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by dalke 10y ago
Are you sure the original idea came from Burke, not Hobbes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes : > "[Hobbes'] 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later We
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by dalke 10y ago
It's a term originally from the 1700s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract . I learned it in US history courses in school. My best guess about the "whistle" lwhalen refers to is the anti-libert
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by dalke 10y ago
Agreed. Or San Diego. I also thought the comment "our unique position in micro/nanotechnology coming from a long tradition of watchmaking" was very odd. Basel's long history with the chemistry industry goes back to 1800s
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by dalke 10y ago
Or have a feature phone with no Bluetooth.
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by dalke 10y ago
> " found characteristic burn marks on the ground which told him an accelerant had pooled there." I thought that was one of the debunked myths of forensics. Quoting http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news
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by dalke 10y ago
They do have motivation to undercut the competition and make short term profits. With many middlemen, the bootlegger's customer is rarely an end user. The end-user doesn't know who on the supply chain has adulterated the alcohol f
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by dalke 10y ago
I am also confused. I think it's your last point - the gym should know the first four, at least for ones where you sign in/show your membership on arrival. I'm also not sure what the gym would do with most of that information
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by dalke 10y ago
Thanks! The "any system" is very broad. Look like I wont be making a side-business selling them a bunch of restored IBM sorting machines. (Speaking of which, sorting machines and punched card I/O is an active hobby market. Ap
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by dalke 10y ago
By saying "did not clearly rise to lethal", you have changed the goalposts. You started by saying the grandmother needed it to defend herself against assault. I gave an example of an assault where a weapon proved worse than useles
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by dalke 10y ago
And how many grandmothers have successfully defended themselves with a weapon? That's the missing side. (And yes, the numbers for that vary from 55,000 to 4.7 million total home defense use - good luck on narrowing it down to kabdib sc
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by dalke 10y ago
And substitute child killing someone by accident to child injuring someone by accident. You are the one who proposed that made-for-TV scenario as if it should justify anything. Since the law have been set up to prohibit the government from
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by dalke 10y ago
How many times has that "80-year-old grandmother" scenario happened? In all those countries with stricter gun laws, how many more times are those defenseless grandmothers been assaulted than in the US? I believe it's a fracti
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by dalke 10y ago
A few minutes ago (and after your comment) one of the commenters of that issue tested against Apache Commons CSV and found that Java was 1.9x faster than Go, rather than the original 3x: https://github.com/golang/go&#x
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by dalke 10y ago
What is the 1986 law which says "No searchable database of America's gun owners"? Does that mean the paper files can't be sorted alphabetically by name? Does it exclude more complex paper-based search systems, like needl
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by dalke 10y ago
This has come up a few times in the last few days: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Spaces%20or%20Tabs%3F&sort=byD... . The one with the most comments (120) is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12397246
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by dalke 10y ago
Apparently it was not product placement, but meant for laughter. I thought it was placement when I saw it.
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by dalke 10y ago
There are some workarounds. There are old shows, where the product placements are no longer relevant. "Mom! The Shadow says we should buy Blue Coal." (Yes, that's a radio show; how about the Zima sign in a Babylon 5 episode?)
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by dalke 10y ago
The only reference for the "admission" is a link to http://www.nature.com/news/brazil-asks-whether-zika-acts-alo... which is titled "Brazil asks whether Zika acts alone to cause birth defects". Noth
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by dalke 10y ago
The content used the word "resume" only once, to argue that people now start companies that don't have a viable business plan, because those are "resumes designed to reduce the information asymmetry of a hire." It d
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by dalke 10y ago
The word should be "reportedly", not "actually".
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by dalke 10y ago
Is this like a data table like in the pandas package for Python, or in R?
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by dalke 10y ago
Is this supposed to be a serious analysis or a gut feeling? Why are Intelligence Agencies included in a report about media outlets and their reporting? (And why not the NIH, or NASA, or other US agencies?) Why is Clinton sometime referred t
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by dalke 10y ago
That sounds like a ShowHN would be a better fit than a comment.
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by dalke 10y ago
If you mean "from data acquired since connection to STEREO-B was reestablishd", then no. The abstract of the paper says: > "We present image sequences collected by the inner Heliospheric Imager instrument on board the Sola
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by dalke 10y ago
That means there was an under-reliance on system testing, which I agree with. It doesn't imply there was an over-reliance on unit testing any more than it implies there was an over-reliance on analysis or over-reliance on the expectati
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by dalke 10y ago
Phlarp's original comment was about 'a "Range Safety Officer" on the ground whose entire job is to determine if and when to deploy this self destruct system.' The text I quoted implies there is an onboard flight t
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by dalke 10y ago
"Over-reliance on unit testing"? I have a somewhat different read from the inquiry board report, which says it was a "systematic software design error." Yes, inadequate testing, and a belief the working code for Ariane 4
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by dalke 10y ago
That links to http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2323/1 where one of the comments is: > Like Russian vehicles, there is no flight termination system that receives ground commands onboard Chinese launch vehic
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by dalke 10y ago
Those interested in this topic may enjoy Ange Albertini's presentation at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress, on "Funky File Formats", https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events&#x2F
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by dalke 10y ago
> I get told today that Irish tax rate is 20% for example, 5 years down the line I can just expect someone to send me a letter stating that actually - I got preferential tax and I should repay another 20% on everything. Were all the othe

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