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by penrod 13y ago
What immoral acts do you consider US troops to currently be engaged in?
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by penrod 13y ago
The proposition that carbohydrates cause obesity may be true even if it is not the case that insulin plays a primary role in that process as Taubes claims. Since it is only the latter proposition that Guyenet debunks, he makes an obvious lo
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by penrod 13y ago
Road cyclists in normal urban commuting situations (ie not in a pace line) do not cruise anywhere close to 20mph. Ebikes (limited to 20 mph) aren't usually the fastest bikes on the road Anecdotally, I am a reasonably fast commuter cy
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by penrod 13y ago
Seconded. Riding too close to parked cars is extremely dangerous, as doors open without warning, and if you don't have sufficient space you then have to make a sudden swerve into the middle of the lane. Cycling in the middle of a lane
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by penrod 13y ago
The usual form of quid-pro-quo between government agents and private contractors is the implied offer of a cushy "consulting" job with the company once they retire from public service. This happens with regularity and it's no
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by penrod 13y ago
Making a big fuss about the internet hating you is so hipster.
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by penrod 13y ago
To elaborate: Black students in Texas outperform black students in Wisconsin, hispanic students in Texas outperform hispanic students in Wisconsin, and white students in Texas outperform white students in Wisconsin. Overall test scores are
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by penrod 13y ago
If a company doesn't want to hire me (or my wife or my daughters) because I'm not a Stanford grad from the right demographic, that's absolutely fine because I don't want to work for a company run by idiots. In fact, the
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by penrod 13y ago
Once again, life imitates the Onion http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-study-shows-progress-ma...
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by penrod 13y ago
It's unwise to presume you're talking to an idiot. I am well aware of the meaning of 'gender' within feminist literature. Obviously, that is not what I was objecting to. My irritation is with the current commonplace usag
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by penrod 13y ago
Actually, not any more: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/publications_files/0... "... the major expansion in the use of gender followed its adoption by feminists to distinguish the social and cult
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by penrod 13y ago
On the topic of annoying words, thank you for writing "sex" rather than "gender". I hate that stupid euphemism.
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by penrod 13y ago
No, the analogy being drawn between Detroit and the USA is that they both have shit-loads of debt. Of course the feds would inflate debt away with QE rather than defaulting. The real tangent is to claim that this makes such a world of dif
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by penrod 13y ago
'Anytime anyone expresses concern about the national "debt" as if it wasn't something Congress could wave away with a pen in 15 minutes, they're being ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.' Whether Congre
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by penrod 13y ago
"there is 0% chance that the US will be forced to default on the debt." That might be relevant if someone on the thread had claimed such a thing.
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by penrod 13y ago
Governments are not households? Who knew. Maybe you could rebut some statements I did make? Tags: strawman, appeal-to-authority
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by penrod 13y ago
Asserting something confidently does not make it so. http://www.aim.org/newswire/obama-sequester-ii-treasury-says...
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by penrod 13y ago
Putting scare quotes around sovereign "debt" doesn't change that fact that bondholders are actually expecting to get paid. Though there's no force of law behind that expectation, if the government defaults no-one will l
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by penrod 13y ago
Why would you want to procedurally generate routes or verbs? I dunno, perhaps there might be a use case where one would want to define them in configuration or a database. But being able to do something like this is not a "feature,&quo
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by penrod 13y ago
One example would be that with Spark you could procedurally create and register multiple Route instances. That is not an option with an annotation-based API that requires you to have a distinct annotated class per route. More abstractly, on
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by penrod 13y ago
It had never previously occurred to me that people of color lacked a "future time orientation", but thanks to Seattle Public Schools I have an exciting new racial stereotype to add to my quiver of prejudices.
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by penrod 13y ago
Good point. A centered stance might be ideal, and may just seem 'forward' in comparison to the typical shortboard stance. And now I think about it, it might not be board flex that limits front-truck turning when leaning back - rat
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by penrod 13y ago
Why do you think that an educational system run by central government and funded by taxes represents the revealed judgement of capitalism?
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by penrod 13y ago
There may indeed be a Platonic ideal of the one-size-fits-all school, but does not mean it is discoverable by central planners, especially central planners subject to the political incentives of the education establishment. So even though &
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by penrod 13y ago
Absolutely correct. On a longboard at speed, you have to keep your weight forward. This is partly to keep the front truck under control, and partly because flex in the board means that the end of the board with most of the weight steers mor
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by penrod 13y ago
I am an established developer, and licensing would not hurt me at all: I work for a big company, I have a CS degree, and years of experience. I object to licensing because it would destroy the most appealing aspects of our industry. Right n
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by penrod 13y ago
Well of course it's a supply control mechanism. That's a whole point of a guild. It's also an IEEE money-minting mechanism, a state licensing board revenue-generating mechanism, and a small-company and freelancer screwing
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by penrod 13y ago
"I also wouldn't be surprised if many of the tests contain an element of uncorrected racial/cultural bias, and the psychometric industry has been exploiting the inability of the government to enforce the law (Employment Equit
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by penrod 13y ago
A longboard turns in the direction you're leaning and so is dynamically stable. In fact (counter)steering is more intuitive than on a bike because you don't have to coordinate lean and handlebar angle. The main issue with skateboa
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by penrod 13y ago
You touch on another way in which drug laws are positively evil - the only reason why Vicodin causes liver damage is because it is legally required to contain a large amount of acetaminophen. The express purpose of the acetaminophen is

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