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by mehwoot 12y ago
The United States is an enormous country comprised of 50 separate state governments, where the powers of the federal government are extremely limited (both by the constitution itself, and by the fact that it is practically impossible to do
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Is there any real advantage to having such a complex system rather than (some level of) a phonetic one like most other languages? Obviously there are cultural reasons we would still like to be able to read old text and not lose that, but i
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Yes, but the comment I replied to claimed he was "ultimately concerned with the total human condition." I'm saying he isn't, or is at minimum a hypocrite.
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This is what Ross Ulbricht described his goal as on LinkedIn: "I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression amongst mankind." Is that clear enough? The guy studied organic solar cells and
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Just because a bug seems impossible doesn't mean it is. Why would anyone who has used a printer more than once think it would be impossible to reliably jam a printer...
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Huh? I thought the point for an IM client is that you don't need a window anywhere, if you have the icon down there. So you can close the main window, or you can separately quit the application.
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Well, I look like an idiot.. I read the whole article and then came back to the comments and it popped into my mind. Which was apparently just me remembering it. http://i.imgur.com/Uwysayc.png
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Compilers hate him! Find out this one simple program....
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In the absence of IP legal protection, this would be a non-issue. Because Pharmasset (who Gilead bought) would have invested all that money they did without IP legal protection anyway, right? That would be totally logical. If there was n
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The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities). Success rate is computed and regularly measured by VCs. Otherwise rule of thumbs like 7
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This has been calculated a number of times using various methods but it usually averages in the $5-10 million range, talking about the practical cost of someone dying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
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Yes, but neither is it fair that because you serendipitously gain productivity from this website, to assume the function of it is to be productive or expect submissions to meet some standard of productivity. I think completely trivial subm
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Hacker news, the bastion of things that are a productive use of our time.
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Yes but if someone went to those lengths they could just use a hidden camera. My fear is not some very unlikely determined person secretly recording my conversation, my fear is giving every single person in the world an easy tool that they
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But what do you propose for that? Because in the world we live in, all attempts at some form of "wealth equality" led to either disaster or technological crippling. Really? Progressive taxes and income tests for benefits have l
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Checkers is a solved game. It proven possible to always not lose a game if you play correctly from the beginning. As such high level games feature many draws and few wins. Marion Tinsley also didn't compete in the World Championship
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by mehwoot 12y ago
I guess because kickstarter is a bit of both. Even when you are "purchasing" or pre-ordering a product, you don't have anywhere near a 100% chance of getting it delivered... you really are taking the risk of investing. Not
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Would they be content with people using their characters in ads to sell things without receiving anything? I think it's more about the content creator losing control over what the thing they made is being used for, than them explicitl
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That's a silly analogy. The effect of a logo is the impression on people. The layout of a city has concrete effects that people will notice regardless of whether they are aware of the layout itself or not. It's questionable w
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Well he didn't say it would make a difference, he just said he isn't dealing with Amazon.
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To be honest, you're living on borrowed time. The only reason twitch would allow this is because it has flown under the radar so far. It's not a reasonable expectation that you can forever have a service that will let you stream
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by mehwoot 12y ago
But you are assuming there exists a positive correlation between absence of brown M&M:s and whether the other demands are also filled or not. I don't think you can show that since the M&M demand was singled out. Yes, that is
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You assume independence between the color of the marbles. This is highly unlikely. Promoters probably don't read the terms randomly and completely randomly fulfill them. Likely whether one of the marbles is black or white tells you
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Careful. Thats a somewhat empty response. It's technically true, but its an enormous barrier— even if someone else compiles it for you, how do you know their binary is trustworthy? Your claim is incoherent... if you don't curren
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Well, most of those studies deal specifically with people recovering from a heart attack, not the general population. Those are two very different groups. The largest study there (MARGARIN) showed pretty much no benifit for ordinary people
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That doesn't mean that a normal person would necessarily see any benefit from having more than they are already.
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It's not a defence, I think you can see from my tone I don't support stealing media just because you don't like how it is distributed. I'm saying rather this argument won't find much favour here unless everybody is
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Tell that to the 95% of the population on this site who torrent TV shows, movies and music.
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Most of your details are correct, but your first sentence is wrong. Translation is nowhere near solved.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism Some definitions consider that any assumption that a person's behavior would be influenced by their racial categorization is inherently racist, regardless of whether the action

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