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by atlantic 12y ago
I think I would justify it along the same lines as biodiversity is usually defended. With changing external conditions, a niche species may suddenly become of critical importance to an ecosystem. In the same way, humanity faces challenges,
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by atlantic 12y ago
>Considering you were criticizing the author on his grammar, you made a mistake yourself! "Obsolete" is an adjective, not a verb. That's not quite right. In the context of American English, "obsolete" can be used
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by atlantic 12y ago
An language is intertwined with a particular culture and geography to such an extent that, once the last native speakers die, it's gone for good, whatever happens academically. I don't think the aim here should be to culturally sa
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by atlantic 12y ago
Tools - effectiveness. It sounds obvious - when you're speaking English, where "think" and "thing" are related, and language has a pragmatic orientation. You're coming from an Anglo-Saxon paradigm, and you&#x27
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by atlantic 12y ago
Mostly for propaganda reasons. Russia is Designated Enemy #1, outside of the Axis of Evil.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Given that the destructive mammals are already present, and number in the billions, wouldn't it be more efficient to introduce an extra layer of mammalian predators? That would get rid of the ones already present, or at least to keep t
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by atlantic 12y ago
Agreed. And this in turn implies that the best way to advance space exploration is not by doing space exploration, but by investing in AI development. When AIs become smart and autonomous enough, then money spent on actual space travel wil
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by atlantic 12y ago
The problem with that kind of reasoning is that it assigns a quantitative value to life. I don't think you can subject human life to this kind of mathematical reasoning: we'll sacrifice two lives to save three, or twenty to save f
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by atlantic 12y ago
Now we're in the 21st century. The 20th included two major world wars, as well as numerous smaller conflicts, including all the wars of colonial independence.
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by atlantic 12y ago
I worked for a while with a software consultancy, as a .NET consultant. One of the nicest things about the company what that they had two distinct career paths for developers - one technical, the other in project management - and they asked
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by atlantic 12y ago
I've been using VS 2013 Community for a few days now, for C#/MVC work. I can't see the difference in relation to the paid version. All the features I habitually make use of are available. A very nice surprise.
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by atlantic 12y ago
I'm in Europe, and I don't know anyone who does not believe in climate change. In fact it's not considered a faith issue at all; the scientific case is overwhelming. Maybe the sentiment is completely different in the US, beca
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by atlantic 12y ago
It's not a question of education. I've seen very intelligent people fall for these scams. It's a question of greed. Once your eyes light up with dollar signs, there's no convincing you that it's a bad idea.
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by atlantic 12y ago
>Because Secure had no real headquarters and existed on the Internet only, an investigation would be challenging. This is where they lost me. How can a company involved in billions of dollars' worth of transfers be hard to trace? It
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by atlantic 12y ago
Your ideals are good, but you seem short on human experience. Unfortunately, there are situations that call for violence. Or rather, for the application of force.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Are you sure? I get the impression we're not very good at recognizing other life forms, or alternative forms of intelligence.
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by atlantic 12y ago
If we can't even save our own home world, there is every reason to believe that we will do damage elsewhere. That being the case, best to stay home until we grow up a bit.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Thanks. I expected the downvotes. But it breaks my heart that we have such a beautiful planet and we treat it like a trash heap, all the while dreaming of Mars and whatnot. Let's put our own house in order before we go off travelling.
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by atlantic 12y ago
> This is commendable, and is what drives the human race forward. Without these fearless men we wouldn't have gone to the moon. We wouldn't have explored the depths of the ocean. We wouldn't have flown the skies. That&#x27
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by atlantic 12y ago
One point the article does not touch upon is how much the banks profited from this cartel, and by extension, whether or not the fines were large enough to deter this kind of behaviour in the future.
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by atlantic 12y ago
One simple way of doing it is to get a web designer to build the main pages for your site in static html, including a working menu system. Then provide the developer of a description of how each page is supposed to work, and of how the back
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by atlantic 12y ago
You can start off at, say, half your target rate, and/or on smaller projects than you would usually take on. Once you have two or three decent recommendations under your belt, then your online career will take off.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Don't think in terms of offering the lowest price. When you are selling your services online, price also tells the client how much your work is worth. Never compete on price, just ask for whatever you think is fair, given your knowledg
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by atlantic 12y ago
Please tell me where this happens, and I'll do my best to explain. Last I heard, this kind of expense is always covered by your employer.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Your father should try to find development work online. Nobody cares about your age, or even your qualifications. It's all about your track record and your capacity to get things done. It takes a while to get your first few gigs, but o
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by atlantic 12y ago
Using a cell phone for work purposes is part of the job itself, it's work; driving to your place of employment isn't.
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by atlantic 12y ago
Karl Popper takes a parallel approach to epistemology and political theory. In his theory of knowledge, he is not worried about how theories provide a representation of reality, but rather with how they can be falsified or disproved through
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by atlantic 12y ago
Don't be too quick to condemn democracy. Granted, most of the propaganda about the vox populi is false. But its key virtue is that it allows change of government without bloodshed. As Popper said, "We are democrats, not because th
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by atlantic 12y ago
The destructive influence of lobbying is not restricted to a single party, as you seem to be arguing. Off the top of my head, I would point to three-strike laws, which strongly favour the (privatized) prison sector, or hawkish foreign polic
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by atlantic 12y ago
I've never actually used it. Every time I've followed a link there, I get a popup telling me I have to register before seeing any content, which I've refused to do.

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