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by cobrausn 14y ago
That becomes less and less likely the more we think we can get away with, or if we can rationalize that nobody really gets hurt (cheating on an exam, for example). 'Free Will', and the belief that, ultimately, decisions made by you are you
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by cobrausn 14y ago
The notion of free will isn't silly - 'giving up' on it is an absurd suggestion. It appears to serve a very useful purpose towards enabling us to not all be sociopaths, and is possibly fundamental to our view of self as rational agents in
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by cobrausn 14y ago
How did they take an anti-weapons stance? The article points out that this small vendor was kicked for selling exactly what the larger vendors sell.
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I've been doing some searching on why switchblades are illegal (your post sparked my curiosity) and can't seem to find a good reason other than 'politicians are scared of whatever hollywood villifies'. It seems all the interest in switchbl
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Not all code is readable. Some of it always ends up being an ugly hack. If that ugly hack is not documented, I want to start punching previous developers. I wish people would stop taking these purist approaches. There is an obvious middl
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Still, his point that creative works should be viewed in a vacuum holds merit. If the work itself doesn't express something you disagree with, then there is no reason to rail against it. Our creative works can be better than we are.
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Allowing local bureaucrats unchecked decision making abilities when it comes to who gets locked up where. Last I checked, that's pretty hard to pull off in the West, despite all the rest of our problems. And when it does happen, it's an o
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Your first two complaints about Britain might have been true a couple hundred years ago. In the meantime, China still has Gulags. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21822684
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I agree - there were multiple factors. But... PlayHaven had an employee who was identified as making inappropriate comments at PyCon, and as a company that is dedicated to gender equality and values honorable behavior, we conducted a thor
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http://blog.playhaven.com/addressing-pycon/ PlayHaven adressed this directly. They are blaming it on the incident at PyCon.
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This mimics my boot camp experiences pretty close, although the article's example of 'You WILL be punished for what seems like something completely arbitrary at the time' rings true. I'm now convinced that you only need to meet the followi
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So, in retaliation for an internet lynch mob being formed to go after one person, we form an internet lynch mob to go after another? This whole thing sucks.
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Your first statement is an unprovable assertion. He might get an equal number of upvotes from Adriana-supporting hardliners, but perhaps they are just outnumbered. You are trying to frame this conversation in terms of 'you support women in
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Probably, but that might have more to do with Africa (and what was done there) than diamonds.
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Sure, and we all know it. But from her perspective, you probably waste all kinds of time and money on other inane bullshit for yourself. So if you actually cared, you wouldn't mind spending a bit so she gets a shiny rock to wear around.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
I'm reminded of this tweet from John Carmack. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/185757996473790464 John Carmack ‏@ID_AA_Carmack I’m going to turn on every damn light in protest of Earth Hour. Lighting the darkness is fundamental t
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by cobrausn 14y ago
When I was an MP (military police), they taught us a bit about escalation , wherein you only use what is necessary for the task at hand and reevaluate as the situation changes. Cops certainly do not need to be using 'weapons that belong on
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/nyregion/bystanders-shooti... Imagine harder. This kind of thing happens all the time.
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The post speaks for itself - the snark is not required here.
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Google hit by $7m Street View fine in US(bbc.co.uk)
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by cobrausn 14y ago
I'd say that number is probably higher - I know a number of people who believe evolution happens but think that humanity didn't evolve from monkeys. Because we are special, or something. I generally don't query further.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Another thing we don’t have is reliable, long-term data on where the guns that are actually used in crimes come from. One of the ways we legislate gun use is through registration programs and systems that limit who can buy a gun legally. B
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Now if only 'we' would figure out that non-technical does not mean stupid.
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You run into it again when you start working with other developer's code. And once you learn to use curly braces, you don't forget that either. I haven't been plagued by curly braces since college - I work with C / C++ / Lua / Ruby on a da
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by cobrausn 14y ago
The first time I ran into the spaces vs. tab problem I wanted my curly braces back.
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Don't confuse an effective single-payer system for what we have or what 'Obamacare' (I hate that word) is giving us.
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This was linked in the comments (by the author): https://www.facebook.com/sedatk/posts/10151240841812644 Sedat Kapanoglu · 2,372 followers 3 hours ago near Maslak, Istanbul Today I was at the Istanbul courthouse third time this year. I a
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The Owl Embedded Python System(embeddedpython.org)
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Personal anecdotes? How about some real numbers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_rage A 2007 study of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas concluded that the cities with the least courteous drivers (most road rage) are Miami, Phoenix,
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Fortuitous for this, yes, but the reason why is somewhat unfortunate for Russia. http://jalopnik.com/why-russians-are-obsessed-with-dash-cams... EDIT: Just realized this was posted as a HN news item, probably from the original source. ht

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