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by gohrt 11y ago
Those are the big tournaments -- do the little tournaments stack up, or is it a year of practice leading up to an annual big win?
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by gohrt 11y ago
You seem to be confusing two different claims: 1. A champion Go/Chess player could retire, and jump a successful career as <Something else>. You refute 1. 2. A champion Go/Chess player could have pursued a career in <Some
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by gohrt 11y ago
Hi, generally sloppy person with poor self-control, checking in. Thin as a rail. Metabolism is a scientific fact. Fat people who diet and exercise become big built people. Skinny people who eat and don't work out don't become fat
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by gohrt 11y ago
In modern Silicon Valley, we can do that without pants.
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by gohrt 11y ago
How well would the computer fare if it didn't have access to a library of human-played games, and only got self-study?
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by gohrt 11y ago
> There's also the fact that some of the unexpected moves were apparently more about solidifying against a loss than increasing the magnitude of a win. Humans play that way too. Everyone wants to maximize the chance of leading by &g
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by gohrt 11y ago
https://github.com/takahashim/tpp-agreement
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by gohrt 11y ago
Water is not addictive, the body has natural immune reactions to overdosing on water before it becomes fatal.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Drug addiction harms people around the addict as well. The libertarian axiom that society doesn't matter, because society doesn't exist, is not a useful axiom for designing a social contract.
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by gohrt 11y ago
> The libertarian case Very few people in society care about the libertarian case. > Frankly, most people would rather continue to ban drugs than pay for treatment for people who abuse them. Is that so? I'd estimate that the numb
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by gohrt 11y ago
Drugs should be illegal (or at least highly controlled) because they are extremely dangerous. Drug users should not be criminalized. It's as simple as that.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The rest of the world gets incoming missiles from the drones.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Input text indented 4-spaces is "PRE" formatted and HN won't line-wrap it.
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by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-kil... The victim in the title was a US citizen, in foreign territory (Yemen) at the time of the incident.
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by gohrt 11y ago
1. The people who investigated it believe it is right. 2. The people who investigated it believe is is legal. What more do you want from them?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Do visual inspections of outdoors require search warrants?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Standard arguments used in the article: 1. "It doesn't matter what I do -- If I don't do some particular evil, someone else will do that evil in my place" aka "I'm just one person, my vote is irrelevant" 2
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by gohrt 11y ago
You could lend them $100 at 20% APR, and they could pay you back with costco savings.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Homework is good because it solves the problem of schools and home being bad?
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by gohrt 11y ago
friends who are candidates, or friends who are hirers? I see that problem on the hirer side.
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by gohrt 11y ago
You should be able to carefully review a few lines of code for syntax errors. This is important because incorrect syntax might be ambiguous as to what it could mean. You should not be expected to write syntax-error free code on your first p
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by gohrt 11y ago
What does that "ice fishing" statement mean?
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by gohrt 11y ago
If you hoard currency that is managed by a central authority, then other people can't obtain currency for their productivity, and thus can't consume market goods. (This is essentially what caused the Great Depression: wealthy peop
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by gohrt 11y ago
Inflation is good because it incentivizes people to spend money on things of real value (creating valuable goods and services, possibly durable goods for storage) instead of everyone sitting on cash for decades, being non-productive, and th
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by gohrt 11y ago
This story is a beautiful case study of how a pure libertarian democratic community gets what it deserves, no better and no worse.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The challenge is that the rules are only legitimized by the clients choosing to follow them. You can't launch new rules until at least 50% of clients by weight are following those rules. There is no way for the ruleset to somehow disab
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by gohrt 11y ago
Indeed, there's simply no way that people who grew up in backwater regions like China, or India, could be competent at building software.
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by gohrt 11y ago
By that logic, we should sleep instead of eating breakfast.
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by gohrt 11y ago
There are far more companies per common letter than there are unique ways to generally style a letter.
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by gohrt 11y ago
What I see in that graph is that Americans get more pro-marijuana as they see the oppressive effects of the out-of-control drug war, overcoming their deference to authority

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