jeremysmyth

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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
The referendum was an opinion poll, with no legal effect. The effect comes from what the government does with that poll, and the high court has ruled that the government cannot act without parliament's consent. To be absolutely clear
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
It'll be some algorithm that deems you worthy or otherwise or gets you on an "of interest" list. ...or your association with "Occupy" or some other political protest movement that someone in power disagrees with,
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
I'm quite impressed by the following facts: - The EU ruling finds that Ireland broke the law. - The penalty is that Ireland gets a boatload of money. - Ireland is appealing the ruling.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
The article is trying to address a legal situation but uses terms like "that doesn’t mean they’re paying anything resembling their fair share" and "everyone is correctly saying Apple did wrong". The moral/ethical vi
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
"In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
What about defense research?
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“180 areas per [brain] hemisphere” – 97 new(nature.com)
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Please don't try to prevent me from using things because you don't like them. Sure, some sites limit who can view them based on visitor preferences. Analogy: Some restaurants have a "no shirt, no service" policy. It wo
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
The EU didn't initiate this referendum though. The Lisbon treaty was a result of complex negotiation, and Ireland was an outlier, requiring a constitutional change to implement the change. The change hadn't been effectively commun
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
I was thinking precisely this. "User-friendly" depends entirely on the user in question. I find Gnome 2 to be considerably more "user-friendly" than Gnome 3, because Gnome 3 frustrated my attempts to do what I expected
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Exactly. So—assuming all results are statistically significant—where's the causal relationship? Radiation-> Cancer? Radiation->Lives longer? Lives longer->Cancer? and if there are two results that are related independently of
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
It also shows "the male rats exposed to cell-phone radiation actually lived longer than the control group". I'm not quite sure how to take such jarring results.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
The researchers have so far found no remains of early humans, stone tools or other signs of occupation, but they think that Neanderthals made the structures, because no other hominins are known in western Europe at that time. “So far, it’s
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Quite a lot, if they hold power or influence. One word: Antivax. This is why it's always OK to call BS. Sometimes you're calling BS, and sometimes you're spouting it. Debate works until it doesn't, and then you get out.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Nope. You're ignoring the timing. If I sell and then disclose a failure in regulatory compliance that requires a redesign, or buy and then disclose the R&D breakthrough, I've won.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Only in the loosest possible sense. Having the same (or similar, or related) characters does not necessarily imply a "full rich series". The Baroque cycle, sure, because the characters share arcs. Cryptonomicon is a completely dif
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
HTML ignores line breaks. If you're using plain text, the format=flowed header is what ignores line breaks. Not all clients support it.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Not just degrees, but style. Man A might tell a racist or bawdy joke, and Man B might tell one that relies on in-group knowledge. Each charms one group and alienates another.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Charisma is the cause, popularity the effect.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
I'm just saying I think people take his brash no-bullshit no-filter style and run with it too far... His "no-filter style" frequently results in him saying things that are factually incorrect, based on mistaken beliefs, des
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Don't forget Amdahl's law though. You might be able to optimize away the reaction time with good AI, but you can't optimize away mechanical factors like engine failure, tire grip, and road surface friction. This affects the m
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
Depends entirely on the person. If you work remotely, 'travel time' is the length of time it takes to make a phone call. If you collect cash, it could be an awful lot more.
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
"Our economy simply does not reward people for being good or ok at things. You have to be amazing." This is only true locally. I can derive a huge amount of happiness by being the best singer at a party, or the best at telling j
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
The word "smart" appears in the title of the book being publicised, and in the title of the article, but appears nowhere else in the article. The comments here, and the title of the article, are quite misleading about the conten
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
It's not just the Internet. It's that culture has changed. Not everything is based around music, and even when it is, it's got the televisual/life-story elements (admittedly aided by social media) that are magnitudes mor
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by jeremysmyth 10y ago
It's worth highlighting that the parent post refers to the Sex Pistols song rather than the rather more acceptable national anthem of the same name.
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
All too often, the scared white person is wearing the airline's uniform.
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Right, but that method puts an associate lawyer with a $1.2M mortgage and $80k car loan beneath the guy who lives in a cardboard box behind a Starbucks.
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
I would guess that a large proportion of people reading this comment have incomes in the top 1% globally. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615... Interestingly, this is less likely to be
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Common sense judgements are how harmful stereotypes are born.

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