JamisonM

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by JamisonM 13y ago
Oh, and I like the tactic of posting and then editing a little while later to make your post look better. Seen you do that twice now.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I did not say that all Muslims always integrate nor did I mean to imply it. You post original post makes broadly general statements about all the Muslims in the world, it says in fact that they "won't integrate". It seems to me that the bur
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Sorry, I do not understand this. Who is Achmed? What is the "genetic fallacy game"?
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by JamisonM 13y ago
You ignored all the criticism I offered of your original post. Why would you do this?
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Check out this beauty: "Like slavery in the 18th century, prisons are a necessary evil.." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798034
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Let's have a look at some of the claims here: > Six percent of US prison inmates are Muslim. Given the incredible over-representation of blacks in US prisons and the number of blacks that embraced Islam during the CRM this is a surprisi
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I see you edited your original comment to hide your ignorance about who is actually protesting!
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Saying that "Turkey won't look that different from Syria" is not really a sensible statement. My understanding is that other than the Kurds in the south Turkey does not really have "factions" in it population beyond the normal urban/rural d
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Wow. That is one serious load of garbage! Never mind the incredibly baseless and stupid contents that follow, the premise is wrong: the protests themselves in the first place are opposing the present government's attempts to undermine Turke
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by JamisonM 13y ago
On top of an upvote I would just like to thank you for taking the time to post something so complete and excellent!
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Sure, post-WW1 France vs. Britain are a fairly good natural experiment that was conducted - France devalued and Britain did not, and despite the natural advantage of not being destroyed in the war France's economy generally outperformed Bri
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Actually, they can keep writing cheques and cashing them, they have their own currency, it allows you to do that. The current problem is that the "core" of the EU thinks it is in their best interest to keep inflation down and let the other
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Perhaps the eventual goal is billions of people on another planet, I think the medium term goal is just a large enough gene pool to ensure survival of the species. You do not need billions for that. The truth is that even if you want billio
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I think the article makes the case that you do not need to import water, it is supposed to already be there. If you have a ready supply of hydrogen and oxygen (which indications are Mercury does) and an incredible amount of energy that can
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Misogyny is, in my experience, a function of the power dynamic in a situation. As an engineer working on site the author is placed in a position of authority, but one with no direct power over the workers that she is encountering on site. S
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Democratic legitimacy comes from the democratically elected government, regulating the economy is accepted by pretty much all democracies as one of the powers of a government. I am not sure if that is what you mean by "the might of an insti
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by JamisonM 14y ago
1) someone stealing physical dollars from a bank A human being of machine transports paper and/or coins from one location to another. 2)the bank inventing new dollars through the practice of fractional reserve banking No paper or coins are
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I approach this with absolutely know special authority on the subject but it I were to offer an opinion on why Bitcoin is anti-democratic I would say that it is because fiat currencies are democratic. When a currency is supported by a gover
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by JamisonM 14y ago
There are many problems with the theory you espouse here but I will pick on just one thing. The idea that over the last X number of years you can reasonably compare one item to another for many things. A car or a house in the 1950's does no
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by JamisonM 14y ago
My kids know not to run out into traffic and they know to stay at my side when walking in a parking lot because they have been told over and over that it is a dangerous place (and punished for doing otherwise). But, no matter how well they
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I like living in a place where my kids can play in the front yard without non-stop surveillance. Every parent has had a kid run out of sight in the back yard, a store, or the mall. The idea that jerks like you say things like that every tim
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by JamisonM 14y ago
These are pretty bold claims given that the last cuts to capital gains offered little to no economic growth and hurt government revenues as well as contributing to the recent rise in income inequality in the US. Have a look at the published
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by JamisonM 14y ago
It is a little bit worse than this in many cases actually, you pay tax on your earnings AND you have to cover the costs of getting to and from work and things like childcare while you are at work. That being said, my experience is that amon
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by JamisonM 14y ago
If there is one thing computers are in fact bad at, it is understanding intentions, an ORM in many cases is a translation of an intention from one level to another. In my experience lovingly hand-crafted SQL for your application does not ta
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by JamisonM 14y ago
This analysis is a bit disingenuous, from the article: "The larger they are.. the result is an implicit subsidy: The banks that are potentially the most dangerous can borrow at lower rates, because creditors perceive them as too big to fail
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by JamisonM 14y ago
I never understood why Musk went so hard after Broder from the start, as soon as I saw the data what I saw in it was something that correlated with his story reasonably well. Musk pointed out that he never got down to 45 but he was at somet
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by JamisonM 14y ago
There is no reason for unreliable reading to be with us forever, accounting for temperature and driving-style in an estimation system is non-trivial but far from impossible. It is the sort of problem that will be incrementally solved as the
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by JamisonM 14y ago
If swapping is the answer then in that case you need a non-ownership model for batteries. I am not going to swap out a brand-new battery for a 2 year old one and then be stuck with that one for the foreseeable future on my regular local car
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by JamisonM 14y ago
The "Shawcross Option" might have been for the best for all we know. The shuttle was designed to be expensive, doing things that it never really needed to do. If NASA had ended the shuttle program sooner we might very well have a better spa
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by JamisonM 14y ago
Actually the mistake that set the project back the most was the opposite, from the article: Stallman later admitted, “I take full responsibility for the technical decision to develop the GNU kernel based on Mach, a decision which seems to h

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