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by cmdkeen 12y ago
George Price created a mathematical theory that altruism works with game theory in evolutionary terms. In an attempt to prove the theory either way he adopted increasingly altruistic behaviour and become more religiously devout. He ended up
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Patio11 made a very good point in one of his posts that enterprise, specifically Japanese enterprise, taught him a lot about engineering skills. There's an entirely different philosophy out there from the startup "push code to pro
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Then you're essentially outsourcing medical testing to poorer countries with corruption problems. Many of the massive costs of developing drugs come in the massive trials required to get Western approval - running those trials abroad,
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's actually a really good example of the article - there's nothing wrong with debt denominated in a foreign currency, you can hedge against the currency risk. The whole thing is about risk, if you hedge away all your risk financ
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Military action is not the only form of proportionate response. The US has been involved in sanctions based diplomacy against NK for years now around the nuclear programme. The State Department aren't idiots, any form of military actio
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Drug running, counterfeit currency production, kidnapping foreign citizens, nuclear testing and producing nuclear capable missiles and testing them in provocative ways. Plus their prison camp system, internal mass famines, brutal authoritar
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China is busy providing all that justification, which is why Cybersecurity is getting massive military investment already. Sony being hacked is nothing, in terms of national security, compared to what China is getting up to.
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Your belief that you're "evidence oriented" is endearing. I can't help but think that in many cases it is merely another form of belief, and one that people are equally sanctimonious about holding. Any discussion about U
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Drink driving laws? Plenty of people seem very happy to take the risk that they are still a "good driver" after a few drinks, but many are deterred by the legal consequences.
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No, human rights legislation, or more precisely the British nature of gold plating things, has led to human rights law becoming a source of authority in that it frequently compels action from the state. Rather than being a "you can&#x2
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It unnecessarily accused him of treason via the whole Cairncross plot, I'm sure the concept of him being a hero cruelly treated by his country later would have been enhanced by leaving out that fabrication.
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The four rotor enigma change the Germany Navy adopted though was a significant change - and the decryption of that was something Turing was heavily involved in. In 1942 the Battle of the Atlantic was far from undecided and without cracking
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Then use a search engine which offers that functionality. You'll probably find the results are worse than Google.
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You'd be queuing up to praise a financial regulator that cared about the spirit not just letter of the law. Just in this instance the spirit of the law is going against a disruptive tech darling.
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Because it is a marginal tax rate on everything if you have to pay an accountant to prove to the IRS you don't owe anything. Plus in most instances that income will be being taxed in another country - the author is in Britain and we de
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
I've listened to presentations by Combat Stress, a UK charity that works with veterans with mental health issues. Surprisingly it is veterans of Northern Ireland that have the greatest number of mental health issues, not those involved
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Except, at least in the UK, judges have an ancient tradition of independence from the executive and maintain considerable power. Judges at all levels up to the Supreme Court regularly find against the government on all sorts of cases includ
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Except many judicial reviews aren't about the legality of the decision, merely the way the decision has been made. "Judicial review is a type of court proceeding in which a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision or action made
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And the article talked about upping the number of books a prisoner can keep in their cell, which seems a better solution for all prisoners than the few who have people who will send them books. I wonder how many prisoners are being sent the
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
At what point has the judicial review become merely the means for judges to disagree with government policy? This wasn't a law change, this was a change to an existing policy about what prisoners could receive in parcels. Judicial revi
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
That's just not true, the world isn't a Tom Clancy novel where the US versus China is decided by some magic bombs that suddenly appear. Look at the Iran-Iraq war for the level of casualties that some potential enemies are capable
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Look at the impact of mobile phones in rural Africa where they have been transformative. The ability of farmers to know things like the price their produce will fetch at market that day without having to go to the market first should not be
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's a rather empty project compared to 1.X at https://github.com/angular/angular.js 138 JS files v > 1000 Fingers crossed that isn't the level of Hello World required either in the world of 2.0 and AtScri
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Angular 2.0 seems to be a long ways off - to the point where the presenters wouldn't show actual code examples in their demos of it at ng-europe. It rather makes me worry it is going to be the Python 3000 release all over again in term
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The Angular 2 presentation given recently at ng-europe made it clear that many of the fundamental parts of 1.x are not built on solid architectural principles, which is why they are killing most of them off. I'd be interested to know h
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Safer for who? Probably not for Europe, certainly Eastern Europe who see what Putin is doing in Ukraine. Probably not for Japan and South Korea, both of whom rely on US military backing against undemocratic opponents who have designs on the
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You don't need fiction for bizarre minesweeping stories. During the Falklands War the British needed to confirm whether the entrance to Falkland Sound had been mined before the landings could begin. Not having any minesweepers with the
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It's not cheap to have any confidence of any uptime realistically at all. The thing is that most people either live without that guarantee, or just get lucky enough not to care. It becomes problematic if you've made promises to ot
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It's about abstracting away the cost of it being your own fault. Realistically the cost of employing enough people, and buying enough hardware, to provide anything close to 99.X% uptime is much more than punting that over to a Cloud Pr
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Because they don't operate SSKs any more, same reason it isn't the sneaky UK. Both of whom are accused of operating in Russian waters, but those decisions are made at the very top of the political hierarchy on a per-mission basis.

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