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721.
by deciplex 11y ago
> Snowden probably should face charges I agree. Let's put him on trial right after the trials for Keith Alexander and James Clapper wrap up. And while we're prosecuting him for it, we can draw up charges against half the Senate
722.
by deciplex 11y ago
> There's a reason jury nullification is a thing, but there's also a reason the defense can't openly argue for it in court. The reason being that if jurors knew they could just choose not to convict people who broke unjust
723.
by deciplex 11y ago
The only reason I can think of is OP wants to avoid the inevitable drop in prestige and decision-making power once the suits roll in and regard every engineer in the firm as an interchangeable cog in the machine. A better question is "
724.
by deciplex 11y ago
Ask for donations. If the donations don't at least cover the cost of running the site, shut it down (unless you're happy paying out of pocket).
725.
by deciplex 11y ago
> The weight of old, bad ideas might be harder to shake off. This sort of thinking seems to me a consequence of assuming that brains are somehow separate from the rest of the body, almost bordering on dualism. They might be easier to s
726.
by deciplex 11y ago
No, you see, our current medical treatments and the resulting longevity are exactly optimal given human social psychology. Anything less is backward and primitive, and anything more is scary and weird.
727.
by deciplex 11y ago
Your link to "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?" is broken. It appears the page has been deleted.
728.
by deciplex 11y ago
Another data point for Shipito - I've been using them for a few years to re-mail stuff to Japan from the US.
729.
by deciplex 11y ago
> There's a ton of research demonstrating that once you've formed an opinion, you'll actively defend this opinion in the face of contrary evidence. Everyone does this to some extend, and the best prevention is to not form
730.
by deciplex 11y ago
That's nice. In fact I just learned that Microsoft is now in the business of installing malware on their own damn operating system (perhaps I'm late to the party on this). No, I'm not talking about them pre-installing Candy C
731.
by deciplex 11y ago
Uh, you're both really missing the important part: > If it turns out that you're objectively wrong, the clash will focus your attention and you'll learn . Yeah, if you have a bunch of ill-informed wrong opinions and, out
732.
by deciplex 11y ago
Why can't you monetize? You could stick ads in there, at least.
733.
by deciplex 11y ago
"Use to" can be correct, e.g. "Didn't we use to go to the same school?" The tense of "use" should match the tense of the predicate.
734.
by deciplex 11y ago
I imagine a manual step somewhere along the way - not at the level of individual withdrawals and deposits, of course, so it scales well enough - but still someone has to be in the office until that ATM is closed.
735.
by deciplex 11y ago
I have worked for people who were overly (sometimes unjustly) confident in themselves and also for one person who was basically a dispassionate, consensus-building Bayesian optimizer. A confident person might be able to get more people on h
736.
by deciplex 11y ago
Eh, the evidence for it does seem pretty damning, even accounting for the fact that Ulbricht hasn't had the opportunity to defend himself (although, given the showing at the actual trial, perhaps he's better off). I would bet that
737.
by deciplex 11y ago
It's hard to make a case for or against economic growth, when all the economic growth of the past 30 years has been shoveled into the gaping maw of the ruling class. That said, I don't want a steady-state economy - not in the lo
738.
by deciplex 11y ago
He does have a point, though: Japan is probably (and hopefully) an anomaly in how they dealt with the crisis. It's one of the last places on Earth where Confucian ethics still hold a great deal of sway at all levels of society (for n
739.
by deciplex 11y ago
I think a big problem with modern western democracies is that legislation is totally decoupled from the effects its proponents claim it will produce before passing it. And, legislators have gotten really good at writing laws in such a way
740.
by deciplex 11y ago
>If there are two minds, and they come in to this form of contact, which survives? Neither? Both? You get a bunch of new memories and some shifts in your personality. If the new memories and personality shift come suddenly, I think a lot
741.
by deciplex 11y ago
I agree with you, but how do you propose going about giving this underclass the leverage they need to make this happen? Short of encouraging them to kill rich people of course, which anyway would get you killed or neutralized long before
742.
by deciplex 11y ago
Understanding the history of the rise of ISIS might help us avoid similar situations in the future, and it might help us to reconcile with them if such a thing is even possible, but mere knowledge alone will not defeat ISIS. It may be tha
743.
by deciplex 11y ago
There is nothing special about human brains, whether they are conscious or not. Think of "observation" in this sense as "making your brain part of the experiment". The only way for your brain to know the results of the e
744.
by deciplex 11y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/r6/an_intuitive_explanation_of_quant...
745.
by deciplex 11y ago
It leaves us with a bunch of otherwise well thought-out comments which, in spite of their quality, are hard to read for no reason other than the first person to bother to vote was having a bad day or is an idiot, etc.
746.
by deciplex 11y ago
Honestly, the fact that it's only 64% raises my opinion of Americans slightly. The barrage of propaganda you have to put up with there is truly remarkable, and especially considering the rivers of bullshit that streamed out of every si
747.
by deciplex 11y ago
Totally agree as long as you're making a good faith effort to distinguish noise (which I agree blumkvist's posts basically are, especially after the first one), from unfamiliar patterns of thought .
748.
by deciplex 11y ago
Well, while we're throwing around logical fallacies, you just made an appeal to authority. I don't care what dang or pg say - downvoting someone because you disagree with them is stupid. That said, I did downvote blumkvist, firstl
749.
by deciplex 11y ago
I don't think we agree or disagree with you so much as you haven't made any strong statements to agree or disagree with. What do you think his fate would be now, had he released the documents then turned himself over to US authori
750.
by deciplex 11y ago
If currently-serving national-level politicians are calling for your extrajudicial assassination, Russia is one of the safer places on Earth for you to be.

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