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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
No, what the NSA is doing is illegal and unconstitutional: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.h... That's why they keep their tortured legal pseudo-justification secret, beca
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
I've heard that the offer has been made, but there's no record of the transaction ever having been completed.
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
As someone who remembers just how dreadful search results were before google, I concur wholeheartedly. All the brilliant execution in the universe won't do you any good at all if no one wants to visit your site because your search resu
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
In fairness, only if we, the people, allow our government to conduct surveillance on us, the citizens. We need to roll back the provisions of the patriot act and FISA that are currently being interpreted to allow the collection of data on c
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
How misleading of you! Why quote the DOJ's obviously biased opinion? Better to quote the simple fact pointed out on that very same groklaw page that the secret court did in fact make a ruling that some surveillance was a violation of t
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by rafcavallaro 13y ago
Which means that exams need to be much more difficult. When I was a grad student Teaching Assistant at Harvard we had a newly hired professor who'd spent the last decade at Cal Berkley. He decided to give the same midterm exam he'd given ma
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Allende was unacceptable to the US before he even became president, so the claim that he was deposed due to your so called "abuses of power" is absurd on its face - he can't possibly have a abused power before taking power. Declassified doc
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Your parent meant "disirregardless" of couse :)
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Snake Plisken? I thought you were dead! Seriously, in English "green great dragon" is simply wrong - there's no semantic distinction here. Size before color, so it's "great green dragon." Just in case anyone is wondering "great" has the lit
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
The "stitch together the curriculum when needed" argument ignores the possibility that there is significant value to learning an interrelated body of knowledge, even several such interrelated bodies of knowledge, including their relationshi
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
As someone who grew up in NYC I don't think many respondents here understand how depressing and lightless it is to live in an urban environment of 30 story buildings where you almost never see the sun. That which has drawn many people to Sa
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Bees are fed High Fructose Corn Syrup from corn treated with neonicotinoid pesticides and that low exposure, over time is killing hives: http://stream.loe.org/images/120406/Lu%20final%20proof.pdf
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Just picking another, the researchers did in situ replication of pesticide doses known to be prevalent in working hives, along with control colonies that were untreated. Whats happening is that in the last decade beekeepers largely switched
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
I think your objection misses the fundamental point of the paper which is that blindly applying formulae (in this case Bayesian ones) without considering the part these computations play in the whole scientific process leads to bad science.
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
I think we already have a good idea why humor is funny. In our closest primate relatives, chimps and bonobos, who also laugh (i.e., the chimp equivalent of laughter) when tickled, laughter is essentially a call meaning "non threat." Jokes a
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Substitute "treat like a pariah" for "eliminate" and you're good to go!
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
The tiobe index has lisp in the top 20 (at 13th) while Haskell is at 33rd, so lisp is more popular than Haskell even though lisp is over a half century old. Being in the top twenty after 50 years looks like the very definition of "survivor"
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
The fact that someone has a web page devoted to this particular eggcorn doesn't change the fact that it is an eggcorn: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4566
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Carmen Ortiz's property seizure fails(wbur.org)
2 points by rafcavallaro 14y ago|0 comments
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
That presumption, that strong AI is inevitable, is precisely the point in contention. The fact that it has been a decade away for nearly a half century argues against its inevitability, not for it.
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
It doesn't apply to any diet. For example, a simple caloric restriction diet might simply require that you leave half of everything you're served on your plate and never have seconds. This would allow you to eat anything in any social conte
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
lisp is much more regular in syntax than most popular languages, and Xah's page that you point to amounts to little more than saying "I don't know lisp well, so I find various aspects of the language - backquote, quote, unquote-splicing, et
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
Your parent implies that not getting functional programming concepts makes one a "blue collar" (i.e., less sophisticated, more commodity) programmer. Presumably, understanding functional programming is one necessary requirement of upgrading
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"Real" List Comprehensions in 24 Lines of Lisp(lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.ch)
1 points by rafcavallaro 14y ago|0 comments
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
They spoke French, having adopted it after their conquest of, and settlement in Normandy. French, not Norse, was their court language both in Normandy, and later, after the 1066 conquest, in England.
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
I know this was tongue in cheek, but: insulin insensitivity = adult onset diabetes so be prepared to have some toes or feet amputated (or to maybe just go blind) if you stay up with those donuts.
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by rafcavallaro 14y ago
And not just "some" but a proportion of profitable traders greater than what we would expect due to chance - i.e. the existence of some lottery winners does not prove that playing the lottery is in general profitable.
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by rafcavallaro 15y ago
Add to this the fact that it is very much in the interest of one of the larger mobile players, Apple, to keep the native experience superior to the html5 mobile browser experience in order to differentiate their iOS offering from a generic
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by rafcavallaro 15y ago
He said "term limits" not "remove all power from elected officials." We already have what you call a "permanent bureaucracy" - it's called the civil service. It executes orders from elected officials - the President, cabinet officers, and e
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by rafcavallaro 15y ago
Because human drivers have the ability to exit the vehicle and "dissuade" the obstructionist child. In fact, the mere threat of exiting the vehicle has been known to send children running.

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