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by iak8god 12y ago
Well, I accidentally kicked off a bit of a storm in this thread. Others have addressed your points in more depth than I care to, and the current leaf comments are wandering close to getting Godwin'd, so it might be time to wind this do
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by iak8god 12y ago
> 2. Inherited ignorance – if the parents don’t know or care much about history, unbiased politics, mathematics, literature, etc. then the kids won’t either It's even worse when parents care very much about giving their children wro
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by iak8god 12y ago
Didn't finish? It's less than a thousand words! But your TL;DR is essentially correct. I would like to hear more about why these plants didn't die out when their only dispersal agents did. It would also be interesting to know
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> This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it could also be used to defend against criminals I agree that there's a p
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> We could take it to another extreme and eliminate private real property rights as well. I like your house, it has been in my street for years, it's a part of my street's culture, therefore I have the right to move in whenever
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Congress is corrupt and inept. More so - if possible - in this case than in general.
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Culture can't exist without reuse and adaptation. The natural state of affairs would be that anyone is free to see or listen to (etc) some content, and then make marks on paper, or patterns of bits, or sound waves that are more or le
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by iak8god 12y ago
> As a creator, I want to maintain my copyrights at least as long as I live. You are free to want whatever you like, though many other creators recognize the desirability of shorter copyright terms. However, the purpose of copyright la
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by iak8god 12y ago
> These cameras typically have a light that powers on when the camera is in use. Yes, typically, but sometimes not when used by parties who want to obscure their use of the camera [1]. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/bl
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> I think that when you are doing exploratory programming and you're not quite sure about what you're doing you should have a language that gets out of the way as much as possible, which Python does. I agree with this, but am n
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Diebold didn't get involved in elections until 2002. The only Republican president to serve since then won reelection in 2004 and then left the White House with low approval ratings unprecedented since Nixon (< 30%). There could hav
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Not in 1992 you wouldn't. This is a strange thing to say without explaining anyway. Would you care to expand on your point? I would expect Ada to run orders of magnitude faster than Python for a task like this.
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> The article seems to imply that you can do either a master's or a PhD. Is that correct? Yes. I wouldn't recommend it. As different as the MS and PhD are, doing an MS will be more like a PhD than anything else a person will ha
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> (almost 10k pounds more/year) It's completely different in the US, where PhD stipends are a mere fraction (1/4 - 1/3 in my experience) of the median income.
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> complaining that a school does what it does best, stifling the creative and curious mind, is silly. This is exactly the opposite of what a school is supposed to do. Spreading awareness that the system is so badly broken ("complain
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by iak8god 12y ago
I tried the demo in two different browsers that I use regularly. On the one that stays logged into my google account, I was not challenged with a captcha. On the other browser, which I use quite a lot but not with my google account, the c
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> In my opinion, it is a person's intelligence and curiosity that matter, not four years in an institution or a degree People do not come out of the womb with their levels of intelligence and curiosity set in stone, and they're
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> > Are there any animal species with higher glial cell efficiency than we humans have? > > Elephants, I believe I tried to find some info on this then realized I wasn't sure what GP meant by "glial cell efficiency.&q
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> Read the entire Bible, and I'm sure you'll never learn what "Never mind, I'm OK.", "Nice to see you again.", or "This section is under construction." means. That's true, but I don'
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Why did you pick a 500yr old translation of that text as an example when there are dozens of popular modern versions? ESV, for example says this: > When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his w
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by iak8god 12y ago
> it's pretty clear to everyone what's going on here It's not clear to everyone. You believe it's clear because you've stopped listening to anyone who disagrees. In any case, I hope we can all agree to expect eac
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by iak8god 12y ago
Ah yes, as with any good conspiracy theory the lack of evidence is itself evidence. If Republicans are so concerned about the integrity of our democratic system, their efforts would be much better spent fighting the outrageous gerrymanderin
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by iak8god 12y ago
> The reason conservatives want voter ID is to prevent voting under other peoples' identity. Without ID there's no way you can even know that's happening. Actually, having mandatory voting would be one way to know that&#x2
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> Can't make out the difference between the purple coloured tiles. Color-blindness? If you're actually wondering, here's a pretty good test: http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/ That site is t
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> The part I don't like is where they call it road tax or environmental tax only to go ahead and use it for something completely different. Well, even a little honesty may be too much to expect from politicians anywhere. I'm g
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> Around here car taxes, road taxes, "environmental taxes" on fuel etc adds up to a whole lot more than the combined price of road maintenance and so on. That's really different from the situation in the States and the UK
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> Bikes aren't automobiles no matter how much we debate about it. They shouldn't be sharing the road with cars. I think you're confusing roads with highways . A highway is a place that cars goes and bikes can't go. A
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I wish I thought you were kidding, but many people seem to actually believe that these things are enough to pay for the construction and maintenance of roads. Not so. Much of the cost comes out of general taxes, which everyone pays. When yo
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Additionally, the fact that one can import existing Java libraries is a huge plus [to Clojure]. Armed Bear Common Lisp http://abcl.org/ is a JVM Common Lisp with this feature.
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Interesting. I always assumed it was doing a 360 scan. The sample images do seem to hint at a 2D scan, though the ATD front & back cartoon should be enough to highlight anomalies anywhere on the traveler's body. It's too bad t

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