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by secstate 9y ago
I find it ironic that he lauds the Houston sprawl for keeping housing prices low. He makes some very excellent points about how the rest of the nation has perceived or had the storm presented to them. But his "efficient use of land&quo
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by secstate 9y ago
I mean no offense, but the "just use it you'll get used to it" strategy seems the antithesis of the goal of engineering as a discipline. A materials engineer simply cannot afford to pick concrete unless she knows the specific
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by secstate 9y ago
I thought that too, but the article makes a really interesting point, backed by Iger's quote, that they may not wrap Marvel and Star Wars in. Honestly, I have no desire to subscribe to their service without that IP and I doubt I'm
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by secstate 9y ago
Free speech, and throwaway usernames FTW! What are the times you are referring to? The times of breaking company policy? You can argue all you want that he was sacrificed on the alter of liberal witch hunting. But the reality is that his em
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by secstate 9y ago
That's a really well made point. And for what it's worth, stoicism doesn't ask you to never travel or have fun :) The most depressing line for me was him effectively waiting (albeit in a joking manner) for his second stroke.
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by secstate 9y ago
Chile is ruled by their socialist party at the moment. The originator of the modern Chilean Socialist Party, Lagos, actually took the traditional Marxist socialist platform and moderated it to much success. Turns out moderation and not a bl
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by secstate 9y ago
No, it's not that simple. Scandinavia has had a pretty good run with socialism. But Norway does the old college-educated trick of investing 10% of it's oil income. And Sweden has a much more diversified economy. In South and Centr
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by secstate 9y ago
In all fairness, the corrupting influence of big money interests from federalist countries does not help here. One can hardly argue that socialist reformers in Central America were the reason those governments failed. Political assassinatio
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by secstate 9y ago
Yes. Helm for a Kubernetes package manager makes things really confusing when you spend much of your day in Emacs.
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by secstate 9y ago
This is delightful, and very close to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Meat Manifesto, which is in his cookbook/textbook on eating meat entitled, Meat. Basically, the contract we have with domesticated animals is that we'll remo
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by secstate 9y ago
That's fair. I wasn't attempting to discredit Chomsky, just appreciating the quality of comments here. </meta>
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by secstate 9y ago
These comments are why I love HNews. Thank you for your reasoned refutation of Noam Chomsky :) I especially appreciate your example of phase changes in matter which I think perfectly illuminates the limits of Chomsky's logic.
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by secstate 9y ago
My favorite part about the BPA fiasco is how it is mitigated on an industrial level by introducing BPS. BPS is totally safe for food-grade products because it's more stable at high temperatures. Also, it hasn't been shown to be
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by secstate 9y ago
Depends on your end goal. But I'd say Tk/Tcl and Qt have done alright for themselves. They'll never be confused for native, but for a solid GUI app, they're quite solid. Then there's always Unity ...
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by secstate 9y ago
Well played, sir. Given the nature of FSF's business you'd think they'd be on the cutting edge of digital identification and authentication. GPG keys a thousand times better at properly identifying an owner than an easily for
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by secstate 9y ago
Because of the rise of Christian fundamentalism in this country. Many of the most ardent supporters of the movement here are ex-pats from Australia, so I'd wager either they've all come here, or some shenanigans are up in Australi
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by secstate 9y ago
Sorry, I was playing a bit of devil's advocate, or at the very least the pragmatist. This bill is terrible, I agree with you. But I think we have to be careful when we declare the scientific method as the end all be all of knowledge. I
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by secstate 9y ago
There's an entire discipline regarding how and when science switches paradigms, to borrow a Kuhnian word. I think the best guard against any of this is the old Feynman test. Can you explain the idea sufficiently to a lay person that th
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by secstate 9y ago
I think the problem is less that atheists take the word of scientists at their word, so much as people assume that because something is common, it is either safe, or true. It's the weird intersection of knowledge and belief. Here in co
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by secstate 9y ago
Right. And the point of science is the exploration of demonstrable facts. Belief and knowledge are two separate domains, and never the twain shall meet.
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by secstate 9y ago
Advocate for the inclusion of the FSM theory of creation. It's only fair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
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by secstate 9y ago
IP sniffing?
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by secstate 9y ago
Can we say, "people of character and placement are required to drive history"? Not trying to be the PC police or anything, but your statement is actually made factually incorrect by excluding half of our species.
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by secstate 9y ago
To say nothing of the fact that automated tasks work 24/7 under the most basic human observation. Silly humans needing to sleep, eat and rest.
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by secstate 9y ago
Yeah, most of the grocery stores in my corner of Maine have an artisanal cheese section too. But they wrap them all in plastic wrap and the inventory doesn't turn over so it all tastes like crap. Plus, if you look at the labels, half o
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by secstate 9y ago
I dunno. Sample size may have something to do with this. I live in a rural section of the US now, but spent a year living in Eastern provincial France and the difference in the cheese case makes me cry when I think about it. Americans stock
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by secstate 9y ago
Except that perhaps all those middle men in between talent and event organizers are what make an event successful? Complaining about "middle men" is not dissimilar to complaining about "the Man" keeping you down. Is the
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by secstate 9y ago
That's actually a call to a rickroll.
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by secstate 9y ago
Indeed. But becoming a marathon runner who finishes in 7 hours, after the finish line has closed, and doesn't get a medal because the cut off was 6:30 :) No, it's a great achievement, but there's still room for improvement.
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by secstate 9y ago
That's a really complete argument. But there's still the elephant in the room of the whole operation being closed source, and the inability to do quantitative analysis into the improving security of a closed source system. People

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