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by mbateman 16y ago
I voted you up because I agree that the terminology being used is silly and that dividing people (especially children!) into one of two categories is "reductionist" in a bad way. However, the less silly version of the point is valid and non
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by mbateman 16y ago
1) Very often clever quips, even if they are funny, distract from the conversation. Being overly strict about this helps keep the place from devolving into a jokefest like so many other forums. 2) Some people will vote you down for complain
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An Economy of Grinds(nytimes.com)
67 points by mbateman 16y ago|25 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
Yes, this is why I gave a long caveat, and tried to picked only the most accessible primary sources. If there's some work in particular in the list that you think is inappropriate, I could try to defend it. I think that the Stanford Encyclo
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by mbateman 16y ago
Hi, I'm an ABD philosopher. The deepest and most interesting philosophical books are generally difficult and best accompanied by some form of instruction. This is true regardless of how clearly (e.g. Plato) or esoterically (e.g. Kant) writt
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by mbateman 16y ago
pretty much the same as this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491783
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by mbateman 16y ago
> Kindly retract that he said "anti-semitism is okay." Fair enough. He didn't say anti-semitism is okay. What he did do, which prompted my inaccurate comment, is admit to make "joking" videos about the genocide of Jews which are in egre
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by mbateman 16y ago
Of course civil rights aren't dependent on anything. But whether we believe his story that his civil rights are being violated is partially dependent on his credibility, which seems at first glance to be pretty close to zero. He claims that
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by mbateman 16y ago
There's also a long history of cranks falsely claiming that their rights are being violated and that due process in their case is being trampled. I'm not saying that that cranks shouldn't be defended when their rights are violated or that
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by mbateman 16y ago
Some priceless comments from the comment thread in the story: "It will be pretty intresting to see the profiles on facebook/myspace of some of the 'top raiders.' Maybe pull up some DMV records and see what kind of mount they have IRL." "Fin
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by mbateman 16y ago
This guy (a) has a theory that sounds totally unjustified and crazy, even if it happens to make a good prediction now and so often, and (b) underperforms the markets (noted on the second page of the article). Hard to see why anyone should l
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by mbateman 16y ago
I didn't know what you were talking about, so I looked it up. I guess you're referring to this: > 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by G
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Apple Working on New Language?(waffle.wootest.net)
12 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
Inaccurate flame bait, flagged.
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by mbateman 16y ago
I think it's (hopefully) just a dramatic way of pointing out that and how all of your days have added up to something, instead of being random disconnected bits. Of course they are adding up as you go, too, they don't just suddenly sum up a
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by mbateman 16y ago
I got it based on the number of active users, not registered users. Everyone who has registered for Skype ever counts as a registered user. I got my numbers here: http://aaytch.com/borderless You're right that you can't tell when the iPho
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by mbateman 16y ago
Skype has around 50 million active users. 5-10 million iPhones sell per quarter. Shouldn't take long to catch up.
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Steve Jobs on blu-ray and what made mp3 take off(macrumors.com)
1 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
The fact that you like what a company is doing should be a major factor in whether or not you invest in them, in my opinion. Investing money is putting it to work. You can get monetary returns on an investment, but you also help the company
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Google's mismanagement of the Android Market(nanocr.eu)
96 points by mbateman 16y ago|64 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
A lot of people are leaving comments critical of his goal of beating the market as playing a zero-sum game, just pushing wealth around, having no value for society, etc. This strikes me as dubious and high-handed, to say the least. First, a
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by mbateman 16y ago
A big part of the reason that so many people fail to understand even the simple scientific method is because of the way the textbook version of that method is presented. The way the scientific method is often taught in public schools in Ame
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Apple Responds to iPhone 4 "Death Grip" Reports(gearlog.com)
1 points by mbateman 16y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
Erm, the submitted link is horribly formatted and lacks a proper citation or even a date. This article is from 1988. For those with JSTOR access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20025141
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by mbateman 16y ago
I can understand -- sort of -- holding up lax regulation as something blameworthy here. More to fault is BP for not taking the possibility of disaster seriously and (apparently) having a dramatically worse safety record than other large oil
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by mbateman 16y ago
I don't understand how this bet proves anything either way if we can't see the adjudication methodology.
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Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable?(motherjones.com)
167 points by mbateman 16y ago|140 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
This is just an aside in the article, but I had no idea that Rock Band 3 was going to feature something much closer to the real instruments. I've been wondering, ever since I played the first Guitar Hero, how long it would be before it was
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Flash Player Update Defaults to Installing McAfee Security Scan Plus(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by mbateman 16y ago|1 comments
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by mbateman 16y ago
A lot of my film buff friends claim that films with higher than 24 fps look a lot better. There's a kind of format called Maxivision that can be projected 48: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxivision

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