swombat

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by swombat 12y ago
Actually he has no comments outside of this thread that is less than 91 days ago, so it's not so easy at all.
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by swombat 12y ago
Do you two work together or something? If so, must be a fun workplace!...
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by swombat 12y ago
I'm not advocating experimentation on the patient population. I'm just saying it is frankly unethical and immoral to withhold a potential cure from a patient with a very high chance of dying, when you have that potential cure at h
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by swombat 12y ago
It's easy to say "it worked! We cannot justify to not help those people who will die anyway", but there is NO guarantee that it will work a third time. It could dissolve the organs of the next person. And then it wouldn&#x27
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US acquires legal right to grab data in overseas servers(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by swombat 12y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
That was the best talk of the day - but it felt more like an article being read than a talk. Still, I enjoyed it! Glad it's posted.
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by swombat 12y ago
What do you find so amazing about the Surface Pro btw?
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by swombat 12y ago
Of course it makes sense. Other manufacturers don't release new products until their current line-up is thoroughly obsolete. The way they achieve that is by releasing stuff that's already obsolete on day of launch, but you can&#x2
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by swombat 12y ago
Hello hyperliner, This is your wife. We need to have a serious chat tonight.
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by swombat 12y ago
Your understanding is indeed incorrect. According to the big bang theory, there is no vacuous void preceding the big bang. I know that it's hard to wrap your head around that, but there is nothing before the big bang. Not even time. Ti
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by swombat 12y ago
I guess if there had been a market for white slaves they would have sold those too...
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by swombat 12y ago
If it's about decreasing the chances of dying because of the actions of someone else at all costs (economic, personal, etc) - then the first thing the government should do is ban cars for the vast swathes of the population that don&#x2
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by swombat 12y ago
Right, so let's agree to a system when the government will open every letter, scan the contents, save them to a database, but not read them until after they've run some analysis and determined that your specific letter is of inter
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by swombat 12y ago
One obvious con will be that you have to set it up yourself while WPEngine is hands-off.
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by swombat 12y ago
Unless, of course, our entire reality is running on a very powerful, but not infinitely powerful computer, and the Great Programmers in the Sky decided to cheat by putting in a hack that cuts off quantum behaviour at a larger scale... Unlik
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by swombat 12y ago
Well, that's good to hear! This reputation the IRS has makes me worried about the idea of some day operating in the US. It's good to know that they actually employ human beings rather than attack dogs. From what you describe, they
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by swombat 12y ago
It's not much of a problem in the UK. A great many of our clients (and ourselves) use the standard dividends + minimum wage method of paying themselves - that is, the ones who own their businesses, i.e. have not taken funding. HMRC acc
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by swombat 12y ago
Missing: all the service-based models? Success fee based, Time & Materials, Fixed Cost, etc...
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by swombat 12y ago
I'd like to see a study comparing the happiness of close-knit, tribal, polygamous communities with close-knit, tribal, monogamous communities. Just to nit-pick - I'm not sure how that study would help you in making your decision
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by swombat 12y ago
Read on. Dumbledore is clearly one of the smartest characters in the book, not a drooling moron at all. He puts on a pretence of being completely bonkers to confuse his enemies, but he's very smart and thinks fifteen steps ahead (just
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by swombat 12y ago
There's some pretty salient characteristics of an actual cult that make it different from just a group of very devoted followers. Namely: - Cults usually employ a number of heavy-handed psychological manipulation techniques, often toge
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by swombat 12y ago
Worth mentioning: "Silly over-extrapolations of local memes, jargon and concepts are posted to LessWrong quite a lot; almost all are just downvoted and ignored. But for this one, Eliezer Yudkowsky, the site's founder and patriarch
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by swombat 12y ago
Dear Eliezer Yudkowsky, I beg you, please continue writing this awesome stuff. Thanks, Almost Everyone Who's Read This
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by swombat 12y ago
The best 4X game I've ever played is called "business". It's incredibly deep and complex, never ceases to surprise me, has unbelievably versatile multi-player options, and requires constant creativity to come up with win
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by swombat 12y ago
I once had a Comcast agent claim that he needed my father's death certificate to cancel my service! Wtf, really? That is simply unconscionable. Are these even people on the end of the line? What kind of worthless piece of shit asks s
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by swombat 12y ago
When you're asking yourself whether it's time to draw a line and move on, you know exactly when the time for doing it was: a year ago. I've never heard anyone say that they felt they quit their startup too soon. I've hea
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by swombat 12y ago
Yes, absolutely confirmed!
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by swombat 12y ago
I for one greatly enjoyed the honesty of "How to get rich" - which, for once, was not written by someone who got rich teaching people how to get rich, but simply be someone who did get rich. I can't say I espouse all of Felix
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Felix Dennis, a hedonist and media magnate, died on June 22nd aged 67(economist.com)
68 points by swombat 12y ago|16 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
With a 3-week incubation period as mentioned in the MSF letters, that doesn't sound so impossible...

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