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by rtl49 11y ago
It isn't cause for despair. In the grand scheme of things, none of us is so important and the desire to "achieve" more than we have is, in some sense, a wish to bless ourselves. There's nothing to prevent you from studyi
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>My point in typing up this story is not to say that I am or was awesome. Are you sure? Being a smart fellow, you must know that your experience is not evidence that this young man was not "pushed" too much and that he will &qu
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I'm glad to hear it. Some of us have had neither a normal childhood, nor the perks of one dedicated to study. Thus my remark.
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“I will never forget the feeling of walking into the lobby of Building 7, looking up, and then touching the pillars to see if they were real. I couldn’t believe I was at MIT. My life and my ambitions moved to another level at that moment.”
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On a related subject, can someone shed some light on the reasons and maybe the legal justification for export controls for these processors? I recall reading an article a few months ago about limitations imposed on exports to China of Xeon
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I maintain that, even if one were to grant everything you've written, the disparity in economic and military power is so significant that there would still be no comparison to be made between the fall of Rome and the current circumstan
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by rtl49 11y ago
As usual, perhaps I have not made myself clear. And before I go further, I should clarify that I've only taken one law school class, and I am not a lawyer. The issue I'm referring to is that no one is in a position to challenge th
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by rtl49 11y ago
Maybe so, but I imagine one's grandmother would respond with more glee to receive this sleek little dongle than a clunky used Thinkpad T60. I'm not arguing that anyone in particular should go out and buy this product, only that so
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I don't know that ChromeOS uses X server (I know almost nothing about it, in fact). But by the time you've paid for the additional hardware, it may be the case that it's cheaper to buy a tablet or a professional-grade IDS dis
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One possible reason is that Ferguson's words lent credibility to a social movement the author considers destructive. Even if the remarks were absurd in the context of the available evidence, few people will read further than to see the
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I think there is a demographic of casual internet users who might be interested in this product. It's inexpensive and occupies little space, one need only provide peripherals and a monitor. It runs ChromeOS, which is reputed to be very
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I think the fact that he posted this on facebook gives us reason to believe this was intended for a very general audience. Yes, his criticism is not so far from mere insult. But it remains true that Ferguson's argument is laughable, an
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I did enjoy it. It was worthwhile, and not so long (for anyone else reading this). I'm aware of the role of propaganda in society. Just yesterday I recommended to you and others Edward Bernays' Propaganda and a good post by Paul
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Possibly, but you must bear in mind how rapidly bacteria reproduce and evolve. I'm not well enough informed to say exactly how long it would take, but I very much doubt it would be hundreds of years. (And people wouldn't necessari
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by rtl49 11y ago
I agree on the importance of the rule of law in criminal investigations. I just wanted to point out, from a bird's eye perspective, the silliness of this situation. Because of the rigid insistence on legal standing, the only way to cur
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by rtl49 11y ago
There was an article on HN a few days ago that put the financing of ISIS into perspective. The US spends more on a typical large bridge than ISIS would earn over the course of several years at their peak income. Comparing this to, say, the
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I always find it surprising how many academics at prestigious institutions manage to get away with professing such obviously risible ideas. There is no meaningful analogy to be drawn between the sack of the city of Rome and Western civiliza
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Yes, but this begs the question of why this particular article merits our attention. Biologists have been complaining for years, maybe decades, about the overuse of antibiotics. Any of thousands of publications on the subject could have bee
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I don't believe he or she claimed they should, only that this was the basis of the appeal.
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To be clear, the issue of antibiotic resistance is not such a problem. Generally, resistant bacteria are less fit than their nonresistant counterparts in the absence of the antibiotic, so we should expect that after a period of disuse antib
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I didn't claim it was about entrapment. I was anticipating a potential objection, that Mohamud was 'radicalized' by the agents involved in this situation, which another comment implied. I understand the legal implications. If
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The same could be said about every problem facing the species.
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This seems like a tragic situation. There are some strong indications that personal and social problems are what drove Mohamud to embrace Islam, and that therefore these are in some sense responsible for making him susceptible to becoming &
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The increase of antibiotic resistance is a matter of legitimate public concern. But this article abuses the same "think of the children" meme that worldly people everywhere despise in politics and journalism of every sort. Childre
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Yes, that bit of self-promotion and the hyperbolic claim negated his credibility. Then again, HN readers must already be familiar with the ways of 'fastcompany' writers given the sheer number of articles we see from them.
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I meant to capture your sentiment in my reply. I was using "efficacy" in its absolute sense, the synonym of "effectiveness" or "worth," which I take to be its primary definition.
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No I don't. There I grant the opposition their belief as a stipulation for the purpose of making a more salient point: terrorism is not so destructive as people tend to think, and regulating the flow of information is more destructive
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One day I’d had enough. Truth be told, I’d had way more than enough. I stopped and reevaluated my life, trying to figure out what was important to me, and what wasn’t. This self-reflection and whatever series of events led to it are more
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Possibly so, though if you believe this, presumably the powers that be would not be above fabricating such evidence. Bear in mind that the data used in this article are from arrest records. In fact, many of the arrests supposedly resulting
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A third possibility is that such queries are detected, but maintaining secrecy is judged to be a higher priority than preventing a comparatively smaller number of deaths while revealing their capabilities.

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