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by crusso 11y ago
I'm not sure I follow you. The legal system is outside of the free market.
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by crusso 11y ago
So here is a guess: you are white, you have a standard hairstyle, you wear standard clothes. There's nothing like the irony of trying to combat bigotry with generalizations.
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by crusso 11y ago
Some in law enforcement feel that it's better to subdue resistance right at the beginning of the interaction with decisive or even harsh treatment. They go for the "Shock and awe" approach.
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, I spent more than a few seconds making sure that my browser window was selected, that my JS blocker wasn't interfering with the page, etc. before I gave up trying to get a hover text.
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by crusso 11y ago
I'm surprised I don't see more buzz about Steve Gibson's SQRL authentication system during discussions like this. It seems lightweight, simple, and fairly well thought-out. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.
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by crusso 11y ago
To eradicate these viruses, Dr. Church and his team engineered a new set of genes and inserted them into pig cells. The genes produced enzymes that hunted for PERVs and snipped out bits of the viral DNA So the genes were put in some cells
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by crusso 11y ago
Just make sure that while you're mucking with the DNA that you build in a display mechanism. Future races will get curious as to why trees display pictures on their trunks.
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by crusso 11y ago
This is completely common in America Except for the use of the term "fortnight". :)
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by crusso 11y ago
My takeaway from the article was the last sentence: And that's why I left the .NET Framework because it kept reasserting itself and wanting to be more than it was: an implementation detail.
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by crusso 11y ago
I don't avoid sites that don't allow comments, but I tend to prefer ones that do.
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by crusso 11y ago
It's a bit confusing that the term "eugenics" is overloaded. The classic eugenics was about forced breeding or sterilization of individuals or races to produce a "better" society. It was involuntary and racist. Th
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by crusso 11y ago
To me it's always seemed strange how there's an expectation that iconic leaders could have achieved all they achieved while being nice, polite, gentle, etc. You see it a lot when Steve Jobs is discussed - as though he could have b
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by crusso 11y ago
Except I didn't say any of the versions of what you paraphrased. I didn't say anyone was dumb. I didn't say "Hah". None of it. Why are people so heavily invested in maintaining their own ignorance? More attacks
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by crusso 11y ago
Please don't invent hostile motives in my post when none were being offered. I was simply pointing out the impasse expressed in the article. This isn't NASA's internal blog of scientists, so I'd think that possibly dum
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by crusso 11y ago
R.S.L.s are treated as special regions that NASA’s current robotic explorers are barred from because the rovers were not thoroughly sterilized We're not going to sterilize our research equipment going to Mars and we're not going
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by crusso 11y ago
How about a weaker FDA that simply advised people on the safety and efficacy of drugs rather than forcing everyone to follow their rules? That would technically be a weaker FDA, but enable more freedom for patients and their doctors to pur
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by crusso 11y ago
The FDA was the big lever that Skreli was attempting to use to skew the market in his favor. If the FDA weren't so powerful, flawed, and easily corruptible, the strategy would make no sense.
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by crusso 11y ago
I often see the "free market" referenced in contexts like this where it's the interactions of a corrupted government entity that is at the root of the trouble - yet the free market is the entity in the crosshairs.
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by crusso 11y ago
Countless hours of simulation tell me that in a world of limited resource induced competition, coordinated action is of paramount importance. Any trait (gene) that improves coordinated action is of benefit. Of course, my hours of simulatio
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by crusso 11y ago
So what you're saying is that you hate America and the idea of individual freedom? See what I did there? When we twist each other's words and don't even try to understand each other, a medium such as this becomes less than u
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by crusso 11y ago
There is something inside of humans that has for centuries made religion very popular More like millenia. When your little neo-human tribe could be coerced as a group into attacking the nearby human tribe to take their women and eliminat
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by crusso 11y ago
I didn't say that the Constitution couldn't fail us. It could definitely use some tweaks here and there, like with term limits for all government officials, disambiguation of some of the language, strengthening of states' ri
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by crusso 11y ago
I'd agree with that if we had Congressional term limits to make Congress more answerable to the people. As it is, incumbency is way too powerful and is partly to blame for the dysfunction we're currently seeing.
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by crusso 11y ago
Blaming the Constitution for many of our problems is like getting into your new Tesla drunk, disabling the safety features, then blaming it when you plow into a bus full of school children. Ben Franklin stated it well: In these sentiments,
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by crusso 11y ago
How much of the benefit of Crystal was due to just having a positive game plan for dealing with people that bolstered the author's confidence. The comments from Crystal reminded me of horoscopes. They could be correct about lots of di
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by crusso 11y ago
Yeah, Us+ looks like an app that totally failed technologically so the author now pretends that it's ironic. If that was her intention from the beginning, she's kind of a troll. I do see how the concept of an emotion reader would
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by crusso 11y ago
Well, if I didn't also have a family to consider - I think I'd move to another country. Just pick up and go somewhere interesting where I could challenge myself to learn a new language, culture, get a job in a new environment, an
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by crusso 11y ago
People talk about exponential technology progress as though we fully understood the problems we're trying to solve, so advances toward those problems' solutions will increase at an ever increasing and noticeable rate. Unfortunatel
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by crusso 11y ago
I'd just like to point out that ED medications are a godsend Hah, you got me there. Good point.
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by crusso 11y ago
What I'd give to be 30 again...

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