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by Qz 16y ago
That's not their goal - USCG is in it for the money.
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by Qz 16y ago
Maybe it seems obvious in retrospect to you, but I was dealing with the same need for an A Bit More button with the toaster at my old place, so there's nothing retrospective about it for me. Now if only they can figure out a way to add the
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by Qz 16y ago
At this point we might as well say that the sheep is too busy watching American Idol to even realize it's hungry...
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by Qz 16y ago
What I love about these things is that we tend to go 'ooh look at what that clever designer did!' when the reality is that anyone who has ever used a toaster has invented the "A Bit More" Button and then stuck it on the shelf with all the o
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by Qz 16y ago
Your mistake is in thinking that US Government is interested in democratic principles rather than 'democratic principles'.
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by Qz 16y ago
Learn a little about 'democracy' and you'll see that in practice it doesn't really bring us any closer to true individual liberty than the old era of Kings and Queens.
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by Qz 16y ago
it's obvious to me that capitalism is utlimately more moral and does more good. It's a mighty big leap from the charity of Bill Gates to the essential moral quality of capitalism.
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by Qz 16y ago
I was hacking since before I was 8, and my family wasn't well off back then (although my dad's computer skills did get us to that point many years later). Of course, that young hacking still hasn't gotten me anywhere special yet at the age
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by Qz 16y ago
Hmmm... HN - consumptive service or productivity tool?
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by Qz 16y ago
quizzle.com gives you a 100% free credit score check every 6 months. I'm not sure if its the same level of access you're talking about, but it really is free, as opposed to all the commercials you seen on TV. It's like mint.com, they fund
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by Qz 16y ago
Sadly I pre-ordered this so long that it's being shipped to my old address. Not sure what to do about that...
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by Qz 16y ago
Am I supposed to think Kerrigan as the Queen of Blades is sexy, or am I supposed to be repulsed by the... things growing out of her back? That's a rhetorical question right? :)
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by Qz 16y ago
Thats a rather Eurocentric viewpoint. A good portion of the world may be closer to a zebra than a horse at any given moment.
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by Qz 16y ago
Except that the whole point of this theorem is that a free-willed human implies a non fully deterministic world.
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by Qz 16y ago
That's fine, except that quantum mechanics messes with the idea of determinate physical causation, and the Free Will Theorem (as well as the KS Paradox that it extends) is based on a particular proof that certain things (in this case, the m
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by Qz 16y ago
If you read the paper linked above, rather than the wikipedia article, it becomes pretty clear that they are very explicitly talking about free will and that the result of the theorem is directly related to the quantum mechanical science be
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by Qz 16y ago
How can any action a agent makes be meaningful without causal links to the outside? One of the responses that has been raised to that issue goes like this: At any point we have a number of meaningful choices from which to choose. For ex
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by Qz 16y ago
Which iPod? My old 3G was a usability nightmare.
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by Qz 16y ago
I think the history of our neglect as a society of the mentally ill has little to tell us about crime That makes sense if you look at one as related directly to the other or vice versa (aka mostly not), but if you look at both as symptom
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by Qz 16y ago
"direct democracy" is really the wrong term. The US has a representative democracy, where the people generally don't vote on laws, but rather vote for politicians who vote for laws. Germany has a similar system, except according to the ot
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by Qz 16y ago
Well basically the KS paradox says that for certain types of measurements (which not-coincidentally happens to be the exact type of measurement in the free will theorem), the result of the measurement is based on the direction of the measur
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by Qz 16y ago
I just want to point out (or argue, since even this is contentious) that there's a three-fold alternative: determined, random, and free. The "free will" in this paper is actually the second and not the third alternative. My issue is that
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by Qz 16y ago
Here is my layman's understanding of it: Say we have two people performing similar experiments who are far enough apart from each other that the information from one experiment can't affect the result of the other person's experiment. The
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by Qz 16y ago
But what determines what the actor determines? 'agent-determinacy' just seems like a synonym for the idea of free will rather than anything that can justify it.
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by Qz 16y ago
That's how a democracy should work, anyway. That's how a representative democracy works, but that's only one form of democracy (and unfortunately ours).
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by Qz 16y ago
Key words: supposed to . nix has a million different options and no clear winner. OSX and Win have static ones that can't really be customized and are only upgraded at a glacially slow pace compared to browser development.
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by Qz 16y ago
Anything I end up giving away.
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by Qz 16y ago
Google Search is slowly becoming less and less useful. I find it harder to find the things I'm looking for than it was 2-3 years ago.
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by Qz 16y ago
This, no offense, seems like the worst idea ever*. Who needs to innovate when you can just c/p a design pattern? (Yes I realize you can already do that, but making it easier seems like the opposite of progress.)
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by Qz 16y ago
The "stopped reading" jab is getting kind of tired. Really? It was that offensive that you couldn't bear to read another sentence? If you had, you might have realized that the guy acknowledged straight out that his admittedly uninformed r

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