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by hsitz 10y ago
Are you unaware that Trump wants to increase military spending?: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-defense-...
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by hsitz 10y ago
A maybe relevant Wittgenstein quote: "It is not how the world is, that is the mystical, but that it is." Tractatus 6.44
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I don't think anybody can if you sell a used car as its owner. As far as I know, used car lemon laws apply only to cars sold by used car dealers.
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The title of this piece seems misleading to me, and an example of how many people misunderstand statistics. I haven't seen any of the studies referred to, but I'm sure they don't establish a connection between wealth and emp
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by hsitz 10y ago
"I think self-control should be valued higher than self-restriction." Well, I wish it could be that way. But it's not. Or, at least, it's not even an issuing of valuing one more than the other. Using self-restriction s
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by hsitz 10y ago
We're not too far off. Main thng in original quote that bothered me was "So if Romney had won Florida, Silver would have been wrong, but ONLY A LITTLE WRONG." Predictions of victory or loss are either right or wrong. There
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Not sure which sentence you're referring to. And I'm not saying there's no way to tell which probability assignments are better. I'm just saying that the mere fact that an event assigned a lower probability happens (e.
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by hsitz 10y ago
"So if Romney had won Florida, Silver would have been wrong, but only a little wrong." No, Silver would not have been wrong at all, or at least we'll never know. He doesn't predict a winner; he gives probabilities of vi
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by hsitz 10y ago
"What comes in as food goes out as heat or mechanical work." Or out as undigested food waste. Don't have an answer for you on metabolic rate, just adding the third way food calories can leave your body.
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The fall described in the first two paragraphs of the article?
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The simple answer of why one is more correct, is because it's deemed as correct by the scientific community, which comprises the scientific experts on that issue. The larger issue you raise is one that was especially prominent in mid-2
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We're getting a little silly here, but I think it's both force and pressure. Any force will exert a corresponding pressure (which is merely "force per unit area"). To say that we don't feel the force of weight exc
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by hsitz 10y ago
Actually, pedantically, "weight" is a "force", so it makes perfect sense to say we perceive weight when we carry something. Our arms must provide an equal and counteracting force to sustain the weight of objects we carr
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by hsitz 10y ago
Are you suggesting that chimps would persist in trying to carry something that's too heavy for them, because they don't understand the concept of "weight", as tested for by some study? I haven't read the study, but
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by hsitz 10y ago
Good summary. Buckley had plenty of liberals on his show. Reminds me of the time he was discussing the 1963 Democratic convention with liberal Gore Vidal, and Buckley threatened to punch him in the face after Vidal called him a crypto-Naz
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by hsitz 10y ago
Did you read the linked article? One of its main goals was showing that neighborhoods with the desired density are actually nicer places to live than less dense neighborhoods. Like the kind of neighborhoods you visit in Europe and wish yo
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by hsitz 10y ago
Meaning is the same for 'fora' and 'forums', but both are fine and 'forums' is in fact more commonly used: http://grammarist.com/usage/fora-forums/ I suspect same is true for viri&#x2
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Ah, I see. I don't think the guy was equating leisure with consumption at all. You could say he was equating leisure with "just passively consuming", which is where his mistake is (along with his unrelated error of thinking
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by hsitz 10y ago
Where did you get that "leisure" equates to "consumption"? Being productive certainly doesn't imply not consuming. I don't think I'm disagreeing with you saying that leisure time can be productive, but I
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by hsitz 10y ago
VimScript is not deprecated in NeoVim, and maintaining backward compatibility is major focus. So must Vim plugins will work in Neovim. vim-airline is listed among the plugins that has some special neovim-specific features added: https:
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by hsitz 10y ago
It is interesting, I just tried pressing 'j' immediately after <esc> and the block prefixing does happen right when I press 'j'. The usual lag is just a second or two for me, though, using Gnome Terminal on Ubunt
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by hsitz 10y ago
Looks are pretty silly and irrelevant for most power users. I run Ubuntu with the i3 tiling window manager, which doesn't even have a desktop. Having a desktop is another thing that's pretty much irrelevant, given the way i3 work
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm not sure popularization of the practice of mindfulness is anything very new. E.g., Alan Watts made a big name for himself doing this back in 1950's and before, and est was a big thing in the 1970's ( https://en
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by hsitz 10y ago
I think mindfulness is a little more than a fad. However, it is in many cases treated as a fad, just like there are lots of fad diets and nutrition-related info. One place to look for less fad-like treatment of mindfulness is the Center fo
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I don't see much benefit. The investment philosophy that goes along with Vanguard is buy-and-hold for the long term, there's little trading that goes on these accounts. And that's a good thing. It's not like it's
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Actually, Spacemacs layer configuration uses the use-package add-on ( https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package ) , which helps greatly simplifies and organizes large .emacs config files (and also greatly improves emacs&
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Thanks for that. I would suggest anyone who thinks an analogy of EU to U.S is appropriate review what the EU actually is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
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The EU is not some sort of sovereign. It's an organization staffed by bureaucrats (i.e., unelected officials) for the purpose of furthering the agreed upon goals of the member sovereign states. Comparison with U.S. is ridiculous.
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by hsitz 10y ago
"In reality, most significant European trading partners with UK just want to keep on trading with them mostly as they have been, and will work out deals that allow such trading to mostly continue." Do you know what you're tal
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by hsitz 10y ago
I think the argument is more along the lines of: (1) We've tried lots of different programs and wasted lots of money and resources trying to promote marriage; all have been failures, we have no idea how to actually promote marriage. (

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