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by nemo 12y ago
Yep, MacArthur was a great military strategist, but very politically naive. Truman really had no choice but to relieve him after MacArthur went off the rails and tried taking executive authority he didn't have to further military goal
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by nemo 12y ago
"The only reason we (NATO) has not crushed them is because of humanitarian reasons, we feel bad for their people being enslaved and fear that engaging in war would starve their people and send their already weak army into a war they ar
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by nemo 12y ago
He was facilitating and taking a cut of the profits from dealing. That was the crime, and it's on the books as a crime. You might think this is unjust, if you frame laws as just vs. unjust it's much more clear than talking about
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by nemo 12y ago
If you worked with the smack dealers, set up a space explicitly designed for drug transactions, and then took a cut of the profits then that would be a better analogy, and you'd definitely be guilty of criminal conspiracy.
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by nemo 12y ago
Being something like 25-30% of the way there this soon seemed fairly close to me, given the rate of revenue.
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by nemo 12y ago
This is a pretty poor write up. "The government's argument is that, as the site's alleged administrator, Dread Pirate Roberts, anything that occurred there is his fault." The government's argument is that Ulbricht,
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by nemo 12y ago
It's a little different than that. The first drug, Solvadi, was developed by the company Pharmasset. Pharmasset did get some government grants to develop Solvadi, though the cost to develop the drug was much higher than the amount of
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by nemo 12y ago
Intent matters. In the case of the movie, the audience was American moviegoers, with the producers solely intending to amuse the audience. In the case of the Koran burning, the audience was Muslims worldwide, with full knowledge that the ac
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by nemo 12y ago
Would you allow your parents or children to be misidentified and wrongly tortured out of the false view that torture is the most effective interrogation/investigation approach? Note also that the CIA had to really claim some kind of pe
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by nemo 12y ago
"My guess, there are some serious, institutional-shaking smoking gun emails between media execs, lobbyists, gov't." Wouldn't those be released in the SPE exec. mail dumps?
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by nemo 12y ago
Frankly, looking at life in terms of efficiency is profoundly shallow, and very sad.
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by nemo 12y ago
"relatively pedestrian as a web framework" In early '96 having a RAD MVC web framework backed by an ORM was really pretty groundbreaking (even moving codebases relatively seamlessly between an OpenStep desktop app and WO was
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by nemo 12y ago
"balked at hiring her as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food" Paltrow wasn't going to run anything, contributing editors for the role she was being brought in for submit content and bring in readers based on their popularity
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by nemo 12y ago
Evidence would be difficult to offer given that their algorithm is a changing black box. I also don't see how "search is hard, which is why Google's search results have issues," is a simpler explanation than "Google
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by nemo 12y ago
I got to be friends with a few of the H1-Bs when I was working at a large company that hired a lot of H1-Bs (mostly Indian, always knew the best places to eat, and since I'd studied Sanskrit in grad. school, knew a bit about Indian cul
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by nemo 12y ago
Yes, private orgs. can fail if someone can convince them to move to another party for their goods/services. Ideally - it happens occasionally, though not often. Democratic societies can choose to elect better suited leaders for their
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by nemo 12y ago
I'm all for expanding frontiers of science. I'd much prefer sending robotic exploration craft, though. I don't see much scientific gain coming out of putting the people in space, while the massively increased costs associated
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by nemo 12y ago
Throwing money around at the end of the year is a product of a dumb budgeting process, not a govt. vs. private issue. I've worked at businesses where some units were funded the using the same process who did the same thing - coming in
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by nemo 12y ago
You could, though the relative ratios would still be the same so the issue wouldn't change. Also, not using Hz hurts.
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by nemo 12y ago
It's strange, I found it very clear and readable. Maybe it has to do with one's level of familiarity with the topic, though.
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by nemo 12y ago
There have been charges filed and a pending trial in Maryland that includes these charges, while the current case is a separate trial in NY. http://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtMa...
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by nemo 12y ago
You missed the "Government and Ulbricht agree" part.
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by nemo 12y ago
There are three times as many deaths by suicide from firearms than violent crimes. Those rates have remained fairly steady over the past 20 years. Also, while there have been more guns sold, household ownership has been decreasing - it&#x2
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by nemo 12y ago
Back in grad. school in Classics the professors called students who depended on the inter-text translations the "Loeb Rangers." Also, while it's true that you're better off learning Attic first, learning some Koine can g
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by nemo 12y ago
Obamacare has also been a huge benefit to people with pre-existing health conditions. It's also been a huge benefit to the many uninsured who were picked up in the Medicaid expansion. The private plans for the self-employed/under
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by nemo 12y ago
There is a MagSafe-MagSafe2 adapter, it's a tiny thing with a magnet that holds it on. I keep one in my computer bag so I can use older power supplies if I run into it.
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by nemo 12y ago
Probably true, I mostly stopped paying attention around 2010, so when I occasionally hit it now my subreddits are not highly curated to stay ahead of the horde.
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by nemo 12y ago
Around late 2005-2006 it wasn't so bad, it was more 20-something guys in tech. A significant enough portion of the articles on the front page were related to programming or tech-real topics (esp. startups), or long-read articles, and
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by nemo 12y ago
Yeah, the CDC could do better, hopefully more empirical research will give more clues on the people with long-term effects. ILADS integrity roughly equivalent to an anti-vaccine organization. Pseudo-science, misinformation, lots of hand-wa
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by nemo 12y ago
I really like certain types of puzzles - figuring out the causes of bugs, figuring out how to implement something in code cleanly and elegantly, figuring out how to make sure something is designed maintainably and intelligibly to spare futu

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