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by pfortuny 4y ago
You’re being downvoted for saying exactly what happens in the biological, economical and social sciences… Unbelievable.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Sorry but as this is a press conI doubt the thing has really passed “peer review” properly speaking. There was some hype about: FTL events, life based on cyanide not phosphorus… Careful with “peer review” when the set of peers is invested i
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Networks of such. And a lot of very complicated interpolation.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Oh but OP is talking about his parents (the granparents) sending the photos. And you already have received them!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
This is exactly what Perl devs said… Or is your comment sarcasm?
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by pfortuny 4y ago
History has taught us a lesson. The USSR was hell on Earth, as was Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Privacy of communication is such an essential part of modern culture that any kind of power trying to prevent it is suspect. Communicatio
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by pfortuny 4y ago
You might have pointed that out to the other interviewers to show that you are below no one, and you do not allow being laughed at. That may lead to a much more interesting interview.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Totally spot on. When oil is evil, many products become evil which very few people realize.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Yes I know but that is a lawyer we are talking about.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
I did not either. But they could.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
“Terence Dougherty, the organization’s general counsel, testified via video deposition that the ACLU had spearheaded the effort and served as Heard’s ghostwriter in exchange for her promise to donate $3.5 million to the organization.” Sorry
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Exactly. Furthermore, the rule of law is not the only human(e) way to govern or be governed. It is what westerners tend to think but societies have lived without it for millennia and people have thrived in them too,
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by pfortuny 4y ago
As far as I know Snowden never said Russia was a hypocritical free country (mostly probably because he knows it is not free). Sour grapes taste badly. Who would guess!
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by pfortuny 4y ago
As long as the Sun shines on (and this is essenty “for ever”), there is an increasing accumulation of energy in the planet: that is where the possibility of exponential “growth” comes.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Ah right. I probably misread the parent, sorry.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There is never ever a “best” decision. The most important part in any is that it is your decision. In this case you are in the best of places but are not taking advantage of that. Any decision will be yours for life. This is the way to bu
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by pfortuny 4y ago
It is hypocrisy because these trips are official ones, so they are essentially paid by us (the citizens). And these are the bureaucrats telling us to use clean vehicles. It is not hypocrisy in the sense you state, certainly. It is the gover
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by pfortuny 4y ago
They are "not going to make a difference" but we the people (I am a Spaniard) are paying for their jobs and they are constantly pressing us to use less polluting means of transportation. That is the shame. And the silly fact of
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Well, 30% more is exactly what you can save month by month and get to retirement with some tranquility.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Same with architecture. This is the minimalist dream: never ever allow a single decorative element to exist.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
Also mechanical noises are completely different from natural ones and are very very prone to inducing mental illness. You can live in a “foxhole” as long as there isn’t a sledgehammer working two meters awya.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There are accidents which are not due to defects or unreasonable dangers in the product. Shit happens and responsibility is not necessarily due to defects/malfeasance/unreasonable risks. There ara honest-to-God accidents . And yo
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by pfortuny 4y ago
There is no future-proof statement, much less legislation.
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by pfortuny 4y ago
“If not” (i.e. else) translates to “si no”. Imagine finding that in a line of code… You need a tilde “‘“ to say “yes” (sí) but… are you really going to introduce keywords with accented chars?
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by pfortuny 5y ago
The second definition assumes that the law of large numbers applies to any instance. It is impossible to satisfy each and every time. And it may also be blind to inherenet inequalities (as insurance companies know).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I honestly feel insulted when people talk bout twitter as “the global consciousness”. I am not on twitter. Neither are billions of global human beings.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
The thing is we discard Aristotelian Natural Science as obsolete and nonsense (which it is) but somehow some people take these systems seriously because 'modern philosophy', whatever it is... To me this is completely unbelievable.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
> I work with the Congressional Records dataset, that is: Everything that has been said or done on the floor of the U.S. Congress since 1873. I guess this is probably one of the big cases for no sqlite, as your db is more a record of tex
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by pfortuny 5y ago
It is also because “the system” is intrinsic to the notion: as you say, any configuration of bits is equally likely; this only takes into account the “system of the bits “. The moment your system is “the bits and their mean value” everythin
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by pfortuny 5y ago
The problem is that the founders of the US were exactly speaking, acting and promoting against what the State stipulated. So…

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