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by tisme 14y ago
What a great comment. It's worth more than most of what is currently ranked on the homepage, and likely the best thing I've read today. Reality checks like these are sorely needed to offset the glorious stories of the few that made it which
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by tisme 14y ago
Chances of an Italian being an expert on Italian corruption far outweigh the chances of other nationalities being experts on that subject. So even if it isn't ironclad evidence it definitely moves the posterior probability towards 'expert'.
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by tisme 14y ago
Scapegoating at its best. Really, what a disgrace this is. Scientists are already loathe to communicate directly with the general public for fear of misunderstanding of carefully chosen words. This kind of farce will cause a rift that will
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Twelve Virtues of Rationality(yudkowsky.net)
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Italian court finds seismologists guilty of manslaughter(nature.com)
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by tisme 14y ago
Well, it is your stuff, so I can only wish you the best of luck. And I sincerely hope that you will not come to regret this at a later age, as someone who 'lost all his stuff' on two occasions I can tell you that even after two decades you
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by tisme 14y ago
Something about this story makes me uncomfortable but I can't put my finger on it.
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by tisme 14y ago
I lost a friend (55) to a brain tumour. From initial diagnosis to funeral: 17 days. His last words to me were 'I'm going to fight this thing'. He never stood a chance.
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by tisme 14y ago
No. Affordable routine scans will result in massive overloading of the health system with unnecessary procedures, and the complications arising from those procedures will kill more people than would have died otherwise from whatever shows u
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by tisme 14y ago
What use is a newborn baby?
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by tisme 14y ago
Scratching an itch is fine. Not everything in life has to be commercial.
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by tisme 14y ago
I think this argues rather strongly against patents. After all, if you didn't publish it and someone else came up with it independently several times over then clearly that counts as anecdotal support for ideas having a way of re-surfacin
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by tisme 14y ago
It looks like maybe you didn't read the linked page.
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by tisme 14y ago
This is most likely false. You are stating this as a fact but there is some proof to the contrary: Sweden has already extradited people to the US in cases where they really shouldn't have whereas the UK has so far been quite reluctant to do
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by tisme 14y ago
Why go for a second rate solution when a first rate solution has the same operational costs?
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by tisme 14y ago
The problem here is that a lot of newly minted IT professionals will write stuff that will allow a re-use of all those old exploits all over again. Occasionally warning people about known dangers doesn't harm. Sure that's not exactly moving
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by tisme 14y ago
They're all classes of the same problem: hard to check for resource consumption from apparently innocent input. #define s, any kind of macro system they all suffer from this, as soon as you are allowed to define an entity referencing anothe
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by tisme 14y ago
Paying an extortionist is the one way in which you guarantee that you'll be extorted in the future. Think of it as entering into a subscription arrangement.
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by tisme 14y ago
> it seems to require a UDP connection What is a UDP connection?
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by tisme 14y ago
:(){ :|: & };: Even simple bash scripts can do weird things like this. And that's a lot smaller.
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by tisme 14y ago
Tough to flush to spinning disk after your power goes down. So you'd have to do it continuously, which would remove most of the performance gains.
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by tisme 14y ago
Thank you very much for this comment. Comments like these are one of the main reasons I keep coming back to HN. Keep it up!
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by tisme 14y ago
Ok, super to see you're on top of this and looking at all angles. School can be hell if you are standing out in whatever way, and cause and effect can be hard to separate sometimes. Night terrors could be causing trouble in school, school t
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by tisme 14y ago
I'd go easy on that counselling and do my best to figure out first what actually happened . It would not be the first time that the visible aggressor was in fact the victim of a long drawn out teasing campaign by a group of bullies, and gi
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by tisme 14y ago
Worry.
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by tisme 14y ago
I thought it was hilarious, thank you. Never figured Douglas Adams was right on that one until you pointed it out.
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How U.S. Removed Half a Ton of Uranium From Kazakhstan(washingtonpost.com)
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by tisme 14y ago
> power of friends selling to friends That's one of the reasons I will never buy any product of theirs. You don't get to me through my friends. I consider abusing private friendships for commercial gain un-ethical.
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by tisme 14y ago
The truth is that there is a story behind everybody, and there is good fortune and misery to be found at every level. Don't presume to know about an individual or their circumstances until you get to know them well and be prepared to be sur
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by tisme 14y ago
One accomplished person should not be belittling the accomplishments of another. A good check to see if something is a joke is to see if you thought it was funny. To me it looks as if he wants to make this seem totally insignificant, and to

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