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by lutusp 12y ago
> You didn't address my concerns at all. You asked a question, I provided the answer and example code to the actual question that you asked . > My question was why any reasonably designed modern web app would ever have user inpu
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by lutusp 12y ago
The original claim would be hyperbolic, except that someone killed in a car crash doesn't increase the risk to other people on the road, but an Ebola infection certainly does. In the mathematics of exponential increase, a small initial
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I believe they fully except [sic] modern medicine for instance? Wait a second. "Except" in this context means to refuse. The word you want, "Accept", means to give consent. Normally a malaprop like this is benign, b
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Perhaps someone could enlighten me, but even after reading this and several other articles about Shellshock I really don't understand why we should be so concerned. Definitely read on. > Heartbleed was scary because modern, hig
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by lutusp 12y ago
Empty linkbait headlines, only one of which actually leads to an article. The Shellshock bug detection and remedy proves that open source works . If a person is diagnosed with a disease and successfully treated, does this: 1. Prove that me
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> There are no species that were present on Earth a billion years ago that are still present in the same form, i.e. able to interbreed with their forebears. > That's not really a useful basis for conclusions about the outer l
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by lutusp 12y ago
>> What? There is no "factual basis" for my saying "chances are"? > Correct. Exactly. Honest to God. A statement of probability is not a fact, it is an estimate . You aren't even familiar with the terminol
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>> It is the height of absurdity to think that a lowly species like us will exist in any form at all even a million years hence. > It really is not. You, too, can learn evolution by natural selection and such related disciplines as
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by lutusp 12y ago
I have some fast-breaking news, news clearly not know to you -- most modern computers allow you to copy sequences of text characters from one place to another. This means an article title like "CDC: First diagnosed case of Ebola in the
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Why can reddit users delete their old comments, but HN users can't? 1. Because of the sometimes perverse and always unfair effect of deleting comments after 20 replies are attached. 2. Because HN commenters expect to be held to a
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by lutusp 12y ago
I hope you mean this ironically or sarcastically. Windows 8 is just as vulnerable as any other Windows version.
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by lutusp 12y ago
> The million year forecast isn't "optimistic"; while it may be unlikely that human beings would be around for 5 billion years, your particular argument for that point is, well, based on one controversial claim and a coupl
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Honestly, are you really going to be disappointed if, after a few billion years, humanity runs out of gas? What? Humanity will have entirely disappeared in a million years, and in a billion years we won't even be a distant memory.
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by lutusp 12y ago
Article title: "The world's loudest sound caused shock waves 100,000 times that of a hydrogen bomb" Submission title: "World's loudest sound sent shock waves 100,000X nitrogen bomb" WTF? Nitrogen bomb? Does no
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by lutusp 12y ago
The odds are 99% that, twenty years from now, you'll be glad you stuck it out, as you survey the working room floor from your carpeted office where you make the decisions for those people who acted on their frustration at the slow pace
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by lutusp 12y ago
> CO2 isn't the only greenhouse gas, or anywhere near the most powerful. There are immense reserves of methane gas frozen under the arctic. If that gas were suddenly released all at once due to the ice caps melting, it could be trul
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by lutusp 12y ago
Quote: "Windows 10 represents the first step of a whole new generation of Windows." You know, this is almost exactly how every version of Windows has been described, from the beginning to the present. I would have much preferred t
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by lutusp 12y ago
How ironic. It would have been even more so had Microsoft waited until 4-1-2015 to make the announcement they made today.
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by lutusp 12y ago
> However, humanity lives in an increasingly global environment, and natural selection works slowly - so no two generations will be able to draw a line saying "they're a different species," True, but what makes a species a
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by lutusp 12y ago
> We've pretty much stopped evolving as a species through natural selection events. This is quite false. All that has happened is that we've (to some extent) replaced genes with memes, and memes evolve just like genes do. Evolu
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Why does the reason matter? It's the ability to speak it that matters. Yes, I basically agree. I think there's a difference between a native speaker and someone who can order food in a French restaurant -- I mean, without get
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by lutusp 12y ago
> Why tell everyone "we need to bomb" in order for Japan to surrender when you knew it wouldn't stop the war? For various political reasons (I'm not justifying this, only explaining it). The Manhattan Project began in
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by lutusp 12y ago
Quote: “Windows 10 will be our most comprehensive platform ever,” Windows chief Terry Myerson said at a briefing with reporters in San Francisco. “It wouldn’t be right to call it Windows 9.” Sorry, I must have missed something -- does someo
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by lutusp 12y ago
> A colony of 1 million is also very unlikely to have the ability to produce pharmaceuticals and high-end chips which are cost competitive with Earth. Well, cost-competitive with products imported from Earth, which is an easier standard
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by lutusp 12y ago
> What a load of begging questions. The expression "begging the question" doesn't mean what you think it does. > I wonder what you have to be, to be special according to the flavor of meaning you just happen to prefer?
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I'm actually using a very inclusive sense of 'us' here, meaning any sort of life. Okay, fair enough, that's reasonable -- so once we detect any sort of extraterrestrial life, then we can forget about leaving the pla
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by lutusp 12y ago
Not if the students' plan is only to remain competitive with native English speakers. Knowing how to speak English as a second language, for pragmatic reasons, isn't the same as being an English-speaker in the sense of the parent
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by lutusp 12y ago
> "I have to confess I never thought of that, but it's beside the point." Not in a debate about the existence of objectivity -- nothing can be more relevant or to the point. I chose that example for a reason -- arguing the
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by lutusp 12y ago
> It wasn't know that America would be profitable. This is misleading, because the early explorers thought they were sailing to India, not to a new world that was unknown at the time. India was certainly regarded as profitable, and
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by lutusp 12y ago
> I'd be surprised if most jeans for women have back pockets that could comfortably fit an iPhone 6. The rear pocket in women's jeans might be able to accept an iPhone 6, but only if the woman's rear isn't present at

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