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by crpatino 12y ago
You are so right, sir! On so many levels...
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by crpatino 12y ago
Given that Mars would be orders of magnitude harder to terraform than, well... Terra. Why do we even have to consider it? There's no plan B. Each of us is part of The Red Thin Line (href = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by crpatino 12y ago
Precisely!!! More over Humanity-the-Species is most likely not at risk anyways. Our ancestors went through multiple, radical and relatively rapid climate shifts during the Ice Ages, so a plausible argument can be made that some remnant of o
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by crpatino 12y ago
Try convincing the Baby Boomers that, aside from not having a retirement any time soon, and aside from having their kids moving back home, they will be moving back with their significant other and get their own families started on Boomer&#x
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by crpatino 12y ago
And how would that exactly benefit the 6+ billion people in the receiving end of that cringing events? Even assuming that a suitable planet is found in a time frame that matters, and the required space travel technology is developed in a
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by crpatino 12y ago
Because that would imply that the grand parents are the bread winners in the family, instead of "enjoying their golden years".
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by crpatino 12y ago
I don't care about the cat pictures at all, but my kids is another matter. Living in a country where rule of law is not to be taken for granted, it is a great source of concern to me that some idiot^H^H^H^H^H naive relative/friend
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by crpatino 12y ago
I found your naming of urban gardening as "faux-environmentalism" as extremely offensive. I have checked you PDF source and it basically says that, if urban gardeners use the same methods as industrial agribusiness producers, the
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by crpatino 12y ago
You know, you cannot always expect evidence of the type that scientists or courts demand. Specially when dealing with a victim of systematic injustice, you have to take their claims seriously. Not at face value, mind you, but seriously enou
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by crpatino 12y ago
That does not sound like most doctors I have met. Typical doctor's attitude is: "Look this white coat, that I happen to have and you don't? It means even if I tried to explain to you all the implications you are not smart eno
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by crpatino 12y ago
The term has evolved over time, but it definitively had negative connotations, at least at the beginning. From the Wikipedia article> This word comes from English dialect geek or geck (meaning a "fool" or "freak"; fro
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by crpatino 12y ago
On the other hand, the robot arm might have been carrying an iron rod that just looked like a gun, loaded or otherwise?
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by crpatino 12y ago
You are right of course. I just did not want to give out too many details.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Well... he seems to be the only one who actually drools so far (not counting the troll or any non human being).
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by crpatino 12y ago
Yeah, I did not like that one either. Though claiming that Dumbledore is portrayed as a "drooling moron" there (or anywhere else for the matter) is not precisely correct.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Also, I hate to bring this on, but is it possible to set a dead man switch to distribute your unedited notes on the final arc... just in case you get hit by a bus over the next couple of months/years?
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by crpatino 12y ago
On insufferability: My take is that during the first 12-15 chapters or so, LessWrong was using the context of the Potter-verse as a pretext to write about his vision on what constitutes "rationality", which may be called "Bay
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by crpatino 12y ago
Am I the only one for whom the opening scene of "I am Legend" came immediately to mind?
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by crpatino 12y ago
You assume that all learning takes place over the cramming phase, then all practices is about keeping the knowledge fresh. It is most likely that the cramming phase is an effective though limited way to break the novice threshold, though an
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by crpatino 12y ago
I could simply snap at you with "so said the dictator"... but I don't feel like burning away karma with a cheap shot. Instead, I will point out that most dictators in the world rationalize their actions as necessary to ensure
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by crpatino 12y ago
When I was pivoting away from my failed academic career - and the ripples of the Dot Com bubble were still fresh in most employers' minds - I had a job interview that went more or less like this: HR Clerk> Why should I pay you [for
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by crpatino 12y ago
Yes, I agree. That's why I believe we are not going to loose the technology to fly (at least within this century), unlike many people in the peak oil scene. However, you have to consider the economic feasibility, not just the technical
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by crpatino 12y ago
I think we have reached to point where we should admit that a career in software development needs much more learning than what can possibly be achieved at school (regardless of level). The current state of affairs holds the belief that no
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I think you're overestimating the NSA's capability to cross-reference your actions They don't need to do any cross referencing. Your parents, cousins, friends, former colleagues and classmates, etc, will sell you for a &
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by crpatino 12y ago
No chemical engineer I know learn how to go to the assembly line and take samples for quality control, either. And arguably this is a good thing. You pay to go to school in order to learn stuff that is useful across the board in many differ
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is an orthogonal issue from the one you brought in originally, and in this case I am 100% with you. In Programming 101, you require all assignments to be turned in by pushing to <insert your favorite control version here> reposit
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by crpatino 12y ago
Pretty much any language will work for teaching data structures badly . If your instructor is showing you a cool animation of a list with less than 30 elements being sorted by X algorithm, he's doing it badly. Or at least if that&#x27
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by crpatino 12y ago
I would say that it is a good thing that the core courses are static in time. It means the field is mature enough to support an undergraduate program at all. Physics and Chemistry majors spend most of their time at school catching up to the
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by crpatino 12y ago
Definitively not a "senior level position" guy, but let me give it a try. There is no such thing as what you are worth. Let's assume that it is possible to asses your BaseWorthIndex, which would include such factors as your t
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by crpatino 12y ago
> The fuel price have been stagnant for the past 60 years. If you use real money, i.e. gold or silver. Since most people would disagree that gold and silver are real money, the burden of proof is on your side. I think an equally compelli

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