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by ellyagg 15y ago
No. This is an incredibly silly claim that people who enjoy engaging in and supporting ad hominem always make when ad hominem is pointed out. Grandparent absolutely intends his insult, in proximity to his argument, to undermine his disputan
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"I love google for that" Actually, I think the point is that Google was ill fit for using and rewarding his value, because it slavishly fetishizes engineering to the exclusion of other expertise. If you've been following this story, then yo
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I really hope the people defending this sentence realize that the average time served in the US for murder is around 4 years, and I hope that they then strenuously believe this is far too short. I've been "emotionally tortured" as much as t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Since the merits to making anonymous public arguments are so obvious, that line is one in particular that stands out as defensive. It also confirms one of the points made in the original letter, that people are afraid to speak out. Is there
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I find the theory of Neanderthal predation (NP theory) of homo sapiens, set forth by Danny Vendramini[1], to be persuasive. It explains the genetic bottleneck in an elegant and intuitive fashion, along with a host of other related anthropol
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That would not be strong refuting evidence. Given both genetics and environment factors (smart successful parents have more to teach, perhaps), I would expect successful children from successful parents. On the other hand, in a society wher
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If you did say it the other way, spin is just what it'd be.
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> Betting on sunspots to reverse a century of adding carbon to the atmosphere via fossil fuels is a bit of a long shot bet. What possible basis could you have for making this judgment? I dearly hope that folks aren't going to accept onl
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by ellyagg 15y ago
That's odd since the evidence we have so far points to humanity adapting our environment and improving our living conditions with breathtaking success.
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Or multiple incognito windows...
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That's not really true, of course. IP law isn't a physical law, so if your conscience is clear and you accept the risks, you're permitted to do whatever seems needful or fun. The only "risk" here is the author suing you, and by my estimate
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by ellyagg 15y ago
God, I never get tired of the condescending "I lost my interest at" or "I stopped reading at". Always strongly reinforces in my mind how irrefutably confused and misguided the original article is, and how thankful I am to be shepherded into
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Right. And this same argument means you should not rely on, for example, gmail, for your email. This is good advice for people in general, although perhaps not something google wants to hear, as they generally market themselves as someone y
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by ellyagg 15y ago
IQ is an extremely important factor in success, but studies show that students obtain better outcomes if they think hard work is the most important factor. Social and systemic factors play an extremely important role in an individual's mome
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Personally, I don't think the situation is nearly as gloomy in the US as a lot of my fellows seem to. It's a characteristic of nation citizens to be over hard on certain aspects of their community. As a matter of fact, if the US school syst
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Naive and wrong. Not every web based business is Demand Media. Try to be a little more empathetic to good businesses by honest, hardworking people whose sustainability depends on search discovery. Notice that I didn't say google search di
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It's so frustrating and terrible to see the situation in NK trivialized by comparing the US's prison systems unfavorably to it. No initiative, no activism, no outcry can be raised because its wind is immediately sucked out by foolish people
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I don't think so. I think people are well aware of what these trade-offs hope to accomplish, but don't feel it'll pan out with the consumer market. Just because someone radically rebalances features in a device doesn't mean it's going to be
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Right, so not very compelling. - Boots in 8 seconds: Why power off your laptop? I don't nor anyone I know. - Updates itself without bothering you: Low value. - Battery lasts all day: This is strong, if verified. - Backups
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by ellyagg 15y ago
So, you can get a full featured eeepc for the same price as a chromebook, but google expects people to pay just as must because (I guess?) it's so simple to use and doesn't have viruses? I don't think that's how normal people buy things. Pe
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I don't think the Doomsday Argument is that interesting. It may be trivially true, but it doesn't tell us anything interesting or predictive. All it says is that the chronology of human existence is too complicated for us to calculate. That
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Immediately after, and for at least months after, polls of Iraqi citizens showed > 50% support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. It's dropped below that now, but that certainly demonstrates that there is no uniform Arab thought. As o
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by ellyagg 15y ago
So I don't understand. Are you saying that research money is essentially a donation so that's why it doesn't "count"? Isn't the point of a company's research team to develop profit centers that not only cover their own costs but then some?
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I had the same reaction as grandparent, so that's a good question. In my case, maybe it's just because it's the closest drug I've used that matches the description from the movie and I've never tried other amphetamines. The bright blue skie
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What makes you want to kill yourself?
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I think his comment was about losing trust in the relationship with his vendor, so the backup status of his computer is of course irrelevant. For example, if one of my vendors irrevocably lost my data and suggested it were my fault for not
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Interestingly, when it first came on the scene as SoundJam, and in its earlier incarnations at Apple after it was bought, iTunes was by far the best music player out there[1]. The overwhelming favorite MP3 player on Windows at the time was
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by ellyagg 15y ago
No way. Health scare memes are absolutely dangerous and almost certainly the reason for the most pernicious and widespread health problems in the US. The media always need a new villain. If it were settled that an obvious component of our d
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There's copying and then there's copying. At one point Google had a reputation for being innovative. Insofar as "innovative" continues to be a word that means something then--given that there is indeed very little truly new under the sun, t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Wait, so Xeroc Parc had a massively successful GUI computing product that they proved the commercial viability of through their own risk, capital, and initiative?

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