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by deciplex 11y ago
Unless they can find a way to turn Mars into a magnet, this seems like a waste of time.
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by deciplex 11y ago
It seems like I say this every time we have this thread, but anyway here goes: The problem here is not that massive, nearly record-setting levels of wealth disparity are unfair, or even that people are unhappy. If everyone, or nearly everyo
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I also find it rather strangely fortuitous that our year is about 360 days, which makes the math for the calculating how much the night sky changes every night particularly easy. Can you elaborate? I guess you're referring to th
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by deciplex 11y ago
I stopped taking options given away by startups seriously on November 10, 2011 [1]. Maybe stock is not "free", but employees should discount the nominal value a lot more than they seem to. What's a good ratio, as a rule of th
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Occam's razor is a rule of thumb and an aesthetic boon, but nothing more. Occam's razor is a bit more than that. It isn't just that given a theory X and a theory Y = X + ε, both of which fit the facts, you should pref
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by deciplex 11y ago
That's not the original source though, FYI.
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by deciplex 11y ago
I don't know why this is getting downvoted - it raises a good point. What Samsung has done is definitely Bad News, but Microsoft has set a precedent recently that they will abuse the Windows Update app's special place on Windows i
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by deciplex 11y ago
> After 5 years in the country I can apply for permanent residence status (which is similarly rubber-stampy). You can apply after five years, but it only gets 'rubber-stampy' where you are basically sure to get it, after ten.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> For me, there is a world of difference between mistreating a relatively low number of terror suspects - and regretting it after a few years - and detaining innocent civilians, including children, without trial. The US government has
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by deciplex 11y ago
Individual activities are precisely not what we're talking about, and at any rate you're wrong even at the level of an individual.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Perhaps the reason everyone thinks there is a shortage of developers, is that 'to iOS dev in a week' is somehow an acceptable metric to determine if someone is a good hire or not. I can not fathom the mindset that goes into the li
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by deciplex 11y ago
Exactly. The clearest signal that a company can send that it is truly a good place to work, is to pay a good salary. A strong commitment there implies strong commitments elsewhere. It's not always the case, of course, but you can tru
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by deciplex 11y ago
Everyone tries to market themselves as being an employee-friendly place to work, even if (or maybe especially if) they aren't. It is very difficult for a candidate to separate signal and noise here. On the other hand, a salary is a
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by deciplex 11y ago
Who was responsible for the Windows 10 nag that appeared in my system tray a few weeks back? Have they been sacked?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Ah, I did not realize LastPass had a client which did the encryption and decryption locally. Thanks for clarifying. Is the client open-source?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Why does anyone use LastPass when KeepPass and GDrive/BTSync/SpiderOak exist?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Perhaps you don't need to dismiss his arguments outright, but you should definitely examine the claims of a known plagiarist and liar a lot more closely than someone with a relatively unblemished record.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> the average person values money for what it can do for them, while billionaires and large companies value money as a scorecard I don't think you're right about billionaires and large companies, actually, but at any rate: th
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by deciplex 11y ago
Picks and buys, perhaps, but some of us who have to use the stuff are here :-)
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'm sorry to hear that the boundaries themselves are not interesting to you, since you seem to have some opinions about policy itself, which ought to be informed as much as possible by actual facts. If a governing or organizing body at
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by deciplex 11y ago
Censorship need not involve a government entity. Censorship is not equivalent to violating the First Amendment.
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by deciplex 11y ago
What constitutes "hate speech"? I understand and agree with your point regarding speech that is literally advocating violent action against an individual or group, but what about speech that e.g. claims that there is no sexism in
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by deciplex 11y ago
These results only imply time travel if you insist that something must either be a wave or a particle in the first place, and that 'therefore' the particle must be communicating with itself back through time somehow. Funny that a
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by deciplex 11y ago
The only way they would not be leaving money on the table is if their work was so irrelevant that making it public domain would be a waste of time anyway.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Under what circumstances should a work enter the public domain, if ever?
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by deciplex 11y ago
Has anyone who knew what they were talking about every seriously suggested that your brain could "fill up", like a hard disk running out of free space? It seems like the closest you could get to that is your neurons becoming compl
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by deciplex 11y ago
Is there a name for cognitive bias where extremely unfavorable events like the end of antibiotics, or a permanent technological dark age, or the extinction of the human race, are dismissed a priori with no justification? Like, something
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by deciplex 11y ago
Which one? I think it is more likely you just missed it. I've never noticed a convenience store without one, though now I guess I will be looking out for it.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Maybe, but "go away, I hate white people" seems a slight overreaction.
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by deciplex 11y ago
How about at the counter of a 7-11?

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