VladRussian

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by VladRussian 15y ago
it would be modern version of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Litigating an entire case ex parte and sealing the record so that the accused never even finds out what they were accused of should be quite troubling to anyone who believes in due process. seems like definition of due process has been
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by VladRussian 15y ago
how long before Watson discovers how profitable patent trolling can be for a brain powerhouse like it [he can or soon will be able to generate "method and apparatus for user interaction with interactive screen through rest interface" faster
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by VladRussian 15y ago
like any progressive technological development it will bring only improvements, including refusing to go to specific places specified by a transmission from central traffic control or automated blocking of doors and delievering you to court
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>1) they were on a military explosives test ground and firing range. implying that they were in someone's back yard is a bit disingenuous your point seems to be moot as this military explosives test ground and firing range happens to b
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>While law enforcement has some potentially excludable components, for the most part it seems non-excludable: stopping crimes and criminals protects everyone. that is true only in the ideal situation of unlimited law enforcement resourc
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by VladRussian 15y ago
> is PHP on the right side of history or not? PHP has been and will be on the wrong side for the very long time ahead.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
may be he can write ansi sql queries?
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by VladRussian 15y ago
they say it is an image processing artefact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6... After having already watched 6.5 seasons of TNG on Netflix i believe them that it isn't a cloaked Klingon warbird (because the wa
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Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by VladRussian 15y ago|3 comments
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>In nature stability or at least in somewhat understandable models beyond simple linear ones: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StrangeAttractor.html
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by VladRussian 15y ago
"God doesn't play dice". And several decades later Mandelbrot discovered that God plays fractals.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
after 20 minutes of staring into special relativity treatment of moving particle field interaction (the math is simple, yet as a math major i didn't have it as a part of my course and i'm interested in the corner case of small scale what is
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>If you don't understand how markets better allocate resources better for what? If you study the economics, you'd know that free market naturally results in the outcomes like "food deserts" and 10%+ uninsured precisely because markets b
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by VladRussian 15y ago
ok, you're right that compulsory education isn't equivalent to a "guaranteed right" - in the latter one can opt out, while in the former a child is truely guaranteed to receive it. In both cases, be it compulsion or pure right, the governme
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>3.Has made unique contributions to a specific pornographic genre, such as beginning a trend in pornography; i bet it is much harder than produce a new scientific theory ( or may be it is just my Math MS talking :)
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by VladRussian 15y ago
personally to me it is inseparable part of basic human rights. Legally-wise, the US goes even further - the basic education is compulsory.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>The core problem is that women get tons of spam messages and men get very few responses. This means the matching algorithm is broken. This matching algorithm has carried us, humans, through millions years. Various opinions and statemen
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Law enforcement is very different than education. no. Both - right for basic education and right for not being robbed/killed - are just guaranteed rights that the government is supposed to deliver upon. >A school that has only prof
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>an elephant in the room all debates on US education dance around. is that >US children is pure virtual "statistical" entity. The education in the US is local. Chinese children from Bay Area Cupertino are tigers ( as i heard, don't
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>the fastest way to find out is free market experimentation >exposed their schooling system to free market competition not all things can be effectively put under free market framework. Bottom line optimization and profit maximizati
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>How long does it take to type in a gibberish mailinator address and a password? it isn't about "how long" this specific operation takes. In Russian there is a saying "One's experience of a theatrical show starts with the coatchecking
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by VladRussian 15y ago
couldn't make myself pass the bloodsucking reg form (it has more than 2 fields :), so didn't even see that it is python.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
it allows to imagine that something could be a "life" in Venus like conditions as well: "Scientists once thought that no living thing could survive the harsh combination of toxic chemicals, high temperatures, high pressures, and total darkn
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>of the same matter that comprises the rest of the universe, detectable by the same means. man, that plugs nicely into the whole dark matter/energy discussion.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I don't think so, at least not in a violent way. Well, it is really hard to imagine how something/somebody can surpass Cro-Magnon in the ways of violence. On the other side, only violence can keep the Cro-Magnon at bay as Cro-Magnon wi
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by VladRussian 15y ago
my greatest personal epiphany was when i saw that while we're longing for other intelligence and looking for it out there, there is an other intelligence right near with us. on related note: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2666839
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>no other sentient creatures on Earth because humans will destroy them. ... Let's not forget neanderthals as well in this context. True and false. The most "advanced" humans of any given time have destroyed and will be attempting to des
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>The reality is that in the US death and dying are still anathema. And thus with the help of the law people are made to live as long as it is possible even when they don't want to. I'm afraid that when the policy is reversed, people wou
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by VladRussian 15y ago
http://www.mothersdaycelebration.com/mother-in-different-lan... " The slight smacking movement of the lips made in uttering an m-sound is similar to the lip movement required to suck a nipple." http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/m

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