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by hguant 11y ago
I think assuming the OC is a Nazi goes a bit far... But to your point - yes of course it's ok to disassociate with someone who is advocating violence or National Socialism, because it can reasonably be inferred that said person isn&#x2
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by hguant 11y ago
No, you'll be down voted for being pretentious. This is a lazy, "I'm so superior hahaha look at how great I am" comment. You're being this guy. http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantl
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by hguant 11y ago
Buzzfeed called; they've got a list for you. In all seriousness, this type of writing - sprawling as you call it - is important. It lets the reader come away with a sense of the nuances of the situation, instead of a bullet point abstr
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by hguant 11y ago
By that logic, the USSR and mid-Revolution France were the best of all societies, because their constitutions valued individual liberty AND the common good. Let's emulate them in all ways, shapes, and forms! /s What a constitution
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by hguant 11y ago
I don't know if this is included in your "Xcode is not quite as nice statement", but I have personally never had VStidio crash on me. Whenever I use Xcode, it seems like every third day or so something disasterous happens.
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by hguant 11y ago
That's seen as pretty crazy here too. To be fair, there was a point in my life when I was driving 900 miles round trip every other week or so, but that was about a girl, and before I had enough money to take a plane...and looking back
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by hguant 11y ago
In the US, many telecoms operate as a legal monopoly. In exchange for a more or lesscaptive market, telecoms are legally obligated to maintain certain levels of service, among other things - such as rolling out upgrades. This is supposed to
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by hguant 11y ago
I think you're misunderstanding entropy; it only really applies in a closed system. By using energy from the sun to "decrease" entropy on earth, what you've don't is just expand the system to include energy from the
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by hguant 11y ago
It's interesting to see that, while philosophy has been sitting in the post-Hume doldrums for the last hundred years, physics has gone all the way around and started tackling metaphysics again!
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What makes a start up different than any other business?
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AT&T says it shelved a “bunch” of ideas because of net neutrality rules(arstechnica.com)
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by hguant 11y ago
Haven't we established pretty firmly that apple software (for OSX and increasingly iOS) is crap? iTunes is a bloated mess, Safari is the new IE6, photos, calendar and Mail are so bad that pretty much everyone recommends Google or Micro
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We haven't really had any disasters, compared to the damage coal and oil do to our environment, and also compared to the semi-regular industrial accidents that happen in the coal/oil industry. Three Mile Island - how many fataliti
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Greenhouse gases matter. The heat generated by power plants etc is irrelevant. Venus and Earth receive (very roughly) similar amounts of sunlight. They generate similar amounts of heat through radioactive decay in their core. The reason Ven
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It's hard to be a relevant web browser if your users can't watch Netflix.
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Right, but the conditions being ripe for a Naploean still requires Napolean. Saying that "the time was such that someone like so and so HAD to rise up" is meaningless. Nothing HAS to happen, in the realms of human behavior. People
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by hguant 11y ago
Not to be pendant in, but it depends on what you mean by critic. Max Weber and Erich Fromm were critics of Marx and Freud who agreed with much of what they had to say. Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" is...well it's many
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by hguant 11y ago
Armstrong has said he thought he and Aldrin had about a 50% chance of success for the moon landing. Failure could mean lots of things outside of situations resulting in death, but still, they were taking an awe full risk. Also, looking at t
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by hguant 11y ago
Right, but the concerns of those citizens quite frankly aren't a primary concern of the United States.
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This is the result of a privileged class (if you're going to college, any college, in America, you're doing better than the vast majority of the world) wanting to be part of what it perceives as the revolution of our time. Whether
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by hguant 11y ago
I think the argument is that open source is based on the fundamental ideal of trust - I put this software out into the world so that people can better it, tweak it, make it their own. If those people don't trust you, and have to audit
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by hguant 11y ago
I think you're misrepresenting what the rule of law means. The rule of law just means we follow codified rules, not the arbitrary whims of an individual. The NSA is, I'm sure, very scrupulous about following the law.
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The problem is that there is no objective means of determining a "legitimate story". That's why we have votes and flags and whatnot. The assumption is that the community will follow the rules and use those tools to promote &q
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by hguant 11y ago
RE your side note - in the preface to a study on ethnic politics in America, the authors of the study explain why they use the demographic terms they do. Latino, Asian-American, and black. Their data showed that there was a 1.1% difference
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Court ordering someone to unlock their phone has been ruled as a violation of your 5th amendment rights and of 4th amendment rights to privacy by an appellate court (don't remember which, was slightly surprised when it happened). Basic
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I first saw it a few years back, and it ranks with Prince of Darkness as one of the scariest things I've ever seen. I think the transition from Lovecraftian "cosmic horror" to modern jump scares is one of the biggest shames o
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by hguant 11y ago
I think the post is saying that defining the carrying capacity of a technological species is an exercise in futility. Malthus was writing about this many years ago - humans have a habit of raising the bar. In answer to your googolplex quest
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Communist governments, in order to function, pretty much have to be totalitarian - unless you can think of another way to have a one party system with complete control over the economy.
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> The older generation are no better than us in regards to enjoying life without sadness, loneliness, and so on ... and as such are not a reliable source to draw inspiration from. I think half of this statement is true. Yes, the older ge
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by hguant 11y ago
Well, yes and no. It makes it less onerous to defend against certain types of lawsuits (patent trolls come to mind). How many times do we hear stories of some "little guy" who is in the right who gets screwed over because s/h

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