judk

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by judk 12y ago
Cemeteries aren't ridiculous a priori, they just become less sensible as population density and community age (#of corpses) increases.
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by judk 12y ago
It was real estate most recently.
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by judk 12y ago
Wikipedia also has something to say about how the Tulip Mania was much less than has been portrayed. These fun stories tend to have a life of their own.
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by judk 12y ago
The terms are not precisely enough to give meaning to cross-language comparisons. Within a single language like C++, you can usefully differentiate the various ways to pass references and data.
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by judk 12y ago
Or you need to get to a desired position first,which is a function of total time, not top speed.
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by judk 12y ago
Even the person who got a smaller bonus is still doing pretty well.
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by judk 12y ago
This article is weird. 1. The bizarre * in "retardation", as though it's a slur like "nigger". 2. It overplays "now we know it's all autism". The whole point of "autism spectrum" concept is
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by judk 12y ago
Do you evidence for your claim that google only caches the image if you open the mail? That seems to defeat the entire purpose of the feature.
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by judk 12y ago
Gmail controls this permission per sender. Nobody savvy enough to read Wired would use a mail system that was broken in the described way.
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by judk 12y ago
Inheritance is a separate issue. The US Constitution set forth a reasonable copyright time limit. Disney and Sonny Bono turned it into a ridiculous dynasty.
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by judk 12y ago
It is possible to give away money before you die.
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by judk 12y ago
Are you doing submarine PR for genius.com?
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by judk 12y ago
The only argument you need to justify your choice is the results you got from it. Now if you have no results, you can use petty argumentation instead.
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by judk 12y ago
It's weird that you put "winning arguments" in the category apart from the other Subcultures. Your biased self-image is showing :-)
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by judk 12y ago
Are you now saying Java isn't awful? That's news, coming from btilly.
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by judk 12y ago
It's kind of funny, by now most literate folks must assume that an author who concels their name must be a woman.
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by judk 12y ago
And yet no one has really made an convincing argument of why the conclusions of utilitarianism contradict the axioms of utilitarianism. And no one seems to offer the rather simple solution that utility is non-linear (so dust in ones eye is
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by judk 12y ago
The difference between hard and soft speculative fiction (science vs fantasy is really more about the setting than the universe structure) is how big the plot holes are in the fabric of the universe. Why does only one special person have th
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by judk 12y ago
The less you are made of, the less ways there are to break an important part of you. Complex organisms have many weaknesses.
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by judk 12y ago
To be clear, in humans that's a 5-10% shift in probability, and no evidence to suggest that the effect is determined post-conception (an extraordinary conjecture) and not statistical miscarriage pressure.
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by judk 12y ago
You'll never stop jerks being jerks. But you can clue in the clueless
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by judk 12y ago
Doing the right think for a fair price is pretty much the definition of maturity.
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by judk 12y ago
Medium.com did
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by judk 12y ago
Next time, get your legal advice from lawyer friends, not "feminist friends".
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by judk 12y ago
Which military are you talking about? The US military has a longstanding sexual assault problem.
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by judk 12y ago
Ellis's new employer doesn't think the way you do, and is a hot startup.
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by judk 12y ago
During the whole Real Names debate, VG's standard example of a name he didn't want on G+ was "dogfart". That example was named repeatedly, becoming a trope. Google's top many results for that term are ALL for a porn
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by judk 12y ago
If you aren't being physically restrained, it's rather straightforward to resist an unwelcome touch. Autism is not associated with extreme weakness or passivity.
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by judk 12y ago
And among those 1 in 68 are people whose brilliance in extricably tied to that disability -- including most of the greatest scientists of past and present.
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by judk 12y ago
Correct. The FBI's original mission was to investigate citizens who opposed the politics of the individuals in executive office.

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