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by hugh4 11y ago
On a similar note, English outside the United States used the long-scale billion (10^12, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales ) until the last few decades. When numbers on the order of 10^9 started to
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not at all. Bank clients are also afforded similar protection. There's a concept known as an unconscionable contract, which is a contract that a reasonable person would not sign. Courts generally take a dim view of the enforceability o
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by hugh4 11y ago
Crowdsourcing a melody is like teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs. Be impressed that it works at all.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>We know that eugenics efforts cannot produce any remarkable or decisive selection for increased cognitive abilities. We know this because eugenics is a sort of hobby-horse form of evolution, across handfuls of generations, and because e
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by hugh4 11y ago
Unless, of course, there actually were good guys and bad guys in that war. As far as real-world wars go, within the constraints of the real world where nobody is ever purely good or purely evil, World War 2 is about as close as we're
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by hugh4 11y ago
If I were homeless in Colorado Springs I'd be saving up for a bus ticket to somewhere that I'm not gonna freeze to death when winter comes.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Two things: 1. Journalists need to learn the difference between "trolling" and other varieties of being a jerk on the internet. Trolling is a very specific activity, of posting something you don't really believe, in order to
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by hugh4 11y ago
I've seen plenty of mediocre women and minorities in positions of power. For a bipartisan example, consider Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Plus it's well positioned to benefit from global warming.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're looking at, but there's clearly kerbs with pedestrians and trams/horses/cars in the middle. Skip to 1:46 and you can see it easily on the right hand side of the frame (too much darn traffic
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by hugh4 11y ago
No offence but are you sure you weren't already disordered, and that's how you came to wind up solitaries confining yourself?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Thanks for bringing up another important point: today's prisons are rife with drugs. Won't be easy getting drugs in my prison, so everyone will come out clean.
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer. >Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer. I looked up "guard to inmate ratio" and apparently about 1:5 is standard. So that's what we&#
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by hugh4 11y ago
> Most people don't think about prison when they are committing crimes Selection bias. The sort of people who think about prison when committing crimes are the sort of people who don't commit crimes. The criminal class is drawn
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by hugh4 11y ago
Regular solitary confinement is complete sensory deprivation. I'm talking about enriched solitary confinement with lots to keep the prisoner busy and occupied.
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by hugh4 11y ago
There is human interaction. Via videophone. We isolate people from bad influences, though. People say "omg mental illness" but this kind of thing has never even been tried in the Skype age. The goal is to make it more like the o
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by hugh4 11y ago
Ah, but 12pm doesn't mean "twelve hours after the meridian", it means "the hour labelled 'twelve' which happens after the meridian".
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by hugh4 11y ago
Though then you're just swapping that for the problem of remembering stuff like "Is 2am GMT a good time to call Japan?"
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by hugh4 11y ago
There's a meaningful difference, it the question of whether your whole timing system is based on a lie. Is midnight in the middle of the night? Is midday in the middle of the day?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Prisons are a good idea, but they're done totally wrong. Allowing prisoners to interact with each other is a terrible idea. Here's my idea for a prison: each cell is the size of a fairly spartan one-bedroom apartment. You go in at
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by hugh4 11y ago
Once upon a time I never heard this silly idea that the idea that you shouldn't blunder out into the street is a conspiracy by automakers. Then it was an article on HN and now I hear it all the time. Separating pedestrians from vehicle
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's great. How many decades before we start paying attention to what's going on there now?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Honey.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Not entirely taken over, only on the left-wing stations. Right wing stations have an entirely different vocal style, and you can tell within seconds what sort of station you've just tuned into.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I dunno, plotting the trajectory is pretty much the easiest part of intercepting a comet. The hard part is everything else.
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by hugh4 11y ago
How much can they really charge that makes it worth spending ten minutes kneading, ten minutes washing your hands and the next two days pulling out arm hairs with caked on dough? That's my experience with bread making anyway. No matter
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by hugh4 11y ago
I assure you we already have all the Epsilons we need.
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by hugh4 11y ago
That plus the fact that the sensor is probably not reliably calibrated between phones and may degrade with age. Apple doesn't want to deal with complaints about how their phone is doing a crummy job at weighing things.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Whenever I give a fake phone number (which I do quite often when inspecting real estate) I always confidently reel off the number I had fifteen years ago. It still trips easily off the tongue. I hope the poor sucker who has that number now
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, but if my security guards keep turning away actual elephants at the border and I find no actual elephants nearby then I can conclude that my anti-elephant security works.

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