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Now HERE is what I consider really cool: in the US we were seriously thinking about taking some Apollo components, building what amounts to a Skylab with thrusters, and doing a MANNED Venus flyby in 1973. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manne
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Oh, please. This was covered extensively in the New York Times, not to mention lots of science magazines. Find the dozens of NYT articles here: http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/venus+probe It was so well known that the TV show
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a) you're entirely correct b) I always laugh at this because our Constitution doesn't talk at all about "freedom of religion" but it does explicitly mention "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". ...which is e
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> There's always a global warming denier... I did not REMOTELY deny global warming. I said that the propaganda that there's a irreversible "cliff" is false. > Anything over 100 years is "permanent" as far as humans are concerned. So
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> Obviously the earth hasn't latched into a "permanent irreversible hotter state". The present climate and the fact that we even exist to talk about it demonstrates that. What exactly are you trying to say? There are two ways that we mi
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This strongly suggests that the idea of "run away" greenhouse effect, wherein the Earth latches into a permanent irreversible hotter state ("like Venus", the media was saying back in the 80s and 90s) is not true: the Earth has been 10-20 de
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> I do have to say that I highly respect Dalton for clearly stating he had no interest in the acquihire. Agreed.
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I don't understand what you think Facebook did wrong. They intend to enter this new space, using their technology and their people. As a courtesy they offered to hire you / throw a lot of money at you. What would you have had them do instea
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> Its not just that, celebrities, sports coaches, and the entertainment industry in general are over paid. These people deliver value to someone. I'm not a fan of sports, but I trust a few million people who enjoy watching sports as to
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> bit wrong with a world in which SpaceX (a startup FWIW) can bootstrap a space programme from scratch for less money[2] than a photo uploader is apparently worth[3]. You're comparing apples and oranges: 1) what X is WORTH 2) what Y too
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> Talk about guns, then talk about drugs, and each party literally adopts the arguments of the other. Except libertarians. We believe in decriminalization of both.
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A long post on the topic of CNC, printing firearms, and more from a few months back: http://www.popehat.com/2011/10/06/the-third-wave-cnc-stereol...
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Correlation is not causality. If it rains this afternoon, and you later tell me that you did a rain dance outside ten minutes before hand, why should I assume that you caused the rain?
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> what you're doing by carrying their water is incredibly insidious. You lost points for assuming the worst possible motivation of my actions. "Carry their water"? Meaning "To do someone's bidding; to serve someone's interests." PLEASE
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> I think Twitter is more like a protocol than a website; and frankly it's too important at this point to be left in the hands of Twitter Inc. Yeah, what we really need is the same people who run the Department of Motor Vehicles and the
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> verifiable fact that the U.S. government deserves credit for funding and helping create the Internet? Because it's NOT verifiable. Some of us believe in historical determinism. Moore's Law meant that chips were getting better and ch
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> the employee-client relationship is radically different to what people in the US, Canada or UK are used to The closest to France I've ever come was reading "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French
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> Something told me to stop the car and go in. I am a rationalist and have no truck in telepathy, crystals, or other such related craziness. Coincidence and the law of large numbers explains everything. ...but once in a blue moon I hea
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Un-ask the question. Please first explain why there should be such a thing as "applied research funding".
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> Your post just proves that Americans cannot take any criticism of their country without fighting against it somehow. This is a rhetorical fallacy. Person A: "You're always defensive" Person B: "I don't think I am." Person A: "SEEE!!!"
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> most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us French newspaper has a front page article about Obamacare http://www.lemonde.fr/ German newspaper has a front page article about the US election http://www.spieg
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I've been thinking about manners, social interactions, etc. recently. This has stemmed from reading a lot of economists who blog on topics that include "signalling" (you've heard of this - it's the argument that people go to college not so
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Indeed. Boing Boing may be interesting, it may touch on topics that are relevant...but as far as "reporting" goes, it's worthless. I resolved to never read it again about a year ago, and I've been happier since then.
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> this encourages the property owners to "shit or get off the pot" in terms of utilizing the property: And why is that good? Imagine that someone has good reason to believe that item X will be worth $1,000 in three years, which means t
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> they call themselves “domain investors” and believe that they’re a legitimate market force. But all they’re doing is stifling innovation You can't get the domain name you want for the price you want to pay. Boo-hoo. I can't get tons o
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> The headline is misleading editorial which doesn't seem to have any sources to back up anything... Fox News worthy. Boing Boing worthy, really.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Archibald_Spooner One recorded incident had Spooner write a note asking for a fellow lecturer at New College to see him immediately about a matter. The note had a postscript informing the lecturer that
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In general, I 100% agree with you that prices should rise or fall until markets clear, but there is a counter argument that I believe is correct in some cases: Fans are a complex system, and the people who might turn out for dozens and doze
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Excellent point. Corollary: when the other company is figuring out how generous of an offer they need to make for choice #1, they know that your next best alternative is choice #2 (for $0).
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A topic very much like this one makes up a chapter in the wonderful book Godel, Escher, Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach Two characters are in a race: one to build an impervious record player, the other to design

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