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by mhermher 10y ago
"Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future..." I think you just don't read about it because you don't care about Ford, but you read about it for Tesla. And it's not entirely your fault; there is definitel
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Compared to having higher rate of incarceration, not only in per-capita terms, but also in absolute terms. Even with China's extra billion people and their repressive laws. The US is way ahead and it isn't even close.
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Whataboutism
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Do you hold WaPo, NYT, CNN to those same standards? Because that is mainly what American "MSM" does, selectively publish information which bebefits the agenda of American foreign policy interests. It's fair if you align yours
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Yeah, I generally agree with everything you've said. And no, I can't propose any alternative system with those requirements. I'm not even sure if it's possible by definition.
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I never suggested such a thing. Natural rights don't exist. That's just something some people make up. So what prevents me from taking someone else's stuff, if I really wanted it?
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You don't even have to die in this scenario. Just give the loot to a friend. He inherits the loot but not the crime. Maybe he'll return the favor, or just immediately give it back to you.
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You don't think land lords provided positive economic activity under feudalism? That's absurd, but not as absurd as the implications that capitalist states don't have blood on their hands.
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I'm not making a moral point. And it's not an opinion, nothing in my explanation is outside of trivially observed reality. I'm just trying to dispel the idea that capitalism (as we experience it, or otherwise) isn't main
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Property is violence. If I try to take something that "isn't my property", the state will intervene with violence (e.g. forced imprisonment, etc.) on behalf of the person deemed to be the "lawful owner".
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That's the point.
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Why Is that so ridiculous. Humans are more powerful than their environment. No other species is. When you can craft the environment you exist in, the evolutionary pressures on you are correspondingly weaker. Have you wondered how mental dis
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Or that the official documentation is poor.
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Sell the licenses directly to consumers then? Their reputation doesn't take a hit that way. Just sell it on a "use at your own risk" basis and just let people have it who want to use it on their own builds. I figure the suppo
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They hired those story tellers to make attracine promo videos basically. Using traditional animation technology. They seem entirely "aspirational".
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The Volt isn't a hybrid in the traditional sense at all. It is fully electric if you want it to be. I've actually been eying it as my next purchase. It is very unique among cars in the way it works. It only becomes a hybrid when i
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A coworker once described to me how he thought people misinterpreted Jobs' success. Jobs didn't succeed because he was an asshole, he succeeded despite being an asshole. You sometimes see people trying to emulate Jobs and thin
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Are they really? GM beat them by a few years on getting out an affordable all electric car (the Bolt) and an alternating electric/ICE car (the Volt). Both of which are very well reviewed and received by customers. It seems like GM is l
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Yes. I mean I am totally a species narcissist I admit. We gain a ton of benefits from other animals, obviously. But if we don't exist, then those animals no longer matter. We wouldn't benefit from them anymore. Anyway, this is get
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Then who or what is it for? Who cares about the earth if humans don't benefit? It's just a floating rock.
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Better yet, some consortium of universities. I've found that Matlab usage is probably like >90% academics. Wouldn't paying for contributions to Octave devs not save them money versus Matlab licenses?
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Obviously he/she would have to stop contributing to Octave.
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by mhermher 10y ago
ah, thanks. I missed that.
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I think it's just that they are plotting sum vs ratio of two random variables. Try this (in R): a <- runif(1000); b <- runif(1000); plot(a + b, log(a/b)) Also, they likely have a low-end cutoff (notice their x axis starts at
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Here's the canonical example: A is correlated to C. B is correlated to C. A is NOT correlated to B. How is that possible? The argument is that, if causation is unidirectional and acyclical, then the only causal structure that leads to
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He specified desktops though. Pretty sure you don't have a desktop jostling around in your bag.
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Even the UN says it can't independently verify the claims and the only source is local activists. It smells like bullshit all the way through. They're allowing the rebels to evacuate to Idlib but are massacring civilians?
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Well, in the former case, that is the fault of the driver (or another driver). In the latter case, it would be the fault of the manufacturer. It's not even remotely the same thing. Remember those out-of-control Priuses, where the manuf
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I've been almost exclusively playing Overwatch and Rocket League now for a good several months. The amount of offensive content isn't really any more than any other online community. It's rare. You get people who brag maybe,
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I've never dragged a window between screens on Windows because that's not something you do on Windows. You use win+direction. Something sorely missing from osx and third party software is nowhere near as good as the native Windows

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