kobeya

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by kobeya 10y ago
Was disappointed to find that nearly all the examples were Python and shell script. I'm not interested in knowing random trivia about how slow various interpreters are.
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by kobeya 10y ago
Homeless get jailed pretty quick. So there is a wealth floor below which you are treated as a criminal.
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by kobeya 10y ago
I would be very surprised if either wealth front or betterment has better ROI than Vanguard. One exists for the purpose of sucking you dry, the other is a mutually owned cooperative with a mission to drive down costs and a history of doing
964.
by kobeya 10y ago
Was it "hate speech" it freedom of religious view? Serious question because the article doesn't go into enough detail.
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by kobeya 10y ago
Poverty is easy to clean up when being poor is a crime.
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by kobeya 10y ago
There was more evidence from your comment that you did indeed claim such a thing, than there is evidence for Mr. Theil supporting a Muslem ban. Which is the problem with the original post that unnecessarily politicized an inherently non pol
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by kobeya 10y ago
Was that necessary?
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by kobeya 10y ago
The GP is talking about the straight-faced lie that the PRC peddles in international circles that Taiwan is a province of the mainland government. It is the international equivalent of putting their hands on their ears and shouting "LA
969.
by kobeya 10y ago
Seal script is significantly older than that. 2100 years ago is squarely in the middle of the Han dynasty, after the square script we are familiar with was already standardized.
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by kobeya 10y ago
But was the theorem proved?
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by kobeya 10y ago
> I don't see any particular reason to subscribe to pragmatism Reason #1: it works. I've never needed a reason #2.
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by kobeya 10y ago
> There are many questions in life that are interesting to consider, independent of whether they're falsifiable. It tends to get boring to consider only questions that can be experimentally proven... You say "boring", I sa
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by kobeya 10y ago
That argument sidesteps the fundamental issue of whether one should be concerned with an abstract specification of a computation (a recording of the connectome of your brain, for example) or a specific instance of it (YOU, to not put too fi
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by kobeya 10y ago
It's going to put laptops in the baggage where they can be pulled out and their data dumped for dragnet surveillance.
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by kobeya 10y ago
You mean RMS?
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by kobeya 10y ago
The problem with the sex offender registry is not that it exists, it is that there is no way to rehabilitate and get off it.
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by kobeya 10y ago
Patents cover detail of the implementation, not just the details in the standard. Is the software you are using to encode/decode also 20 years old? If not, more recent changes might be patented.
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by kobeya 10y ago
I have a friend who plead guilty to two statuary rape charges that were false accusations, serving more time with parole than the maximum sentencing of the one charge he was guilty of, solely because the prosecution would drop the request f
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by kobeya 10y ago
Hawai'i has a "local rate" discount system that is >=20% cheaper for well near everything. It doesn't seem to have any problems...
980.
by kobeya 10y ago
Yes, let's just let these ladies go blind and die infirm because the treatment hadn't passed stage 3 trials yet. There is such a thing as medical experimentation under informed consent.
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by kobeya 10y ago
First point doesn't contradict what I said. Your second point is unsubstantiated. Nothing in medical science is absolutely certain beforehand. Sometimes we have good reason to think a treatment might work, but it fails upon trial. That
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by kobeya 10y ago
No explanation needed if the age of the universe is finite.
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by kobeya 10y ago
Somebody has to be first to get a treatment. You don't really know whether it will work until you try it. Also mentioned in the article are the cases where treatments worked as they were supposed to or better. The headline is a bit mis
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by kobeya 10y ago
Leverage doesn't come without a cost -- it magnifies your losses too.
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by kobeya 10y ago
So we should kill a couple of hundred thousand people every decade or so to keep our game up? Seems pretty indefensible. I'd rather invest a much smaller amount of money into honest red team war gaming.
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by kobeya 10y ago
Actually I've had jobs like that, and hired roles in that way. It works better than you think when those references are really there.
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by kobeya 10y ago
The point I was making is that the primary is itself a stand-alone nuclear weapon (of low yield, yes, but enough for fission to occur).
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by kobeya 10y ago
Why would you want to do that?
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by kobeya 10y ago
> Who is NK terrorizing? South Korea, Japan.
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by kobeya 10y ago
> There isn't much nuclear material in a modern fusion bomb. This isn't a blob of enriched uranium like seen in WWII bombs. This is a very thin and hollow sphere of uranium packed with hydrogen and other harmless elements. What

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