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541.
by abiox 9y ago
interesting; so (perhaps) an 'underperformer' can be 'more fit' due to other factors.
542.
by abiox 9y ago
well, there are other possibilities; such as the philosophical-political underpinnings establishing the existence of 'the issues' (whatever that is) being countered.
543.
by abiox 9y ago
what was the accusation?
544.
by abiox 9y ago
> as the situation is exactly the same. it's not clear that the court system is impartial to gender, so this doesn't seem so obvious to me. nor is it clear that mistreatment of men is culturally seen as much of an issue as the
545.
by abiox 9y ago
can't speak to china, but it's worth noting that private and personal property are distinct concepts.
546.
by abiox 9y ago
this seems like a straw man if not outright nonsequitur.
547.
by abiox 9y ago
afaik, british control derived from a land lease. the lease ended per the time table in the lease. as such nobody was 'kicked out'.
548.
by abiox 9y ago
eventually, congress should be ai (with human oversight).
549.
by abiox 9y ago
imo, eff and nrdc (and the rest) should 'lobby' the public. not congress.
550.
by abiox 9y ago
the question seems reductive enough to be a nonsequitur.
551.
by abiox 9y ago
"It is a poor poet that falls silent when he finds out that the sun is actually a massive sphere of hydrogen fusing into helium." -Richard Feynman
552.
by abiox 9y ago
> Companies are incentivized in the long term to make good products i don't think this is necessarily true.
553.
by abiox 9y ago
> yet The Universe is and we can't say why is there a 'why'? some people say it was 'created', but then the creator 'is and we can't say why'.
554.
by abiox 9y ago
> criminals are not responsible for their behavior you remain "reponsible", however the basis for bloodthirsty retributive self-gratification is diminished. it begins to be clear that the only rational course is rehabilitation
555.
by abiox 9y ago
> it didn't really see the future, did it depends on your model of time and the universe, i suppose. perhaps "a future" vs "the future".
556.
by abiox 9y ago
proposition: every intentional public statement by a business is a 'publicity and marketing stunt'.
557.
by abiox 9y ago
> ..as to suggest that the advice plays out a lot in the real world. It doesn't. what makes you say that?
558.
by abiox 10y ago
i'd wager that it would take a substantial refactor of layout and rendering code to avoid significantly increased resource usage while also preventing sketchy ad code from being able to detect that it's being blocked.
559.
by abiox 10y ago
so-called "free market" media can turn to propaganda just the same, and just as easily. this is evidenced by Trump's foolish missile strike being so thoroughly adored in mainstream press.
560.
by abiox 10y ago
> Ockham's razor state actors are annoyed by whistleblowers. tor is useful to whistleblowers. tor is bad.
561.
by abiox 10y ago
> posts a message threatening to kill someone do internet threats generally hold any credibility? what's the actualization rate?
562.
by abiox 10y ago
i agree that "One evil does not negate an other", but it's worth noting that persistent one-sided storytelling contributes to a persistent one-sided view of the world.
563.
by abiox 10y ago
or Fable, or PureScript, or Kotlin... :)
564.
by abiox 10y ago
hm... performance metrics, possibly? it may be hard to measure.
565.
by abiox 10y ago
> programmers that care about the quality, elegance, and beauty of their code this seems less like fine dining, and more like a fancy kitchen. this is much more about the chef (though there are possibly secondary effects for diners).
566.
by abiox 10y ago
chinese is the most spoken native language. english is the most spoken secondary language.
567.
by abiox 10y ago
it's been that way since forever. if you're not employing expensive top-ranked brilliant engineers writing aggressively optimized, completely bespoke c applications tuned to every cpu model's feature set and performance char
568.
by abiox 10y ago
i'd guess that there are a variety of things to consider. do you actually have anything to say?
569.
by abiox 10y ago
oh, certainly. i once took a geology class without much expectations, and found it tremendously fascinating. very interesting stuff!
570.
by abiox 10y ago
> Sure you can reject religion. Then it all boils down to whose model of the not-yet-really-understood is more accurate and who will eat whom on the top of the food chain ;) this seems to be the case regardless of religion.

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