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811.
by khafra 16y ago
It could be worse. If you go military/industrial complex instead, even if all your friends also have TS/SCI clearances you can't talk about what you do unless they need to know; and even then only in a SCIF and over an encrypted line.
812.
by khafra 16y ago
I subscribe to the theory that people who assume everyone's a potential child rapist are generalizing from a single example; either someone close to them, or themselves.
813.
by khafra 16y ago
It's possible that the writer meant the more verbose nature of philosophy, as well as the explicit appeals to intuition in much of it, force this kind of "aha" moment more directly than math does. However, I'm willing to bet it was just sna
814.
by khafra 16y ago
I thought that app was called Loopt.
815.
by khafra 16y ago
Those are all legitimate questions, but I think they all have extremely legitimate parallels in BP's gulf fiasco. For instance, who pays Japanese for the loss of contaminated property? I don't know, but the loss of livelihood for thousands
816.
by khafra 16y ago
Also, there's a ton of downloads coming from a point in Northeast Siberia where, as far as I can tell on Google Maps, there isn't so much as a log cabin. Mapping anomaly, or giant, secret military base?
817.
by khafra 16y ago
Complaining about mainstream media on mainstream media would be fine. Complaining about mainstream media on alternate media pollutes the alternate media with the problems of the mainstream.
818.
by khafra 16y ago
Not unfair, exactly; but not at all certain to pick the best algorithm instead of the luckiest.
819.
by khafra 16y ago
ge.tt has been my go-to for anonymous-ish large file sharing, lately.
820.
by khafra 16y ago
I see a fairly natural superpower line with welding and mechanical engineering (alongside machining or some rapid prototyping ability) on one side, and bricklaying, ditch digging, etc. on the other side. Bricklayers and ditch diggers don't
821.
by khafra 16y ago
Carpentry is a super power. Just about every girlfriend I've had has been very turned on by guys who can build things with their hands; my brother made a (successful) engagement ring out of 5 different kinds of Amazonian hardwoods that l
822.
by khafra 16y ago
Thanks; my self-esteem was getting crushed for a bit there, as a non-recipient of unwanted messages from recruiters.
823.
by khafra 16y ago
To be fair, that was over 140 characters into the comment.
824.
by khafra 16y ago
I'm sure the NSA is listening to Freenet, but it doesn't matter. That's the advantage of Freenet. Among the disadvantages of Freenet are that it's incredibly slow, difficult to find content on, and cannot access content on the regular inte
825.
by khafra 16y ago
> modulo hiccups that can bring it down by a factor of 5. The comments on reddit indicated hiccups more on a factor of 10x and, sometimes, 100x. Either way, the issue is that the more drives you add to your RAID0, the more often one of
826.
by khafra 16y ago
If you read between the lines, "if you read between the lines" almost always means "if you make an educated jump to conclusions."
827.
by khafra 16y ago
I agree. I finished "The Non-Designer's Design Book," which seems to be universally regarded as the sine qua non of beginning design; then immediately applied my new skills to a redesign of my dad's 1998-frontpage-website. Long story short
828.
by khafra 16y ago
> A corporation is only a group of individuals. The wikipedia article on corporate personhood might make some illuminating reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate Unless you already know about it, and are mi
829.
by khafra 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
830.
by khafra 16y ago
I think physical keyboards should come with a "post/submit" key separate from the "newline" key, like the iPhone keyboard does.
831.
by khafra 16y ago
If there were ways to save large amounts while maintaining economic output, people would be doing them and making massive amounts of money from the savings. There are ways to achieve a mean world GDP, or at least a standard of living simila
832.
by khafra 16y ago
I'm confused as to why holding, say, Bayer responsible in criminal court instead of merely civil court for knowingly infecting thousands of people with HIV[1] would stop all medical innovation. [1] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/03
833.
by khafra 16y ago
I thought that effect was really interesting until I read that the median age of the building's inhabitants was like 1/3 that of the control group, and that simply by adjusting for age the average cancer rates went up significantly.
834.
by khafra 16y ago
If you're saying that mob rule has the power to irrationally stop nuclear power production, I agree with you. If you're saying this is the way things ought to be, I'm not sure if I agree but I think you have a valid point about the democrat
835.
by khafra 16y ago
The hysterics don't turn green until they're actually exposed to toxic waste. I think this is plain old hysteria; many environmentalists are all about nuclear power because the alternatives are coal, oil, or hunter/gatherer at 1/1000th the
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by khafra 16y ago
They undercut everyone offering the same product. Rock-bottom hosting that might stay up and might have customer service available sometimes is not the same product.
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by khafra 16y ago
Non-infectious ignorance can be left alone. A state senator with a PR platform, using it to spread ignorance of a sort that ruins millions of lives, cannot be left alone in good conscience. You have a moral obligation to be less wrong: htt
838.
by khafra 16y ago
I think Rubashov understands that the process generating these waves is nothing like that which generates the tides, but correctly observes that the process resembles a tide--huge volumes of water rising, then falling back into the sea--mor
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by khafra 16y ago
Obviously a psuedonym for Milo Minderbinder. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catch-22#Chapter_22
840.
by khafra 16y ago
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so... Looks like nuclear is a huge win, even counting Chernobyl. Solar and Wind are also good power sources.

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