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by Pitarou 10y ago
It isn't a documentary; it's a speech / spoken essay, embellished with archive footage and so on. And a rather good one, in my view.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
TL;DR Theranos, uBeam and Energous have all figured out how to bilk investors by exploiting their well-known tendency to "invest in teams not products". Hired some great engineers? That's good enough for us; we don't nee
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Depending on which dictionary you use, it's either put or set .
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Nice try :-), but there's a reason why we write "upon" without a space. In normal speech the prosody makes it perfectly clear that "upon" is one word, rather than two.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Are you sure it wasn't a teaser for a work in progress?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Well that was clever. :-)
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by Pitarou 10y ago
This is also a common complaint about Simple English books written for English learners. The books claim to have a restricted vocabulary, but they cheat by using phrasal verbs. Their vocabulary includes verbs like put and set along with
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by Pitarou 10y ago
It seems that, in trying to make a second point, jgrahamc accidentally proved his first.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Is there an archive of TimeCube we can train this thing on?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Because there is no plausible narrative that can account for the known facts and account for the private proof as anything more than smoke and mirrors. In particular, the person best placed and best motivated to produce such a narrative --
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by Pitarou 10y ago
MITM isn't really relevant for the purposes of this discussion. We're talking about a different application with different threat models.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
It may be a better hair dryer, but at $400 it's hard to argue that it's a better product. But if you have $400 burning a hole in your pocket...
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by Pitarou 10y ago
See what ¥840,000 will buy you in Japan. :-)
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Very poor article. I can list three widely touted explanations off the top of my head that the author doesn't touch upon. 1. strong insider / outsider effect in the labour market 2. high barriers to employment for mothers 3. weak
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I disagree for three reasons: First, there is a strong economic case that, if an activity harms society as a whole, policies that raise the cost of that activity to a level commensurate with that harm are good policies. Second, it has been
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I think he means that they promote the aspects of wellness that are easily observable, because these are the things that an insurer pays attention to when setting a price. For instance, an insurer won't take any interest in your diet,
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Sure, but the computation is classical, isn't it?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
No, it doesn't. A quantum computer would make very short work of a 512 bit key.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
The advantage we have with mosquitoes is that they fly about and mingle with the general population, looking for other mosquitoes to mate with. Isolated population reservoirs are relatively easy to identify. So if the latest advances in DNA
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Totally agree. The medium has changed, but this kind of fraud is as old as the hills, and there are long established procedures designed to prevent it. It's the very first thing they teach in Business Accounting 101.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
This is the part that is utterly indefensible: "After the CT scan, a CBP [Customs and Border Protection] agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented,
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Surprisingly, corporation tax prevents tax offshoring! It's easy for a stockholder to avoid income tax by placing his stocks in a holding company registered overseas. By moving closer to the money's source -- i.e. corporate profit
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Wouldn't vulva be more accurate?
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by Pitarou 11y ago
What a fun and educational quiz! Thank you. And the answers are: - a word from the 10 commandments ass , of course. An easy start. - a great jazz album from Herbie Hancock Today I learned that Herbie Hancock is a jazz musician who made an
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Who uses the word "vagina" for obscene purposes anyway?
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Bonus points for the most creative pull requests. Chocolate starfish , rusty sherrif's badge and brown eye are all missing.
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Made me snigger. Incidentally, you can't use that word on many forums: snigger . I live near a town called Scunthorpe. Scunthorpe residents tend to use the nickname Scunny when they're on-line, because the full name gets blocke
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Very true. Ask anyone who's worked as a "consultant" in some emergent field. A lot of them feel like frauds. But the truth is that, because it's all so new, nobody really knows anything, so all you need is background kno
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Nice quote, but that's not what Chesterton meant. Chesterton had great respect for the wisdom of the common men. He believed that the matters most important to society as a whole should not be left in the hands of mere experts.
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by Pitarou 11y ago
Not the same incident, no, but could it be connected?

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