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by thwest 13y ago
I don't read PA's critics as arguing from a position of having "been vicimized [sic]." Their status as survivors is incidental to their argument. I read the criticism as being about the lack of empathy of PA's autho
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by thwest 13y ago
Another reason to license software not sell it.
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by thwest 13y ago
Then realize you shouldn't define your life based on some digital records.
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by thwest 13y ago
Someone capable of enthusiastic consent doesn't have their responsibility invalidated. Where did anyone say that? The important cases are where the consent is marginal -- either temporally separated from the act or given from a person
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by thwest 13y ago
Because the drunk driver's lack of consent isn't the problem with drunk driving: it's the lack of consent from everyone else on the road. The issue with consent while drunk isn't about what you do to yourself while drunk
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by thwest 13y ago
The analogy you're looking for here is drunk being-run-over, not drunk driving. Consider this illustrative example: Driver: "Hey man, mind if I run over your leg?" Drunk Person: "mfamhhhhmmhaha sure lesh pud it on youtub
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by thwest 13y ago
IBM has one for this: http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915
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by thwest 13y ago
You generally can't boycott a particular producer of a commodity like oil.
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by thwest 13y ago
Chevron doesn't have council in house?
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by thwest 13y ago
What is "actual value" and how does it relate to subjective use-value? If people value the placebo effect, why is that bad? And if they value the effect, what is wrong with valuing the source of it? (The distinction between place
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by thwest 13y ago
This complaint is borderline non-sensical to me. Maybe Haskell is magic? If ZeroMQ transported anything besides binary blobs, it would be marshaling objects or enforcing some kind of encoding to your data, which would dictate much more abou
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by thwest 13y ago
The dragnet interpretation really seems to be your own. The headline simply says "Americans'". There are no superfluous adjectives such as "massive" or "unprecedented scale" which could be intentionally va
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by thwest 13y ago
Because I, as a voting US Citizen, believe we should extend a great deal of rights to non-citizens. Fourth amendment and due process in particular.
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by thwest 13y ago
Are you referring to the need to use a timeout? http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/26/disconnects-are-good-for-y...
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by thwest 13y ago
Different implementations of the same API yes. They are more or less tied to the compiler you use.
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by thwest 13y ago
No technical reason, but all of the praise and success of Apple's lack of options certainly makes the case for business reasons.
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by thwest 13y ago
Out of sight out of mind I guess. It doesn't really bother me that I fall out of daily touch with friends far away. A couple times a year I'll sit down and write them a letter (..email).
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by thwest 13y ago
You've learned anything about the history of race relations and think "race" is a better word to describe that phenomenon than "lactose intolerant"? I'll be right back, going to inform my friends that because t
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by thwest 13y ago
The distribution of genetic variants within and among human populations are impossible to describe succinctly because of the difficulty of defining a "population," the clinal nature of variation, and heterogeneity across the genom
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by thwest 13y ago
That's an incredibly cheap dismissal that's simply not true. There are plenty of books that look at those issues from a humanist perspective. The Bell Curve is labeled racist because it is myopic about the existence and importance
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by thwest 13y ago
League has a lower skill cap, generally lower in complexity and mechanics.
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by thwest 13y ago
>>> I turned off voice chat a while ago though, Please please please please don't be That Guy. I encourage muting individuals who are annoying. But I use mic exclusively and how are we supposed to cooperate?
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by thwest 13y ago
These players tend to stay in the low levels of matchmaking. In high and very high matchmaking, people are a lot more cooperative or criticize constructively. However, without playing ~500 games (~500 hours), you probably won't graduat
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by thwest 13y ago
Owning a firearm is an individual privilege. A well armed militia is a community right.
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by thwest 13y ago
I completely appreciate that and am not automobile free myself! I just want 4 wheel solo travel to be the exception, and treated with constant caution.
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by thwest 13y ago
Well, I'm curious what the numbers actually are. Either way about it, I agree we should fight for addicts. I've lost two dear people to alcohol, and I'm fighting for a third right now. However, other than increased mental hea
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by thwest 13y ago
Drinking is a significant cause of death among non-addicts. Addicts are a small portion of consumers. Addicts are the exceptional case here.
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by thwest 13y ago
Personal consumption is a completely different realm than dangerous systemic infrastructure decisions. I'll give someone the right to die fat and drunk on their own, but I absolutely abhor how our roads make murderers out of us.
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by thwest 13y ago
No, this is not a joke. Having heavy motorized vehicles zooming around our urban landscape is incredibly dangerous and violent. Worse, the pilots are inattentive and feel entitled to the asphalt in front of them. Automobile worship has comp
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by thwest 13y ago
They could always enter facts into the congressional records with impunity a la Ellsburg and Kucinich

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