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by beloch 6y ago
The law prefers letting some who are guilty escape punishment over punishing the innocent. Mob vigilantism does just the opposite. It does not trust the law to punish all who are guilty, so it punishes on mere accusations without concern f
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by beloch 6y ago
If you're a penny-pinching American news channel, a panel of pundits is a lot cheaper than having somebody in the field, whether that's a field correspondent or just a freelancer. Every time something happens in some far-flung
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by beloch 6y ago
This is simply Harvard protecting it's own revenue stream. Universities, especially Harvard, routinely trade respectability for cash. Harvard is unusually reliant on private endowments. Taking rich people's money and making th
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by beloch 6y ago
Article 8 is a doozy. I was ignorant of it. From the sounds of it, Taiwan doesn't want to declare its independence nor signal there is no hope of peaceful reunification with mainland China because either of these would trigger an atta
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by beloch 6y ago
"An invasion of Taiwan, the self-governed island claimed by Beijing, would force the U.S. to decide whether to go to war with China to defend an implicit ally." The U.S. and its allies have two choices: 1. Officially recognize Tai
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by beloch 6y ago
I think it was Will Durant who described Sparta best. I can't find the quote, but to paraphrase, Durant stated that Sparta ceased to be a civilization in that it produced no art, literature, or culture of any kind. The Spartan citizen
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by beloch 6y ago
It's more a case of parallel and somewhat divergent evolution. Current PC keyboards, minus the Windows key, are nearly identical to The IBM model F that came with the IBM 3270 in 1983 [1] (the arrow keys are quite different). (Note: I
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by beloch 6y ago
"Eight of the seventeen operating reactors in Germany were permanently shut down following Fukushima. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the nuclear power phase-out, previously scheduled to go offline as late as 2036, would give Germany a c
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by beloch 6y ago
The difference between Mac and PC keyboards is a real usability problem. If you're used to PC's or Linux, moving to a Mac and dealing with their shortcuts is painful, and vice-versa. The worst is using a mixture of both Mac&#x
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by beloch 6y ago
How much of this is due just to Germany switching from Nuclear to coal after the Fukushima incident?
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by beloch 6y ago
Few states have ever pretended that speech should be absolutely free. The U.S. draws the line at speech that incites the imminent and likely violation of the law[1]. Canada only guarantees free speech within "reasonable limits"[2
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by beloch 6y ago
References to climate change are going to become something like an index fossil for papers written in the current decade. A paper might seem to have no connection to climate science at all, but if the authors can grasp for some tenuous lin
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by beloch 6y ago
Real science is not without it's problems but, in general, nothing comes close to it for producing trustworthy and useful results. There is plenty of pseudoscience masquerading as science unfortunately. A good book to read on this is
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by beloch 6y ago
To put it another way, the killer app had better not be games if Apple is going to succeed with a $3K headset. Apple, a proprietary Apple processor, and $3K are all things that tend to make game developers run far, far, away.
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by beloch 6y ago
C2 really is the monster in the room. The rowing machine market is less diverse than exercise bikes, and C2 sits atop the mountain. Anyone who rows seriously (and many who don't) have used a C2 at some point. The Aviron Impact Series
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by beloch 6y ago
"Today I will tell you how to be just as annoying as a real physicist. And the easiest way to do that is to insist correcting people when it really doesn’t matter." We primarily say "Well, actually..." to each other, a
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by beloch 6y ago
Caveat Emptor. 1. This isn't the product of researchers. It's the product of an algorithm that also happens to be a product that is being advertised. From the "About Rootclaim" page: "Proven probabilistic inference
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by beloch 6y ago
The way your website handles font-size and zoom is really weird.
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by beloch 6y ago
Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
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by beloch 6y ago
Recommendation: If you prefer old.reddit.com to the new, try the RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) add-on for Firefox mobile. It seems to be unaffected by these changes. There are better ways to use reddit on mobile, but the reddit app isn&#x
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by beloch 6y ago
Naive question: When talking about taxes on the wealthy, the metrics people seem to really care about are employment rates and wages for people the wealthy employ. So why not increase tax rates on the wealthy significantly, close loopholes,
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by beloch 6y ago
Folded out, a rower is probably a little longer and skinnier than most treadmills. Concept2's do come apart in the middle for storage and they're light enough that moving them around isn't a big chore. There's a reason
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by beloch 6y ago
It's interesting how exercise machines are starting to become game input devices and online class portals. Peloton obviously deserves a lot of credit for popularizing the idea, but the hardware required to do similar things outdates P
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by beloch 6y ago
"It can be a little windy inside with the jet engine running but not too bad. " Now that is an understatement. Despite all the (self-described) obsessive engineering that went into this, the driver of this beast has the intake of
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by beloch 6y ago
Before we get all nostalgic about MacOS, let's just take a moment to remember how far behind it was in the late 90's. Windows 95 had preemptive multitasking. MacOS did not. If a program running on MacOS didn't feel like re
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by beloch 6y ago
I didn't realize how awful PGP's usability was until I tried to get a server admin with a technical diploma to use it. This guy sets up and maintains servers for a living. He should be able to figure PGP out fairly quickly, shou
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by beloch 6y ago
In April, in the Canadian province of Alberta, an outbreak at a single Cargill meat packing plant[1] accounted for one quarter of all COVID-19 cases in the entire province. The outbreak was blamed on cramped and overcrowded working conditi
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by beloch 6y ago
Perhaps the reason the U.S. is pushing its allies to ban Huawei from 5G networks is because of their own past (and possibly current) experiences using puppet corporations for spying.
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by beloch 6y ago
As a Canadian, what stands out for me about the last two elections is that many Americans seem to desperately want a variety of political reforms, but neither party seems interested in providing them. Trump and Sanders both sold themselves
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by beloch 6y ago
Music consumers across multiple generations, while supporting artists, have expected a certain degree of freedom with the music playback technology placed in their hands. Whether it was recording a custom mix-tape for a special friend full

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