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by nemo 12y ago
They want to release Colletotrichum salsolae. Glomerella cingulata's teleomorph is Colletotrichum gloeosporioides - different species. Since it's the Ag. Research Service that's interested, the first thing they'd test
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by nemo 12y ago
"The average programmers writes 10x more code than they read." I am way below average. I read a ton of code for every line I write, though I guess that's since I'm usually doing more work on bug fixes than features.
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by nemo 12y ago
While there's no clear benefit to society for private ownership of beaches, there is clear harm - cutting off access to an ocean which isn't privately owned. It'd be a horrible precedent to privatize beaches, since the profi
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by nemo 12y ago
So good enough to get things done, even if it could use a little refinement?
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by nemo 12y ago
Nicely done. It's similar to iStroboSoft, but I like the UI here. I still prefer Tonal Energy Tuner, though what works best for you will depend on your instrument.
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by nemo 12y ago
> Essentially he was exploiting a vulnerability in JSTOR to mass download court documents He was downloading academic articles, not court documents. You're mixing up the JSTOR download and the time he pulled down PACER documents.
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by nemo 12y ago
There are some serious problems with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was seriously abused in this case. Members of Congress have recognized this and tried to reform the law because of the abuse.
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by nemo 12y ago
For the hackers who broke in and gathered the numbers, large batches of fresh numbers make them the most money. They sell the dumps and the more numbers/the more recent, the more they make. So hitting a big target, gathering a huge c
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by nemo 12y ago
Resentment of civilization is unhealthy.
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by nemo 12y ago
Very true. Sadly, the reality of the structure of our government is such that rural areas have a greater representation in our governance than denser more urban areas.
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by nemo 12y ago
Guilty before proven innocent, right?
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by nemo 12y ago
"Though you have none of the information other than what you read in the article, you feel you know more than the jury? I think not." As a matter of fact, I do know more than the jury. The judge suppressed key evidence in the cas
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by nemo 12y ago
"You don't know but you have automatically deduced the cop was in the wrong, despite what the jury said." One other point I forgot to mention - the judge suppressed key evidence in the case. There were photos of the cops abu
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by nemo 12y ago
"If pulling her away from where she was not supposed to go is abuse by the police" This interpretation of events is not one I agree with based on video footage and the other available evidence. He was clearly very violently &quot
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by nemo 12y ago
Yes, the police are mere automatons with no choice but to behave as they do, driven by inevitable forces of nature. It's always the fault of people who are abused by the police for being near police.
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by nemo 12y ago
"but the tradeoff there is that when government agencies make a good-faith effort to stay within those restrictions (as even the Snowden leaks have indicated with regard to NSA) that you wouldn't expect heads to roll even if a cou
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by nemo 12y ago
Personally while I thought that while Aaron Swartz was guilty of something, the charges DAs were pressing for were disgustingly and flagrantly incommensurate, and I was distressed at the abuse of government power. I didn't really follo
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by nemo 12y ago
The article was discussion class mobility, not race.
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Boeing has run into occasional problems by holding to imperial rather than moving to metric and these will only get worse, esp. with their model of using vendors around the globe. In aerospace it's ugly since imperial is so entrenched
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by nemo 12y ago
"attacking my argument for being libertarian is argumentum ad hominem" No. Saying that the framework you're basing an argument on is flawed isn't dismissing the argument because of a personal flaw of the person assertin
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by nemo 12y ago
You can give a medically informed body that understands the issues much more deeply some authority over public health policy, while still being able to think about those issues if you're interested. They wouldn't make all decisio
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by nemo 12y ago
You are right, I stated the alternate case of those who value rationality and truth as opposed to those who do not, rather than the converse. Sorry, I was being too loose with my language there. As to what the other was arguing, I was chim
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by nemo 12y ago
I don't think they are a cult in the strict sense. They are a lot like Objectivists, a group who got into an autodidact offering grand claims based on a lot of jargon and handwaving, throwing out invented jargon and redefining terms c
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by nemo 12y ago
OP stated that a person person who did not value reason would hate the writing. I just stated the converse, that person who valued reason might easily hate the writing too.
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by nemo 12y ago
It's actually fairly typical for cults to rationalize and explain away their cultish behaviors. That's not to argue that the lesswrong group is a cult, just that it's not any kind of argument against it.
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by nemo 12y ago
My favorite event in their utterly credulous certainty in the inevitability of a friendly AI was the response to 'Roko's Basilisk.' http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk No rational person could
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by nemo 12y ago
I am very sure you could value rationality and still hate the writing. Terms like 'valuing rationality' or believing in the primacy of truth (I think that's what you meant) don't have universally accepted definitions. A
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by nemo 12y ago
Yeah, they worded the question poorly. I answered 13 since the current Dalai Lama is the 14th and the first wasn't reborn. Also, to get technical he wasn't reincarnated, but reborn, which is an actual distinction Buddhists make.
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by nemo 12y ago
It's odd that you're imagining that the concluding that the person's mother is Ayn Rand and they are dedicating a book to God is a sensible reading. Having known some Randoids the non-Oxford form's interpretation actual
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by nemo 12y ago
"To my mother, Ayn Rand and God" Remove the comma and their mother is both Ayn Rand and God. That's a really terrible example since the Oxford Comma actually works slightly better than the alternative since the problem there

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