Ratufa

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by Ratufa 10y ago
If he wanted to make a public statement and get publicity for his views, $440 to get on the BBC and various other news outlets seems like a good deal.
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by Ratufa 10y ago
When you talk about "increase in beehives", are you referring to hives that are managed by a beekeeper, or hives created by wild bees, and not managed by a human? When you talk about "fewer live bees", are you referring
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by Ratufa 10y ago
Active hives have increased because beekeepers have reacted to the increase in bee die-offs by splitting hives and otherwise increasing the number of hives they have. This causes an increase in demand for queens, and companies that sell q
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by Ratufa 15y ago
I'd rather not "imagine" anything or speculate what a "sane judge" would think. What criminal law is being broken, given what we know? If you think it's obvious consider that sexual harassment in the workplace is usually considered a civ
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by Ratufa 15y ago
For the people saying she should go to the police about this: what crime (meaning something that would be criminally prosecuted as opposed to something that might be the cause of a civil suit) do you believe has been committed in this case
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by Ratufa 15y ago
Is there any good evidence that the main problem with our schools is bad teaching? In other words, if you're going to spend money on improving educational outcomes, should you spend it on "better" teachers or on something like early childh
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by Ratufa 15y ago
Yes. Beazley's essential reference is the way to go. The docs at the Python website are still essential for some things, though, since newer 2.X versions of Python often have minor changes/additions from previous versions, such as library
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by Ratufa 15y ago
That apple collects "non-personal" location data isn't a secret. Look at their privacy policy: http://www.apple.com/privacy/ Some details as to what and why they collect data was provided by Apple to Congress last year: http://markey.ho
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by Ratufa 15y ago
One of the things driving this is that e-publishing has lowered the entry barrier for people who write "genre fiction". It's easier to get published and put your work out where an audience can find it. By "genre fiction", I mean stuff like
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by Ratufa 15y ago
Yes, there are multiple issues: one of which is whether or not the government should be paying for NPR and foreign aid at all. But, what I think the original poster was responding to, and what the main purpose of the "receipt" is, is that
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by Ratufa 15y ago
Good "dictionaries" for doing on-line brute-force attacks don't just contain words, they contain likely passwords. Guidelines for choosing good passwords should point this out. For example, something like "J4fS!2" is a much much more secu
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by Ratufa 15y ago
I think that the overall causes of obesity are fairly complex --- there's not some simple cause one can point to that is "the problem". But, threads like this one and the recent HN thread about Western diets remind me of this set of photos
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Maybe one reason to encourage comments in source code is not to waste the time of good programmers who write clear code, but to help everyone who has to deal with unclear code written by not-so-good programmers.
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by Ratufa 16y ago
An opinion on those conclusions from someone who is not Steve Sailer: http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh122410.shtml#MINION If you would like to verify his data, the source is here: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011004.pdf
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Both of these are good tools --- you won't go too far wrong no matter which one you choose. In brief: The strength of Mercurial is that it has a fairly simple set of basic commands. These commands are easy to use and the documentation for t
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by Ratufa 16y ago
To a large extent, the focus on Social Security budget shortfalls in these pieces is like the punchline in the joke about why the drunk guy is looking under the lamp post for his keys when he lost them in the alley: "Because the light is b
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Somehow, I'm not comforted by reassurances that an AGI is likely to have a human-like value system, given how humans have often treated other humans who are 1) Different from themselves in some way and 2) Technologically more primitive.
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Your scenarios, while technically accurate, leave something out. Here's another version: D) Your child spends his/her high-school years mowing lawns, doing part-time jobs, etc, in order to save some money to help pay their way through coll
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by Ratufa 16y ago
The problem with tax evasion in a democracy is that, when combined with a government's ability to borrow money, it removes the one of the main reasons why voters should care about how much the government spends. If you don't pay taxes, gov
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by Ratufa 16y ago
One reason this is unlikely to pass is that Congress likes renewable tax breaks because 1) It gives Congress an "accomplishment" they can brag about. 2) Members of Congress like being lobbied for tax breaks for businesses because it allows
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by Ratufa 16y ago
The public can do something about it --- people can make it clear that they support (additional) legislation to restrict what information companies can collect and what they can do with it. But, it's not clear that the public is willing to
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by Ratufa 16y ago
I have similar issues at times. One cause (for me, at least) might be anxiety -- if you are very worried about a failure or have had negative experiences with evaluation of your work, it can carry over into small tasks. Our brains can be pr
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by Ratufa 16y ago
This sounds like the same idea as: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1463751
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by Ratufa 16y ago
My initial reactions: 1. Yeah, it's true that there are some people who have addiction "issues" with porn to that point that it negatively affects their lives. Some people have obsessive/addictive reactions to lots of other things as well:
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by Ratufa 16y ago
My prediction: as soon as "DYI Bio" begins to have any real-world impact (or gets enough publicity), it will be banned/heavily regulated, at least within the US. It is too easy to come up with alarming scenarios if an accident happens or i
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Whether or not you are correct, your post would be greatly improved if it gave reasons why many of the comments are ignorant, or at least provided a specific critique of one of the more representative ones.
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by Ratufa 16y ago
This sounds very much like some of the theories that one hears when talking about the causes of procrastination when faced with an overwhelming task. For example, the quoted section here: http://lifehacker.com/5508417/the-overwhelming-wav
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Bookwise, some places to start for general overviews of economics are: "New Ideas from Dead Economists" by Todd Buchholtz "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan Blogwise: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/ is entertaining and filled with g
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by Ratufa 16y ago
That isn't a "misconception", at least not wrt the US. As others have pointed out, a VAT is being suggested by some people as a way for the government to raise additional revenue. A typical argument (this from a libertarian-oriented econo
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by Ratufa 16y ago
Since, as the blogger put it, "The former communists running Russia apparently understand tax policy better than the buffoons in charge of U.S. tax policy.", he must be in favor of the US having a VAT, like Russia does.

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