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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Sexual selection has always seemed to me to be an answer that begs the question. If you suppose that there's a preference for a trait, that would explain its evolution, but it wouldn't explain how the preference evolved.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
He kinda lost me with the unfunny cartoon, the sugar but no milk, and the microwaving the water for your tea thing. For an alternative, and I think authoritative opinion, try Christopher Hitchens, here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguard
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
This goes to the definition of "ethical", and it's distinct from "moral", in the sense that ethics are a codified set of rules or guidelines: one does not judge something as ethical based on the result, but based on its conformity to a set
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
It's long past time since Visual Studio was the only game in town. Back when it was between VS6 and Borland C++ Builder, I was initially attracted by Builder's drag-and-drop UI construction - it seemed very odd at the time that "Visual" stu
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I think they would. Suppose you extract the transplantable organs of a dead patient without permission, is it ethical? Have you harmed the patient? If the relatives don't find out, are they harmed?
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I have long wondered about the syntax of exceptions - if it was: void function() { try: function_body... catch(Exception e): finally: } By leaving the function body in the same indentation as it would be without excepti
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
It is clearly their plan to do this, and in line with their stated intent to form the "identity layer" for the web. It's unlikely to work though, because the web has a great tendency to upset the plans of those who want to basically control
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
The author is Barry Ritholtz, and yes, he knows how stock markets work: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/barry-ritholtz-curriculum-vitae...
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Actually, a "long time" in space propulsion terms means more than a couple of minutes. The specific impulse of ion engines is sufficiently high that with sufficiently large engines, you would be talking weeks to get to Mars, rather than mon
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I think BBC iPlayer uses torrents internally to deliver its programmes. There's DRM, but it's not very restrictive. I throw my money at them once a year.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I always store it as a UTC double-precision Julian day value (not Julian Day Number - that would be an integer). This has the advantage of being able to represent small fractions of a second, but having differences that are easily comparabl
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
And all I want is a decent Google Maps app on my iPhone. The Android map is so far above what iOS offers - having recently lost my Galaxy s2 to a freak elevator accident I thought I'd go back to iPhone for a while, and this was one of many
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Is there a Python-based IMAP server?
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Many modern software practices, under the banner of "agile", come from the car industry: http://www.radupoenaru.com/agile-roots-toyota-production-sys...
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
This is a very short post, with minimal statistical force, carrying the weight of precisely one writer's opinion, radically generalized to a universal law. Skip it.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I like this a lot because it summarizes the direction my own C++ has taken since I first learned about FP. I've found that making a member method functional (i.e. changing usage of member variables into passed parameters where reasonable -
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Funny story is a friend who jay walked at 2am in a western European village. It seems to be illegal in Germany at least. Individual liberty as a concept has a stronger history in the UK than on the continent.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
Quite right, and interesting, because you're then sending a copy of the email as defined by MIME. What you're not doing is modifying the original - as soon as you do so, it becomes a different email.
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by rvkennedy 14y ago
I really feel that this is not what email is for. An email is an historic document, atomic, and linked to a specific time of sending. When you forward a mail, you're not sending that actual mail, you're creating a new mail that references t
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
Every time a random blog like this surfaces on HN I make a point of considering the source , by clicking through a few of the other articles. In this and many other cases, scratch the bland surface of the linked post and you'll find this k
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2010: 38.5% of mobile Internet time is spent on email(emailmonday.com)
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
tl;dr: Having conducted an exhaustive study of the world's economic future, it turns out that it conforms almost exactly to my libertarian worldview!
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
Relying on literary adaptations is a symptom of Hollywood's decline from the golden age of The Maltese Falcon (1941 remake of a 1931 adaptation of a 1930 novel), Gone with the Wind (from the bestseller by Margaret Mitchell) and The Adventur
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
You seem to be quite keen to tell me, and others here, what we really think. I laid out my position above, but your case is that actually I accept unquestioningly the facts and opinions approved by the scientific establishment. On the con
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
What I call "science" is the corpus of knowledge accumulated by the scientific method over the history of knowledge since Francis Bacon. There's nothing reflexive about believing Mann over Steve McIntyre - as with all such judgments we look
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
It's an old truth: most people choose their own facts to make themselves feel better, then hunt down the justifications they need a posteriori. When people are worried about jobs and imagine that helping the environment would take extra eff
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
perhaps... Perhaps the minerals and compounds needed to survive as a species are elsewhere in our solar system. Not only that, but more than we could at this point imagine using in a long long time, and an inexhaustible supply of energy.
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
Or, indeed, Silverlight. But big companies' big technology plays sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Sometimes you get lucky (like the people who never bothered to learn .NET). But I don't think that posting this video represents a major s
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Make a QR code with all your contact information on it(rvkennedy.tumblr.com)
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by rvkennedy 15y ago
Another vote for Munich. Start a thread?

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