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by guylhem 14y ago
And that's what shocked me as well. He made the right diagnosis with the right title and the right observations, but jumped to the wrong conclusions :-/
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by guylhem 14y ago
Title "The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life" - That's interesting. Let's read further. Extract : The 1980s was the decade when many of the state’s large mental hospitals were emptied (...) I jumped at the opportunity to m
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by guylhem 14y ago
The social angle for the IT industry is interesting. There is a dynamic of power happening- but it's not the whole picture. The racism based explanation doesn't seems to work - just like for fast people, where you gave a great example: they
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's a solution. Until it has been evaluated, can't say if it's the best solution. It certainly is a way to consider however - like you, I'm not against any solution. But the radioactive example is a fun one- wasn't there a plan to reduce
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by guylhem 14y ago
That's just a bloomberg article, not a full cost benefit analysis. If some of the pig waste goes to the shrimps, less of it will go elsewhere. I'd call that recycling - a positive externality here. Pig manure is causing problems in this wor
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's not every kind of animal waste - it's only waste containing neuronal proteins, like the spine, the brain. So it was banned.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Good thing, then absolutely nobody is dying of hunger on this planet, and absolutely no one will buy more seafood if it becomes cheaper. Let's leave aside the recycling for a moment. Some people on this planet (without internet access, and
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by guylhem 14y ago
The article seems full of hatred against "white men". A group of people, for some reason, has found it worth its time to do some activity. This group then trains more, invest more time, and compounding interests makes them better. Other gro
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by guylhem 14y ago
What the point of such an headline? Public outcry? The agricultural industry needs to find new ways to make food more affordable or more efficiently. Until we find a way to bioengineer proteins from say bacteria, and keep a familiar taste l
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by guylhem 14y ago
Wasn't that due to Nobel girlfriend leaving him for an economist? Read something about that but can't find the surce at the moment (bad connectivity) And I don't see that in the first 2 pages. Or was that about the math nobel prize ?
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by guylhem 14y ago
Right - that's the Streisand effect perfectly illustrated. Free speech is here to allow competing ideas to be judged on their own merits. If one has a faith, what can a simple video do? On the other hand, if there are some flaws in the fait
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by guylhem 14y ago
Were they all yelling "shut up, and play nice - please limit free speech"? Or where the comments and the signs more "threatening" - like using words "violence" and "terrorism", even in quite innocent looking phrases? I wasn't there, but my
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by guylhem 14y ago
Sometimes it's not about racism but being practical - here, slowing down the progress of a dangerous ideology. Take a parallel with communism and the Rosenberg execution. Many declared that as just plain barbary, antisemitism, etc. "Between
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by guylhem 14y ago
You are right. My mistake. I fixed that. Freedom of speech is an essential liberty. The #1 most essential liberty, to allow science, progress and democracy
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by guylhem 14y ago
> we're willing to pass laws and endure a certain level of self-censorship to avoid provoking violence out of these people Benjamin Franklin addressed that issue "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary
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by guylhem 14y ago
Most of the european news website are also censored, by law. Moderators are paid to remove comments, or whole threads. Some words are banned. The purge is even worse that at CBC. As you said, the real problem is you can't really guess what
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by guylhem 14y ago
Some (dead) people might disagree with you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)
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by guylhem 14y ago
History is interesting sometimes. As Chamberlain and Dalladier brilliantly showed with the Munich Agreement, it can be a good thing to appease a potential adversary which feels wronged for some reason by giving in to their demands and forge
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by guylhem 14y ago
B & A are going to be good, but IMHO not as good as India. I see India at the #1 spot around 2050. More people - as a billion. More education, and people moving back from the US to share their experience. Democracy (improving), and a wa
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by guylhem 14y ago
Maybe you should be writing for yourself, not for the others? I write to share ideas/experiences I have. If there are replies, there is a valuable feedback - either as a validation, or as a suggestion of other things I should reconsider. I
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by guylhem 14y ago
(I also have showdead for the same reason - reading dissenting opinions can be quite interesting) It's a good thing if only because the alternative would be a ban, and they would stop posting altogether. They may be a ghost but I see value
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by guylhem 14y ago
I'm below 500 (430) and couldn't care less about agreeing with people if what they are saying is not matched by what I consider the objective truth. What would be the value of karma gained that way? (I mean value for myself - is there any v
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by guylhem 14y ago
India was the producer of the most sough-after goods in the world - so much that when robbery threatened land commerce, some people thought it was a good idea to try a workaround and commission seaships to try to reach it from around the gl
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by guylhem 14y ago
I can totally agree with calling that tinkering - and also that it is interesting, if only (due to my diverging opinion on the merits of the approach) as a warning tale about how far one should go to try and fix a problem. But, just like yo
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by guylhem 14y ago
Hmmm - the sed code was written to give a working 1 line example with the answer- just an example, or else some people might consider that it could be high-end wizardy worthy of recompilation. Instead of complaining about an obvious flaw in
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's a 10 seconds trick that did the job and did not require recompiling. EDIT: seeing how it has been downvoted, IMHO hacking is all about time and effectiveness. if you believe fixing ls print formats is such a crucial problem that it req
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by guylhem 14y ago
Editing ls/print.c sourcecode and recompiling is not hacking in my definition. I usually consider the portability of the solution. I have linux i386 and x64 machines, my arm n900, an osx latop, etc. Recompiling ls (or, heavens forbid, cross
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by guylhem 14y ago
It is not very easy because it is an unusual request. But I still wonder if this is easier than ls -l | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta' ?? The investigations would be interesting it they were more complete, i.e. if the
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by guylhem 14y ago
Is this front page worth materiel? I mean, it's good you took the time to add a ', but doing the same with sed would have been faster. Alternatively, do you know about ls -lhrS? It will print size in human formats and reverse sort the files
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by guylhem 14y ago
Wow - reading this is highly suggested, especially given the article relevance in the still current browser-war history!

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