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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud
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It can be a lot simpler than that, depending on where you live. I have a wireless connection for my home laptop, for which I never had to give my name when I bought it, top up in cash, never use my name in emails on that connection, and us
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I had been a Phoenix user for several months when I heard it had run into problems with the name. When I heard it was going to be called Firefox, I thought it was the most ridiculous name I'd ever heard! Funny, now I really like it. When
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"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant." James Joyce http://incomestrategix.com/incomestrategix/admin/uploadImage...
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"Self-delusion is a characteristic of Irish society. In the old days we were told things about ourselves that in retrospect seem laughable. We were morally superior to other races, O’Connell Street was the widest street in Europe, the Shann
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The fact that you are "pretty positive" about that only means that you are the kind of person who is too lazy to investigate the facts. You probably still believe that JFK was killed by a crazed lone gunman, that Pearl Harbor was a complet
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The official bindings are PySide, incorporated into Qt: https://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide-Tutorials-by-Experience-L... There is a book out there called "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming by
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It just needs one more ingredient to make it a must buy for its target market: Hemp! Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-02/introducing-first...
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Right!! Why do so many people think everything should be easy? Oh, I know why - their "self-esteem" has been carefully protected from reality throughout the years they spent being indoctrinated in the state school system.
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The cultural changes you mention are not specific to Japan, they are global. For an in depth analysis of the issue I suggest F. Roger Devlin's classic paper 'Sexual Utopia In Power': http://dontmarry.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/sexualutop
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Interview with Grishin Robotics dedicated to helping robotics startups(robotspodcast.com)
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How Apple Became Japan (slopeofhope.com)
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Agreed. This is the Achilles Heel of affirmative action. It actually undermines the achievements of the favored group. For instance, many people believe that Obama would not be president if he were not half black. How accurate that bel
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Actually, nothing. I just posted it because I am in shock after reading it. Feel free to downvote, or, I'll just delete it. Are you one of the "nearly one third"? EDIT: To be fair though, it does have a Jewish connection - cattle trains?
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I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem. http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...
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I wasn't seriously tempted to try it again until I read this post. Poetic nostalgia! Somewhere deep down inside I'm also a-yearning for the Hurd...
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I have read it. It's excellent. "Outsider" is the term chosen by Grady Towers high IQ society correspondents.
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Interesting. I first read ZAMM first when I was 15, and really enjoyed it, but I would strongly encourage everyone who has not read "Lila" to please read it, as Pirsig basically retracts most of what he said in ZAMM. In his own words, "
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Detlev Schlichter on the Nature of Money(thedailybell.com)
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Funny, the police in Police State USA prefer low IQ's ' on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training' Or perhaps that being smart doesn't make you an enthusia
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Don't bother with bloodless synopses online, or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. http://coinread.com/lila_an_inquiry_into_morals.503624.html The essence of Dynamic Quality is that you click on the link now :)
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I believe that the idea that someone who works a "menial" job "isn't getting much value out of being highly intelligent" is the fundamental misconception here. If you are a genius, your time is not necessarily well spent on ANY job, whethe
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Pirsig actually came up with an entire metaphysical system in response to this. It's in his book "Lila". Basically it deals with what "good" (as in a good theory, or answer) is, and the different kinds of goodness or Quality, as he calls
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Not sure what you mean by 'frequentist', but one thing is for sure: the more hypotheses that occur to you, the longer it takes to go through them testing each one not only for consistency, plausibility etc, but also for how likely it is tha
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Yes. The context that has to be taken into account includes the social context, ie. 'I am sitting in a room taking a test, I cannot request clarification of the question, the person who wrote this test may be far less intelligent than me
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IQ tests share this property of undervaluing creativity and overvaluing conformity with academic work in general. Witness my favorite renegade intellectual, Robert Pirsig, from his Wikipedia page: 'While doing laboratory work in biochemistr
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Yes, it is Roissy. I agree with everything you said. It's kind of like eating anchovies and Stilton cheese, rotten, but 'strangely compelling'! For a more palatable experience, I recommend The Red Pill Room guy, Ian Ironwood, who has an e
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New requirements for passports, another small step towards tyranny(fabiusmaximus.com)
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The entire financial system has been based on absurdity and lies for decades. It is only now becoming apparent to the man in the street, as the the whole thing is about to collapse over the next few years. http://detlevschlichter.com/2012
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PG and his crew are guaranteed to be far outside the AI/biomed bubble. You need to talk to the Chinese soon, Bubba. Try Goertzel.

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