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by ronaldx 13y ago
It is unlikely that the negative consequences of banning DDT are nearly as much as that. Malaria nets and pyrethoids are each more effective than DDT, to which mosquitos quickly become resistant - making continued use of DDT wholly negative
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I re-read the article and I concluded that we are both right. I direct you to the following statement: "The principles are rarely orthogonal and frequently conflict." Producing genuinely useful error messages at all requires a c
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think you're really missing the point. Your goal is to write a whole programming language. Calculating where each statement starts and ends in order to serve a good error message is misdirected effort. Just use a terminating characte
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> "This is a critical thinking question, there is no wrong answer" This might be an 'exception that proves the rule'. By saying there is no wrong answer (in this case), you are illustrating that you have otherwise bee
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Warning as potentially misleading: despite the large CESG logo, this is hosted at ubuntu.com. The PDF summary is written by a Sales Engineer at Canonical Ltd. The original CESG security guidance has a rather different perspective: https:&#
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I mean, if you think we (the US) have a severely polarized party alignment, Oh! I absolutely don't think that. The two parties in a two-party system (US; UK normally) are often poorly distinguished, straddling two sides of a divid
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agree in principle: a great deal of bullying goes on in schools that is not pupil-on-pupil.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Appreciate your point, but I don't think it's obvious that two-parties are better at creating long-term policy, just as I don't think it's obvious that a two party system is better on other axes generally. For example, i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yep. I think there's a difference. When you had to physically get your software out there and into people's hands, that was perhaps a good model. Now, it's more awkward. Asking me for payment for partial content is a dangerou
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by ronaldx 13y ago
That is at least a negative indicator for me, and a deal breaker in many cases. I've played demos in the past and sometimes that has led to a purchase of a full game, and sometimes not. A difference/problem with this newer model i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I mostly agree with the premise here, but I want to play devil's advocate: * The game isn't actually reviewed. Maybe you can play the game perfectly well without paying for gems. Maybe the game is actually more interesting to play
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I find it bizarre that you think a left-right two-party system is good. People should have the right to vote for whatever they value, and should have the right for that vote to count (via representation of those values). A two-party system
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I have the dual issues of poor time management and trouble focusing when my mind wanders and wants to do something else. I've worked a lot on these for myself and ended up with a process that's extremely similar to the artic
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why do you allow an array index to start at 0? Although I agree that this is not ideal, zero is not null.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>All that being said, doing this every day for 30 days will eventually result in your body acclimating to the external stress and you will begin to see fewer and fewer benefits. Same thing happens if you run 30 minutes every day or do th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
We can argue about whether IP rights should exist, but I see this as a separate point. IP rights do exist. The photographers have created and published their work under the expectation that existing IP law will be upheld.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Explanation: 0.0001+0.00000002+0.00000000004 etc = 2^0/10^4 + 2/10^8 + 2^2/10^12 etc which is a geometric sequence with common ratio 2/10000 and first term 1/10000 So it has an infinite sum of (1/10000)/(9
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I feel like this question is quite paradoxical: the only reasonable way we have of deciding whether a coin is fair is by flipping it repeatedly. So has anyone ever flipped heads 76 times in a row on a fair coin? No. Because we would judge t
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with this in concept: your money is your economic power, and that economic power supports the people you spend it on, including their actions and attitudes. You are handing over the economic power for them to continue with whatever
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I have a love-hate relationship with the advice "Don’t reinvent solutions to common problems." Yes: it's difficult for me to reconcile this with the next piece of advice: "Don't Ignore the Math". If you ha
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> counter this by running all my posts through Google Translate. This is smart, except... Google presumably records your translations, likely linking them with your Google account (and - even if not - could easily look up which translat
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I feel like you've defined the point of the mobility study, so I don't believe it ought to be accounted for. The person who earns $100,000 in nation A can now comfortably afford a top 10% lifestyle in that country. For example, th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Someone has watched one too many Sandra Bullock movies :)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You can count me in that group, in this particular case, but maybe pitch correction is not the whole story. Here's my point: I can identify a song as being by Dr Luke far more confidently and readily than I can identify the named artis
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What I dislike about Dr Luke is that his artists are autotuned to the extent that they all sound exactly the same. Katy Perry's voice could be swapped for Avril Lavigne's and many people would barely notice. This accusation is not
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Deliberate or not? Seems to be thanks to the following code: <style type="text/css"> body { -webkit-transform: rotateX(180deg); -o-transform: rotateX(180deg); -ms-transform: rotateX(180deg); -moz-
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's common practice that the 'expected' values of a chi-squared test should be 5 or higher, with adjacent groups to be merged until this is the case (at UK A-level this is strictly required). This is a slightly conservative
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agree. Entrepreneurialism is a slow and risky way to make money: if you want money in 2014, get a job.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
For the moment, yes, but it's a headline policy of the governing party to reintroduce it for all married couples.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think you already recognise that this anecdote is difficult or impossible to measure, but let's try e.g. http://www.immigrationboards.com/ireland/large-number-of-sha... Here is a politician admitting that 3% of

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