nate_meurer

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by nate_meurer 16y ago
Care to back that up? What parts of the FQA do you dispute?
1592.
by nate_meurer 16y ago
This is the most succinct summary of the healthcare debate I've seen.
1593.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
Please note the context of self-deprecation that accompanies the quote about the tips. The writer is admitting to his own frivolity here.
1594.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
Quite right. Naked malevolence and self-destructiveness seem to me to be the two sides of Mr. Cipolla's stupidity coin. There are a host of bad emotional states that are characterized by naked malevolence and self-destruction. To the exte
1595.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
This article is talking about a specific brand of stupidity, and Carlo carefully lays out his definition of "stupid people". It has nothing to do with competence or knowledge.
1596.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
You say that as though an apology is preventing "us" from doing "more important stuff". Like the apology would somehow consume resources or be a distraction. If you don't like it, feel free to not read the article.
1597.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
I agree. This statement is very good-- a sincere apology-- and I like that it includes the details of Turing's conviction and sentence. I want to see a knighthood though. By any standard, Turing deserves one.
1598.
by nate_meurer 17y ago
I'd like to know if this stuff is congenital, or if it can be changed by altering your sleep cycle. In other words, if someone who is naturally a night owl becomes an early-riser by force of practice, will they retain this "second wind" in
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
I've been procrastinating on my first OpenBSD install, and this pushed me over the edge. I just bought the CD set, and I'll have a go at it this weekend (or maybe next weekend).
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Wow. You packed a whole lot of yourself into a very short post. Thanks for this. I love the paragraph that describes your reasons for running away, especially this: "Serious trouble was good: it meant that people would start taking option
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Yeah, maybe. I haven't paid enough attention to know for sure.
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
My wife and did the same thing last year; we're both in our thirties. We moved in with my mom in order to save money for a down-payment on a new house. We both worked our tails off, saved the needed cash in 4 months, and then moved out. W
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Yes! Excellent, excellent point. The industrial revolution put a whole raft of the "easiest" inventions within a century's reach. Internal combustion, electricity, telegraphy, etc., these were waiting for just a few pieces of basic core
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
My biggest problem with this article is that he discounts technologies based on their their most menial modes of usage, e.g. advanced telegraphy wasted on p()rn. A lot of cynicism is certainly warranted, but he loses some credibility with
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
My caffeine consumption completely depends on how much sleep I'm getting; I have no consistent beverage routine otherwise. On days where I've had enough sleep, I rarely have more than a couple cups of tea. Otherwise I may drink up to six.
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
I just read that Haidt essay, and I'm hooked; thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of the fire in Saudi Arabia, but yes, that's just the kind of thing I'm talking about.
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Well yes, I understand that they would claim that murdering schoolgirls is good, taken in isolation. Of course the act has to be taken in context. The distinction I'm after is this: Nate's brand of Taliban: Blowing up this school serves a
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Jefferson absolutely did know that slavery was wrong, and he wasn't shy about saying it, or writing it into legislation-- see his first draft of the Northwest Ordinance for a good example. I'm not getting a real strong moral-relativism vibe
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
So are you the kind of person who says we shouldn't try to apply objective moral/ethical standards to other cultures in the present age? I submit that there's a much greater cultural distance from modern England to modern Pashtun Afghanist
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Your thinking seems self-contradictory to me. On the one hand, you seem to acknowledge the existence of evil in some objective sense, saying that such evil is rampant in the present time, yet you rule out the use of objective morality to e
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Allow me to rephrase: UML modeling tools will generate code that fulfills your model. You'll get more-or-less complete headers, with your objects and method prototypes, and you'll get implementation stubs. If your design is sound, then th
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
The real power of UML is harnessed when the model actually generates the code. When that's a part of the process, then the model IS the code, and the model also becomes documentation that's guaranteed to be accurate up-to-date. This also g
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by nate_meurer 17y ago
Depending on the size of the project, step 7 can (and should) easily be the most time and labor intensive part of development. By all rights, this step ought to be called Design, and may well generate the documentation and a plan for testi