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by Towle_ 17y ago
Give me some truly convincing reasoning, bitte ? Doesn't have to be long; succinctness, after all, is one of the forms in which power appears. > as always Or, of course, a link to another time you did.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
1. Make that "109.237% of the time." I always go 110%. What's that, you say? Mathematically impossible? I used to think so too. Then one day I slept for 26.4 hours. 2. In completely unrelated web surfing occurring in totally different tabs
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Yes sir, yessir, yezzir. Exactly what I'm trying to say. :D (Caution ahead: unnecessary detour...in the form of a light rant) Correlation is so, so often mistaken for causation. And unlike most logical fallacies, 'correlation vs. causation'
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Finally! I've always hated that saying. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Nonsense. Just look at the types of individuals who gain access to absolute power. Either they're ruthlessly ambitious, men for whom the ends always justify the m
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by Towle_ 17y ago
> if you want to gauge the popularity of the movie, the best measure is probably something along the lines of tickets sold per capita. Not really. 1946 tickets per capita in the US: 34. 2004: 5. There's no way to do this right. Box offi
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by Towle_ 17y ago
That's pretty cool of McCarthy to invite the kid over to his house in response to a cold email.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Thanks sparky
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by Towle_ 17y ago
I'd like to point out that the methods employed here to survey the wages of prostitutes leave plenty of confounding variables in play. "Analyzing wage information on more than 40,000 escorts in the U.S. and Canada collected from a web site,
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Right, of course. I didn't mean to imply that I thought it a mistake to be critical, just regretted and apologized for the manner in which I criticized. Thanks again, David.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
>Don't they realize how dumb they look? I think this is the wrong question to ask. More like, "Do they care at all how they are perceived in the West?" And the answer to that question has to be a resounding "NO"-- and for good reason. A
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by Towle_ 17y ago
>One of the rules of this site is that you ought to write things that you would feel comfortable saying to someone's face. And often it's very practical because all sorts of people turn up to read stuff here. Including Jason, it appears
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by Towle_ 17y ago
I feel compelled to bring up what I believe to be a solid counterpoint to the "if you don't like Easy Mode, then just don't play it" mantra detailed in the post: Halo 3's Legendary Campaign vs. Halo 1 and 2's Legendary Campaigns. For those
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Semi-unrelated to the actual content of this particular post: (I apologize about that, by the way) Am I the only one who simply can't stand Jason Calacanis? He's often propped up as some sort of guru/authority/etc. of start-ups and the Web
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Somewhat unrelated: After browsing around the site, I have to say I'm very impressed with The New Republic and the quality of its writers. I'm adding them to my list of must-read web sites at once! :)
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by Towle_ 17y ago
A measurable difference in brain scans does not by itself amount to enough evidence to claim that programming and musical ability are intrinsically linked. All I'm saying is two things: a) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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by Towle_ 17y ago
This seems like a very muddled claim to me. I won't refute that there's some kernel of truth in there somewhere, but using anecdotal evidence to loosely tie one's own theory together rarely ends well, especially when one's claim would be be
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by Towle_ 17y ago
I see the first part I suppose, but the second...really? The solution to that problem isn't better battery life, it's a better power cord.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
If we can change "convenience" to "what they perceive to be convenience"...then sure, totally agreed.
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by Towle_ 17y ago
Battery life is the most overrated of all laptop specs. How often are you really without an electric outlet? Other than an airplane or the occasional wifi-capable coffee shop (one without outlets, that is), I can't think of anywhere I'd be