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by rainmaking 12y ago
That's a long FAQ, which argument has been answered by which FAQ entry? Be specific.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
There are plenty of reasons the $1M might have not found a psychic new owner yet. (1) Randi is condescending and downright nasty to people who identify as psychics. $1M might not be worth being in his presence, let alone scrutinized by him.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Wait a minute. The author calls for "stricter scientific standards", and than has the audacity to define "strict" as "something that excludes parapsychology". Say it was 1600 A.D. and we would like to improve t
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Jack Parsons, who was quite into parapsychology, phrased it quite neatly: It's when science becomes closed minded and degenerates into ancestor worship.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
There is a very interesting story of a gold miner in San Francisco in eighteen-something who gave up on a gold mine a foot away from the ore. When he found out, apparently his thoughts of "I might be a foot away from the ore" gave
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I would rephrase that as "Pick the one who will, by your best guess, cause the least damage". Leviathan is, and has always been, a matter of the least possible evil. Case in point, I'm pretty sure Mitt Romney would have waltz
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I disagree. This is about breaking a very particular kind of campaign promise, namely one that directly affects the interests of Hacker News readers as a group. In other words, we already are political, simply by existing. The article doesn
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I suppose the whole Center-Of-Attention-In-Washington-DC thingy might do a thing or two to your perception. "Monarchy Where We Swap Out The King Every Couple Years" has a much less free ring to it than the almighty "Democracy
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by rainmaking 12y ago
We ought to let that slide since he totally delivered in lots of other areas like closing Guantanamo, getting out of Afghanistan, and repealing the (Lock-up-a-)Patriot Act.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Sounds a bit fatalistic, now that the OpenBSD folks seem to have come to the rescue.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
You know, the way he stares at you from his book cover, he kind of deserves this.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Not sure if pot smoking is something we do different from our ancenstors...
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This sounds like a devilish proposition, only surpassed by "All the amphetamines you can ingest". I like it :)
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is not that surprising; one would expect the brain to adapt after exposure to a substance that affects its chemistry. It is also completely meaningless, as there is no comparison done to measure brain change in response to alcohol, nic
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by rainmaking 12y ago
This is just re-labeled Marxism, so the usual counter-arguments apply. (1) Bad data: Most wealth is self-made, not inherited. (2) Misguided goals: Uneven net wealth gain is better than equal increase of poverty (3) Magical thinking: Wealth
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I just looked into this, but it was ridiculously complex. I just went for a Wix installer instead that installed cygwin cron as a service. The cron job then rsyncs the current version into the install dir every 5 hours. Finito.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I would strongly recommend to focus on your strengths as your friend suggested. Working on your weaknesses will only drive you toward areas you are not naturally suited for, which is a reliable recipe for mediocrity. As for what you might b
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I'm more of a SuperCollider guy but Chuck is good enough for a major SC contributor to implement a Chuck operator for his lib.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I would suspect something along the lines of mandatory dropbox usage in the DMV to the tunes of 15 bucks a pop.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
My best guess is they have been trying to get lucrative government contracts for a long time.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
She sure does understand how to kill foreigners, but I'm not so sure about marketing to them.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
I missed a coherent logical thread to follow in this article.
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by rainmaking 12y ago
Well, this certainly puts all the hysteria about Brendan Eich in perspective.
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by rainmaking 13y ago
> Reasoning about a smaller code base is nonlinearly easier. I agree. The effect could be offset by having to reason about the implementation details of a more complex platform though.
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by rainmaking 13y ago
You are referring to using an index, correct? Because grep is absolutely, madly efficient for a doing a full search. The index portion of a file system are called files and directories. Several file names can refer to the same data. Those a
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by rainmaking 13y ago
I have never understood how the definition of "Document Database" is different from "File System".
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BcScan is a simple OS X scanner app to scan paper documents into a PDF file(github.com)
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by rainmaking 13y ago
An actual independent judiciary actually doing its job! I am tentatively excited.
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by rainmaking 13y ago
Ah, but the Libertarian Party by definition represents those Libertarians who see a role for the state.
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by rainmaking 13y ago
I don't know what to say. Sabotage Mozilla over an unrelated political cause? That's just horrible.

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