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by noibl 14y ago
That's a shameful distortion of what I admitted. Pron explained why the association with your comment was unfair and I admitted that it was. Your comment, however, remains.
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by noibl 14y ago
My apologies, then. It was my mistake.
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by noibl 14y ago
OK, I take your point. And really, I didn't intend to have a political argument, just to identify the political dimensions of statistics. (Of course, the Israeli-Arab conflict doesn't encapsulate the 'entire history' of the Jewish/Palestini
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by noibl 14y ago
I don't accept that this minor qualification is the main critique of Pinker's thesis, which in the end has very little to do with the fact that violence has declined. (And, BTW, this qualification also serves a political agenda which rega
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by noibl 14y ago
Excuse me but it's not for you to dictate who is interjecting and who is merely participating. What I have pointed out, and what your own comments clearly demonstrate(d), is that this exercise in 'comparing data across conflicts' as you so
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by noibl 14y ago
Hamas can only end 'the violence' [against Israel] by (a) violently suppressing competing militias[1] in Gaza (one wonders how many different ways that could play out), or (b) pointing to progress in peace talks to convince Gazans to hold t
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by noibl 14y ago
I've certainly lost the thread of your argument since you've replaced the comment I replied to, about 'the cost of doing business', with statistics from the Iran-Iraq war. I'm not really interested in whether certain wars are bigger than ot
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by noibl 14y ago
Like pron, you for some reason insist on taking the casualties of one side as representative of the scale of the conflict overall. He says, 25,000 Israelis killed puts the Israeli-Arab conflict on the same scale as the Mexican Drug War (30,
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by noibl 14y ago
Maybe I need to be a little more blunt. Because of the gross disparity in casualties between the two sides, attempting to minimise perceptions of the conflict as a whole (with a frame of reference chosen for statistical convenience) amounts
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by noibl 14y ago
I'm not sure what you wanted to say either but two things are notable about your comment: 1. you broaden the context to include the entire history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, 2. you make no distinction between military and civilian casual
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by noibl 14y ago
> It is the obvious way. I don't think many people are claiming that all patented designs are 'obvious', even to a field expert. Just that quite a lot of the ones currently making news headlines are. The issue of there being 'only one g
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by noibl 14y ago
I don't post this with any sarcasm or to draw any inferences about your intended meaning, but just to bring to your attention that the point you've now raised struck me independently upon reading: > A successful programmer is not just a
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by noibl 14y ago
The apparatus of state security being turned against its people is not a fact to just be brushed aside. So no, our feelings about the individual subject or subjects of illegal spying in some specific case or other is not 'the real question'
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by noibl 14y ago
Datestamp here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/phoenix/releases/0.1/
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by noibl 14y ago
What, no gimmick? PR fail. (Not that it seems to have done much for Opera, but Mozilla is in a better position to capitalise.)
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by noibl 14y ago
Indeed it is a fairly Universal attitude that one's own geographical Focus is Paramount.
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by noibl 14y ago
Fair enough. I was just pointing out your use of the word ["sciences"] to describe the same thing as the author's "non-scientific knowledge". Whatever form this knowledge is supposed to take, "science" as a term for it is explicitly rejecte
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by noibl 14y ago
Presumably, the commenter I replied to was able to read this part, since it comes just before the line they quoted: In the modern world, science, technology and reason are central and vital, and this is widely recognised So I don't see ho
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by noibl 14y ago
> We have a word for "sciences" that are unquantifiable But as you say, the author isn't standing up for these "sciences" (in scare-quotes). Rather, he takes issue with the claims of objectivity and rigour for certain fields, one of whi
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by noibl 14y ago
> I stopped reading here Which the rest of your comment proves. Thanks for that.
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by noibl 14y ago
Richer in features, poorer in vision. It was already apparent as the first browser wars were drawing to a close that Microsoft would not play ball on standards (the new 'fad') and interop and had no interest whatsoever in cross-platform web
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by noibl 14y ago
Surely "Andale Mono" should fallback to "Consolas", "Lucida Console" on Windows instead of "monospace" ("Courier New"). Nice resource though, even if 'web-safe' isn't the strait-jacket it used to be. :)
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by noibl 14y ago
"In the coming months, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) plans to introduce an option that will allow you to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier using data lifecycle policies."
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by noibl 14y ago
Maybe the alternative was "..." :)
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by noibl 14y ago
> disclaimer: I write GPU drivers for living Is that a reason for us not to take you seriously? Feel free to disclose any connection you have with the subject but please don't disclaim responsibility for your comments. :) Unless, of
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by noibl 14y ago
You're wrong. I've been hearing about this unfolding trainwreck for at least six months. All this talk about trust and lies is exactly what you always hear from people who are out of their depth. Fine. No problem with that. It's the 'China'
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by noibl 14y ago
How's this for broken english: due diligence. Now you can take your naive, tarbrush, self-adoring brand of racism, sandblast it, polish it and and stick it up your ass. (Thanks for reposting, ars!)
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Apple store employees refuse to sell to ethnic Persians(rt.com)
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by noibl 14y ago
For a laugh, I've made a userscript[1] that highlights (lowlights really) HN headlines that conform to this law. The result looks like this: http://testing321.netau.net/betteridge-sample.png Improvements welcome, especially if instructive
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by noibl 14y ago
It's more than terminology. "We have an Airplay licensing program explicitly to assist companies in creating AirPlay capable products. Apple never said that we would pull the rug out from anyone, we in fact worked with this developer to en

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