Nutmog

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by Nutmog 11y ago
The general public isn't worried about these problems. The general public is the people who voted for giving those agencies their powers and letting them keep them. Anyone who voted for Bush or Obama is someone who isn't worried a
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There's a lot of negative reaction here. What's wrong with the police searching DNA data to find a suspect? Is it: A) They might do something statistically invalid like charging whoever matches, even if somebody is bound to match
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In which direction? Is it because the veteran is a murderer while the beggar is harmless or because the veteran's suffering is more severe than the beggar's?
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Be careful, industry subsidies can violate WTO rules and get export markets closed off. America has treaties with lots of countries promising not to do that. Those other countries also promise not to do that. If America violates it, their t
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by Nutmog 11y ago
This makes no sense from a global perspective. Why was Andy keen to reduce job growth in Asia and also reduce technology growth in the whole world? Did he think Americans were more deserving than Asians? That should have been clearly unethi
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Recently a large national retail chain in Australia (Dick Smith's) went into receivership and left its owners (shareholders) out of pocket. They were no doubt paying Fred $200/hr even though he was only creating $100/hr in va
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Twitter stands behind it and seems to be doing fine. They didn't suspend Tay's account. Why are people not blaming Twitter for supporting hate speech? Hate speech, in the broader form of being speech that vilifies marginalized peo
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That wouldn't be an issue for just offending people, but only if it became political. Don't forget the US also has government control and censorship - try posting child porn on Twitter and see if the government leaves you alone.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It's fair for taxpayers to pay for it because they're also the voters who voted for the system. Most people actually want more horrible prisons, they want solitary confinement, they want prisoners to kill each other, they want lon
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Regarding the manager's response, are unit tests any use against someone who's trying to circumvent them? If a test passes a couple of values into a function and checks the result, wouldn't the "attacker"/progr
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It's good to see they seem to be handling it well. Especially the public announcement on their web page. Even better will be that they're probably going to improve their computer security now. If they got ransomware, they've
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by Nutmog 11y ago
What force makes people stay living in the same rented house no matter how bad it makes their life? Somehow people all across America are managing to survive despite not living in gentrified areas. Is SFBA the only place those middle class
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It's also a thing not a woman so I don't think maritime types really have much credibility when it comes to word choice.
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How is this the lowest common denominator? I'd say "Shackleton" or "Falcon" are lowest common denominators. They're basic ones that nearly everyone can accept. Isn't that the definition of lowest common de
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Are there any serious predictions that the planet will become uninhabitable, even a little bit? People can live in a huge range of climates, far more extreme than global warming predictions. Plants also grow well in high temperatures and wi
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Why would it happening later be more trouble? At best we'd see it coming and have 1000 years to prepare. At worst it'd happen just as suddenly as people already expect it to. In either case, we'll probably have better technol
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Nearly all electricity use, no matter how it's generated, ends up as waste heat. It doesn't make a difference to the global climate if that heat is released in a nuclear power plant's cooling tower or a person's living r
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by Nutmog 11y ago
What makes you expect them to be right instead of wrong? Couldn't you also wake up and say "wow, they were wrong"? If you know they're right, then everyone else can too and there's no need for anyone to worry about
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by Nutmog 11y ago
This is great news but somehow presented in a negative tone. The slow (4000 year duration) PETM release had no lag before temperature increased. Our release is much faster and according to the article, the faster the release, the greater th
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by Nutmog 11y ago
New Zealand has this too with at least one number: *555 for reporting dangerous drivers.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Maybe it's to protect people who've accidentally included secrets in their repos from automated searching to hack their AWS accounts?
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I always assumed the animations were to mask existing delays. But wow, that iPhone is so fast and instant without them! Delays frustrate me when using a phone. I hope this fashion of artificial delays doesn't last! It reminds me of old
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by Nutmog 11y ago
The arbitrary criteria for deciding what companies to include shows they could have just searched for one (valued at over $1B at 2016-01-01 and not publicly traded) that gives the most favorable result. Why $1B? Why not $10B, $100M, or $1 m
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I wouldn't say the difference matters a lot. Instead humans and computers would just have different thresholds for when to stop and when to run over something. If a computer is less accurate at distinguishing them, then it'll simp
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I think that's a result of the culturally unacceptable idea of geoengineering. People worry that promoting those ideas might stop people like you from worrying and lack of worry could lead to everyone emitting more greenhouse gasses. I
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Don't you currently have some power sharing with a new 3rd party (liberal democrats)? Besides that, what makes you think you can't for for a party that isn't "realistic"? Do you only want to vote for a party that wi
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by Nutmog 11y ago
"highest in recorded history" is quite a misleading statement. What if used daily measurements instead? Maybe the peak would have been some other time. What if you looked at specific places, their peaks would all be at different t
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I'm not an America, but I understand that there are always independent candidates. Maybe you don't notice them because they aren't buying so much advertising. Try voting according to your own research instead of what the paid
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When we would occasionally get an extra cold day or cold winter, climate change deniers would say "where's the global warming if it's so cold?" and the response would be "you have to average it over decades, not jus
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by Nutmog 11y ago
The parent was talking about American poor who do have enough income for housing and food but spend it on luxuries instead because of mismanagement. Kenya poor are probably completely different - not having enough for either housing or luxu

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