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by pfortuny 4y ago
Please: slaves could not even think of leaving their jobs. We are not slaves, but our bosses are not our parents either.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
My bad, sorry. Thanks for the pointer!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I am sure that is an honest mistake, it is just confusing to the reader.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Notice that the author means “paragraph “ when he or she says “chapter”.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Careful with medical advances and the future… See the antibiotics problem.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
For how long? That is the question.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yep, for exactly two or three years tops.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
No: the will to power is greatest because you have (supposedly) power over the creme of the creme. As silly as that but Nietzsche had it right: the will to power is one of the primordial forces.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Playing with 0 interest rates as if that were in the least rational was the greatest mistake. Nobody should have the power to subvert the meaning of time. We take the ministry of truth seriously (“the past can be changed”) and get scared by
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yeah, that is (post facto) obviously answered truly saying “including background studies around hundreds but I do not keep count”. Otherwise you are being forced to be untruthful despite thinking that you are objective.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You do not need to go to China. Most of Europe (if not all) is totally different in that sense to the US. There are possibly some exceptions but not so many.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Mmmhhh… Yes, it is now totally useless, as far as I know.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The GPL is for software, which the GNU org deems non-copyrighteable AFAIK.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Totally right.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
A smaller company (not incorporated?), also. I guess a good indicator is the size of the legal Dpt. But I work at academia so I am not your best counselor on the topic. Notice also that you are going to learn A LOT about “due process” and “
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I do not understand: the FBI makes a decision but if you want to compel the authorities to do something, should you not have to denounce a crime? An investigation is not the pursuing of a criminal (albeit it may end there). It is the role
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is exactly what Big means in this context: something indistinguishable from bureaucracy. I am sorry for you but if you want to be able to work “freely” and “get things done”, a big corporation is the worst place to work in. I am not ha
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, ok. I specify: in hardware matters.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You can cash it out and manage your investment yourself. I interpret that small 14% as most of them doing so. Of course, I have no idea.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Sorry but several of the most prominent string theorists have gone from “LHC will find this to be a fact” to “We need a bigger LHC” as time passed. Not very trustworthy.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Newton explained interplanetary attraction. Plank explained the black-body radiation. Einstein explained too many things to say but predicted the precession of mercury which was unexplained. Witten has explained either everything (which is
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There can be lots of new alternatives. Why not fund those instead, by creating “moonshine physics departments”? (That is just a comment, not a suggestion). The problem with String Theory is it unfalsifiability and that it has not even grown
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by pfortuny 4y ago
In Europe, and this is well known, companies must comply with the intent of the law, especially on something related to customers and compatibility. This is very very different from the US legal system, which can be tricked “ad nauseam”. Ap
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, the same way that String Theorists are paying their bills from the taxpayers, mostly by pushing that theory as Physics.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly: never try to save a drowning man if you cannot swim. That only leads to two drowning men.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
The problem with “maths” is its sublimation. Maths is just what we use to deal with quantities and shapes, abstracted from their matter. Whether it is using symbols, pebbles or categories, it is neither better nor worse. But they make peopl
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I know when I see it. What is the definition of “being sick”? You can see prices going up, people losing huge amounts of buying power, companies laying off people, all at the same time and almost none of the opposite. Whatever the time it t
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by pfortuny 4y ago
OK, thanks for the detailed explanation. So nowhere near 100% recycling, but a somewhat good outcome in recycling and sorting (which is good per se). Thanks!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
That is just an irrelevant convention. We are in a recession, whatever the GDP says. Otherwise, language would be impossible.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
What does it mean to be close to 100%? Is it that people “put the plastic into the recycling bin”? Because I fear that is what it means.

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