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by dmfdmf 12y ago
The best way to lower your bills is to demand (or allow) the utilities to build base-load power plants, preferably nukes. Since the most rational solution is off the table you are stuck with micromanaging demand instead of concentrating on
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Why qualify it with "some" social structures? You could come right out and say it like Karl Marx that social structures explain behavior -- but then you'd have the same problem he did which is that it reverses cause and effec
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This is exactly the conclusion they want you to reach. Who are you to judge? Who are you to condemn anyone since you are evil too? This is the charter of liberty for evil and all evil needs to survive, even prosper. This "experiment&
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Who cares? Isn't this an experiment validating a known conclusion anyway? Evil exists in the hearts of many. Give these bad people unlimited power and they will take out their frustrations on their fellow man. We see this all around u
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Amen and I would spit in its eye.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Your point is not clear to me and I want to comment but cannot. Can you clarify your point? Thanks.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
More sad than terrifying. Yudkowski and friends have jumped the shark and now use standard-issue PR tricks to get attention and their story in Slate under cover of a fake article. What's the over-under on lesswrong and MIRI folding in
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I use Evernote for this purpose. You can save just the URL or clip the whole page. I use it for saving links that are then available across all my devices.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Why should we believe them now? Clearly they are willing to lie to Congress so I am sure they have no compunction against lying to the public. How about an independent audit of these numbers? I didn't think so. Once you have been cau
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Its not just about hacking your current CC but identity theft and opening new credit in your name and charging thousands of dollars before they are shutdown. The aftermath for the victim is years of effort getting it all straightened out --
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I don't have an ebay account but if I did I would put a credit alert on my name at the credit bureaus. Its free and does not impact you in anyway unless you are in the process of buying a car or house or some other big ticket item requ
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I am sorry, the Space Shuttle is no metaphor it was a real life White Elephant!
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
CEO of Cisco needs to write an open letter to the public not Obama. He can start with the importance of the 4th Amendment to America, Americans and Cisco.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Cutting off Federal Highway funds has been the threat of choice to coerce states to toe the line on Federal priorities and policies.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
LOL, I guess I missed the memo; when did Rand/Objectivism become respectable? Long after her death she is still subject to smears and hit pieces like Shermer's but no one can refute her ideas or arguments.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Hard to believe its "just a cult" 30+ years after her death. Rand held skeptics like Shermer in lower regard than the religionists. I agree.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
> You'll probably want a 500cc-600cc bike to start with, so you have the option of flying away at 80 mph when you need to. Its a little confusing but cc's can be a bit deceiving. Some 600cc motors put out 100+ horsepower and wo
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Riding is a lot of fun but I don't really recommend it for commuting, especially for a rookie on I280. Furthermore, I don't think it will really save you all that much in gas unless your car gets 10 MPG. Any decent car built with
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Is this to save gas or so you can lane split and save time during your commute? Have you ever ridden a moto before?
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
That is exactly what I thought. For the uninitiated 2^16=65,536, so 16-bit storage limit for the elevation variable or a function of the elevation somewhere in the code. It will be interesting to see what they find.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This is treating a symptom not the cause. The cause of money in politics is the virtually unlimited power of the government today. The government now has the power to grant special privileges, bestow grants and tax breaks on specific indus
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
> Do you believe the main big picture purpose of Ayn Rand's philosophy was to create the best possible society? No, that was just a consequence of her primary goal. She actually said she had no deep interest in politics other than t
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This article is such a collection of misrepresentations and misunderstandings of Rand's philosophy that it comes across as a caricature. If Rand's philosophy was as obviously stupid as this guy portrays it then I doubt it would s
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Why does this sound like a scare tactic to get people to drop XP?
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Nope. This guy is wrong and XKCD got it right. It is the enemies of freedom that want to blur the line between the govt stopping you from speaking out and a company that stops you from using their private resources to express your unwanted
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I think Toyota would be smart to announce that they will just stop selling cars in California in 2025 but I doubt they will take my advice.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> "The institution that will decide that is the institution least qualified to decide it," Scalia said. The legal question is about "balancing the emergency against the intrusion" on the individual, he said. If this i
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I once read a book called Rare Earth; http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/d... and the authors argued that the Earth has many unique circumstance necessary for the development of intelligent anim
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
It may already be too late but if MM is listening... (she must be on Hacker News, right?) Step1: Fix the authenticating and POP/SMTP email servers NOW, their performance has sucked for close to a year. Read the comments to the article
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I think you are begging the question by accepting ZF (and that basis for algebra)and then rejecting any possible alternatives by saying you'd lose algebra. This is not true, even the article mentioned that much of math can be founded o

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