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by waps 13y ago
You seem to have rethought your position on this, your previous post defended the firing of Mozilla's CEO based on his political opinion. I am glad that you consider that wrong and I just misread you, or you changed your opinion for th
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by waps 13y ago
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ You do NOT have the right to judge anyone based on "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or o
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by waps 13y ago
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ > Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, pol
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by waps 13y ago
Can you clarify something for me : are you a democrat or a republican ? And which of those 2 groups should be fired from their jobs ? Any religions that perhaps should see all their members fired ? Which ones ? Do tell.
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by waps 13y ago
> objectively morally wrong I wonder how the conservatives, or the taliban, or communists, or ... call their version of "objectively morally wrong". Oh wait ... probably exactly the same. > There are religions that allow sam
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by waps 13y ago
> As retrospective studies go, it's not bad. But retrospective studies have a well-deserved and terrible reputation for confusing causes and effects. So do the double-blind studies you appear to be advocating. Ever thought of what e
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by waps 13y ago
It's a peer-reviewed journal, accredited academic researchers, thorough methodology (probably better than average actually, not badly done) ... What exactly is your problem with it ? What is the problem with retrospective-scare-quoted
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by waps 13y ago
I would argue that GWT is an example of how it can be done, and it's very hard to beat a well-written GWT app (for the client-server part it's bloody hard to beat a badly written GWT app too). The problem is that those ancient web
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by waps 13y ago
Really ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831435.aspx Virtual PC supports live migration. Seems like an easy way to do maintenance on the hosts. Does azure use live migration ?
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by waps 13y ago
Yeah the sad truth is that Windows XP, a 12 year old OS, has 20 times the market share on the desktop that linux has. [1] I'm a linux user at home and at work (for everything except starcraft), but I don't feel the need to pretend
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by waps 13y ago
This is a book about the tradeoffs (if you're God/Darwin) of death. Really, really interesting book : http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Origins-Death-William-Clark/dp/019... He first frames the problem. Firstly
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by waps 13y ago
The difference between kids' learning and adult learning is the timeframe of the events that can be stored into long-term memory. Kids can learn very short term things, adults cannot. Our brains work by modelling the future, then picki
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by waps 13y ago
Okay, so here's the rub. If ISPs want to talk to eachother, in order to support "full" bandwidth between them you need n(n-1) connections to support a bandwidth of n mbit. This is quadratic . You understand why this won&#x27
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by waps 13y ago
And what happens if everyone wants to use the same pipe ? Who pays for expanding that pipe ? Because that's the real question. > I mean, if you send a letter to someone popular, that doesn't give the USPS the right to delay you
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by waps 13y ago
No I meant on the other side.
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by waps 13y ago
Except of course that conservatives are pretty much about that, while liberals' great claim is that they don't enforce any social order. They are about freedom, you can do anything you want, believe anything you want, want anythin
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by waps 13y ago
> I think you're presupposing that principles are interchangeable and I don't accept that. This is essentially saying "my (current) religion is the only true one". Look at history. Principles are interchangeable, ther
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by waps 13y ago
Liberals have power, feel the need to enforce their social order. Is this supposed to amaze anyone ? You should see how bad this get in some parts of Europe, although that could just be me having more experience with it in that part of the
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by waps 13y ago
There are people here who come from countries that were the target of America's equally fabricated reason to get into WWII. I would love to thank the US government for fabricating that (at the very least blowing one incident way out of
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by waps 13y ago
I think you'll find that people mean the BGP protocol when they say the internet routes around damage. While this is true, it doesn't route around firewalls forcibly installed around a country by it's government. http:/
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by waps 13y ago
I think the big elephant in the room argument is right. They legislated their debt out of existence, and ... the market didn't care. So the US can do the same, with the same result. Declare all US debt/treasuries to only have 50%
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by waps 13y ago
Not really, it's having the ability to hack on human behavior, to make large amounts of people do things. Buying things is the obvious example, but there are other things (like giving X some attention, push a political cause, convince
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by waps 13y ago
Well just think of Facebook's next product. They make everyone wear VR headsets, then sell "in your face" ads. They will make billions :(
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by waps 13y ago
So they don't even have the money yet and have already lost 1.6 / 69.35 * 64.5 billion = 112 million. Good start.
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by waps 13y ago
Because anti-islamic comments may lead to rather large riots obviously. Because of the mohammed cartoons. Which is of course exactly what terror is trying to achieve. I wouldn't say they've succeeded very well, but I doubt we&#x27
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by waps 13y ago
You don't get it. It's not just "against the law", like jaywalking. You publicly have those opinions (that imho, have some justification) and the consequences are many : 1) you won't get hired in pretty much any com
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by waps 13y ago
Why do you think the article mentioned Twitter ?
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by waps 13y ago
Isn't this the same thing Italy tried to do only to get shot down by the European courts ? Bound to make the EU even less popular in the UK though.
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by waps 13y ago
E.g. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socra... Quote: The standing of Socrates among his fellow citizens suffered mightily during two periods in which Athenian democracy was t
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by waps 13y ago
This is my point. Galileo didn't advance knowledge by his acts, that was already done (within the scientific community if not within the wider world) (And granted, he did advance knowledge at other times on other subjects). He attempte

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