davidhollander

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by davidhollander 14y ago
> Even without limited liability, it's just not really illegal to pollute. If your pollution increases my risk of lung cancer by 250%, that is something that has a cost. You can put a dollar value on that statistical probability. But y
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by davidhollander 14y ago
I'd be interested in the justifications for "wholly impractical". Businesses are already quite capable of purchasing liability insurance including for pollution, so I imagine the debate is over the benefits of centralized vs. decentralized
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> It's basic economics that the market fails to pick efficient winners and losers in industries that involve large negative externalities. Real life is not so simple, as negative externalities can also be generated by legal frameworks
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by davidhollander 14y ago
One possible hypothesis could be: since diabetes causes accelerated accumulation of AGEs, and Alzeihmer's is correlated with accelerated accumulation of AGEs, and processed food is high in AGEs, consumption of processed food is also bad. On
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by davidhollander 14y ago
I imagine the following are relevant concerns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrosamine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product A hot dog is going to be both high in Sodi
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> I call everything that is not a truth, that is it's not 100% factually correct and 100% complete, a 'lie'. Are you confident that - outside of very narrow formalisms - you can describe anything 100% accurately? This is an unworkable
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Would you be comfortable explaining to relatives, aquantainces, and the elderly in a casual conversation: How to install, use, and maintain linux. How to install, use, and maintain their own mail server and spam filters. How PGP works. How
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by davidhollander 14y ago
A native client without a user data sandbox doesn't solve the problem of networked applications leaking private data and spying on the user at all. The code needs to be open source, versioned, vetted, and only obtained via a trusted reposit
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by davidhollander 14y ago
I don't see an architectural alternative for such services yet. You'd need a client side app sandbox which allows servers to schedule routines to run locally on secret data, without leaking back data which the server can decrypt. It would a
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> Government shouldn't have any business in what is ethical or moral but in what is legal "Enforcement" is the use of force to assert an ethical and moral position. "Legal Enforcement" is the monopolistic use of force to assert an ethic
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> I feel sorry for you USA, because you lost it and you wont get it back. The position that the USA "lost" the policy of "health as a right" is nonsensical, because it never previously possessed it in its 236 years of existence. You mig
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Quite simply, Wozniak has conflated regulation of government (constitutional law) with regulation by government (statutory law) through the use of the ambiguous phrase "government regulation". The Bill of Rights regulates the actions wh
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by davidhollander 14y ago
If this is a justified belief rather than a faith-based belief, you'll need to offer a refutation of Thomas Rid's "Cyber War Will Not Take Place", which holds that cyber-war is contradictory because acts of cyber-war do not fulfill the defi
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by davidhollander 14y ago
I don't; to negate the position that the existence of communication surveillance agencies can be considered both beneficial and necessary for an arbitrary population by assumption.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> don't forget that we need an organization like the NSA For those of us who have already forgotten or have never known the reason for its necessity, could you explain why? Internationally and historically, similar levels of state comm
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by davidhollander 14y ago
This seems rather mercantilist. There are many island nations with little natural resources and little capacity for offensive intelligence gathering which are quite wealthy through trade alone.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
I'm not European but my understanding was that they literally vote no against everything as some sort of protest? Their statement if this is the correct vote you are referring to: "Whilst we as a group voted against the ACTA Resolution on W
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> WolframAlpha is one of the nearest things we have to the "advanced Artificial Intelligence" from the article; in a certain sense, it actually does create new content. The conclusions one draws from the article is that it creates ne
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> arbitrage between virtual economies Exchange between virtual currencies is discussed somewhat in the 2009 documentary "Another Perfect World" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZP_ur_Tvo#t=25m Near the end they interview the CEO of a
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Stating failures first can also be considered analogous to input validation, preconditions, or declaring the domain for which the function is undefined. Some related discussion on here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuardClause
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Food, food preparation, medicine, and health treatments\consultations are considered goods and services. Could you give some specific examples of things which can be said to be externally valued by a collective "we" which are neither goods
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> where we value money over people's health. This is sort of a nonsensical statement, as money is simply an external means by which to make such relative comparisons of value between things which are good. Perhaps you meant to assert th
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> Can this eliminate the callback hell that plagues the explicitly async frameworks (node.js, jquery, twisted, etc)? But what about the downside? Can you migrate the suspended coroutine to another process No, Lua coroutines only provi
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by davidhollander 14y ago
He argues that position by repeatedly making the assertion that consumers create jobs and businesses do not: > only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. > the true job creators are consu
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by davidhollander 14y ago
False dilemma fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma You can't attribute the existence of "jobs" exclusively to "businesses" or exclusively to "consumers", because "trade" definitionally requires the existence of two parties.
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Countries with smaller population, smaller geographical area, or more homogenous culture are at some point more comparable to individual states in the US than the United States as a whole. "Federated" isn't very meaningful relative to other
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> Would anyone here know the validity or the restrictions with which the news people are constrained to tell the whole story? Only the rules of validity that restrict all statements, such as the law of non-contradiction. Individuals suc
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How It's Made: videos of the manufacture of everyday objects(youtube.com)
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by davidhollander 14y ago
> A first-class modern Linux distribution for the desktop If you want a modern Linux desktop and web browser scriptable in Lua, consider installing Awesome window manager[1] and LuaKit[2] on top of the distro of your choice instead. [1]
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by davidhollander 14y ago
Another question pertinent to the hypothetical situation you pose: Should the FBI be able to keep the store's records of purchases made by other citizens not under investigation if they are "accidently" discovered during the process of sear

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