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by topynate 13y ago
Then why have representatives? You're describing direct, not representative, democracy.
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by topynate 13y ago
Having accurately assessed the likely effects of the programme's exposure, it seems very dumb to proceed with it. What could the NSA learn that would outweigh having Germany decide that America wasn't actually a friendly, trustwor
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by topynate 13y ago
Sounds good to me if it is. After all, it'll be in everyone's self-interest soon enough.
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by topynate 13y ago
The simplest answer is that he got it by beating an 11 year old boy to death with a chair leg. The sentence for murder is life imprisonment or "detention at Her Majesty's pleasure", which is much the same thing. Most murderer
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by topynate 13y ago
RDRAND wouldn't, the control unit would. Whenever it sees the XOR macroinstruction it checks the second operand to see if it's RDRAND. If so, it doesn't order an XOR; rather it just copies the RDRAND value to the first operan
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by topynate 13y ago
Is rdrand really the very last stage? As in the output is "stream XOR rdrand"? If that is really the case it puts full, 100% trust in Intel not to insert a backdoor. It wouldn't even be hard. All the CPU need do is check for
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by topynate 13y ago
So what would be required for the mice to have something sufficiently Down's-like? They didn't shrink the brains with toxins or anything, that shrinkage was a natural consequence of duplication of genes, just as it is in human DS.
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by topynate 13y ago
You can replicate a real test, but it requires considerable effort: First, you need someone capable of imitating a trained polygrapher. The simplest option is to hire one, but from what I know of polygraphy I'm pretty sure that a magic
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by topynate 15y ago
Tyler Cowen argued this quite lucidly at http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/04/jer... .
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by topynate 15y ago
You can't force people to fill bids and asks at pre-freeze prices, as that would just lead to participants being horribly arbitraged against (and even if Mt. Gox were the only way of trading Btc for USD, it would still be a terrible idea);
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by topynate 16y ago
Hey, why stick to octaves? The Bohlen-Pierce scale divides the tritave in 13 (a tritave interval is a 3:1 pitch ratio). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60SYLdMYvcE – check out the keyboards!
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by topynate 17y ago
Wealth that you generate yourself isn't a benefit that comes from society, so social justice doesn't demand it be redistributed. There plainly are benefits that society gives us that give us a chance at generating that wealth, though, as ca
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by topynate 17y ago
Something I always look at in these kinds of studies is what the sample group is. There's a statistical phenomenon called "explaining away" which often causes spurious correlations. For example: measure the athletic and intellectual abiliti
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by topynate 18y ago
"Vitrification" goes a long way towards addressing the specific problem of ice formation. Very rapid cooling is unnecessary. The downside is that you currently have to have your body removed prior to neuropreservation. I don't discount the
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by topynate 18y ago
I live in the UK, and I have a startup (very early stage). Were it not for the usual immigration nonsense, moving would almost be a non-issue - the risk appetite of British investors is just too low. There are other advantages associated wi
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by topynate 18y ago
Anyone who doesn't like the supposed pressure that exists to accrue more followers can use a Greasemonkey script to strip that data from their page views. I see no reason for them to enforce that preference on anyone else.
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by topynate 18y ago
Two issues, one with design, the other with your algorithm. Design-wise, I'm no expert but you need to make better use of space. The grey boxes are spaced too closely together, and the text in each box is too close to the border. The uneven
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by topynate 18y ago
You could shade the truth, yes. For instance, you might say you were an employee, rather than stakeholder. An employer looking for conformism isn't going to care about that sort of lie, because it's a lie told in order to conform. As to the