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by Perceval 17y ago
On of my favorite essays on music is by an art critic/dealer named Dave Hickey. He wrote a collection of essays called Air Guitar , which is worth picking up even if (like me) you're not interested in art dealing or art criticism. He's a
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by Perceval 17y ago
The classic work on the 'authoritarian personality' is Erich Fromm's Escape From Freedom .
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by Perceval 17y ago
There's an Alpha3 'technology preview' of Fx3.7: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.7a3-candidates/ I don't know if WebSockets is included or not.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I'm not sure that's correct. As far as I can tell, young conservatives identify more closely with 'conservatism' than with the party. Which is why young conservatives are drawn to things like the Tea Party rallies/movement. I think the i
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by Perceval 17y ago
The guy wrote a follow-up piece last year: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/16/3408/66053
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by Perceval 17y ago
Reihan isn't a libertarian. He's a young conservative. I know him actually, he sat in on a course I took on the conservative movement in American politics. He was the "actual conservative" the professor was showing off to the university
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by Perceval 17y ago
A more interesting control would be to have two groups: one which had no direct experience in proving a statement, and another that had empirically proven a statement. You could ask a group of normal folks whether equilateral triangles alw
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by Perceval 17y ago
You're right that the lawsuit itself was not Jobs's personal doing, but the acrimonious personal dispute between Jobs and Gates certainly was about 'look and feel' and the perception that Gates knocked off Jobs's innovation. Gates was brou
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by Perceval 17y ago
True, but on the flip side, demand for China's goods might be significantly lower if they weren't manipulating their currency. If their goods had a higher valuation from being priced in a more valuable yuan, the demand would probably fall.
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Well, you know that Apple will be unwilling to make a "cheaper" phone. They are in the 'premium computing device' business—i.e. they'll never sell something perceived as cheap, they'll never cut features in order to get the price down. I
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by Perceval 17y ago
Wikipedia's AFD procedure is explicitly not democratic. The voting does not determine the outcome--it's a heuristic meant to help the admin. The criterion for keeping or deleting is consensus and the weight of the arguments on either side
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by Perceval 17y ago
If you don't want to be an academic the curriculum might not be different, but the dissertation requirement could probably be done away with. Some universities have changed their Ph.D. programs such that you can graduate with 3 published a
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by Perceval 17y ago
Perhaps we need a professional degree for research science. A JD is different from a Law Ph.D. and an MD is different from a Ph.D in Medicine--so it stands to reason that we could have a professional degree as a professional rather than ac
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by Perceval 17y ago
Here are some articles from Mozilla explaining their Javascript tracing: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/07/tracemonkey-overview/ http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey/ http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/08/trac... These a
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I suspect the rules become different when you're the boss.
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Jobs dropped out of Reed not because he wouldn't/couldn't play by the rules, but because he didn't think he was getting value for the top dollar his parents were spending to send him there. He ended up 'dropping in' on classes (like callig
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's interesting that they're taking from Apple's Nitro (formerly SquirrelFish) rather than from Chrome's V8. If both Javascript engines are open source, and Chrome is generally regarded as the fastest (beating out Safari by at least a hai
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I think it's reprehensible that parent has been downvoted. Ad hominem is ad hominem , no matter how deserving we think the target might be. Great-grandparent poster asked a question, ostensibly seeking an informative answer. What they
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by Perceval 17y ago
Out-of-process-plugins are slated for release soon. May not even require bumping the version number to 3.7 – instead we might see it shipped as 3.6.2. Here is the Mozilla project page for separate processes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Elec
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A big cleanup of the code was announced back in 2006: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/10/mozi... They've been working on it since, although I think it has evolved over the past three-and-a-half years. They've got a b
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I think the Wikipedia folks are generally right that voting/polling has a poisonous effect on conversation--people get too wrapped up in voting up/down and score. The most important part is the article content and the substantive conversat
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This is a puzzling result for me to read. As someone who studies international relations theory, the Realist tradition of thinkers (Machiavelli, Hobbes, E.H. Carr, Morgenthau among many others) associate power and consequentialist thinking
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If you took half a second to look through the "New pages" feed, and saw not only the hideous quality and dubious nature of nearly all newly created pages, but also the vast quantity of new articles created every few minutes, you might rethi
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Larry Sanger (co-creator of Nupedia and Wikipedia) forked it into Citizendium in an attempt to re-infuse a healthy respect for elite, specialist, academic, or otherwise expert knowledge. Hasn't really taken off and Larry Sanger is now emer
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Lawyers are barred from making legal arguments directly to the jury. Judges hold the prerogative of instructing the jury on the law. Lawyers only make arguments about evidence, motivation, etc. to the jury.
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Nor is population density factored in. Urbanization ought to make it easier to kill the first 60% of the world's population. You probably don't need very many bombs to achieve that. Trying to track down and kill every last human being wi
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1) There is the problem of identification, which seems to be the object of this exercise. TheSixtyOne wants to have a program that can red flag certain correlated behaviors that they might not otherwise notice or be able to quantify. You
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So we'd have to set up the null hypothesis that the voting patterns are simply random. What probability distribution are we going to use? Gaussian distribution is probably the wrong one to use, since online voting and online popularity us
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Scientologists call them e-meters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter
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You can get an advanced degree in 'creation science' too: http://www.nwcreation.net/colleges.html

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