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by bjhoops1 13y ago
> non-groupthink outliers of one century who overturn the previously accepted scientific consensus of the century before These outliers are just that - outliers. They are rare and it is not productive to lionize them, especially in th
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
It's also sad that people typically spend a small fraction of effort determining what it is they believe, then expend vastly greater effort arguing and promoting those hastily-formed (or most often, inherited) beliefs.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
> the concept of 'collateral damage' has no place outside total war So damn true. People forget that we really haven't been truly "at war" in the traditional, collateral-damage-is-to-be-expected sense for almo
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Wait, your wife has a sex tracking app? Of course if all couples are as prolific as my wife and I, I can only imagine what kind of scaling problems you'd run into tracking such vast oceans of data...
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I was really hoping "making more" would be followed with "love". Money's great too, though. :)
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I say this all the time - I would gladly pay substantially higher taxes if that money went towards things like universal healthcare, public education, infrastructure and social programs for the 90%+ of the population that will never have
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How Humans Evolved the Ability to Throw(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by bjhoops1 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Interesting observation. I completely agree that as the amount of information needed to be synthesized to understand any issue multiplies exponentially, the capacity of an individual voter to grasp all of the necessary information is quick
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
A couple of thoughts: 1) A hard upper limit on the intellectual capacity of an individual human being does not directly necessitate a corresponding limit to the capacity of humanity as a whole. There are now reliable means of preserving pa
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The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See (2011)(mensjournal.com)
8 points by bjhoops1 13y ago|1 comments
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
But how many of those involve lying on a beach all day long?
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I didn't say he wasn't right about this. Just regret that I provided traffic to his site.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I read this whole post before realizing it was written by that prick, Tucker Max. I wish I could unread it.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
It's really quite remarkable how much good will a simple apology can generate. I wish more individuals and organizations recognized this.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I had to choose Lotus Sametime. Now I must go weep alone.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I think it is important to understand the limitations of the profit motive. Too often it is held up as some sort of panacea, as if all problems are the result of gov'ment getting in the way of heroic capitalists seeking glorious profi
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I was planning to post a sarcastic "Great! Now I can live longer just by walking fast!" comment, but your comment makes that pointless. Damn.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
> in my experience, there seems to be a correlation between people who love to study algorithms and people who love doing this. Very well put.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
In my experience, some of the smartest, best guys at algorithms and puzzles make some of the worst coders. No one can understand their code, it's brittle and their work eventually gets replaced by code written by somehow with half the
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
The addition of export = is great. This was a glaringly obvious deficiency that I'm glad they resolved.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
It blew my mind when I heard that "Happy Birthday" was copyrighted. So glad to find out that it's bullshit. Make those lousy, greedy bastards pay for being epic trolls.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
When I come across exceptions that get silently "eaten" I want to throw the dev out of a window. I've lost days of my life tracking down inscrutable bugs only to find something like this: catch ( Exception e ) { / eat i
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Can this approach (especially the nesting of grids in the table example) be taken with bootstrap as well? Wondering if anyone has any links to a similar post showing how to leverage bootstrap in a similar fashion.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
But of course we all know that the greatest ROI of all is tax cuts for the hallowed .1% job creators so they can continue creating jobs and wealth for the grateful masses.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Swedish government - or Lisbeth Salander?
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
I would certainly agree that the methods for bringing virtuous and valuable jobs more into alignment are quite limited, and it is a vain pursuit to hope to bring them into perfect harmony. However, I would disagree with my libertarian frie
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Also, there is nothing illogical about saying "this person or source of information has a reputation for being wrong or deceitful, therefore I will not be spending my time examining their claims." This is not really an ad hominem, just say
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Funny how most things that make you mad are less outrageous when you hear both sides of the story.
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
Nonsense. Just because "is" will never fully attain to "ought" does not make vain the pursuit of a better, more just world. > Attempts to browbeat the world out of "is" and into "ought" have been universal failures There are so many
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by bjhoops1 13y ago
An interesting book that jives with this is Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else . One of the interesting things the author finds about the nouveau rich is that they are typically more dismissive

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