kawakiole

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by kawakiole 8y ago
We don't ever definitely know anything. That's why science and bayesian reasoning in general is so useful to begin with ;) We can be more or less confident about how stuff works though. For instance, thermodynamics is something we
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by kawakiole 8y ago
Anything is possible, but how would you falsify that hypothesis?
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by kawakiole 8y ago
I work in the LHC. I can confirm dev-ops, the very many kinds of engineers, people writing analytic software, storage systems and a long long etc. do NOT get referenced in physics publications. Only physicists (but then there are hundreds
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by kawakiole 8y ago
> then it's telling for the attorney to argue for the former, since it indirectly implies that their client will likely be found culpable I think this is a very, very dangerous way of reasoning. It is the duty of your attorney to tr
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by kawakiole 8y ago
It need not be moralising at all. In many countries for pretty much every "life changing" contract such as marriage, buying a house, changing the will, etc. there's a cool down period that tries to prevent being rushed to do
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by kawakiole 11y ago
> giving random people the chance to control a huge megaphone makes you LESS equal, not more People can choose what to hear. It's not random, It's the complete opposite of random.
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by kawakiole 11y ago
Usually they don't need to count. In general working hours are stipulated in the contract, so if they find someone in the office outside the hours they have stipulated in the contract the managers better have a good explanation.... The
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by kawakiole 11y ago
>> Black people don't commit more murders because they're black >That's a hypothesis. You're free to go about proving or evidencing your position. Here in Switzerland black Swiss do not commit more murders than
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by kawakiole 11y ago
>Spain lacks a cultural framework that would make the population want market based reforms I'm no expert on Spanish matters, but didn't they elect their current government, which advocated market based reforms, right in the mid
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by kawakiole 11y ago
This is completely a non-issue. CERN can be visited by anyone for free, and you can take as many pictures as you want. During long shutdowns you can even visit underground facilities. Plans for every building are publicly available at maps.
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by kawakiole 11y ago
How on earth is the cost of a legal appeal not directly related to jail?
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by kawakiole 11y ago
The treaty says nothing about default, and say absolutely nothing about the possibility of expulsion if a member goes over the deficit limit (or under any other circumstance by that matter), which by the way already happened to many countri