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by rbarooah 15y ago
Whilst I generally agree with you that these drugs alone don't magically "wake people up", wouldn't you agree that one of the primary functions of government is to ensure social stability? It would therefore be strange for governments not t
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Although I think that LSD and other psychedelics have great potential for aiding therapy and introspection, I think there's a lot of evidence against the idea that it automatically 'wakes people up to the system'. It takes more than just t
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This is another bunch of straw-men. I nowhere suggested going back to how things were before, and my proposal explicitly rejected the idea of allowing self-proclaimed doctors.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
He said they'd shut up about Apple, and instead are making radical changes. Perhaps the fact that they continue to publicly attack Google means that they don't think they need to respond with a strategy change.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Marco has explained why he doesn't make an Android client. It has nothing to do with delicate sensibilities. It's pure economics. His business model is based on selling a paid app, and based on his numbers, doing that on Android won't pay
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Mentioning witch-doctors, homeopaths and acupuncturists is a straw man. It seems to me that that private group of scientifically grounded medical practitioners who certified their members, but had different criteria from the state licensing
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What would suggest they should have done to stay ahead?
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What user complaints? The only people saying that the iPad can't be used for content creation are blogosphere commentators arguing that it can't replace a laptop yet.
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What exact is sloppy? Third generation is one of their terms for it.
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What makes you so sure things would get worse?
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Sarcasm aside, you're missing the point. Why isn't it sufficient to regulate the title 'Doctor' without preventing other practitioners from practicing? People who wanted a traditional medical practitioner would be protected, and those who w
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Medical licensing isn't just about the right to call yourself a doctor. Alternative medicine practicioners, or even experienced doctors who qualified in another country, are not allowed to perform the same procedures as doctors regardless o
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by rbarooah 15y ago
First - I don't know anything about Wonga, nor do I think that vulnerable people being forced into needing a loan at enormously high interest rates is somehow a good thing for society. However, as I read the comments here simply condemning
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Here is a great programming environment you can run with only an iPad: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/ If you mean that you can't develop native apps using only an iPad, that is true. For that you need to buy other tools (e.g. a Mac mini),
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You originally said 'the majority should choose period', not 'the majority should choose only in cases where you can't have it both ways'. If democracy somehow limited itself to cases where you can't have it both ways, that would be great.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Just to clear this up, there is nothing at all about the 'recent things from apple' that prevents kids using them to make software, except for price. In fact I'd say that Apple's stack is outstanding for this purpose because it goes all the
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I'd say that the article is criticizing the ability of democracy to deliver the latter, and that in a representative system the two can't be neatly separated. If the system in aggregate produces candidates who can't execute what the people
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That's fair enough but it doesn't render the whole issue void. For example, a vast majority of the people might share the wish to select a leader best equipped to improve the countries economic prospects. If that is what the overwhelming ma
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Why should the majority always have power over minorities?
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My point is simply that whatever the intentions, democracy has devolved to selecting leaders, and for the most part they aren't even representative. I'd say measuring the ideal instead of the reality isn't all that useful.
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stop doing it
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How is democracy not about selecting leaders?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'd like to know how its model of transaction isolation works given that reads and writes are claimed to be independent. It seems as though a 'transaction' is defined as an atomic set of updates, but doesn't involve reads.
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And don't include the iPad at all.
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I use it all the time with the people I know who have it. That said, my positive experience with FaceTime has actually induced me to also start using Skype, so that I can reach more people.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I think this means that the value of services would be determined by a government inspector. As for estimating the amount of money you'll need - services basically can't exist if there aren't enough customers who can afford them. Therefore
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Perhaps the effect depends on whether you are part of a team or not.
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Right - and each new product increases the scope of the profiling they are able to do and reveals more about their product strategy. At a certain point this became more than I was willing to tolerate in return for the value of the products
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Are you really trying to say it should have been obvious in 2003 what Google would be today?
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It's nowhere near enough notice to take reasonable action. You say it could be done in a weekend. Do you know this because you've done it? To do anything other than an emergency exit, you need time to evaluate and select alternatives, and

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