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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that it is what the Nuremberg principles say (as I understand them) and that this has not even seemed controversial in the past, as long as it was we who were applying the principles to oth
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Perhaps you know much more about this than I do. My memory is that the Lancet authors were serious, qualified researchers who had done much similar work in the past and whose objectivity had not previously been disputed. If there's a c
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by gruseom 13y ago
I don't doubt for a moment that American and other Western soldiers were trying hard to avoid civilian casualties. It's deeply unfair to blame them for things they didn't do or for decisions they didn't make and never wo
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by gruseom 13y ago
I remember that This American Life did a piece on the Lancet studies when they came out. They focused on how the widespread reaction (in the West) to their numbers was one of stubborn disbelief, despite the fact that these were the most c
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That is circular reasoning.
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I clearly remember how all that WMD stuff was obvious propaganda at the time. Some of it ("we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") was even laughable. Nor did the US or other Western intelligence agencies belie
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Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation(plosmedicine.org)
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It's particularly limiting because it refuses to see itself as a dogma.
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The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence(nybooks.com)
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If the Dollar Stopped Being the Preeminent Reserve Currency(cepr.net)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree that key-value sets (hashmaps, associative arrays, whatever one calls them) are even more convenient for programming than lists are. A pet idea is to create a Lisp that takes the hashmap as its native representation. (My cofounder i
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The Minds Behind 'Einstein On The Beach' Talk Shop(npr.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks. That description says: Version 4 UUIDs have the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx where x is any hexadecimal digit and y is one of 8, 9, A, or B What is the purpose of the 4 and y?
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by gruseom 13y ago
In most dataflow languages (e.g. Lucid) the source text is still parsed into a tree; it's the order of execution at runtime that is unusual. That is, dataflow languages are tree-based lexically, but not temporally. A counterexample wou
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Naive question: what techniques are used for reliably generating UUIDs? Can you do it without giving each machine a unique identifier first?
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The T in AST means that any straightforward textual representation is going to come out isomorphic to Lisp. But if you try something non-straightforward, then programmers will have to do the mapping between text and AST in their heads, whic
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Individuals and stories are part of good conversation. Skraushaar's comment was relevant and enjoyable. Reflexive ideological dismissals, on the other hand, are just tedious.
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Thank you for this lucid explanation. Gandhi's way of thinking and acting remains extremely counterintuitive (to us), so it's important to remember both that he practiced what he preached and that it actually worked. If one forget
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by gruseom 13y ago
Could you be more explicit I'm afraid I don't remember the sources I read (other than Poundstone's book) and don't have time to dig into it just now, though given what I posted I suppose I should. FWIW, my memory is th
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by gruseom 13y ago
Well, maybe. It's a bit hard to tell from that one-liner whether you're being serious or glib, but the question of how the great man or woman treats the people closest to him or her is a tricky one. I agree that it's relevant
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes, Russell definitely did that and was evasive about it afterward. In the late 1940s this insanity was widespread: an entire movement of politically influential players dedicated itself to nuking the Soviet Union before it achieved the bo
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by gruseom 13y ago
Pierce's book (the standard text) is surprisingly readable, at least compared to what I expected.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Can you describe this in more detail? We use a custom event loop to get concurrency in our web app. I'm thinking of adapting it to requestAnimationFrame and am curious to hear what tricks are out there.
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by gruseom 13y ago
There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. Boy do I disagree. Face to face communication is richer, more contactful, and more satisfying. There's nothing wrong with any human being
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I'd never heard of Visage. Seems it's a declarative UI language. That raises two questions: what UIs have been built with it, and how does it accommodate the arbitrary code (i.e. imperative rather than declarative) that one inevit
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It's relative. For example, most of the people in what is called "Northern Ontario" really live in almost-southernmost Ontario. That probably drives the people who really do live in the north crazy, but since there are almost
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by gruseom 13y ago
This sounds very interesting even to those of us who don't need a promises library. If you or anyone else would like to go into detail, I bet a lot of people here would care (including me).
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I believe "Show HN" is for showing something you've made that other people can try out. In other words, it's for when the thing is ready, not when it's being funded. (Or, pet peeve, for collecting email addresses wi
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by gruseom 13y ago
We used Clerky for something recently. They took a process that would have been complicated, costly, and fraught with anxiety in the past and made it near-effortless for a ridiculously low price—really a commoditized price. I can't ima
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What basic Excel conventions do you have in mind? I'd like to avoid making the mistake of flouting them.

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