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by mkempe 8y ago
I'm a radical in that sense too, and subscribe to the principle attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say -- and will defend to the death your right to say it."
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If company A is entitled to discriminate against party B because of the things the latter says and/or does -- how and why do you stop business C from discriminating against party D because of their sexual orientation. A: hosting compan
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Shutting down other people's websites is the complete opposite of freedom of speech. When their free speech is abridged on their own websites, not just shadow-banned in the major social networks, people may end up deciding that their o
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The claim is unfounded, and contradicts established facts, amongst which: recipes for meatballs were common and used in Europe well before that (from Roman Antiquity to England in the Middle Ages, for example); and Swedish cooking was domin
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by mkempe 8y ago
How did the parent comment get down-voted 4 days after it was posted?
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Hassan on P3
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US politics
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The age of a book is not an argument against its contents or thesis. The two books I referenced contain detailed accounts of how various companies have been preyed upon under the guise of these antitrust laws, including sending innocent bus
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These lawyers are vile parasites -- they are feeding off disgusting, subjective regulation [1] that should be abolished [2] so we can all benefit from the immense advantages of fully free markets. On the one hand, businesses are held guilty
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At the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed between 10,000 and 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. "For many rites, the victim had such a quantity of prescribed duties that it i
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by mkempe 8y ago
PBS often edit UK-produced shows, or change the voice over, for their US audience. Whenever I've had the opportunity to compare the two versions, the British one has been vastly better -- less pompous, more intellectual, less fear-mong
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by mkempe 8y ago
It's --not yet-- on the level of the fall of the wall between East and West Germany, but it feels incredibly positive and significant. I wonder how it is perceived in China. The Soviet Union quickly imploded after Eastern Europeans t
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by mkempe 8y ago
Not particularly minding this since the area was settled by Swedes in the late 13th Century, and a trading town established as "Helsingfors" in 1550 under the rule of King Gustav I of Sweden. The new name "Helsinki" --
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by mkempe 8y ago
Yes, they have a bug at SVT. When the web page says a video is geoblocked, one can still download it via youtube-dl...
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by mkempe 9y ago
The most worrisome climate change is the end of the current interglacial. We can easily live in a somewhat warmer world (note: the last interglacial was much warmer than today) but the coming return to the Ice Age will make our large-scale
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by mkempe 9y ago
Red supergiants are necessarily no more than about 25 million years old; they keep ejecting a lot of material, forming nebulae; and then they end as supernovae. So, unlikely to have sufficient time and relative calm to form and maintain pla
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by mkempe 9y ago
Are you arguing? I only mentioned life, not degrees of complexity of life. Ponder this: how early did life appear on Earth? what later cataclysmic events did it survive through the next several billions of years? how many living organisms a
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by mkempe 9y ago
Last time I looked into this the current estimate is that there are on average 10 planets per star, so we have 1-4 trillion planets in our galaxy, and there are 10 trillion planets in Andromeda. The Universe is teeming with galaxies, which
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by mkempe 9y ago
Are you so irrational as to reject facts because you dislike who tells you about them?
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by mkempe 9y ago
This comment is factually wrong (as pointed out by other responses) and evinces sadly vile sentiments. The US corporate tax rate had grown until 2017 to be much higher than it is in Western European countries (and remains relatively high).
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by mkempe 9y ago
I want a robot that travels around the house to clean up after my tornado kids. Maybe a little bit at night, very quietly, and definitely during the day, while they're at school. I also would appreciate robots that empty the dishwasher
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by mkempe 9y ago
I'd be interested in experimenting with Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies [1][2] as cues. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies [2] http://obliquestrategies.ca
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by mkempe 9y ago
This is wonderful. Just being able to generate (and modify) a sequence diagram from a text description is worth hours of work.
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11 Republican members of Congress on Wednesday sent a criminal referral to the DoJ and FBI seeking an investigation of ex-director James Comey, ex-AG Loretta Lynch, and Hillary Clinton in connection with the 2016 campaign. Clapper is (elsew
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by mkempe 9y ago
Is this intended to be an allusion to the alleged Comey-Clapper-Clinton conspiracy?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Let me rephrase that for the haters: the quality of that transcription API was godawful. I took a ten minute audio segment from a two-person interview, and chopped it up in shorter segments to fit under the 60-second limit, with varying o
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by mkempe 9y ago
I've tried their transcription API. The quality is awful, to the point where the output of words is completely different depending on chopping off a few initial or trailing seconds of the audio at a time. Thanks for "the squeaking
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Factfulness: We're Wrong About the World; Why Things Are Better Than You Think(gapminder.org)
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Could one be, instead, appreciative of and grateful to the considered, generous decision of that individual? how do you think he would respond to someone expressing one kind of feeling or the other?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Why do you feel sad about the fact that an individual who values science is "privately funding" a great publication? surely you don't object to private wealth and/or activity?

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