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by cristianpascu 11y ago
If one is drunk, driving a car increases your chances of dying. Having a fast car will increase those chances too. :)
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Interesting example here, in Romania, where a very small but vocal minority (atheists and agnostics, 0.2% of the population) have a constant political fight against public funding of religious cults (18 officially recognised), that is the ~
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Misunderstanding. I believe we have enough reasons to think that ancient/medieval folks were smart enough to NOT believe gods live on the Moon.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
>> "When modern science swept away this dualistic symbolic schema, Europeans came to see themselves as inhabitants of a Euclidean void: we lived on a planet that orbited an insignificant star in potentially infinite space."
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
They're one of the exceptions. However, antivirus market is really crowded, so I don't there're anything exceptional in that. Same with Avangate. VectorWatch is making the news these days, I'm personally not impressed, b
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I don't think we can honestly say there is something really serious coming out of Romania (with few exceptions) as long as our overall culture still lags behind. Entrepreneurial culture is built on the general state of culture, the jui
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Ok, my bad! I should've read more carefully!
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
>> Psychologists understand the biological, environmental, and social factors that affect behavior and are reluctant to label people as “evil” whereas conservatives are far more likely to adhere to a Biblical moral code where there ar
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Replace conservatives with women or afro-american and see if the answer still sounds legit. I think you're oversimplifying. Academia is still a social environment and social pressure still exists. I don't think it's fair to s
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Reading this article I had the same feeling I had when I was a physics student in math classes: Why the haskel do I need this? Like every time some abstract math concepts were introduced with no connection to reality whatsoever.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
As a total noob, I'd say climate is a pretty complex problem to cheer at this as a 'good news'. Yes, there may be highly exaggerated attitudes on both sides, but scientific problems should addressed with data and verified sci
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
How is Svven different from services like Flipboard?
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Just yesterday I was looking for a solution to mix HTML, *Script and CSS preprocessors in one single file. So happy I found this project! There's hope.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
The first thought that came into mind when reading the article was: "We write bad code, the language is to blame". If all your variables are named "i", than yes, you have issues. If your code goes deeper and deeper in ca
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
>> "JS is an ugly language" >> "riddled with complex JS" If you pick a technology by the aesthetics of the language, I'm pretty sure you'll make a bad decision no matter what. Not you like in you, b
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Funny fact, any commercial for a drug, here in Romania, is ending with a very fast auction-style warning that last less than 5 seconds. In US you have like 5 minutes of country music and elder people having a picknic while all the possible
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
A friend of mine said that placebo is very effective in Romania (our country) too. I may mistake it, but she said that it can reach something like 70-80%. Maybe it's a developing countries problem. :)
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
It's a good start, but the solution is based on the default behavior of HTML/CSS, that is to position text in the middle of the leading. Text should sit on the baseline. There's a sass library that solves this problem nicel
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Is it Steve Jobs that told dropbox founders this?
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Interesting, I didn't see that. I'll read again. But if you're right, then it is not that interesting. :) Anyways, I think that the real good in her life was finding someone to love.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I, too, felt the dismisal and the return to mere experience was superficial. Experience would not be possible without an ontological grounding. Just because you ignore it, does not make anything better. You feel better about yourself? Cool,
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
A brilliant joke. :)
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
[Troll] 100 bn neurons * 7k connections + 1 soul. Nait! :)
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Skepticism is important (especially to religious believers), but it doesn't give you a clue about the right path in life. Anger, the strongest asset of Dawkins et al., will not help you or me in any way. Ever.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Remember that placebo is a well known phenomena, so far without any reasonable explanation. It is there and obviously, hope, no matter its source, helps.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Compiler, rather.
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
What matters more to me is that, as far as we know, there is no known link between genes and psychology. That is, which genes and HOW they affect our psychology. I personally believe (strongly) that exposure to parent's stories and tra
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
True, my father told me that the day science came up with the tunneling effect, he stoped believing in a loving God. How can one believe in God when we have computers so powerful that we can post pictures of cats on the internet?
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I think the problem of proving the (non) existence of something is as simple as understanding that (most of the time) it can not be deductive. I'd say that when it comes to existence, it is always inductive. What kind of proof can anyo
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Exactly!

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