sageikosa

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by sageikosa 10y ago
My teenage daughter developed peanut allergies in her mid teens while traveling with a drum corps one summer. She had noticed how ill she was feeling and systematically cut out foods until she narrowed the peanut butter sandwiches (she had
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I've bounced at least one deer off my hood (it actually looked like it did a backflip/roll, since I saw all its feet in the air). I'm quite glad it didn't stay there. I took surprisingly no damage from that encounter.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
That's falls somewhere between "because its the way we do things around these parts" and "it's what we used on my last couple of projects". Perfectly fine for a certain degree of utility (maintenance, finishing
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Vehicular assault coupled with false imprisonment.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Maybe there's a common (patterned?) ambiguity to the idea of design patterns?
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That you haven't been up-voted more affirms my belief that you are on the right track. If they can't explain why they don't know the value of it. If they don't know the value of it, they can't weigh that value aga
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I wasn't making the argument you are denigrating, any more than I'd make the assertion that clouds mean rain.
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Good things can't happen without government sanction, and bad things can only happen when there is not enough government oversight (or through nefarious conspiracies). This is the narrative structure we call news today.
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You are missing the important point of having a new large government workforce to be administered, unionized and funded for decades to come.
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Basically why I excluded the transcontinental. It took an act of congress to start its construction and an act of congress to stop it as well.
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Maybe I'll check that out. I stopped reading Scientific American in the 1990s due to the editorial bent.
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Going through that whole process to run the trial could easily lead to depression.
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Well, maybe Europe built itself with government projects, but apart from some dubious transcontinental rail lines, America's "original" heavy and light rail systems were built by combinations of corporate, municipal and state
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Neither. Collectivism of labor is a symptom of centralization of budgets. Large companies and large departments need large workforces.
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Not really reflexes per se; as reflexes don't involve any higher brain function. One doesn't rely on reflexes for driving. Reaction time on the other hand is an entirely different matter...
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Stack pointers: everything after this point is no longer my problem.
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Zero sort of emerged from accounting serialization difficulties with positional base number systems. When it actually began to be treated as a number, all hell broke loose.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
So what makes something philosophical?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
What became Philosophy was first delineated by the Hellenic Greeks. It was a pursuit of the literate as an alternative to the waning gods of the masses. There are certainly other schools of thought on what things are, how they should be c
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Too much obsession on 1, not enough on 0.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Turtles? All the way down?
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Nor in the early Archean. Kind of my point. If someone wants to undo or revert bad influences on the planet's supposed homeostasis, why just roll back mankind? why not roll back all life? then the earth will be truly pristine. I c
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I also put the concept of settings on the opposing end of non-teleologic identification. I have no expressed opinion on whether the attempt to make China or India conform to green western politics is fair or not; but those two nations proba
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There aren't settings, only observable conditions. The drivers are non-linearly correlated. My suggestion there is that even if you managed to return the size of the human population to pre-industrial levels in roughly the same geogr
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Although my middle of the night crisis was that I meant the Archean, not the Hadean. sorry, was shooting from the geologic hip, and I'm more of a geographer than a geologist.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
That's why I don't like the popularity metric. But that's what you get when you democratize too many things.
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Teleology is the idea that something has a purpose. I don't see climate as having a purpose (in that it wasn't designed with a goal in mind). I also don't see climate as a system (mainly because I don't see it having a
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I've always taken the position that the totality of climatic conditions on this planet are not a designed systemic whole, so there is no teleological purpose to it. If this were not so, then we might best be aimed at setting it back t
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by sageikosa 10y ago
I'd second the appeals to authority argument, if only on the grounds that science (the institution) is exactly that: an institution. It is also a game: http://www.melconway.com/Urban_Teaching/pdf/what_is_scie
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by sageikosa 10y ago
Against the numbers of bishops, swamis, gurus and imams?

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