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by shasta 14y ago
And even if it had taken a decade, that almost certainly wouldn't have set us back a decade today.
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by shasta 14y ago
From the second sentence of your link: The term derives from the aphorism 'When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra'.
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by shasta 14y ago
I agree that any good legal system should have the adaptive quality of common law. I'd agree that the major source of accidental complexity in the law is poorly written laws, but I also think that there is significant room for improving th
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by shasta 14y ago
Sounds interesting. Can you link to something that describes your startup's ambitions?
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by shasta 14y ago
>> So, of course, we will occasionally notice aspects of our world that are not modeled and deserve to be, and there should be a procedure for doing as much. > That is exactly what the courts do. Agreed, common law has this capa
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by shasta 14y ago
>> Most legal rules could be vastly improved by reducing them to principles that are combined in a framework of cost/benefit analysis. >Lawyers already do this. I'm not really sure what you mean by this, but how lawyers think ab
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by shasta 14y ago
Whether and how it will happen is a different question from whether it could and should happen. Most legal rules could be vastly improved by reducing them to principles that are combined in a framework of cost/benefit analysis. One of the
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by shasta 14y ago
Author: Search for "pleasuraigh".
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by shasta 14y ago
Do to the frequency with which I see people attempting to alert a hell banned party (which obviously defeats its purpose), I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the hell banned can't see any post that contains the word 'hell banned'.
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by shasta 14y ago
You are clearly a philosopher of language and thought and so I am reluctant to contradict you, but it has been my experience that the construction "A or B" is more commonly used when A and B are non-equivalent. Perhaps you're thinking of t
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by shasta 14y ago
I hope he had the theme music to "Fletch" playing through hidden ear buds as he did all of this.
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by shasta 14y ago
He also had in his possession the largest component of a suitcase bomb.
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by shasta 14y ago
That's because you're implicitly telling them "I recommend margaritas". Try telling them "our margaritas aren't very good and are overpriced, but order one" and see how well your Jedi mind tricks fare.
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by shasta 14y ago
God I hope so.
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by shasta 14y ago
8 GB of RAM total?
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by shasta 14y ago
4% time, then.
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by shasta 14y ago
I don't know if they will be able to replicate the sense of danger that was present in Skyrim with another game engine. In Skyrim, when you would open a door to a new place, there was a real fear: is this going to crash my game? My whole
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by shasta 14y ago
Hint: You don't need to know the date to know which option to pick.
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by shasta 14y ago
"should incumbents be given extra chances at a target audience simply because they've generated a lot more content?" Since the incumbent has already campaigned the previous election, fairness dictates that he shouldn't be allowed to campaig
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by shasta 14y ago
'pig' can be written in a way such that it has a symmetry about a vertical line, so I'd go with it.
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by shasta 14y ago
Did you hand out Werther's originals for Halloween?
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by shasta 14y ago
No hire
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by shasta 14y ago
Does anyone make a multi-touch keyboard? This seems like it would be a great input device for performance users (e.g. programmers). And by "multi-touch keyboard" I mean a keyboard with physically pressable keys that, when not pressed, lay
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by shasta 14y ago
Interesting anecdote, but my guess is that your last sentence is an incorrect assessment of what was going on. Chess engines almost all perform a min/max search on the game tree to bounded depth with static evaluation used to evaluate the
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by shasta 14y ago
Except it seems to retroactively change its guess of what you said earlier based on what you said later.
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by shasta 14y ago
(X -> FLT) -> ~X
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by shasta 14y ago
Ownership of a bicycle isn't about physically controlling the bicycle. It's about the path of the bicycle through space-time, which is exactly how color operates -- it tracks the flow of information through space-time. There is no physical
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by shasta 14y ago
Even your use of the phrase "... the legal fiction that bits have color ..." sounds silly to me. Compare that phrase to "... the legal fiction that bicycles have an invisible ownership property ..." to see why. The entirety of the law is
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by shasta 14y ago
Can you point me to a coherent presentation of the alternative possibility? The only alternatives I see are that either A) there are legally protected (uncolored) numbers, or B) there is no legally protected information at all. I don't th
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by shasta 14y ago
I think the few bits about lawyers not understanding the limitations of metadata weren't the thrust of the article. I do agree that the two viewpoints there aren't opposed, but that point about metadata is not the same as the wrong headed

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