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by three14 14y ago
Agreed, but there has to be some filter. You can't just say, "I don't see the value in crystal healing, I must not understand something here." Sometimes, you do understand enough.
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by three14 14y ago
I was only responding to your strawman. Still, if you want a specific example of welfare that everyone should be forced to pay even without an appeal to morality - emergency room treatment. Despite all the moral hazards, you want the serv
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by three14 14y ago
So there's no middle ground? Extreme libertarianism / survival of the fittest or you must try to help all 1.29 billion people in poverty?
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by three14 14y ago
Wait - what? You actually wrote a bot as in http://xkcd.com/576/ and actually had the problem in the comic ?
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by three14 14y ago
Anyone but me read "Experiment. Fail. Learn. Repeat." as "... Repeat failed experiment, even while knowing better?"
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by three14 14y ago
I was surprised about "about the size of a beach ball". Wikipedia says thorium is 11.7 g per cubic centimeter, so the one ton beach ball works out to a diameter of roughly 55 cm if my math is right, which is a reasonable beach ball. It tu
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The 2-Billion-Year-Old Natural Fission Reactors in Gabon, Western Africa(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by three14 14y ago
You are really changing the subject from aggression, but... Let's say we have a dispute. You say I stole your house, and I say I didn't. Do you think a good way to resolve the dispute is to take pot-shots at my kids? Does it make it a be
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by three14 14y ago
Why does that seem contradictory? Gaza can be the aggressor, but Israel is much better armed. (Don't confuse shipping with getting by truck; they don't receive supplies by ship, but they do get plenty of supplies.)
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by three14 14y ago
Maybe, maybe not: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/E53.full
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by three14 14y ago
I don't think much of your comment makes sense, unless you think that it's worth the violence to end the Israeli occupation. I think it's clear that the violence is hurting that goal anyway plus killing Palestinians, so the only reasonab
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by three14 14y ago
This is true but a useless statistic. Israelis do kill many more Palestinians than vice versa, but Hamas could end the violence at any time, and Israel can't. If Hamas would simply hold all fire, and publicly announce it, Israel would b
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by three14 14y ago
But it's still incompetent. You'd expect the IDF to keep saying things like "We extend our condolences to the innocent people killed by our missiles. We wish we had a better way to stop the missles. We hold Hamas responsible for murderin
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by three14 14y ago
Yes, but that answer is wrong, because of a quirk about umbrellas themselves - Orthodox Jews don't use umbrellas on the Sabbath because opening an umbrella bears some similarity to constructing one, and constructing things is forbidden for
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by three14 14y ago
More details (many more...) here: http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&...
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by three14 14y ago
IIRC, I would tend to run into them on the A train or the 1, north of 59th.
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by three14 15y ago
This site actually works better than HN for this list, though.
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Imaging study finds neural connections form regular grid(nature.com)
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by three14 15y ago
The browsers don't do it because it violates normal people's expectations of what encryption does. If you are a man-in-the-middle, you provide your own self-signed cert; if the browser accepts self-signed certs, then the user sees an "encr
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by three14 15y ago
I have 4 kids, three girls and a boy, and they play with other kids their ages, so I have a fair amount of experience with little kids. There are corner cases where you can't tell what's nature and what's nurture, but you haven't really wa
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by three14 15y ago
Funny. I didn't realize that I had Adblock Plus installed until the I noticed the images in the blog post were missing. (Apparently, Chrome syncing will actually install Adblock for you when you switch computers(!), but will leave the defa
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by three14 15y ago
Although there are clear problems with the tax code, people forget that some of the complexity is there because that's what most people actually want. People want a tax deduction for charity. People want to tax corporate profits, not reve
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by three14 15y ago
The tax code already requires that income tax earned in the U.S. be taxed in the U.S. My father's job essentially involves making up the numbers. Why do I say make up numbers? Often, corporations are multinational. Some part of the corp
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by three14 15y ago
Looks like the same idea, but I'm no expert in this.
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by three14 15y ago
It could be, but virus scanners don't use FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING? It seems relatively easy for them, and if some did and some didn't you'd get reviews like "slower than the competition".
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by three14 15y ago
I would be more bothered if other vendors anti-malware wasn't terrible . Every virus-like behavior I've seen over the past several years was actually anti-malware misbehaving. One particular peeve is disk usage - anti-virus scans at a lo
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by three14 15y ago
'There is also a blatant error in the OP article: Answer No. 2 (Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.) is by no means "logically impossible".' They meant that it's logically impossible for the probability of A AND B
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by three14 15y ago
It might be more effective to simply have a page showing sample good comments, so people have a reference point when deciding to comment. I'm not sure how to pick a list of good comments, but it would be best if it specifically included ex
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by three14 15y ago
We didn't sell them SharePoint, but everything I've seen there says that SharePoint isn't the problem. SharePoint could have worked well for them if they just had one person on staff who knew what they were doing and were allowed to do it.
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by three14 15y ago
"Why are business still willing to make investments in the latest Microsoft blessed framework?" For me, the real question is why are they willing to make bad investments in technology. SharePoint is designed to make it easy to set up a c

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