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by jqm 12y ago
Absurdity is a relative state. When philosophy starts trying to bullshit with semantics, I completely loose interest. That's this article.
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by jqm 12y ago
How would a virus immediately lethal to 100% of it's hosts ever survive long enough to be selected for? There is a natural limit on selection like this. A lab doesn't have the limit because it's product is not constrained by
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by jqm 12y ago
I would rather sit on my ass and feel worthless than do something inefficiently or something not needed and feel worthless. Never mind I don't usually feel worthless even when sitting on my ass because I find something to do.
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by jqm 12y ago
This was a good post. Synthetic Biology is a big concern, and not just that people may deliberately use it to cause harm (which is definitely a concern as well). My grandfather was an engineer during the 50's early 60's working wi
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by jqm 12y ago
> Today, every email in your inbox, every text, every cell phone GPS coordinate, every draft in your drafts folder is plaintext in a big database. > And whose fault is that? That fault lies with the people directing the assembly of th
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by jqm 12y ago
Agree that these techniques likely weren't intended to get more information. But maybe they were deliberate instigation rather than punishment or cruelty. Possibly designed to stir up outrage, continued resistance and counterattacks? T
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by jqm 12y ago
I think it's widely believed that Southern Ukraine was the origin of the proto Indo-Europeans who moved both West and East. I always found the Black Sea Deluge theory interesting.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl
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by jqm 12y ago
My opinion is that being on LinkedIn is like being on the shelf at WalMart (where the masses can easily find you). Most unique quality merchandise won't ever found on the shelves of a WalMart. That's a place for interchangeable, d
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by jqm 12y ago
"the next time Goldman calls the FBI, they are going to be treated much more sceptically...." maybe. but I sort of doubt it.
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by jqm 12y ago
"As Sacco’s flight traversed the length of Africa, a hashtag began to trend worldwide: #HasJustineLandedYet. “Seriously. I just want to go home to go to bed, but everyone at the bar is SO into #HasJustineLandedYet." Who are these
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by jqm 12y ago
"consequences need to exist to actions" Didn't G.W. Bush say something similar about people who criticized the Iraq war?
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by jqm 12y ago
I looked into straw bale houses years ago. I even saw them being built in an El Paso, Texas subdivision and walked around the construction. They do have some advantages, but the thing that caused me to loose interest was the possibility of
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by jqm 12y ago
If they haven't paid you for 7 months, and aren't returning your phone calls nor emails, they probably aren't planning on paying you. If it's not a lot of money, forget about it, tell them you aren't doing anymore w
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by jqm 12y ago
"Yes, I could tell you what your problems are and how you could make the workplace better, but then I would have to charge you as a consultant....."
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by jqm 12y ago
I've also had the opposite experience. I've been hired on the spot with no checks and the company turned out to do things in a random, hurried and slipshod fashion and was always operating in emergency mode. This caused chaos whic
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by jqm 12y ago
If you have a 2 hour commute time, you can't work 9+ hours a day and have time for fitness. Or much of anything else for that matter.
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by jqm 12y ago
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-int... The average commute time to work (in the US) is 25.4 minutes.
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by jqm 12y ago
By 2016- People start realizing that overriding browser scroll functions in an attempt to be stylish or clever results in way to much breakage and causes people to leave the pages as content cannot be read.
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by jqm 12y ago
"We" aren't.
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by jqm 12y ago
There are 24 hours in a day. Assume you don't have kids. sleep: 7-8, eat/shower/shit: 2, commute to work: 1, chores/shopping/errands: 2, work: 9 ... you still have 2-3 hours left. That ought to give you 45 minutes o
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by jqm 12y ago
It's obviously not a real politician. Nowhere in the article did I see the words "my fellow Americans", and "Let me be perfectly clear".
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by jqm 12y ago
That's a good point. I'm all in favor of people spending less hours at work and more of it working productively and getting paid the same. It's not just startups. In my experience, most people spend a good portion of their ti
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by jqm 12y ago
Would you consider 20% minimal? because that's the hours from a 40 hour week that are cut.
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by jqm 12y ago
Exactly. Enjoy happy fun time while it lasts. Soon enough everything is a commodity and the Amazons and WalMarts of the world hire managers who's only possible goal is to eke out that last 2%. I wish it wasn't like this, but I can
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by jqm 12y ago
Haven't you heard? Peter Thiel is planning to live to 120. We are now authorized to play the "youthful indiscretion" card until age 35.
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by jqm 12y ago
Relieved to hear that because I didn't really want to give Ulbricht a medal either.
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by jqm 12y ago
OK tptacek... same level as you say. So a year in prison for both and then medals. You are OK with that?
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by jqm 12y ago
"I disagree" is not the same as "he is not smart". (Don't feel bad. Lots of people have trouble telling the difference.) He got Silk Road up and running. He was a grad physics student who had authored some papers. H
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by jqm 12y ago
One line snark forgiven. The key word here is "seems". He was a physics student, an eagle scout, he started a book recycling business that gave 10% to charity. He had some (however misguided) philosophical ideas. He got poison ivy
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by jqm 12y ago
Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment considering. Look... I'm not trying to justify what DPR allegedly did. All I'm saying is I see some positive qualities in him. Very different from a hardened and callus mob boss. Mayb

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