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by ambler0 12y ago
Well I think Gruber himself actually summed it up quite well: "There’s almost never a good reason to use a different word to describe a woman’s job than the words you’d choose if the position were held by a man." I don't thin
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Titles(daringfireball.net)
7 points by ambler0 12y ago|4 comments
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by ambler0 12y ago
I'm confused about this part: "While Tuesday’s rulings appear to be good news for patent reform advocates, they also raise the question of whether they might undercut a major patent bill that is slated to be debated in the Senate
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Sharp Rise In MERS Cases May Mean The Virus Is Evolving(npr.org)
2 points by ambler0 12y ago|0 comments
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by ambler0 13y ago
The only part I would disagree with is the assertion that learning a second language "isn't really different" than learning a native language. My wife, who has a masters degree in theoretical linguistics and teaches English a
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by ambler0 13y ago
Surely someone will leak the songs?
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by ambler0 13y ago
To the people saying they haven't had a problem with it: Have you ever tried to play an action game via mirroring on Apple TV? The lag is short enough that it might be acceptable for turn based games, but playing, e.g. Real Racing (whi
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by ambler0 13y ago
The lag is terrible with mirroring. Apple TV won't be viable for gaming until the game is played on the box itself and there is a low-latency controller.
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by ambler0 13y ago
Being propagandized into voting against one's interests != stupidity.
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by ambler0 13y ago
Was this friend working in the laboratory then?
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by ambler0 13y ago
Exactly the part I came on here to quote. It will be back; these things always come back. Democracy requires eternal vigiliance.
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by ambler0 13y ago
Thanks for this (I think - I'm still under the effect...)
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by ambler0 13y ago
Would it? Unless I missed it, the article doesn't say where Apple's tax haven(s) is/are, but if it's a place like Cayman where the rate is zero, well...you can't compete with zero.
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by ambler0 13y ago
This has been my number 1 request for iOS since the beginning. I'm starting to think it's never going to happen.
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by ambler0 13y ago
I signed up for "Coding the Matrix" and didn't finish. Before that, the last math I had studied was Calc 1 during my freshman year of college, over a decade ago. My impression was that it seemed like a good class and a good p
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by ambler0 13y ago
Your point is well taken. However, propaganda in America is much more insidious than propaganda in North Korea. Don't get me wrong, North Korea is a brutal place and I thank my lucky stars I was born here and not there. In America, the
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by ambler0 13y ago
To be fair, the American people are and have been the most heavily propagandized people on Earth. I sympathize with your desire to tell people to step up and take personal responsibility, but the truth is that many people can't even th
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by ambler0 13y ago
I think it's "fixed" as opposed to "over time". You can view the latter by clicking the little button on the right that looks like a chart. EDIT: I'm wrong. It still says fixed when you use the "over time&
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by ambler0 13y ago
There are many people for whom "lifestyle decision" isn't even a relevant concept here. These are people who instropsect and find themsleves indisputably one way, yet they look in the mirror and find that they are trapped in
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by ambler0 13y ago
The comparison to old anti-communist propaganda in the promoted comment after the article is priceless.
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by ambler0 13y ago
How long did you stick with it? It cycles through the same few channels at the very beginning and starts you on the same channel (food channel?) each time, but after that I think you're in control. EDIT: OK, so I messed with this some
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by ambler0 13y ago
I would go even one farther: There is, in principle, no way to find out. At any level description, it's still always possible to ask whether there is an even deeper level of description, whether there are yet more undiscovered entities
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by ambler0 13y ago
The issue is not necessarily with genetic modification itself, but the reasons for modification. For example, if a plant is modified to be highly resistant to pesticides, then the concern would be that such plants are saturated with potenti
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by ambler0 13y ago
The reason it sounded stupid in the movie is because it was the name of the actual element that they were mining. The historical use of the word that you mention is for hypothetical things, e.g. in thought experiments. From Wikipedia: &quot
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by ambler0 13y ago
Totally agree that the current approach is not working, and that's why I say that, regardless of which drugs we choose to fully legalize, all of them should be decriminalized. Most people who become addicts are already traumatized in s
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by ambler0 13y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your brother. My younger brother is also a heroin addict. I watched him change from one of the sweetest people I knew and the best man at my wedding into an awful excuse for a human being. I am not so sure I wou
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by ambler0 13y ago
What you're saying is certainly true, but I don't think you're addressing the criticism directly. The question is not, "Is there money to be made by bypassing the scientific method?" The question is, "Are there
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58 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana(gallup.com)
69 points by ambler0 13y ago|37 comments
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by ambler0 13y ago
This quote from James jumped out at me: “The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again is the very root of judgment, character, and will.” When people ask me what the point of meditation is, this is pre
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by ambler0 13y ago
I agree with you that Kuhn is still worth reading, but perhaps a better intro to Philosophy of Science can be found in Laudan's "Science and Relativism". He is not dismissive of Kuhnian-style relativism, but he is critical of

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