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by gahahaha 13y ago
> [Private schools] turn out better test scores and spend around 25% that of public schools per student. I don't believe you. Proof?
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by gahahaha 13y ago
"Apparently we're too primitive to get beyond the juvenile practice of cutting off our nose to spite our face" Don't be too hard on yourself. A conservative coalition that includes a right wing populist party that want p
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by gahahaha 13y ago
The same reason it is hard to learn Emacs, but in the long run learning the tool is worth the startup cost a thousand times.
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by gahahaha 13y ago
The GPL is not about being practical, it's about freedom. That's why it's the only licence I would consider releasing software under.
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by gahahaha 13y ago
> A few drone strikes? Surely it is possible to imagine more of them. > An optional war in Libya. With a UN mandate, almost completely fought by the Europeans. > Continuing a failed war in Afghanistan. However what he is doing is q
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by gahahaha 13y ago
The reasons cited by the committee was his "promotion of nuclear nonproliferation" and reaching out to the Muslim world. That being said - a few drone strikes is a lot more peaceful than starting two big wars like his predecessor
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by gahahaha 13y ago
But doesn't doctors insure themselves against such suits, so the end result is just higher prices?
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by gahahaha 13y ago
> the most rudimentary technical chops Working as a high school teacher, I can tell you that it is far less common among kids to have those chops than you imagine...
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by gahahaha 13y ago
Thanks!
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by gahahaha 13y ago
Beautiful, but where does it store the sound files, and will it soon be possible to delete recordings?
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by gahahaha 13y ago
I believe in the idea of a united Europe, but it is hard to see how we can get to there from here. Right now it is a bit like a Polish parliament ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_parliament_%28expressio... ) in t
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by gahahaha 13y ago
The accusation that Greenwald is using the leaks for self promotion are the same accusations that were/are used to smear Assange.
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by gahahaha 13y ago
"""Do you plan to open the source code? Currently not. Opening the source code of Wuala would consume quite some time and effort, and commitment to maintain it. If you are a software engineer and would like to see how Wuala w
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by gahahaha 13y ago
I honestly don't like this advice. Remembering stuff is what gives you the tools to understand - you simply can't understand without a large collection of facts. Facts aren't sufficient, but they are necessary. Trying to jump over the "know
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by gahahaha 13y ago
> Motorola stands out as a clunker. When Google bought Motorola, the reasoning I read was all about patents. They still have those patents, and it might have been a good acquisition no matter the state of Motorola the company...
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by gahahaha 14y ago
To be fair - half the political parties in Norway like to spit out the word socialist in debates with the social democrats and let the image of Stalinist oppression and Gulags hang in the air. When even the conservatives here in Norway are
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Bitcoin is actually designed to be very deflationary, not stable.
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by gahahaha 14y ago
I don't know, but from the Wine ARM wiki: """Possible goals: run the assembler parts of x86 in qemu and call function in Wine compiled for ARM"""
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Nice - is it possible to combine it with existing SRS-systems? (I'm using Mnemosyne, so it would need to be possible to export the data in the mnemosyne xml format or as a tab separated text file)
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by gahahaha 14y ago
If free will does not exist, then it is ultimately not anybody's fault if they do something. That includes murder and buying cigarettes. But at the same time it is easy to see that as a society it is advantageous for us to punish criminals
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by gahahaha 14y ago
I always like to think of self control the same way as free will. A useful abstraction, but not something that really exists. It is obviously beneficial for a person to believe that he is in control of his choices, of his behavior, because
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Rereading my comment, I don't like my tone. Sorry about that. I think we basically agree.
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Surely you must understand that the current obesity epidemic CAN NOT be caused by people suddenly becoming more weak willed? If you had been born in Japan you would almost certainly be thin now. Why? The answer is not that Japanese people h
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by gahahaha 14y ago
The "poor fat people are just weak-willed" argument is SO despicable. Americans did not suddenly get poor habits in 1976 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States The obesity problem was caused by a change in the environme
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by gahahaha 14y ago
In the sense that the quantity is not controlled by a government, BitCoin can be compared to gold. And the value of gold is highly unstable.
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by gahahaha 14y ago
You don't understand how Austrians define inflation. If they had said it's "the supply of money growing faster than the demand for money" we wouldn't have an argument (oh, we would, but not over the definition of inflation) They claim it is
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by gahahaha 14y ago
It is worth noting that in (the crazy cult of) Austrian economics, inflation is defined as increasing the money supply. This sometimes makes discussions with them difficult, since for rest of the world (all serious economists) inflation
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Our distraction is a full-blown epidemic — a cognitive plague that has the potential to wipe out an entire generation of focused and productive thought. It can be compared to smoking: People aren’t aware what’s happening to their mental pro
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by gahahaha 14y ago
You are correct. Felix Salmon comments: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th... > in 2008, a pattern starts to emerge: a big spike right at the close, at 4pm, which is soon mirrored by another spike at the open
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by gahahaha 14y ago
Not at all. With bitcoin every transaction is publicly logged, and anyone can see the flow of Bitcoins from address to address. Alone, this information can't identify anyone because the addresses are just random numbers. However, if any of

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