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by mseebach2 14y ago
So: When a republican president goes to war in Afghanistan that at the time was "harboring Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists" that were successfully targeting the US, it's "disastrous". When a democratic president bombs civilians on a da
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> Us international hners literally do not understand how the idiocy that is the Republican party continues to exist As a fellow international HN'er who literally do understand this (and, by the way, don't recall having nominated you t
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by mseebach2 14y ago
That makes sense only if one of the outcomes is worth $6 trillion more than the other and you live in a swing state.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
"Duty" can refer to a moral obligation which I'm pretty sure is the sense DBM referred to.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
BBs suck hard at everything but emails, call, texts and BBM. It's browser and map apps are appalling - and both are completely reasonable to count as "needs" in 2012. > And it was made in Canada, not in a Foxconn-like plant. They're not
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by mseebach2 14y ago
This rings very true to me: I like you, so I want you to be right, to the extent that I might suspend thorough analysis of what you're saying. Conversely, if I don't like you, I might ramp up efforts to find out that you're actually wrong.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The goal of the diversity visa is explicitly diversity and nothing is more diverse than randomness. This is not the path you're expected to take if you have a pressing reason to come to the US.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> They are open buckets So one guy slips and there's five gallons of diesel covering what I assume is the escape route of a NYC high rise?
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by mseebach2 14y ago
That's an extremely bad example - why would cat ever fall through to dog? At least come up with a situation where fall through makes sense. Generally, IMO, it's a much better idea to use meaningful constants and method names. So the code
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Since it won't be producing offspring, homosexual marriage is fairly irrelevant for the purposes of genealogy.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> If the blog author wanted to make some kind of point he should have included MUCH longer graphs, not just half a year. They do, in the "looked like" link of the second paragraph ( http://sargasso.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hadcrut4
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by mseebach2 14y ago
DM left out the first 8 months of 1997. Intuitively, it's fair that January is colder than September, but HADCRUT4 is temperature anomalies , so that's probably what went wrong. That said, I think the article cherrypicks some (it seems to
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I suspect any recycling efforts will be eclipsed by the move to screw tops.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
That's the main attraction of The Economist to me.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The problem isn't The Guardian or The Daily Mail, it's that people read them and use them to prop up their very narrow worldviews. Either group could trivially shift their paper of choice to the other (or one of the more moderate alternativ
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Compare reddit to a webhost, and this debate is actually similar to the one we had 10-15 years ago. Someone makes a website dedicated to hosting creepy but legal photos. Is the webhost, even though it makes (shudder) money from hosting th
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by mseebach2 14y ago
So, the argument is that you can't stop all the criminal, rather than that it's undesirable to do so. As you wind down the population of criminals (at increasing marginal cost), you wind down the incentive to protect against crime, making
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> You appear to believe that a resurgent radical Islam is primarily due to the rise of wealthy Arab states, and yet these states are aligned to the West, armed by the West, and also suppress the same radical elements you wish to neutral
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME What about the Apollo missions?
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by mseebach2 14y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing?
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> In fact something "key to our survival" should not be allowed to be for-profit. Why this knee-jerk suspicion of profit? Sure, Monsanto seems to be jerks, but it's not like non-profits never screwed anything up. Food is key to our surv
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by mseebach2 14y ago
You have to be cut from a particular bitter length of cloth to be jealous over only keeping your world record for 52 years.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The decision not to patent can be a cause. But other accounts in this thread suggests that patenting or not would have had little influence in the environment in the Silicon Valley.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
As I understand the system, there are usually two mechanisms in place to offset this: First: The loser pays costs as determined by the court , usually on a preset schedule. It's not like the winner gets to send the loser an invoice for in
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The quote at the top of this thread specifically argues causation from non-patent to success. Not patented -> rivals release own versions -> price pushed down -> chip becomes ubiquitous. It is, of course, entirely possible that,
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by mseebach2 14y ago
It's getting kinda pointless. I'm suggesting something that might happen in a future where self-driving cars have completely disrupted all of transportation. You're countering "there's no dedicated space" - well, just maybe , that can ch
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> but until we have HA computers that exist outside of a datacenter We do, in many places - your car is one such place. Another is every single hospital in the civilized world. You know, there's a continuum of world between HA datacente
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> Statewide gridlock due to DDOS. Modern cars are 100% dependent on computers, yet this doesn't happen. Why would it begin happening in the future? Note that the Google car is designed to be autonomous, it has no dependencies on externa
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Let me guess, this costs quite a bit more than flying and renting a car for a week? This is not a cheap stab at US rail, I looked into this on the similar service that the German railways offer - and it did not make financial sense over fli
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Probably. If he wasn't, this bit from the first post becomes very weird: > This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we'll at least be using it internally.

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