OvidNaso

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by OvidNaso 12y ago
There is a reason those who work in addiction medicine (and addicts themselves) call the 3-10 days of physical withdrawal the easy part. We can probably achieve 100% success with it. A few days of pain and discomfort and you're done w
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
That user interface on the "gonkai" really looks like Rockbox( http://www.rockbox.org/ ).
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"I think it is safe to say that most people, given the opportunity, will opt for this "lazy" style of life." This seems to be the one "fact" that makes all the difference in the entire debate. My question is, h
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"Most Americans support either Republicans or Democrats." Here are disapproval ratings[1]: Republicans: 62%. Democrats: 50% 1. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-views-of-obama-congres...
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"There is a limit to the amount of computation that can be done by a given amount of matter that only new physics could change. Given that limit, at best you would need every particle in our universe just to simulate an identical one.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Your second question answers the rest. There is no way to accurately give numerical values in real world applications, so 40 and 70 are chossen as mental model approximations. The fallacy of drawing the line is making no choice or distincti
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
That's a fairly large ethical gap between those two Gray Hat definitions. As a, fairly well read, outsider, Black Hat, to me, always implied actualy damage, financial or otherwise. Gray Hats, on the other hand, still might break in and
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
The zoom is much much faster than Google maps. Very nice.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"9 women can't make a baby in 9 months, for example." Very true. However, 9 women and 1 man are more likely to give you a baby in 9 months that 1 women and 1 man.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
The one that said all are incorrect.
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
The Free Software/Culture stuff is also about DRY, in a sense. Say I need a picture of a stream for a project. I get my camera and drive a couple hours to the woods. Batch process the set and finally decide on one picture to use. At th
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
It's one of the few major societal problems that can completely fund itself to the full extent current science permits. Unfortunately, many states, such as Colorado, are already blowing it by using the tax revenue from marijuana sales
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Actually there is currently a strong push in many places for involuntary hospitalization. We're slipping back to a grim time of incarceration for the mentally ill by family members who disapprove of their lifestyle. While modern facili
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
I'm sorry, but why would you compare revenue to minor league baseball? Collegiate basketball and football make significatly more money than collegiate or minor league baseball. America has clearly decided that they wI'ill spend ju
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
This seems to be pretty close to what Popcorn Time does, and apparently does it very well. Their site says they already select individual files, so I imagine a 'sanctioned' Netflix style offering would be technically trivial to im
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
"The nasty politics of social groups has rarely ever crept into my life sense." Except for the rest of the world that doesn't live up to your, let's be honest, pretty high, political standers required to enter your socia
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by OvidNaso 12y ago
Apparently, everything Aaron downloaded is available at theinfo.org. Nobody has really done anything (apparent) with it. The site is down now, so maybe that is an indication this doc has inspired something in someone.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
Some of these suggestions appear not to coincide with the creator's 'slow web' philosophy, however. http://theslowweb.com/
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
There are lots of laws that are not considered immoral on their own, but are enforced due to practical constraints on determining risk. Driving a car without a license is not an immoral act if someone posses the training and skill and caref
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
It also appears to rely on your phone. It's certainly needs to be carried with an emergency card, but two cards as opposed to eight doesn't still preserves it's utility.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
It may be different where you live, but at least in Southern California English, 'utilize' is quite commonly used and would sound conversational in tone to many an ear.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
There are quite a few resources on Pinker's website about the work. The FAQ is probably a good place to start: http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-abo... Here is a direct answer to the questio
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
There are two arguments that are presented in both of these comments. The first is that the historic and pre-historic data on violence is incomplete. For this, there is no doubt and Pinker spends a lot of time talking about this. This is tr
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
Which is exactly what happens when poverty and disease go down and education up.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
They're entire job is making a decision about an applicant where only a percentage is based on objective data. They read your personal statement and make a host of judgements, so I don't see how this would be any different.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
But your analysis specifically excluded the source of all of this violence, the wholesale procurement of the drugs by the end user dealers. None of that is different with the Silk Road.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
Violence amongst end user drug dealers is very rare and confined to specific, very poor, areas. Wholesale is the only place where you start to see significant amounts of cash, and hence most of the problems, and that has zero differences be
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
*- There are about 1 million households in LA (3M+ population but 3 people per household in LA County)[1] What am I not seeing? The census link states population: 9,962,789, Housing units: 3,449,273.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
Steam is now overloaded with "early access" game sales.
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by OvidNaso 13y ago
Did you read the questions that he answered n/a to? They specifically didn't apply to his situation, not incorporated, sole founder, never participated in another accelerator, and no one is only partially commited. What exactly wo

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