Fargren

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by Fargren 13y ago
I agree on general grounds that the Glass is mostly for entertainment, but you argument is not a good one. That a device is not optimal for a particular kind of photography doesn't preclude someone from using it for photography artisti
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by Fargren 13y ago
Asumming that a subset of moral questions have black an white answers (or nearly), couldn't the study just look only at those questions?
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by Fargren 13y ago
This has been going on since the sixties. Half a century is not "a few decades". The military regime got entangled with fights against the syndicates (which were a strong political force back then, and are mostly toothless now, wi
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by Fargren 13y ago
I do believe that the fact that give "handouts" only to people whose kids attend school (which really matters because there was a lot of child labor when they started) shows they are at least trying to address some of the problems
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by Fargren 13y ago
Good science fiction is almost always about the present, not the future. As Ursula Le Guin put in the introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness[1] "Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. (...)Prediction is the business o
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by Fargren 13y ago
No problem, I see what you mean now.
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by Fargren 13y ago
Are you talking of the "corralito"? That was over ten years ago, so I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "not too long ago". You make it sound like it's still happening.
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by Fargren 13y ago
Well, he did reply half an hour after you mentioned RoR. So it's possible that he just chose to reply to your first post because he thought replying to the other one would derail that discussion. Not that I care, not having used any of
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by Fargren 13y ago
Ugh, I turned 25 last week and had already felt awfully mortal without this. Thanks, I guess, but ouch.
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by Fargren 13y ago
I think "it's opt-out" is a very poor excuse. When something of this type is going to be implemented, opt-in should be the default. If you can't convince the people who will be affected by this that they are going to wan
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by Fargren 13y ago
I have no idea, having not done the experiment. Maybe it's shorter and crooked. I don't understand the metaphor.
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by Fargren 13y ago
"All bugs are shallow given enough eyeballs". This can apply to intentional security exploits as well. Of course, a small free project may not have enough eyeballs, but at least in a bigger one that does generate some trust.
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by Fargren 13y ago
Well, this does have 6 triggers you can press without releasing either trackpad.
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by Fargren 13y ago
Similarly, how do you know your compiler didn't add a backdoor to your software? Even if you compiled your own compiler, you don't know if the software you used for that is safe. Unless you trust your hardware and you bootstrapped
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by Fargren 13y ago
But the server-side could be a desktop computer at your house instead of Google's servers. Seems harder for the NSA to access
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by Fargren 13y ago
As Bruce points out, people who are personally responsible for things when they fail are not insane in being risk averse. From their perspective, they are just playing it safe. Maybe we should be finding a way to make no one personally resp
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by Fargren 13y ago
I feel like I missed something. Why is it that off-street parking must be subterranean? Is it more expensive to make the building a floor of two taller and use the first floors for parking? Is this illegal somehow?
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by Fargren 13y ago
About Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual. [0]: http:
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by Fargren 13y ago
Well, we don't have dorm rooms in college, since the buildings are in the cities or very close to them. That dorm room situation is very weird to me, I don't really see the benefits. But more to the point, the problem is pretty mu
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by Fargren 13y ago
Free college subsidized by taxes? We have had that in Argentina for a long time, and for some time we had the best education you could get in Latin America. I'll admit nowadays we are pretty much average, but still free. I can't r
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by Fargren 13y ago
While sitting is correlated with mortality, I don't think it's been proved that it causes it. I suspect the relation between the two is more complicated than that. As far as stress free... Interacting directly with many customers
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by Fargren 13y ago
Fortunately, in most of the world sodas use sugar instead of syrup. So it's not as bad as it could be.
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by Fargren 13y ago
But the discussion was about vote selling. I don't see how open ballots make that harder. The opposite seems to be true.
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by Fargren 13y ago
What happens when there's a big decision that heavily affects media interests? They start using their sway on public opinion to make the decision important, and a disproportionate number of people become "passionate" about an
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by Fargren 13y ago
Secret ballots make it easier to pull off. How so?
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by Fargren 13y ago
No. No particular job should be outlawed, probably (that is, nothing that is legal to do for free should be illegal to do for money). But the point of minimum wage, as I see it, is to keep potential employers from abusing people who are not
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by Fargren 13y ago
I didn't put that solution forward, another poster did. I don't really agree with him, because I think under the current circumstances, making all crappy jobs illegal is bad, as you say. I do believe some of the crappiest jobs sho
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by Fargren 13y ago
That's disgusting. We should make sure people have the chance to suffer because suffering makes us better people? That's moralistic crap. If we have the resources to diminish suffering without causing harm, it is wrong not to do i
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by Fargren 13y ago
Odd, talking directly with my professor is what got me into my graduation thesis. I have never heard of this as "bad practice." Then again, I've not heard of a lot of people looking at peoples grades as big factor for hiring
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by Fargren 13y ago
I know there are solutions to the problem. I don't particularly care for going to a tailor, so I wear belts (which are also hard to get in my size, but using kid's belts is viable, and I change belts a lot less than I change pants

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