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by ckuehne 16y ago
Question 12 asks: "If God exists she could make it so that everything now considered sinful becomes morally acceptable and everything that is now considered morally good becomes sinful.". Which I deem to be true. I earlier responded "God do
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Exactly: Or Smalltalk or Ruby for that matter, which both facilitate information hiding via private access. It's great to feel superior, isn't it?
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Neil Postman made the same observation already in 1984: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death EDIT: Just read aardvark's comment. So never mind.
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Can't upvote you enough for this. By the way, Feynman also knows the difference "between knowing the name of something and knowing something": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WS0WN7zMQ
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People Twitter to relieve their existential anxiety(www3.ntu.edu.sg)
1 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 16y ago
According to Wikipedia the estimator is (n+1)/n s-1 not (n+1)/n (s+1) as the author stated.
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Air Koryo: The Official Webpage of the national airline of North Korea(korea-dpr.com)
2 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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The Just-World Fallacy(youarenotsosmart.com)
80 points by ckuehne 16y ago|50 comments
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Wikileak Founder Julian Assange's Archived Blog(web.archive.org)
0 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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Clay Shirky: Does the Internet Make You Smarter?(online.wsj.com)
40 points by ckuehne 16y ago|10 comments
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Jeez, Louise. Again: It was A JOKE. Why do you think I put it in inverted commas?
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by ckuehne 16y ago
As a non-native speaker of English I thought "poster" could also be a persons who posts (for example links to a news site). Therefore, I misconceived the meaning of the headline as stated above since it appeared in the context of hacker new
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Funny. For a second I thought this was a public shaming campaign targeting hacker-news members that still work with "evil tools".
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Just to clarify: "why are manhole covers round?" is not a test of intelligence in the narrower sense. "Add the next number in the following sequence 1,4,9,16" is.
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Liquidated: An Anthropologist on Wall Street(ft.com)
1 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 17y ago
No, they did not. Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty .
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by ckuehne 17y ago
Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty . EDIT: It defines the navigation elements as well.
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by ckuehne 17y ago
Why, yes, of course it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse .
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by ckuehne 17y ago
See http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/7037.aspx for a rebuttal of the baby sitting co-op story.
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Predictable Irrationalities of Entrepreneurs(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by ckuehne 17y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 17y ago
This is painful.
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by ckuehne 17y ago
Well, you know: that is exactly the point.
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Ireland: 35,000 USD fines for Blasphemy(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ckuehne 17y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 17y ago
The guy who wrote the thesis is the same who popularized a notation about the limiting behavior of functions which was introduced by the German mathematician Bachman. The notation is therefore called the Bachmann-Landau notation. Alternativ
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Women more attractive if displayed low on screen(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
1 points by ckuehne 17y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 17y ago
The first paragraph says it all: capitalism is a good system for handling sociopaths. After all we know, it is probably the best. In every other system known to mankind psychopath cause incredibly more damage. Think Soviet Russia, North Kor
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by ckuehne 17y ago
Funny. The German in the Bourne Identity UIs is full of errors and fake words. Then again, it is still a lot better than the "German" spoken by Nazis in Hollywood movies.
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Beauty in Science - A Photo Gallery(spiegel.de)
1 points by ckuehne 17y ago|0 comments
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Trade-offs in whale design(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
36 points by ckuehne 17y ago|1 comments
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Plants perform quantum computation for photosynthesis(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by ckuehne 17y ago|1 comments

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