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by thras 17y ago
Calling him a nonphysicist isn't correct. Woit's just not employed as a physics professor. Instead he's got a nontenured math post at Columbia. Given the number of tenured physics jobs available versus the number of graduates, it's not exac
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by thras 17y ago
One of our users had dropped this into their web structure years ago, never updated it, and had their account nicely owned due to a years-old vulnerability.
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by thras 17y ago
I hope that you don't agree the idea that people don't have to pay taxes because they disliked Bush. It's insane.
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by thras 17y ago
To be fair, they're also saying that people shouldn't pay taxes to the U.S. because Bush was evil.
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by thras 17y ago
Ah, it was all my fault that you said what you did. All of the personal nastiness, the name-calling, on this thread is coming from you and Phil. He introduced it, calling me a "stupid prick." Your claim that I wasn't an adult or even a "rea
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by thras 17y ago
Nice. You insinuate that I'm childlike and not a "real man" for insinuating things about other people. Love your style, brother Pot. -- Kettle
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by thras 17y ago
You go off and be intellectually curious in the kiddy pool then. I'll stick around the deep end, even if there might be sharks sometimes. And contrary to your pronouncements about its nature, Hacker News is not any sort of kiddy pool.
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by thras 17y ago
In point of fact, it didn't. I read all the way through the original article. I gave up on Mr. pseudo-Nice Guy. I ignored the guy who didn't call me a prick. Therefore, in contradiction of your argument, meanness and name-calling enabled
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by thras 17y ago
My interest flailed around and died when I tried to read your last paragraph, the 'sanitized' version that you think should have been written. Your post is simply the Kindergarten Teacher's clarion call for people on the internet to "be nic
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by thras 17y ago
The problem with Firefox: Keeping it updated when your users don't run as Administrator. Sure, Firefox is easy when you're running as administrator on an XP box. But if that's what you're doing, haven't you already disqualified yourself fro
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by thras 17y ago
Good points. But not everyone cares about maximizing karma. For most people, it just happens. What karma does is allow people to find out that you aren't just a troll even if a particular comment is rated at -10.
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by thras 17y ago
I like Karma, because it means that established members don't have to worry too much about how any particular post will be received, and can present unpopular points of view without too much penalty.
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by thras 17y ago
Article should be down-modded for misinformation. Here's Scalia's argument in plain language: Federal courts don't get override legal state convictions. Even if the prisoner files a writ of habeas corpus to a federal court, that court simpl
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by thras 17y ago
Now you know how it feels for me to see a bunch of Microsoft promotional material without any white males. To be edited out. Asshole.
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by thras 17y ago
Say rather, the Polish are more upset at being edited out of Microsoft's media representations than your average white male. Install Visual Studio and watch the pictures some time. Now look around your office. Notice the difference? Same th
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by thras 17y ago
He claims that nuclear power can't do anything because we can't build plants fast enough and that plant-construction costs have been rising. The first is a red-herring. It depends a lot on climate projections and so forth. And since it's fa
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by thras 17y ago
Yeah. But that's slumming it when I explain things for the dimwits. I felt dirty afterward.
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by thras 17y ago
You more or less said that the grandparent was wrong "just because." You were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument. Exactly what you complained about with me, btw. The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.
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by thras 17y ago
Also stop referring to an OS upgrade as a service pack. Because it isn't. Well, that convinced me!
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by thras 17y ago
Does intelligence have a genetic component though? And how big is that genetic component?
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by thras 17y ago
...they invariably draw out some seriously uninformed, inane, hand-waving types of comments that would be completely unacceptable when attached to technical articles... And I dislike seeing these articles because they brings out the kooks
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by thras 17y ago
Canada is far more restrictive about non-skilled immigration than the U.S. It's the political decision to turn America half-hispanic by the next century -- despite what anybody here actually wants -- that has killed enthusiasm for skilled i
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by thras 17y ago
Well, of course. What else does anyone think happened to all of the ice-age mega-fauna? Human beings moved in and ate everything that was big and slow.
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by thras 17y ago
Here's a feature I'd absolutely love: a button that brings me to a simple screen that she can use to input her own phone number when I hand her the phone. It's a pain to try that with the current Contacts interface. After she hits enter, th
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by thras 17y ago
Now an app that let me take the grunt work out of managing multiple girlfriends might be worth some money.
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by thras 17y ago
Your wife exaggerates.
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by thras 17y ago
I'd look at Hardware -> Drivers -> Anti-Virus -> Malware. In that order. Then I'd start poking around for OS issues.
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by thras 17y ago
Hmm. I just have a lot of trouble believing that you run lots and lots of machines and yet have never seen a kernel crash.
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by thras 17y ago
A few dozen. I won't tell you guys how to troubleshoot your crashing Vista machine, but the OS isn't at all the first place I'd look to find the problem. Most Vista boxes don't ever crash. Mine certainly don't. On the server side of things
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by thras 17y ago
My graphics driver crashed on Vista just yesterday. The screen flashed and I got a nice pop-up in the bottom right corner telling me that the display driver just had to be restarted. How many machines are you running Vista on, anyway? Now,

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