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by crpatino 11y ago
It sounds reminiscent of the "I am rich" app[1], and even more to the apparently apocryphal copycat "I am not stupid" (which was presumably sold for US$1.99) [1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_
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by crpatino 11y ago
I think you are projecting the narriative of Progres (TM) onto the accurate facts you are presenting. i.e. the Catholic Church did not invent checks and balances. They used to have those in the Old Republic, but those were abandoned after t
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by crpatino 11y ago
Wow! you made me thing of Eldrich Palmer, of The Strain fame.
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by crpatino 11y ago
It takes decades to retool the whole industry. Inventing new forms of energy is just the begining, you have to make those available in wide scale. Whole new industries have to be born and old industries have to be let fade and die. It is no
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by crpatino 11y ago
It is a fact that conventional oil has already peaked, sometime in the last 5-10 years. Shale oil, tar sands and the like are picking up part of the slack, though their EROI is lower (though still a little better than renewables) and have a
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by crpatino 11y ago
If they had gone to Mars, the tally would have been 0/237. The reason why? Because the differences of scale between going and coming back from Mars vs the Moon is about as much as the Circumnavigation of Earth and doing an average sail
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by crpatino 11y ago
> but if you live in this area you _must_ have a car and thus have no trouble reaching a ridiculous number of grocery stores. And because of this mentality, everyone that cannot or will not drive will end up being ripped off with $5 US m
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by crpatino 11y ago
Right, which is why the GPs were such an undervalued cornerstone of the old fashioned medical system. They were the ones supposed to hold the big picture in mind, and to cousel their patients when the intervention of an specialist was neede
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by crpatino 11y ago
If 3 different whitehats found the same bug independently, it's fairly sure bet that a number of blackhats are already exploiting it.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Right, I'd considered those to be part of the first group, but the differences are too obvious to not grant a cathegory of their own. At the end of day, though, it all boils down to claiming a niche in society. If you fill a niche, you
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by crpatino 11y ago
There has always been deviants, and there have always been two kind of deviants: the ones that figure out how to blend with the masses while retaining their identity, and the ones that meet sad ends at the wrong side of a pitchfork.
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by crpatino 11y ago
This is factually incorrect. Even if antibiotics become less effective (they are not becoming ineffective, is just that resistant bacteria require higher doses, which start to become problematic from the side effects point of view). First o
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by crpatino 11y ago
Funny! According to the Law of the Similars, a micro doze of some agent counters whatever ill that would result from a macro doze of the same agent. So a homeopathic nuke would be the cure for radiation poisoning!!!
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by crpatino 11y ago
> Are they committed to my company and the job or not? What have you done for them besides offering a rosy mission/vision statement that may or may not end up being a bad joke like a lot of rosy mission/vision statements out t
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by crpatino 11y ago
I do not follow. Are you talking about a degenerate team of one, or what?
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by crpatino 11y ago
I think the problem is that you are supposed to figure out what to live for on your own. If anything, they are given too much to live for, so when something turns sour they do not know what else to do.
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by crpatino 11y ago
> [Taylorism] include analysis; synthesis; logic; rationality; empiricism; work ethic; efficiency and elimination of waste; standardization of best practices. To be fair, you have to accept that Taylorist doctrine states very emphaticall
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by crpatino 11y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by crpatino 11y ago
So, if he were white his comment would not have been out of order? Makes lots of sense to me. They cannot get at the black man for being black, so they all pretend to be idiots who cannot tell the difference between having a poor sense of h
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by crpatino 11y ago
You know, in days like this I wonder if the hordes of Orcs ravaging the Middle Earth were really evil... or just wanting to make an honest living for them and their families while waiting for their stock options on World Domination Inc. to
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by crpatino 11y ago
From what my French friends have told me, the public attitude there does take for granted that Government will know everything about you. They see the US debate over Internet privacy as silly (never had enjoyed those liberties themselves du
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by crpatino 11y ago
Stratoscope was already done a superb job explaining. But just to show why my question was not that dumb... Let's say you want to represent "two-million" in 32bit float: Your answer is: 0x1e8480 * 2^0. However, I was expectin
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by crpatino 11y ago
How is that? I assume the mantissa is chosen to represent the full number, but how is the exponent set so that the granularity is of exactly 1.0? And of course 1x10^7 + 2x10^7 != 3x10^7, right?
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by crpatino 11y ago
Or, for that matter, 1.0 + 2.0 != 3.0
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by crpatino 11y ago
What kind of interest do you pay in the US for student loans, anyways? Completely forgetting about your credit card debt, or even your mortgage, for any extended period of time sounds like an amazingly stupid decision. Ignore compound inter
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by crpatino 11y ago
Agreed. Same can be said about the water heather and the dishwasher. If they both failed so close one another it was either an Act-of-God (and outlier that no one ought to experience more than once, statistically speaking) or more likely th
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by crpatino 11y ago
This has nothing to do with modern diet, the trend the GP is speaking is at least centuries old. Traditional Chinese culture believes raw food damages the Qi of the Stomach. This belief may be grounded in the fact that their traditional way
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by crpatino 11y ago
If every tycoon has 2 or 3 heirs, chances are that unless one of them inherits the parent drive (and then goes to amass more wealth), the fortune will spread out. We all know how the exponential function works, it does not take that many ge
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by crpatino 11y ago
What service level agreement? Most licenses for freemium apps sale the product "as is". I agree that candid people may make binding promises that they were in no position to fulfill, sometime not even noticing. And I agree they ha
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by crpatino 11y ago
No, that's more like treating cancer with dope.

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