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by fargolime 12y ago
Ha, good point. Could be pre-arranged. But if something can be pre-arranged, I like mikeash's answer.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Nice answer!
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by fargolime 12y ago
I'm guessing one stays put and the other does a grid pattern search.
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by fargolime 12y ago
I store a dynamic TrueCrypt volume on DropBox. I use a dynamic volume so that Dropbox need only upload the changed blocks from my machine. It seems to work fine. The TrueCrypt docs warn about using a dynamic volume [1]. I'm not concern
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by fargolime 12y ago
Is the name Google (or Microsoft or Apple) much more appealing than NameCheap? Seems when companies get huge their weird names are no longer weird. I don't care for the name NameCheap either. On the other hand it's been easy to re
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by fargolime 12y ago
I'll stick with NameCheap. All else being equal, I prefer the vendor whose core business is the service I'm seeking. They can neither drop the service nor quintuple the price (a la Google AppEngine). Same reason I use DropBox.
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by fargolime 12y ago
There's also a luck aspect. Perhaps Mochizuki's proof is comprehensible but no one has the desire to read it. A mathematician or scientist should be prepared to be a lone wolf, never receiving recognition and their groundbreaking
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by fargolime 12y ago
Sure I do that. But not a dozen (actually mundane) things daily, like the teen's "I'm about to go to this cool party". Among my friends we might mention the highlight of the week by email.
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by fargolime 12y ago
With fish stocks and aquifers fast depleting, it seems inevitable that it'll become normal for citizens of the developed world to dine on bugs.
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by fargolime 12y ago
> so make a better group service and bring everyone to that. Email? Works like a charm for my friends, and no vendor lock-in.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Feeling old too. I do_not_get the need to post the highlights of your day throughout the day. It reeks of narcissism. I feel sorry for them, in my oldness.
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by fargolime 12y ago
So if you see a little kid getting raped, you won't touch the rapist? Pretty sure even the Amish would take some action.
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by fargolime 12y ago
In that case you effectively voted for the greater evil. They probably played you too, by lending support to the third party to split the vote of the good people.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Cut anyone out you want. I cut people out who support evil deeds, not necessarily those who vote for a particular party.
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by fargolime 12y ago
My oath doesn't prevent me from taking untaxed intoxicating liquors across state lines, in whatever hypothetical case in which that would do the greater good, no matter how unlikely. My oath is to my interpretation of the Constitution,
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by fargolime 12y ago
> In that case, what should the Ventura supporter do? I believe you would say to vote for Humphrey. Yes, vote for Humphrey. If Ventura then loses by one vote, you still made the best choice with the info you had. 9 times out of 10, or wh
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by fargolime 12y ago
It's not pretending they don't exist, it's meting out a consequence for their actions, so they don't get away with supporting evil scot-free. We now have better support for gay marriage largely because of youth becoming
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by fargolime 12y ago
We're far from that, with most people being unwilling to mete a consequence to those who vote for evil. When adopted by all the good people, my attitude would lead to a fairer world, if only after a Civility War.
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by fargolime 12y ago
I upvoted your political opinion. Of course mine isn't universal, because not everyone has my rock solid ethics. (And that's party because rather than analyze their own choices in the face of others', they call others' c
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by fargolime 12y ago
Preventing greater violence justifies violence. In general, preventing greater harm justifies harm. Preventing evil doesn't justify everything.
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by fargolime 12y ago
No, adhering to the oath excludes torture or other violence that isn't the best choice to prevent greater violence. I haven't yet seen a 9/11 related case where the details justified torture. Clearly our "employed and el
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by fargolime 12y ago
Let's assume that Ventura was the best choice, ignoring his poll numbers, and Humphrey was way worse than Coleman. The defense for voting for Coleman is, recent polls showed that Ventura wasn't very viable. If Ventura then loses b
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by fargolime 12y ago
Agreed, that's why I say you are blameless for anything that party does that you disagree with .
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by fargolime 12y ago
I support torture where it's clear it's the best viable choice to prevent greater violence. That may be an exceptionally rare case. On your hypothetical I'll say only that I strongly support the The Congressional Oath of Offi
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by fargolime 12y ago
At some point back then it would've been clear it was viable. We're obviously not anywhere near that point yet, and there are likely other better ways. We don't yet have full dictatorship, which makes the difference. For exam
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by fargolime 12y ago
You make the best choice with the info you have. If the choice isn't clear then you make a judgment call. Good points on McReynolds and Ventura. I presume that Ventura wasn't polling way below the other candidates, like Nader was
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by fargolime 12y ago
I upvoted you. But Cheney is still rotten despite being honest. He doesn't deny that many in Gitmo are innocent (or not known to be guilty), yet still declares them terrorists. In that way he worked against your kids.
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by fargolime 12y ago
> You're not blameless for voting for the less-bad of two bad options. You still voting for a bad option. There's no contradiction. You made the best viable choice. You can't be made "bad" by doing that. That ben
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by fargolime 12y ago
One can do both, although making a worse choice at the polls usually goes hand-in-hand with a closed mind, in my experience.
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by fargolime 12y ago
You can support an end to the 2-party oligopoly and vote for the lesser evil. Doing both does greater good. I don't support revolution, because it's not the best viable way to improve things, let alone very viable at this point.

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