TheLarch

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by TheLarch 10y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. All I have to say in response is to point out that the TSA budget is $7.55 billion for 2015. I imagine you'd agree that a cost/benefit analysis over this figure would yield disappointing results, esp
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The article doesn't mention that Israeli screeners are highly trained. There's a term of art in law enforcement, "hinky", which denotes the red flag that LEO's develop with experience. To fly in Israel, one stops in
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My belief is that you have apples and oranges. Nomadic goat herders are not reliant on the internet. In the US the starvation clock starts running without it. Guns are more effective in the Middle East, but control of the internet is more e
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"Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn" Why do you think that will happen? Azure had AWS as a model, yet the UX is not just worse but surprisingly worse. MS bought a product I was on, and I was excited
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali expressed the difference between classical and modern liberalism perfectly. Classical liberalism values freedom, whereas today's liberalism often favors justice. To take Islam as an example: the classical liberal respon
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Erika Christakis' email https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika-christakis-dressing... expresses an unwillingness to police costumes. I don't pretend to know much about the issue though. In my view the hostility
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I agree with the first and third paragraphs but not the second. I don't believe campus administrators are the weak link. The truism among elementary teachers is: forty years ago, when the student comes home with an F, the parents yelle
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I don't disagree in general, but today I believe there is cause to worry. Consider that there is positive correlation between campus outrage and tuition at the college. The richer the students, the more they are outraged. Consider rape
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"Firearms are just one tool out of many that would be in play if an actual armed revolution broke out." I reject your premise. How will militias assemble before these conflicts can take place? Facebook? I'm not being facetiou
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With the advancement of technology it's harder and harder to sympathize with the idea that firearms in the US could effectively combat governmental tyranny. Situations such as Ruby Ridge and Waco could be handled by drones now. It&#x27
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Uncommonly good distillation there. Thank you.
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Work in the industry at the moment. The US sells lots of coal to China, where it is burned with far less regulation than it would be in the US. The coal plants I work on are secretive to the point where they do not want their name even in t
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by TheLarch 11y ago
It is sewn into the corner of the towel itself, not the label.
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That was my first thought!
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Trump is easily halfway between, say, Eisenhower and President Comacho.
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The local Gold's Gym has a theft prevention style detector around the front door which will complain if you try and leave with a towel. The towels themselves have an obvious bump in one corner, about the size of a jellybean.
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I hope this item met your expectations :-)
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Does anyone want a shrinkwrapped, but slightly mushed copy of Bob? All it will cost you is a SASE...
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by TheLarch 12y ago
I spent countless hours on this with a pencil and calculator in the 90's, laboriously back-fitting equations via recursion. This is the fulfilment of a dream! Also: 4x² + 570x + 20233 is 100% smooth (in the given range).
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by TheLarch 12y ago
You could quote Epictetus instead. He talks quite a bit about that http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
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My coordination improved when I quit drinking. I was a fairly heavy drinker, but not nearly to that extent. It used to be that when I dropped something, I would seldom catch it on the way down. Now I often or usually do. I didn't notic
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by TheLarch 12y ago
The best nootropic for me is bicycling into work. Also, after years of experimenting with caffeine I'm convinced that for me, one cup in the morning is close to ideal. Caffeine stays in the body for many hours, so it's all too eas
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"I had not smoked for three full months and no words can adequately describe the smoke appetite that was consuming me. I had been a smoker from my ninth year--a private one during my my first two years but a public one after that--th
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by TheLarch 12y ago
That is exactly why I've never tried it. I'm afraid it will work, and then I'll want or need to use it all the time. Then who knows what will happen years from when I begin.
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Whether or not it sounded sincere, it was. I honestly find it an interesting question. I wonder why you are so sure in whatever answer you believe.
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But women are capable in ways that men are not. They communicate better. I think they are better judges of character, and have superior discernment. They are far less likely to win Darwin awards. Find 100 painfully stupid stunts on Youtube,
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"Women are en masse working quietly in writing, music, painting, knitting." None of these involve numbers. Sincere question: why do you think women are less involved in engineering and more involved in teaching and social work?
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Exactly. It is frustrating to see girls taught that the reason women are under-represented in certain fields is always sexism. In athletics the reasons are patently obvious, but often left unsaid nevertheless. Sure it is true sometimes. The
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My impression is that psychology is bankrupt as an academic pursuit. They have no axioms. Neuroscience is getting results and appears poised to eclipse psychology completely.
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I took the username from a Monty Python skit.

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