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by phaemon 11y ago
The linked article doesn't mention anything about things "not being good for you". It simply says that if you burn the oil it might not taste very good. Nor does it say that Olive oil has the lowest smoke point, except Extra
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by phaemon 11y ago
That's an odd shifting of the Overton Window. I would generally think that someone who was anti-copyright would start from the position that copyright shouldn't exist at all. And that someone who was very anti-copyright would be
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by phaemon 11y ago
Thirding the previous comments; the program is useless and do not defrag an SSD.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Sbepvat crbcyr gb gnxr rkgen fgrcf gb ernq jung lbh'ir jevggra vf fghcvq.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Could be interesting, but the description is far too vague. If giving more details ruins the whole thing, it suggests the experience is probably too shallow.
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by phaemon 11y ago
I've heard that theory before, but I've not seen any evidence for it, and it seems directly contradicted by this quote from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (early 1700s): "He related to me the following minute anec
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by phaemon 11y ago
In case you're trying to fight your way through the double negatives, this means they're keeping Freedom of Panaroma (which is good).
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by phaemon 11y ago
Perhaps you'd prefer Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness", which uses clearer language to express much the same sentiments.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Of course it's consistent: it actually exists. There is no paradox. It's clearly obvious that you can choose either box to put the treasure in. It's also clearly obvious that sticking labels on the boxes doesn't alter th
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by phaemon 11y ago
> the central thesis is silly I thought it was an exploration, not a thesis. What do you think the thesis actually was?
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by phaemon 11y ago
A bit cruel, but I admit I laughed at that.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Hah! No, I'm not American :) But, in case no-one guesses, the answer is (rot13): erirefr nycunorgvpny beqre
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by phaemon 11y ago
I got this wrong, but oddly enough my first attempt was a No. I tried, "6, 1, 8" After that, I went with doubling and it worked 3 times with various sizes of number, so I went with that. Double bonus points if you can guess what
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by phaemon 11y ago
I did a back of the envelope calculation on this last year (so using 2013 figures) which I've pasted below. It works out not too bad; it's certainly within the realm of reason. I think it would probably be better to start it very
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by phaemon 11y ago
Photons can't have "temporary states" because photons don't experience time. That's where the word "temporary" comes from, the Latin "tempus" meaning "time".
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by phaemon 11y ago
I think that semi-enforcing a Series title and automatically adding an Episode number would help greatly. As long as it had sensible defaults, and was easy enough to change, I think it would make everyone's life a bit easier.
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by phaemon 11y ago
Nope, you're missing nothing. That's absolutely correct. The problem (from merpnderp's point of view) is that the data for the past ~20 years doesn't differ significantly from the 30 year (or longer) trend. It's u
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by phaemon 11y ago
Yes, the objects are zlib compressed. You can view them with something like: cat .git/objects/c0/fb67ab3fda7909000da003f4b2ce50a53f43e7 \ | zlib-flate -uncompress; echo
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by phaemon 11y ago
You made yourself clear. To follow the metaphor, if the increase in tidal levels over the past 19.5 years were significantly different to the increase in tidal levels over (say) the past 30 years then it needs an explanation. If they were
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by phaemon 11y ago
> My null hypothesis is when does the trend turn positive since the last data point. I'm not trying to be a smart ass I'm sure you're not, and certainly you seem to be making a good faith effort to analyse the data, but I&
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by phaemon 11y ago
Can I ask you two questions? What does your R script attempt to show? What is your null hypothesis? Thanks!
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by phaemon 11y ago
Outside of the Internet, every single time I have every seen "begs the question" used, it means "raises the question". TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, common speech. Every single time. Therefore, that's what the p
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by phaemon 11y ago
> I merely said the specific statistic used to argue this is a poor one. No, you claimed, "All that statistics says is a lot of people have debt." It does not say any such thing. The fact you can choose a contrived set of figu
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by phaemon 11y ago
Your point appears to be that if enough people have debt, you don't need to have much to be above them. In short, you're trying to argue that there aren't many actual poor people and that there aren't a small number of s
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by phaemon 11y ago
No, you don't. The report makes clear that you need wealth of USD 3,650 to be in the top 50% in the world, and USD 77,000 to be in the top 10%. https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fi
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by phaemon 11y ago
There's nothing in the article that says they do. They say they get a message from the blood collection agency when they donate and another when their blood is used. I imagine it works pretty much as you suggested below: each bag of bl
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by phaemon 11y ago
> since you can't really gamble in the UK Of course you can really gamble in the UK - that's what the bookies are for. However, the regulations are a lot tighter for gambling, so it's easier to make it a "skill based
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by phaemon 11y ago
A little ironic to see this on github given: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546... But perhaps these issues have been fixed now?
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by phaemon 11y ago
But you do say, "The Congo" and "The Sahara", while you used to say "The Ukraine" but not any more. Names of things: "He appeared on television", "He started in radio", "He went to hosp
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Of course, in proper English it's "the Magna Carta." Nope. You don't say, "the Paris" now do you? There's no particular rule of when you use "the" before a name. As that notable academic, To

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