James_Duval

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by James_Duval 13y ago
The article you linked to talks about psychiatry (the DSM is tightly bound to psychiatry, not psychology). I don't know if you meant by including that link that psychologists criticising psychiatrists undermines their credibility, but
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The Bath->Bristol cycle path is a fantastic thing. I may have seen you on it! I'm unfamiliar with the name "Two Tunnels Circuit" but I may have seen it.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I was going to ask, somewhat facetiously, whether Asimov wrote "social science fiction" rather than science fiction. Fortunately, I googled the phrase before embarrassing myself. Turns out he all-but-invented the phrase to describ
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Oh - I thought you were criticising the execrable copy. "The experience of a product." It's so vague it's meaningless.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I don't know, I'd not seen the ads and I think they're pretty shockingly bad. When I see "Designed in California" I instantly think "Made in China for a pittance, based in Ireland for a tax dodge". Thinkin
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> John A. McDougall, M.D., is an American Irish physician and author whose philosophy is that degenerative disease can be prevented and treated with a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based/vegan diet – especially one based on starches s
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I agree with this comment, although it might not appear that I do from the other remark I made in this thread. Spending four years supporting myself playing poker for just-under-minimum-wage on average was a waste of time in terms of career
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by James_Duval 13y ago
He might indeed be doing alright if he had taken a little more interest in science. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8841347/Steve-Jo... I wonder how many years of his life that wasted?
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The thing is, "beg the question" as it is used in everyday language is much more transparent and easier to understand than its 'proper' usage. If you want to describe that specific fallacy in some way, there's a lov
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I only know NLP as an abbreviation of the pseudoscience of neuro-linguistic programming. What does it mean in this context? Non-linear probability?
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Writers aren't typically paid by the word.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Not only do we have libertines, we have the libertines.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I tend to see negative correlation between shares on any social media platform x and any social media platform y. The audiences just differ so much that anything that'll grab the Twitter crowd will tend to put off the StumbleUpon crowd
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I don't understand your response, is this not what the specialised tools would be primarily designed for?
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I suppose that would be very difficult to define. I think sports cars have a higher power-to-weight ratio typically, but again if this was a prerequisite for a sports car then older cars would lose their sports car status over time. Alterna
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Would the tools used not be developed? I would've assumed the production of specialised tools for electric cars would be a priority once they become popular.
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History of Communication [using timeline.js](pacetelecom.co.uk)
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I do think that would be really interesting to see. As a start, apparently 25% of road deaths are among 15-19 year-olds (src: http://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/d... ). We are usually
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Most people in general. A lot of people think they're much better at small talk than they are, and blame the other guy when an interaction doesn't go as smoothly as they hoped, or there's an awkward silence. People who are
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by James_Duval 13y ago
If you acknowledge that actions have consequences, it follows that if you commit an action which has a high chance of causing a certain outcome (in this case, death), you are responsible for the outcome. In this case, I would say that the r
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by James_Duval 13y ago
We are actually taught stopping distances (inc. reaction times) in the UK, for our theory tests. I typically find that when I'm being tail-gated it's someone in their mid-life, I don't know if there is a problem with young pe
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Why's that so bad? A comment in this discussion ( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/17519/why-doe... ) suggests that it is trivial to transform one system to the other.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Potentially stupid question: Would they not use Clojure or Scala rather than Java?
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I've been trying to find a way to respond to this, but the posts keep turning into very long very confusing rambles. I think that this sums up the disconnect best, however: £5000 would be a genuinely life-changing amount for me.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
@the sister comment made by user "ars": Quality is not dependent on taste - nutrition is what food is for, not pleasant sensations. A banana is better quality food than Conglomocorp's banana-flavoured-yoghurt-covered chocolat
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Aha, my mistake - I misread. In that case my comment is an argument for your point of view, not against it.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The final product isn't the same as the ingredients, though. If they are using the absolute worst cut of meat, bleaching it and flavouring it to taste good, the food might be considered "best quality" in terms of taste, but t
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Thanks for replying, I assumed from the matter-of-fact way you presented this information that there was more to the story.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Question: You say "he'd stolen a few clients, some data, rented an office and hadn't really thought about the rest. It was my job to reshape the stolen data beyond recognition" - did you not consider that such a person m
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I always got the sense that Aldi paid very well at every stage, just that it was a tough job with long hours.

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