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by FD3SA 12y ago
White, black or otherwise, you are quite susceptible to the tyranny of the police state [1]. The young man in that link was murdered in cold blood because he pissed off a cop. It was premeditated. The cop is still working actively on the fo
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A very longwinded story which could have been condensed to the following: A computer aided prescription system is not a super-intelligent AI doctor. Like any other software, it will have bugs and errors. I would expect a physician who uses
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by FD3SA 12y ago
My experience matches yours precisely. Certain viewpoints here are ruthlessly censored, to the point of insanity. The justification is always "that is so wrong as to be offensive", which of course is absurd to a community that pur
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> And I tend to down vote when I see commentary like this, because regardless of what else you have to say, this type of commentary is what hurts conversation. What absurd nonsense. If we are having a rational discussion we only care
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Doctors, lawyers, nurses, and the majority of other professions have very powerful guilds which ban the practice of their trade without a specific license only obtainable within the country of practice. You don't see local hospitals po
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This reads like a self parody. "We're making the world a better place...[1]". The modern capitalist society is not designed to "make the world a better place". It's designed to justify the status seeking behavi
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> Ford decided to drive from England to Munich and back to see how many miles he could squeeze out of a single tank. To extend the drive, Ford kept the windows up and the air conditioning turned off, but otherwise drove about 65-70 mph o
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A little late for that. Tesla`s Model 3 is coming in 2017, and as great as diesels are, it won`t hold a candle to the efficiency of a pure electric drivetrain. Tesla`s supercharger network will be vast by then, so range won`t be a problem e
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by FD3SA 12y ago
I completely agree, and if you look at my past posts, I am quite cynical with most modern companies precisely because I understand that human primal impulses, such as the insatiable drive for status and wealth accumulation, tend to complete
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by FD3SA 12y ago
"It's about a 30% increase in performance, maybe a little more. What it does is it allows us to land the first stage for GTO missions on the drone ship." I am constantly blown away by SpaceX. This is an absurd level of improv
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A complete ad hominem. You did not address his point at all, which was quite valid. Have a read over this [1], one of countless studies which supports the original commenter's assertion that wealth and status accumulation tend to the b
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by FD3SA 12y ago
You are hopelessly mired by incorrect facts and perceived motivations. Many posts above have alluded to this fact, but I'll repeat it since it may help you in the long run. Neither of the two American wars being waged in Afghanistan an
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Indeed, I didn't comment on multi or dual classing because that just changes everything. I haven't played any of the 3rd/4th/5th edition games, so I am unfamiliar with those rule sets. But I wouldn't be surprised if
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Low level wizards are incredibly weak, and are basically free kills for anything, fighter or otherwise. It's only if they survive into high levels that they become demigods. Most of the spells I mentioned aren't available till the
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Definitely. And it has to do with the MMOfication of everything. I'm playing Baldur's Gate 2, and the things you can do as a player in that game are just absurd. You can stop time. You can be permanently invisible and kill bosses
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Agreed with all of your points, but I'd like to add that your employment history is very personal and can quite often be used against you in ways you wouldn't imagine ahead of time. Just like any personal information, its best to
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by FD3SA 12y ago
There is a widely observed empirical correlation between out of wedlock births and poor outcomes for children, who grow to be dysfunctional adults. This is was the first article from google when I searched the terms [1]. An excerpt: "H
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by FD3SA 12y ago
My mistake, I should have been more clear. The current "political correctness" paradigm along with all of its associated hate mobs is a ferocious status competition as a result of the unmet sexual and pair-bonding needs of singles
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Humans are sexually dimorphic primates. Primates form status hierarchies spontaneously. Status is zero sum. Higher status males mate with the majority of females. Low status males do not reproduce at all. We are descendants of 40% of males
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A co-op is basically the default corporation. As in, everyone shares the profits and liabilities equally. This means that if you're making 1 million a year in profit, and you have 10 employees, everyone gets 100,000. But it also means
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> What your argument is missing is any attempt to connect an empirically observable difference to the empirically observed disparities between fields. Free will.
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> To turn the empiricism around a bit: the gender disparity among those with perfect SAT Math scores is about 2:1, and is less in the whole 700-800 range. Given that most engineering programs draw from the 600-800 range, how on earth do
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Interesting how the mainstream media keeps doing circles around these issues. When you start with flawed assumptions, you will never get an accurate solution. The hypothesis that vicious and systemic oppression of females since birth is kee
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Hi Rob, just saw FitGuard for the first time and it's a phenomenal idea. I'd recommend getting in touch with motorcycle helmet manufacturers (particularly MotoGP and WSBK sponsors) because concussions are a huge issue in motorcycl
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> And she noticed an interesting pattern, those children usually come from families of engineers, mathematicians or software developers. This is a serious issue, there was an article on HN a few years back on how the concentration of chi
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> . Some of the problems we end up working on are extremely difficult, yet because we are idealists, we go around telling everybody that everybody can do it, probably out of sheer enthusiasm for the things we do, because we believe the w
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by FD3SA 12y ago
And yet, in the natural world, you will find that taking their lives will be quite difficult, and will reveal the forgotten strength they possess which the modern industrial economy does not value: survival. It is easy to get caught up in h
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> Since when did we become entitled to a well-paid job? This is a funny mindset. Since when were you entitled to claim large swaths of this planet as belonging to an arbitrary group of people, and subsequently feel entitled to this land&
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by FD3SA 12y ago
I care about frat boys being funded at the expense of people with actual ideas. I care about a generation of technologists that has been sold out because a bunch of smooth-operator, manipulative invaders have come in and outcompeted true t
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Wow, is all PR speak from SV companies so absolutely vacuous? This guy sounded much more intelligent in his private memos. This crap sounds like a teenager's diary. So many "feels" and "hurts" and "angrys"

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