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by avz 12y ago
"I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." Beautiful.
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by avz 12y ago
I have never heard anyone advocate that viewing of such drawings be encouraged . Allowed, yes, encouraged, no. As someone else mentioned: we really do not know how availability of such cartoons affects demand. It is possible that the oppos
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by avz 12y ago
> I dont see much difference between a drawing a kid being raped and an actual picture... Kenji has explained the difference above: > literally nobody was harmed in the process [of drawing pictures]. Admittedly, you add at the end: &g
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Alpine and polar lichens could also survive on Mars(dlr.de)
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by avz 12y ago
This is a very good explanation for the debt cycles and the role of banks, gov't, central bank et al. There is one point it doesn't explain, though. It appears that the severity of the debt cycles can be reduced and social stabili
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by avz 12y ago
It's true that most people seek family and stability. However, there is more to human existence than that. There are people who lead very eccentric life styles that express passions for other pursuits. For some reason scientists do see
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by avz 12y ago
There are a number of other important issues driving language adoption which were not mentioned in the article from the quality of the tooling and documentation to existing code bases (and consequently the quality of FFI). I'm also sur
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by avz 12y ago
It seems wrong that a repo rename be necessary because someone somewhere happened to make a similarly named porn movie. I entirely sympathize with the repo owner who does not want to engage in legal interaction. I guess in practice it all b
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by avz 12y ago
I wonder if this apparent contradiction can't be explained by re-examination of one the assumptions we're making. Namely, we assume human being is a singular, consistent self with a coherent set of goals. Perhaps, we're not.
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by avz 12y ago
It seems to me that the Amish approach starts with prejudice and outright rejection and leaves no scope for experimentation and trial dry runs of new tech. The author of the article urges reflection, but completely misses the importance of
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by avz 12y ago
How do they reconcile it with the Ordnung's prohibition on the use of mains electricity? Almost all modern diagnostic, surgical and other medical equipment requires it.
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by avz 12y ago
One topic I find missing from the privacy and security debate following Snowden's revelations is an explicit consideration of the adequate threat model. If the public thinks that the most prominent attackers on their privacy, security
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by avz 12y ago
This: cout << "Hello"; beats all of the above by a wide margin. It's essentially an ASCII-art ideographic representation of what the computer is supposed to do.
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Considerable value of the search functionality can be retained by restricting it to metadata like originator which needs to be accessible for delivery to work anyway.
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by avz 12y ago
Trust is a function of the expected incentives of the trusted. One way to manage their incentives is by exercising control, but there are other more friendly ways, too. For example, shared goals, community, reputation, financial rewards, re
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by avz 12y ago
I would be very happy if instead of preventing me from installing apps which require a given permission, Android would let me install them at my own risk in a sandbox which provides the app with dummy data and interactions (whether from a s
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by avz 12y ago
Anyone could use a network sniffer to see it is uploading something , but you can't tell what since the content may be encrypted. Advanced user may be able to follow the data in a debugger, but that's a lot of work. Very advanced
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by avz 12y ago
Good point. Given sufficient paranoia this train of suspicion can be continued even deeper down the rabbit hole: you'd need to inspect the hardware designs and make sure the hardware you've got was actually produced according to t
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by avz 12y ago
Now compute the Gini coefficient for that island and compare it against the one for a neighbor where all the villagers skilled at cooking have jobs while all those skilled at digging remain idle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by avz 12y ago
Your examples include destruction of property which negates their social benefits of improved earnings and reduced unemployment. Digging a whole is a metaphor for unproductive, but also not destructive work where the social benefits are not
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by avz 12y ago
Which seems rather accurate. Classical liberalism is liberal on both social and economic issues. The left is liberal on social issues and the right generally on the economic ones.
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by avz 12y ago
Drop the "European". Just "classical liberalism". It's cleaner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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by avz 12y ago
There is social utility in digging a hole to bury it back. The utility lies in providing value as a side-effect to the community. The value is provided by strengthening earnings of the diggers and reducing the unemployment in the community.
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by avz 12y ago
There are two perspectives when looking at any job: project objectives and social utility. The first sees a job as an effort focused on some project goals, e.g. designing a car, building a house, curing a disease, finding Higgs, running a r
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by avz 12y ago
What makes you think they don't?
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by avz 12y ago
There is one observation I find missing in the discussion of prehistoric abstract art. It is that with primitive tools and techniques the abstract kind of art is easier. It is the non-abstract kind that is difficult. Regardless of the cause
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by avz 12y ago
> actually why isnt this possible? Nobody says it isn't possible. Possibility isn't the point. What you're saying contradicts evidence and thus is not true. In general, absence of internal logical inconsistencies is insu
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by avz 12y ago
There is plenty of circumstances where people are not willing to fight for $10. * You may be on holidays and may want to avoid arguments with strangers. * You may be after a long flight, jetlagged and/or simply too tired. * You may be
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by avz 12y ago
Interestingly, if we limit ourselves to pure functions, a ZST corresponds to category-theoretic concept of the terminal object. The latter is defined as such an object (think "type") T that for any other object (think "anothe
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by avz 12y ago
Closed as Working as Intended Reason: Relevant tax regulations are in place to create incentives for productive land use.

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