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by deciplex 11y ago
Dark matter is probably popping into and out of all our minds, all the time, and we just don't notice it.
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by deciplex 11y ago
You don't need to miss it, as 携帯 is still an acceptable term to describe a smartphone, and frankly I'm not sure スマホ is on track to being a fixture of the Japanese language. Adoption of the term seems a bit spotty. Which I think is
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by deciplex 11y ago
Eh, I'm not so sure about that. We don't really have many even nominal principalities these days, so it's hard to imagine a state where both the people and the government are expected to serve the sovereign as a matter of cou
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by deciplex 11y ago
Also cf "I like washing the dishes right after dinner" vs "I like to wash the dishes right after dinner."
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's more common in countries where rule of law has broken down, for exactly the reason dageshi is talking about: you can make the laws harsh and as long as they are broadly not enforced people will not care, but it gives you cover to
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by deciplex 11y ago
> It seems to me that the U.S. needs to have a broader discussion about what levels of government surveillance and intrusiveness into private lives we are comfortable with. Actually I don't really want to have that discussion, bot
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's also worth pointing out that apparently in some later editions of the game they have reimplemented this bug as a joke. (Not a very good joke, IMO.)
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I'm really starting to think that conservatives might have a point that the 21st century left has a problem with name calling and ad hominem to shut down debate. Most of that is movement conservatives complaining that their days
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by deciplex 11y ago
Exactly my point. Adding additional information can't possibly make it less obvious.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Despite what others are saying here I think take-home tests are a great idea. What is a terrible idea however is requiring that a candidate complete your take-home test, that you wrote and will administer. It is simply not reasonable
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by deciplex 11y ago
Why didn't you just write this: > A CS student is going to turn out very different programs from a 20 year veteran.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> So how exactly is anyone supposed to gain new experience? By having commits on Github numbering in the middle five digits, of course! The only downside is eventually employers will move on to some other arbitrary bullshit metric, and
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by deciplex 11y ago
The longer a person has been "dating" without settling down, or been in a failed marriage or two, the less likely that person is a long-term suitable partner compared to baseline. Of course the difference in likelihood may not be
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by deciplex 11y ago
Well, clearly the kind of low self-esteem psychopath who keeps track of past crushes in the hopes of weaseling his way into an affair/relationship with women who have already proven they are less likely to make suitable partners than b
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by deciplex 11y ago
Apropos of nothing: > English is the lingua franca of the world I love reading, and hearing, these words. Heh.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Moreover, even if some powerful lobby were able to show that it will derive modest benefits from bulldozing all of Seattle's parks and replacing them with temples of consumerism, it doesn't follow that doing so would make economic
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by deciplex 11y ago
In fact, if piracy really had the deleterious effects on culture and artistic expression that copyright advocates always claim it does, I suspect you'd see much more of a social taboo against piracy than exists now. I'm not one to
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by deciplex 11y ago
If you think that education, or the lack thereof, of politicians anywhere is the reason for absurd copyright law across the entire globe, you really aren't paying attention. There is no argument clever enough or convincing enough t
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by deciplex 11y ago
uhhhhh.... Nothing about apt is walled off at all.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> for example, if you reject mind-body dualism, without which the assumed concepts of "internal" and "external" are somewhat absurd How are they absurd? You don't have to believe that "your mind" is a
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by deciplex 11y ago
First, I'll assume you meant 'photon'. With that in mind, is it your assertion that if photons have no mass, they necessarily possess no energy? Because if so, and assuming you have some reason for believing this i.e. you c
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by deciplex 11y ago
This is just cowardly defeatism, a trend all too common these days in American public policy. Too many ideas which are provably sound as borne out by their implementation by other nations (cf universal health care for another example), wave
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by deciplex 11y ago
This is an awfully confident-sounding post for being so off base.
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by deciplex 11y ago
It seems the main thing holding back the world economy is the mistaken assumption that a sliver of the population hoarding all the capital constitutes an economy in the first place. It does not.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Eh, maybe. 20 years would put you in the late 60s/ early 70s for thermonuclear bombs, I think. I could see it staying classified for a while past that. And, if releasing the information will put someone's life in danger, sure. But
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by deciplex 11y ago
> That "is really hard to curb," he said. "We can't essentially babysit adults and their behavior." We need more people like this in government.
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by deciplex 11y ago
This is just a poorly thought-out hit piece, right? > Yet, even back then, observers and media partners felt that Mr. Assange had more in mind than transparency, that there was an ideology behind his idea. Over time, that ideology has b
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by deciplex 11y ago
Just FYI to anyone thinking of doing this: "prolonged time" can mean years . For me, the effect is still there even if very faint. I see the green and red, just initially whenever I view the checkerboard, and it goes away after a
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by deciplex 11y ago
And, there is a cap on the maximum number of voters who could possibly give a damn at any given moment. Most of the people who would raise concerns about these executive orders will not be too concerned about overreach by the executive once
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by deciplex 11y ago
> A free market is only constrained by the morality of individuals It really isn't even very constrained by that . It helps if people are generally virtuous, but even an institution where the majority of the people are of good mo

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