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by thucydides 10y ago
Where's your evidence for these high co-pays that Turing did not subsidize? I searched both transcripts for "co-pay" and "mortgage," and didn't find anything like what you're claiming. In fact, I see the o
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by thucydides 11y ago
Many here are debating the school's arguments as if they had been advanced in good faith. Consider instead: perhaps the overwrought response is an exercise of power for its own sake.
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'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack(nytimes.com)
107 points by thucydides 11y ago|35 comments
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by thucydides 11y ago
What's Nikki up to now?
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by thucydides 11y ago
This guy also built and open-sourced a universally admired headphone amplifier and DAC. His O2 amp: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html His O2 DAC: http://nwavguy.blogspot.bg/2
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by thucydides 11y ago
Chomsky's exchange with Harris struck me as out of character. I've seen dozens, maybe hundreds, of Chomsky's interviews and Q&A sessions. What always comes across, besides his luminous and discerning intellect, is his pat
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by thucydides 11y ago
This article Haidt links on the sociology of the new culture of victimhood is very insightful: http://righteousmind.com/where-microaggressions-really-come-...
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by thucydides 11y ago
Exactly. Phone notification: "HELLO, THIS IS THE OMNISCIENT COMPUTER NETWORK 'FACEBOOK' AGAIN. MOMENTS AGO, A MALE COMPANION PROPOSED A LIFETIME OF WEDDED BLISS TO YOUR FORMER GIRLFRIEND. SHE SAID YES. ATTACHED IS A PHOTO SHE
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by thucydides 11y ago
You may not have meant it this way, but it is always alarming when people dismiss the whole of the American justice system as "dated," as if that were a bug rather than a feature. On the whole, the American system -- with its anci
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by thucydides 11y ago
Does anything similar exist for Chrome? AFAIK, default Chrome won't let you disable autocomplete in the address bar.
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by thucydides 11y ago
It would be enlightening to see a time-lapse of this graphic that instead charts the course of a year ... or decade ... or century. This site is great work - I enjoy rediscovering it on what I suspect is an annual basis.
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by thucydides 11y ago
How was it received?
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by thucydides 11y ago
Rick Doblin at MAPS has said he's funding the medical research of psychedelics and MDMA partly to change their public perception. It's a good strategy. "Medicinal alcohol" during Prohibition and medicinal cannabis during
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by thucydides 11y ago
I aced my criminal procedure and criminal law courses in law school and defended a few dozen accused criminals in federal and state courts. To be blunt, I don't see how anyone could possibly learn the law of self-incrimination from thi
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Graphic: Fortune 500 CEO Pay vs. Performance(graphics.wsj.com)
1 points by thucydides 11y ago|0 comments
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by thucydides 11y ago
"Dollar Shave Club is burning through 'low single digit millions' of dollars each month, according to a person familiar with the figures."
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by thucydides 11y ago
What's the benefit? The headline, "Discover Healthcare. Boost Your Career." is way too vague to persuade. This is off the cuff, but even something like "Find a Better Job in Healthcare" is a clearer benefit that&#x2
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by thucydides 11y ago
A few years ago, David Nutt and other drug experts rated the relative harms of drugs and found LSD was among the least harmful. These were the evaluation criteria: drug-specific and drug-related mortality, drug-specific and drug-related dam
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by thucydides 11y ago
CreateSpace? This looks like someone other than _why is trying to make money from his work.
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by thucydides 11y ago
There is a correlation between gun access and homicide rates. "Across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides. These results often hold even when the United States is excluded." http:/&#x
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by thucydides 12y ago
I used my iPad maybe once a week, so I gave it to my 5-year-old niece. She loves playing princess games on it.
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by thucydides 12y ago
Who wants to use this most? Porn companies. Their chargeback rates are obscenely high. And Bitcoins can't be "clawed back," as grubles put it. ed: "wants to" instead of "will"
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by thucydides 12y ago
No - the Supreme Court has not ruled on any of the NSA's recently disclosed programs. So they haven't had the chance to say whether they're searches. And on that threshold question of whether any NSA surveillance programs are
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by thucydides 12y ago
No, the NSA can be challenged in court. Actually, both my post and the Wikipedia article you cite in your reply refer to federal suits against the NSA. In the recent past, courts would throw out NSA lawsuits because plaintiffs couldn't
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by thucydides 12y ago
I practice law elsewhere, but if I were a lawyer for the NSA, I would be scared after reading this opinion. Some of its reasoning about cell phones is directly applicable to the NSA's reported invasions of Americans' cell phones,
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by thucydides 12y ago
Another relevant article from the same site: Artists' beards evolved to be "structurally different" http://newstechnica.com/2014/04/17/artists-beards-evolved-to...
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by thucydides 12y ago
Cool, didn't know about that. That's better than using Grab.app, which has the same functionality and also comes with Macs by default. In Preview, you can immediately manipulate the image or save in more exotic formats than TIFF (
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by thucydides 12y ago
It depends on where and how far back you want to look. A lot of Americans worked in morally repellent conditions in factories for little pay in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Earlier, though, I suspect being a wainwright or blacksmith or b
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by thucydides 12y ago
The main reason is because human desires are inexhaustible. As our society gets wealthier, more people will be hired to perform tasks that make people's lives easier, though those tasks are ancillary to an organization's main miss
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by thucydides 12y ago
True, but this article isn't about the Court's ability to reverse or distinguish prior opinions with new ones. It's about their practice of quietly sneaking substantive edits into opinions months or years after initial decisi

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