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by tsally 16y ago
Just to be clear, subjecting someone of lesser brilliance (99.9999999% of the population) to Turing's treatment would be equally immoral. Seriously destabilizing a suicidal person is murder and on a moral level I don't believe in claiming t
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by tsally 16y ago
A thought: Alan Turing died when he was 41. Anything Turing would have invented between 41 and his natural death are things lost to society because of the persecution of homosexuals. What an incredible cost.
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by tsally 16y ago
First, congratulations on your success with your business. 300% growth over multiple years is very impressive. Second, I didn't mean to be negative or snarky (I can be abrasive sometimes, so sorry about that). It's just that no one experien
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by tsally 16y ago
I'm familiar with the report. Programs that were detected as false positives include: * the task manager * Quicken * ATI Drivers * the GIMP * other antivirus programs (including products from Kaspery, ESET, Avast, and Trend Micro) * VLC * C
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by tsally 16y ago
Speaking as someone who knows something about these things, it is clear that you are not as informed as you are making yourself out to be. There are two reasons why I say that. (1) Your knowledge of the AV industry is outdated. McAfee ha
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by tsally 16y ago
I do know the full story actually. I'll summarize. In 2007 Guo Quan wrote a letter to the Chinese leadership asking for political reform, while peacefully founding an opposition party called the China New Democracy Party. Guo's writings we
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by tsally 16y ago
Uh, yes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_People%27s_... More specifically: "On 17 Oct 2009, Reuters reported that Guo Quan a professor in Nanjing Teachers University was sentenced to 10 years in jail for "inciting Subvers
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by tsally 16y ago
So we've established that there is a continuum between reporting all the facts and reporting none of them. As we've said, legally reporters are bound to stand at one point on this continuum (report most facts, but no names of abuse victims
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm going to place an order once I get home from class. This looks great. Researching and putting together a variety of healthy foods is really hard (read: time consuming) work.
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by tsally 17y ago
Software "engineering" != CS. I know Greenspun knows that, and I know the CS label is just for the purposes of the joke, but still. Java has already been harmful enough to CS. :-p
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by tsally 17y ago
Unless you are doing cutting edge research, it's impossible to verify an idea you've invented independently is truly original or not. Even then, there's no guarantee (see: Newton and Leibniz). So I'm not really sure what point you are tryi
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by tsally 17y ago
Offtopic: Any plans to allow custom repeating schemes like MWF, TR, or whatever? Basically the only reason I canceled my Backpack account and I'd really like to subscribe again.
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by tsally 17y ago
Literature isn't about writing anymore than Computer Science is about programming. Part of your bad experience seems to stem from you not realizing this. The CS equivalent is assuming you're going to learn how to program in Theory of Compu
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by tsally 17y ago
If I was running an insurgency in Iraq, I would keep a guy in the back of an unmarked van with an RPG and I would drive around pretending to pick up bodies. I think I'd probably get a lot of kills that way. I don't think it's fair to say t
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by tsally 17y ago
Ok, fair enough. I appreciate the corrections.
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by tsally 17y ago
Is the pilot also the gunner? Because I would think the person that pulled the trigger would be the one we should talk about. When I said kid, I was talking about the gunner. It's the gunner's decision making we are evaluating, after all.
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by tsally 17y ago
There's a good chance the pilots at least are older than most of the people reading this forum. Do you have a basis for your opinion, or are you just making things up? Actually, I already know the answer to that question. The average age
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by tsally 17y ago
I feel like we have a bunch of trigger-happy teenagers viewing the world through a video-game-like HUD with a joystick, just itching to light something up. Your analysis strikes me as a bit glib. There are two critical pieces to this issu
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by tsally 17y ago
Please look for 'Stupid in America' show on YouTube and watch it. It will seriously change your opinion about public schools. I'm aware of the documentary, and as usual, it completely misses the point. I'm intimately familiar with the inn
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by tsally 17y ago
Do you really expect a government organization with all its bureaucracy to come up a solution for 'the ability to affordability correspond with others around the country'? Yes I do. It's called the United States Postal Service. It was f
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by tsally 17y ago
This is a gross simplification. Let's expand this discussion to public verses private. I'm going to talk about education instead of the USPS because I know more about education. Goal of a public education system: provide actual learning, u
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by tsally 17y ago
Actually, my claim is not that the cost would be more than a dollar, but that private carriers would flat-out refuse to deliver to many locations in the US (and with good reason; it wouldn't be profitable). We already see this problem with
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by tsally 17y ago
Yes, because that strategy has worked so well with cable and broadband providers. I have a heck of a lot more faith in the USPS than Comcast.
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by tsally 17y ago
With the dramatic drop in mail volumes, hasn't the market (businesses and citizens alike) "voted" that traditional first-class letter (USPS only monopoly) is not a "fundamental component" of our society? No, mail is not the fundamental co
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by tsally 17y ago
No, the essential service is mail delivery under a dollar to anywhere in the United States. That is a fundamentally different service than what is provided by Fedex or UPS.
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by tsally 17y ago
I think the current solution for snail mail spam is the optimal one. Consider the two possibilities: (1) the government raises taxes in order to increase the USPS's ability to handle spam or (2) the USPS offloads the majority of the filter
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by tsally 17y ago
Every time the US postal service comes up in discussion, someone invariably mentions how life would be so much better if the service was privatized. I think this argument represents a fundamental misunderstanding of public services; the po
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by tsally 17y ago
A study conducted by Thomas Kepler, Colin Crossman, and Robert Cook-Deegan of Duke University found the patent in question "surprisingly broad" and that "if enforced [the patent] would have substantial implications for medical practice and
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by tsally 17y ago
Are you forced to only buy and use a Kindle? If you don't like the fact that amazon modifies or remotely deletes your books, don't buy it. No, I'm not forced to buy and use a Kindle (a rather facetious question). I'm not forced to buy an
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by tsally 17y ago
You cry about DRM... No one is crying here. It's a serious issue. ...yet you offer no solution for copyright holders to protect their works. First, it's not clear they need protection. In 2009 movie revenues reached an all time high,

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