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by elipsey 13y ago
Maybe creating and selling temporary solutions is the problem that Monsanto chooses to solve. As stated in TFA, BT corn deterred pests for a while, and now it apparently doesn't, but it seems to have been profitable in the interim. Wha
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by elipsey 13y ago
...to prevent charge backs. Ever by anything from them? Ugh...
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by elipsey 13y ago
I gather that in some legal systems, the German system for example, mandatory prosecution of every crime is required because of this problem. It seems worthwhile to ask what a good incentive for prosecutors would look like. For example, an
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by elipsey 13y ago
These are good points. I suppose I was referring to the style and motivation of the material rather than it's factual content. Must propaganda be factually false or grossly misleading? I don't know...
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by elipsey 13y ago
Ok, you convinced me to try again, thanks. FWIW, I'm from the west coast, but have spent the last several years in New York working with natural sciences students and post-docs. I might be what you would call an "ideas" perso
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by elipsey 13y ago
This documentary is really good. It's impossible not to gawk like a tourist at the pathological outcomes of the command econconmy, the wretched poverty, and the Orwellian anti U.S. propaganda, for example posters depicting U.S. soldier
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by elipsey 13y ago
I'm relieved to hear from others who didn't love his book, now I don't feel so left out. I checked out Black Swan from the library a while back. It seemed like Taleb's smug prose and mudslinging were writing a check his
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by elipsey 13y ago
I guess it must be a joke.... Ha. This reminds of some guys I knew in the 90's when CD burners were newer that swore that the gold cdr's sounded better then the blue ones. I tried to tell them how digital audio works, but it didn&
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by elipsey 13y ago
thanks for that, i lolled :)
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by elipsey 13y ago
I see. I may have failed to really understand the index; In my defence the article seemed to dwell unduly a small part of it's composition. At the least, these guys need better PR. That article seemed pretty out of touch with those of
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by elipsey 13y ago
>> You mean interactions like paying a consenting adult $7.24/hour to clean your bedroom? Selling a consenting knowledgeable adult a substance which has not passed FDA review? Paying a person without a medallion to drive you to a
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by elipsey 13y ago
I'm annoyed. I came here to point out who the heritage foundation is, but bazzargh has it covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062656 TFA complains about "marginal income rates of %43" as though thi
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by elipsey 13y ago
From the looks of AMD, Moore's law hasn't just ended it's reversed: CPUs are getting worse every year. I bought a Thuban Phenom II X4 and an hd5750 about five years ago. If I had known then that AMD would refuse ever again to
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by elipsey 13y ago
you just made my day :)
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by elipsey 13y ago
Thank you. It's nice to see an empirical discussion of this subject. I'll have a look at some of the cited sources too.
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by elipsey 13y ago
This recapitulates many arguments made by Georgetown law's David Luban in the excellent 2005 essay "Liberalism Torture and the Ticking Bomb" which we should all go read right now :) http://scholarship.law.georgetow
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by elipsey 13y ago
Good point, and there are other important changes that should be communicated like increased storm severity, and associated risk of floods (which we study in my lab), higher precip in some areas, less in others, and, I'm sure, lots of
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by elipsey 13y ago
2F now in upstate New York, and hilarity ensues. I'm from Alaska so I'm used to it; I would have expected New Yorkers to be unsuprised occasional cold weather but not so much... I was standing in a grocery line in Fairbanks a few
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by elipsey 13y ago
still funny. allow me: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
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by elipsey 13y ago
If "Gentrification is a dynamic and nuanced problem", perhaps throwing bricks through windows is not the best approach to finding a solution. I'm not convinced that "gentrification" is always a problem. Must prices
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by elipsey 13y ago
Yes, so the question is: if Valve is creating an Ubuntu derivative will they stay with X11 when Ubuntu switches to Mir? As it is now, Steam is easy to install on Ubuntu, and possible, but maybe a bit of a pain for other distros, depending o
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by elipsey 13y ago
Yep, that's basically my experience with my home desktop: a media server, and I can play a few games on it with the Nvidia proprietary driver. I'm a "casual gamer" if at all, so booting windows is too much trouble. And
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by elipsey 13y ago
In particular, I'm hopeful that the radeon and intel FOSS drivers will improve (although I guess that nvidia said they will help with nouveau now: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvi
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by elipsey 13y ago
I'm very hopeful about the prospect for improvement of linux graphics drivers. It seems to have a been a chicken and egg sort of problem in past; I really hope contributions from valve will create some momentum, especially for the FOSS
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by elipsey 13y ago
funny. i was totally trolled for the first paragraph or two. did anyone else immediately have to go check how big hello world builds? elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ echo "#include<iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout
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by elipsey 13y ago
must... resist... urge to troll... (edited for stupidity) Ok, I kid, I kid... :) But seriously, I'm thinking of switching back to testing from Ubuntu, if stuff doesn't break too often. Is anyone here using testing lately, and did
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by elipsey 13y ago
Amazingly, the slinky can also time travel.