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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would firstly say I don't think there are any good modern-day comparisons to Nelson Mandela, and I don't think this is a productive discussion. However, at least Tymoshenko is a political leader who is imprisoned by her home sta
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yulia Tymoshenko is more directly comparable.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In order to reform government surveillance, we also need to reform commercial surveillance.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
"Rice protein is high in the sulfur-containing amino acids, cysteine and methionine, but low in lysine. Pea protein, on the other hand, is low in cysteine and methionine but high in lysine." [ https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I believe I had already expressed that this was my personal preference. If you scratch that line and read the rest, my other points would apply generally. We aspire to give people personal choice in their lives. People have the choice to dr
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by ronaldx 13y ago
No, my point is that your complaint above doesn't make sense. Trees are trees: if anything, the fact that you've correctly identified 'the same old trees' shows that the designer has done a good job in this respect.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You could indeed employ me with a paycut and small stock grants - if only I could believe your mission. Sorry, dude.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Perhaps because I am unable to role-play myself into this situation, I understood something stronger from the original comment.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If that's your point of view then you are not part of the same argument as the grandparent commenter - we are talking about a doctor communicating with a patient. As such, you may infer that I'm talking about doctor-patient commun
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, exactly, I want a doctor who defers to my judgment. I'm a scientist with significant relevant training. I know more about my own medical history than any doctor I've met. (it may help to understand that locally that we don&#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Who says you can't discuss options openly with doctor B? "doctor B will not give you anything more than you need, even if you ask for it" says that by implication: doctor B seems not to be open to ideas other than his ow
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't find that crazy at all: I would go to see doctor A as well. Doctors should use their expertise to advise patients, but in the end people have to be allowed to make their own health decisions. Even if I did believe that doctor B
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you know that a gesture is expected, the hand is not necessary. However, it's unlikely that people would recognise they are expected to gesture without some context - the clearest way to indicate the correct context is with the hand
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Actual trees are generated procedurally via their cells, and they look like the same old trees. That's how trees work.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Bulgarians and Romanians have the freedom to work and reside in many EU countries already, and all of them from January 1st.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In my mind, this suggests a curious error in the study (since the sample appears large enough that this shouldn't happen randomly): probably an error in reporting the results, maybe the wrong image in the results?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I wouldn't put much stock in that. If the results were 2/17 vs 7/20 that would not be a statistically significant result; in any case, there could be other major factors such as time-of-day and experience-building which are
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I believe it's an exaggeration to claim that shoe manufacturers would quadruple their charges if they did not have access to debt. The structure of a successful business would be essentially the same. Plus, the bank is already charging
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Science ought to be the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of a majority consensus. As such, both sides of an argument need to be explored and presented. It's an essential part of science for scientists to question their own beliefs -
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The problem is not the minority you are thinking of: most of that minority can enable JavaScript if it's genuinely required. The problem is people on poor or mobile connections - the majority - who have to suffer that little bit long
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Using Noscript, you can whitelist sites or unblock case-by-case. Or, you can recognise that not functioning at all without JavaScript generally indicates a lack of interest in the user experience.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I understand the sentiment but I disagree. I think language is a clear representation of culture - your first language directly informs how you see the world. The world would be a lesser place if everybody grew up with the same linguistic e
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with the principle that you should charge a day rate for a day's work. However, I don't agree with the author in this case. For the author, this is an unusually genuine opportunity to see what the work is actually going to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
That their position is understandable doesn't make it any more reasonable.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
So an exponential memory requirement implies that the theoretical time is not polynomial after all? I'm not sure. It seems possible that I would need to have exponential memory but not necessarily to access it. Is it true to say that m
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Still, I don't think all bankers are socially worthless. They help to create confidence in the banking system and in finance in general. I don't believe I observe that value in my daily life. Would there be sufficient confide
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Since P refers to polynomial time , it's not clear to me that a memory requirement is relevant.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> The successful ones now look prescient: this firm announced in, say, 2008, that the market conditions were such that strategy X is clearly correct going forward. My bank advised me to invest in "Investment Fund #17": their he
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> You'd have to live in a vacuum not to know that Facebook has been consistently pushing the envelope of acceptable privacy for years Facebook opened with and developed a following on the strength of unusually strong privacy setting
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> And how far would deletion be expected to go? I believe this is a 'slippery slope fallacy'. If I have the right to delete my comments, it doesn't immediately follow that I have the right to delete occasions where someone

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