JCThoughtscream

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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Aye. But as a writer, not a chef. He complains quite often about following the money instead of the experience during his tenure as a chef for many a failed restaurant.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Should be pointed out that it was a hack against the hardware, not the theory. Hardware vulnerabilities will probably remain the key weakness of quantum encryption, not that this is necessarily anything new.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
/None/ of that is indicative of a genetic role. There is no indicator /anywhere/ in there that there is some genetic factor that makes pink stand out more vividly to girls than blue. (edit: in fact, as anecdote - girls supposedly have more
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
http://web.payk.net/mailingLists/iran-news/html/2000/pdfj3iW... In 2000, Iranian women accounted for 56% of students enrolled in the natural sciences. No matter how you cut that, /that's not nursing and teaching/. And isn't it a bit of a
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Tango is male-dominated, mostly because of its internal culture. Dressing-up is, again, cultural pressure and can conceivably be changed with altered values. Plus, guys dress up to - only, when they do, they get called a fag and suffer detr
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Yeah. Common saying amongst my friends, mostly techies. "The plural of 'anecdote' isn't 'data.'" To counter that, though, I would say that your presents to your nieces, while a great idea and well-encouraged, palls in the face of parental a
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Note that the use of gender-specific industries is a bit of a sham when you can't demonstrate that the tech industry /itself/ has any overt gender-specific targeting, outside of the occasional attempt at tech fashion. In fact, it isn't too
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
70% of the technical degree holders living under the Iranian patriarchal theology... are women. That's problematic to me. That suggests to /me/ that the gender disparity in Silicon Valley has very little to do with genetics. In fact, the ro
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
For the same reason why DARPA has projects codenamed "BATMAN" and "ROBIN." They're staffed by geeks and loons.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Peace of mind can just as easily be interpreted as "comfort within one's madness."
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
By the time hydrogen supply becomes a problem, though, we'll either be long gone, or able to harness it elsewhere. Probably true for other hypothetical civilizations. Hydrogen is, after all, ridiculously abundant - and, if nothing else, wei
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Peace: the church pushed for peace between principalities. Islam's notable for stressing nonviolence between fellow believers (at least, outside of fundamentalists, whose hypernarrow interpretation of their holy texts arguably makes them mo
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Bah. Religion is merely the excuse for the sort of behaviors we, in our modern context, would consider amoral. Religion's also /caused/ all of the polar opposites you list - peace, life, healing, acceptance, tolerance, openness, women's rig
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Filter by account, then, instead of by post? With a sample body of, say, the ten or twenty of an account's most recent posts.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
I disagree rather fervently with number seven. A person starving to death in the midst of a desert would see his life /quantifiably/ improved if given water, food and shelter. That's got less to do with his perspective and more to do with t
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
No, but decrying the harms of cigarettes whilst puffing a mouthful's worth at once would certainly garner grounds for such an accusation.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
While I support most of the man's political stances, Obama's take on the iPad and console culture is perhaps a smidge hypocritical, given that he is, after all, a known Blackberry addict.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
This is quite possibly the most awesome piece of art I've seen all year.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
In a vacuum, the Humble Bundle can't really be called a success. As I'm writing this, assuming equal split, each developer and charity gets an average of $1.09/purchase - hardly a windfall, though I'm sure the actual numbers actually favors
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
While multipurpose tools are always fun, how is the Chinese army shovel particularly noteworthy? I'm pretty sure you can get an almost identical model from, say, REI. Or the /US/ Army's surplus. ...actually, they likely all come from the sa
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
And to play devil's advocate on /this/ side of the debate, paying for property of dubious ownership is considered a crime unto itself, and for pretty good reason. Journalists aren't so heavily protected by shield laws that they can break cr
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Doors and locks are deeply ingrained symbols of privacy and access. The police busting down his door is, as Stewart notes, behavior we expect for /meth labs/, not bloggers.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
From the FAQ: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
If I recall correctly, there was some anecdotal evidence that time committed to video game actually improves a surgeon's capabilities during an operation. If a card game can do the same for pharmacology, cheers to Nerdcore!
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
Any spacefaring nation with propulsion technology sufficiently powerful that interstellar voyages are feasible... basically have technology that can sterilize planets. It's called "pointing the drive in the wrong direction." Hopefully, any
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
The fact that they're facing death threats for it is made doubly hilarious in light of the episode's content.
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
I don't see Stallman's statement as to whether his birth had a good impact on the world or not as necessarily arrogant. Arguably, that's a question everybody needs to or ends up asking themselves: on balance, has my existence been a positiv
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
It is mentioned in the body of the text that the author advises it to be used with clients that you've already established a history with. And whom have a significant personal stake in the product anyhow. So it's less a junior contractor an
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by JCThoughtscream 16y ago
In response to some of the comments made in this page, doesn't the very fact that some jobs seem more "natural" to one gender or another actually only serve to magnify the problem here? Why are plumbers and programmers alike seen more as a
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Yes, yes I did. Sorry, screwed up the terminology.

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