis
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by Dove 15y ago
Thank you for making an infographic out of useful information in a statistically adept way. The infographic that focuses on communicating data accurately is a rare treat. I particularly found the valuation and revenue comparison interesti
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by Dove 15y ago
Well, anyone GitHub's pricing model has driven over to Assembla isn't sharing.
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by Dove 15y ago
I just made the same tradeoff yesterday. I'd love to use Github and all, Github's cool. But I can't justify paying that much for private repositories. Even with all of the annoying junk on the site, Assembla's free plan won hands down.
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by Dove 15y ago
Ask the team which they'd prefer.
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by Dove 15y ago
I can understand that, though I certainly disagree. I can respect a principle of proportionality -- I don't think it makes sense to risk a life life to stop a petty theft. But I absolutely cannot agree with the line of thinking that says b
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by Dove 15y ago
I don't know about that. There's still the rest of society to consider. Which is to say, there's still his personal professional integrity. I guess it depends on the circumstance. If the school knowingly encourages cheating for profit, I
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by Dove 15y ago
Firstly, squatting is a problem that ICANN itself created (or at least contributed to creation of) through their broken reseller policies. Would you mind elaborating on that? I'm curious what you think they should have done.
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by Dove 15y ago
I disagree. The incidentiality of the teaching doesn't enter into it. As long as he is giving grades, he has a responsibility to make a reasonable effort to detect and deter cheating. (I do think the strategy he described -- spending two
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by Dove 15y ago
Students respond to incentives. If I give them opportunities to cheat and remain undetected, they will cheat. I do the same as a human. If I were getting a 50% increase in my salary for detecting cheating so aggressively, next year I would
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by Dove 15y ago
FYI professionals are humans first and professionals second. If think that professionals can easily turn off how they are feeling and always act properly, then I conclude that you have little understanding of humans and little experience o
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by Dove 15y ago
all the students had received your email demanding those who plagiarized to come in to talk to you, naturally everyone, even those who didn’t cheat, felt very uneasy and worried This exact scenario happened in a class I attended some yea
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by Dove 15y ago
If the employer is not interested in rewarding him (or even penalizing him) for doing something that not only is stressful but that takes tons of time away from his useful work, why should he? Because it is the right and honorable thing t
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by Dove 15y ago
No, he doesn't argue that he's going to effectively combat the problem. He lists a few categories of assignments in which he thinks the incentive to cheat will be reduced, only one of which actually makes it harder. And he says he doesn't
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by Dove 15y ago
I am completely aghast. This professor is considering only what path will avoid the most hassle and difficulty for himself. Any duty he might owe honest students, fellow faculty, or even society at large doesn't seem to figure into it. He
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by Dove 15y ago
A math majors can just copy the homework. 90% of it is mechanical, and 10% requires a "twist". That may be true in the lower level courses, but around 400 level, the work switches over entirely from calculations to proofs. Proofs are as
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by Dove 15y ago
It almost certainly is. When you ask a genetic algorithm to design a lego bridge, you get something that looks like this: http://www.thinkartificial.org/artificial-intelligence/evolv... If our DNA was designed by the same process, it almo

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