purpled_haze

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by purpled_haze 11y ago
All of this is great, except the first two sentences: > I haven’t used a desktop email client in years. None of them could handle the volume of email I get without at least occasionally corrupting my mailbox. If I were to get so many ema
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Where the value comes in is when everyone is using it, then you can do analysis on the massive amounts of data produced. I enjoy seeing projects like this though, because it means people are analyzing data. Without that, we aren't lear
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I don't remember any children I've met that started to go to church on their own, but I've met some adults that grew up in a non-believing family and then became Christians, but they have been the minority. I think, as others
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I have daughters and was not able to get them interested in any computer unless it involves games or social media. But the boys they hang out with are the same way- games only, for the most part. While I played a lot of games on my computer
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Beijing Air Pollution Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) for those interested: http://aqicn.org/city/beijing/
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Not the main purpose, just one purpose. The right to arms was part of English common-law (English Bill of Rights of 1689) and in 1689 the right was claimed to be a reinstatement of "ancient rights" originally granted by James II.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Could you extrapolate from that though that: 1. Since the first amendment allows the free exercise of religion, prayer must be allowed in schools as long as no specific religion is established via those prayers? 2. Since the second amendmen
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Much of our morality and ethics are innate and stem from our nature and evolution as a social species. Where is your evidence for this? It would seem more evident to me that the source I am aware of through my education in history and
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Do you dismiss that much of the moral and ethics we have today in our society evolved in parallel with religious teachings? I feel strongly that it is foolish to remove the freedom to practice religion if it promotes moral and ethical behav
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Do you disagree that religion in any form can be used as a force against corruption? If you work to exclude religion as a whole because some religions or those practicing them have certain beliefs you may find reprehensible, you also exclud
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> What do we do about the legions of victims? Financial compensation and putting those that caused the injustice in prison equaling the total of all of the terms served by all of those affected. That is as close to justice as could be ha
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Formula E to run the first driverless car races(thedrum.com)
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
It is and yet it's not. If you think about it, most of the code we benefit from each day was written by someone else from the operating system, to the language compiler/interpreter, to the frameworks, libraries, etc. Many develope
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Rare Earths: The Next Resource Shortage?(nytimes.com)
29 points by purpled_haze 11y ago|14 comments
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John Landis Hints Sans-CGI Star Wars Trilogy May Be Released by Disney(forbes.com)
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Open source != free
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> the company had standardized on MS This is a whole topic in itself. There has to be some good medium between consistency and best tool for the job. For example, IBM determined that, despite Windows dominating Desktop/laptop market
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> Plus you're not putting that bacteria directly into your mouth. What if that bacteria is good for your mouth?
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Another warning: Sometimes doing the right thing in your mind means going against leadership and culture that are ingrained in the heart of the company. Taking this route may actually be the right thing to do, but it might not be in your lo
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Why not just an rfid chip in the pacemaker itself?
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
He's not the only one who has been cashing out over the last months. In my opinion, it looks like we are in for a correction if you look at the long-term historic logarithmic graph of the S&P 500's value. http://fin
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I wish the authors had spent a few hours more honing their argument, because some of the points are really good. Where it fell flat for me: * The post was much too long. I was intently reading but soon realized that it was all over the plac
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
While I would also want everything free or open source, firmware is not necessarily like other free or open source projects that can just assume that they are running within a standard environment. It has a tendency to be much more specific
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> He chose the option that he thought would give him a second term (and then a gold plated public speaking career after the White House). Isn't it also possible that he chose the option he thought was right for the country? Of cours
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> emphasize that the brain is a muscle. Instead, maybe emphasize that the brain is similar to a muscle. Speaking metaphorically could be confusing to some.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I'll never understand why people would rather complicate things in an attempt to avoid null checks rather than provide null checks.
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The oldest tree in Britain may be switching sex(mashable.com)
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Parallel Universes: Scientists May Have Just Found Proof(financialcv.com)
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> magical concepts Depends on how you define magical concepts. Are the magical because they are too complex and require too many assumptions? For example, by your definition, is it ok to have faith that would be associated with a religio
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Cars are much safer than horses: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE0DC1E... And they produce more jobs, from all of the people needed to create the plastics, glass, metal, to the engines, etc.

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