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by khafra 16y ago
When you can do the proof, you actually do understand; you just may not understand your understanding (viz. the SMBC comic on Polish Hand Math; I think this is it: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1917 )
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by khafra 16y ago
The assertion that people in privileged positions can never see their own privilege is refutation-proof; but when you start creating negative categories like "not-abused" to privilege, it's hard to claim with a straight face that anybody ex
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by khafra 16y ago
On 14, the failure mode is called "not carving reality at the joints." Because .00001% of men wield large amounts of political power, whereas even fewer women (at least, visibly) do so, political power is a male privilege. There are certain
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by khafra 16y ago
That's interesting; because I think I recall something in the language of the safe harbor law where if a content hoster starts actively policing their own content, they can be held liable for anything that slips through their net.
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by khafra 16y ago
By "Discordian," I'm thinking you mean the TAZ-theory and other stuff from RAW's other work, not so much the carefree pranksterism of the Principia Discordia, right? Either way, it's a model for which I hold such a low prior probability th
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by khafra 16y ago
Which, in retrospect, looks like it may have been smart enough to deserve the extra visibility.
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by khafra 16y ago
> Currently ISPs serve you I'm not a board member of Comcast. I don't even hold any voting shares in CMCSA.
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by khafra 16y ago
> it probably is not a good idea to use email (of any form) as long term storage. For hotmail or yahoo mail, I agree--but one of Gmail's founding principles is never having to delete an email--they say so in as many words. If it's not a
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by khafra 16y ago
It would appear the market knows which continents to build high-speed rail on, and where to build them, which--I would guess--is the point you wanted to make in the first place.
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by khafra 16y ago
> to buy $300 sunglasses in Washington State It looks like you're the explanation for the popular factoid that Seattle has the highest per-capita sales of sunglasses in the United States.
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by khafra 16y ago
dantheman's criticism is more on-target. There are certainly places in the US with highly-concentrated populations, a significant percentage of which would like to travel to nearby population clusters. But as a Tampa resident, I feel confi
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by khafra 16y ago
I read him as saying it's no more complicated to build; not that it's no more complicated to operate. This interpretation makes sense in view of his point that safety concerns (pre-takeoff checks) are what prevent widespread personal flight
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by khafra 16y ago
...and the way to encourage research into SCA is to make sure most people that suffer from it are unable to pay for whatever treatment gets developed, by denying them healthcare? You've made the point that some diseases disproportionately
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by khafra 16y ago
Thanks for resolving that particular cognitive dissonance; I tried Blender once, then gave up in bewilderment after a few hours. I may have to give it another shot.
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by khafra 16y ago
Is "agile design" a thing? If not, should it exist?
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by khafra 16y ago
He didn't say they track everything, he said the marginal cost to track any particular thing is near zero.
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by khafra 16y ago
I do like Camdhu and Tamdhu; I'll have to give Glenrothes a try. I highly recommend Port Ellen 30; it's the only "ghost whisky" I've tried, but it certainly invoked a feeling of saudade that such a rich taste will be lost to history. I'd p
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by khafra 16y ago
Is that a counterfactual counterpoint? Given the complexity of business success and failure, it's probably best to pick examples which don't rely on facts demonstrably not based in reality.
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by khafra 16y ago
Interesting audience--is there a magazine you know of that aims at the opposite demographic? (I'll take a 1979 Port Ellen and a Casio G-shock any day).
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by khafra 16y ago
Testimony from the victim is considered evidence in most court systems. I wouldn't expect a jury of average people, especially back then, to be aware of the cognitive biases that made the testimony so unreliable.
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by khafra 16y ago
Good point. "Least readable Python code" is a distinction similar to "smallest market cap on the Fortune 50" or "fattest Olympic decathlete."
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by khafra 16y ago
Interesting corollary: If you see someone covered in slime, do not point it out, and especially do not offer to help; you might be mistaken for a thief.
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by khafra 16y ago
The point he was supporting was "no matter how rich you are, there's only so much time you can get by trading money for it," in which context $500k/year isn't out of place--especially, as you noticed, with Warren Buffett as the example.
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by khafra 16y ago
It's both true and obvious that buying index funds externalizes the cost of researching equities. However, active investors engage in self-delusion that they can somehow beat the market. Unless they have highly rare insider information, th
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by khafra 16y ago
Clearwire Wimax covers the Tampa Bay area now; you should take your laptop out to Fort Desoto and code with inspiration. edit : In fact, I may have just talked myself into signing up with Clearwire; care to start a co-working space just ar
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by khafra 16y ago
I wonder if your famous relative regrets putting his genome on 23andMe.
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by khafra 16y ago
irssi on *nix, Colloquy on iPhone.
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by khafra 16y ago
That's cool; I'd never thought of applying anthropic reasoning[1] to startup planning. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Indication_Assumption
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by khafra 16y ago
Wait... If there's a gold rush for the pickaxes, does that mean it's time to sell pickaxe stores, or just go mine gold now that pickaxes are so cheap?
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by khafra 16y ago
I suspect you're getting downvoted for your tone, because your point is legitimate:"reversed stupidity is not intelligence" -EY

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