jibiki

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by jibiki 17y ago
No, it's a spectrum. There are no conservatives who believe that authority is always right, and no liberals (at least, very few liberals) who believe that it is never right. > Authority and loyalty aren't something that needs defined,
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by jibiki 17y ago
Google translate says: "Obscene document, drawing, or other objects to distribute, sell, publicly display, or a person who is punishable by a fine or a fine of 102 million yen or imprisonment of up to 15 years. The person who has possession
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by jibiki 17y ago
And 8x belongs in 28x's class, since 8x and 28x share a tail. I think the author meant for you to interpret "equal after a finite number of entries" in the more normal fashion (e.g., 123x = 456x but 1x != 111x, the prefixes have to have equ
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by jibiki 17y ago
> that those without insurance have no other option than to attend the ER. Not always: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_clinic I don't know how widespread those are, though.
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by jibiki 17y ago
No, he translates the sum back to colors. E.g., there is a map f:colors->H with an inverse g:H->colors and he says the color g(sum(f(hat))) where the index hat ranges over all of the hats.
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by jibiki 17y ago
As far as I can tell, the point of the grandparent is that "professional and amateur sports organizations" (as mentioned in the article) have money to lobby against online gambling, but LARPers don't have money to lobby against WoW(?)
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by jibiki 17y ago
> If there is no cost of entry then it isn't a gamble, because a gamble requires you to risk money. No. He said that they only charge you for the bids, and not for the item, in these special auctions. So if you bid twice and win, you
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by jibiki 17y ago
*nix has /usr/bin/nice for running a program with high priority. Isn't there anything like that on windows?
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by jibiki 17y ago
How very sneaky. But who's going to fall for that?
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by jibiki 17y ago
Doing the calculations is a major pain, but I really don't think that's true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#Earliest_atmos... Wikipedia says that the earth's earliest atmosphere was a stunning 10% C02. Total coal reserves
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by jibiki 17y ago
I suspect that he is referring to the dreaded AGW (I have no idea whether burning oil contributes more to carbon levels than deforestation or burning coal. In the long run, I think coal reserves contain similar carbon mass to oil reserves,
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by jibiki 17y ago
Somehow nobody there mentioned Paul Buchheit: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul They got all the other well-known people I could think of.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> The university could be forgiven it it was just wrong. But it is not only wrong. It teaches you only its narrow interpretation of the subject, but tells you that it has taught you a full and balanced view. That is unforgivable. I don'
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by jibiki 17y ago
> I think its a pretty common situation. Yes. That sort of story is quite common even among people who don't have ADHD. If you are in 8th grade, and you are capable of learning all the material without doing any homework, then it is ju
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by jibiki 17y ago
That looks right. It's worth noting that the "a" sound in the first word is pronounced like the vowel in the word "spa" rather than the vowel in "mass" or "maim".
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by jibiki 17y ago
> "What would you do if your partner was dealt all 13 spades and opened 2 notrump?" Sorry, I don't know much about bridge, but if you had all the spades, wouldn't you just bid 7 spades?
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Sorry should have been 'upheld' not 'passed'. That's mainly what I was complaining about.
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by jibiki 17y ago
"both Bush and Hoover took steps to inhibit certain forms of new energy – Hoover passed prohibition, which eliminated ethanol, and Bush refused to pass any bills that promoted renewable energy." Somebody needs to read a history book...
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by jibiki 17y ago
I'm beginning to see Raganwald's point about reductio ad absurdum.
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by jibiki 17y ago
Japanese has tons of English words, even for some pretty basic concepts (チャンス, タイプ, etc.)
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by jibiki 17y ago
Is there an American version of this guy? It seems like all the really well known American pundits are non-anonymous...
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by jibiki 17y ago
> Why doctors need to make millions? Here's an interesting link: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/334/7587/236.pdf Doctors do indeed make more in the US, although the US has higher average income than the countries it is compare
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by jibiki 17y ago
[citation needed]
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by jibiki 17y ago
If post A and post B are equally convincing and interesting, but B is twice as long, then A is clearly superior.
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by jibiki 17y ago
The point is, he endangered his neighbors. I'm sort of ambivalent about the story. Should society let people build reactors? Sure. Should it let them build reactors in an unshielded toolshed in a residential area? Hell no, but it's sti
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by jibiki 17y ago
On the other hand, it's hard to argue that David Hahn's reactor should have been legal.
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by jibiki 17y ago
The great thing about the internet: when you don't get an inside joke, you can just google it. http://www.google.com/search?q=airspeed+velocity+unladen+swa... Second link.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> And by the way, loan provisions are not mandated by government but negotiated up front. If you make a non-recourse loan, you won't get access to the borrower's personal assets even if his business goes belly-up. I did not know that.
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by jibiki 17y ago
> When checking for possible moves I found that there is an advantage in starting on the right and moving to the left. Well, the big piles are hardest to clear, so that's where you should start. I was very surprised, however, that one s
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by jibiki 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77502 Wouldn't call it backtracking though.

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