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2701.
by dash2 12y ago
Apologies but what is neoreaction?
2702.
by dash2 12y ago
I grew up as a Christian and was taught evolution at Christian schools. If you believe in the literal truth of the Bible then clearly you cannot believe in evolution. But most Christians, at least most with any sense, do not believe that. F
2703.
by dash2 12y ago
DAMMIT PANZER!
2704.
by dash2 12y ago
There are lots of good reasons to worry about the ability of standard statistical tools to predict the future in the non-linear world of the social sciences. This article fails to hit its target, though. John Gray mentions other kinds of vi
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by dash2 12y ago
Hmm. developer dog --------- --- x x hairy x x over-affectionate x x personal hygiene issues x spends time burying bones x spends time buried in code
2706.
by dash2 12y ago
The argument is really compelling. There are good reasons to be suspicious when corporations want to go over the heads of national democratic legal systems. That said, the basic idea of TTIP is a REALLY GOOD THING. It's not just about
2707.
by dash2 12y ago
This is super cool. I love/hate it when somebody does something so simple that I go, "gosh, I could have thought of that!"... even though I obviously couldn't have, in a million years.
2708.
by dash2 12y ago
When I was 29, I felt just the same. Then I hit 30... and realised it doesn't matter. Relax. Worrying about being too old at 29 is absurd. When you are 39, I promise you, you will think back and laugh yourself silly. The all day sittin
2709.
by dash2 12y ago
If you literally mean that Germany was richer in the time before the introduction of the Euro, then simple GDP statistics show otherwise - not surprisingly, as it was a long time ago. If you mean the Euro was bad for the German economy, I w
2710.
by dash2 12y ago
Why is that unreasonable? Greek GDP has shrunk by a quarter: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=greece+gdp
2711.
by dash2 12y ago
One of RMS's points is that Uber exploits its drivers by paying them low wages. I've taken several Ubers in the past month. The drivers tell me that they get 80% of the cost of the ride. One guy said that his previous company took
2712.
by dash2 12y ago
Yeah, this whole thing looks like an advert for confusing correlation with causation. Social science can be better than this.
2713.
by dash2 12y ago
That last piece of research is interesting but has multiple interpretations, because they can't prove causation. Slightly silly example: maybe Congress only passes really good bills. Wealthy Americans are smarter than other Americans,
2714.
by dash2 12y ago
Hmm... * Your weekend newspaper would come out on Wednesday. * There would be new editions many times daily... not with new stories, just corrections of the first edition, which was blatantly inaccurate and partly written in Moldovan. * Eve
2715.
by dash2 12y ago
You are mistaken. From the report: On November --, 2002, adetainee who had been held partially nude and chained to a concrete floor died from suspected hypothermia at the facility. [camp COBALT]
2716.
by dash2 12y ago
I think equation 4 is just derived from equation 3. The top bit counts every time before that y_i has taken a particular value y, and multiplies it by the distance of the x value then, x_i, from the value of x now. (Squared and exponentiate
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by dash2 14y ago
Not sure you are right there, speaking as a Brit. Torture was used on internees, as detailed in the book Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain. I believe that torture also took place in Guantanamo, but I don't know whether it was worse. (Black pris
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by dash2 14y ago
I think it's hilarious and a brilliant idea. Everyone knows that dating is a lemons market, what's wrong with trying to fix it? And presumably you can rate things how you want... so if people want to put #Big.Feet or #AlwaysPays, that's the