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by waqf 14y ago
Apparently Bing's press release didn't state what proportion of people found Bing to be better than Google, or even what proportion found it better-or-equal. If those statistics had been favorable, they would assuredly have been reported. (
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by waqf 14y ago
Had you read your own reference, you would have found a definition of "burying the lead" which might have assisted you.
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Where did you go? Is it better (i) for civil liberties overall (ii) overall overall?
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Then why is there a national remembrance of these 3000 dead people and not of the two million other people who died in the US in 2001?
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by waqf 14y ago
> Even Canada, which has national healthcare for residents, will bill nonresidents who visit an ER. Even Canada? Canada by its location would be at acute risk for medical tourism from the US, if it didn't bill for ER treatment. That
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by waqf 14y ago
People who are currently at Google will obviously not be an unbiased sample of all people who have ever joined Google.
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Any button kills people if you throw it hard enough.
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You mean, like how patent applications are reviewed by government experts before a patent is granted?
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The article stated that paternity leave at Google is up to 7 weeks.
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para 2: I don't understand the issue. Surely the prosecutor should throw everything s/he's got and the judge and jury, who are charged with protecting the interests of the community, decide what sticks? For the prosecutor to be involve
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by waqf 14y ago
Are you talking about plea bargains, that American system for bullying people into forgoing their right to be tried on the evidence?
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Yes, that's right. For example the RSPCA, a private charity, brings its own prosecutions against alleged animal abusers, something that the CPS (government prosecutors) might not want to spend time and money on.
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OK, now I've thought about it and I'm going to ridicule your point :). The situation is that Assange says he's politically persecuted in the UK and therefore his asylum request is legitimate, the UK says he's not and it isn't. But what el
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by waqf 14y ago
Allow me to paraphrase your point (not to ridicule it, just to (i) make sure I understand and (ii) maybe help someone else follow it): "Yes, it absolutely would be common practice to raid an embassy over (what started as) a rape charge, in
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Your parallel is not analogous. The reason is that Ecuador, like Assange, can and presumably does claim to legitimately believe that this is not really about rape but some political motivation. Whereas the UK has to act commensurately with
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I'm imagining this would mean an auction (something like the current opening/closing auctions) every 100ms ... I like it. It seems more scalable than the current system.
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I didn't even have the patience to read their own page because of their poor design choices (mostly, waaay too much scrolling). I'm glad I don't have to read a Wikipedia designed by these people.
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by waqf 14y ago
Condorcet is so '90s. The cool kids these days (including the German and Dutch Pirate Parties) are using transitively delegated voting systems like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiquidFeedback .
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by waqf 14y ago
Not to disagree with anything you say, but it's not just funding. There's also an immense, yawning lack of consensus on what and how children should be taught. For example, I would expect much, much more science to be recommended by the ty
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by waqf 14y ago
The article appeared to be arguing: women underperform because they spend mental effort worrying about stereotype threat. So let's educate them about stereotype threat so they'll be more conscious of it. That sounds obviously counterprodu
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The funders of the 9/11 attacks were not poor. Don't lump the suicide volunteers in with the masterminds, whose victims they are as much as anyone.
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by waqf 14y ago
If you believe that Google's management and board is willing to consider the public interest in day-to-day business decisions, there's no reason you can't believe they will consider it in a management succession plan.
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But what was the origin of the invalid numbers? That's the teaser I kept reading for ...
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Strange for taking notes, or strange for thinking that a laptop is a suitable tool for that?
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But he wants his posts to be available to anyone who (unbeknownst perhaps to him) might be interested in tech. The setting should be something like "Public, but only spam my tech circles."
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The concept of this poem is not bad, but the writing is atrocious. Where did you get it?
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I2P! (www.i2p2.de)
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by waqf 14y ago
In this comment, the author mistakes irony for idiocy.
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by waqf 14y ago
On the contrary, hypocrisy is all about believing that "when I do it it's not wrong". Decrying something when you are ashamed that you secretly do it yourself is not hypocrisy, because it doesn't involve a double standard.
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Here is your story or fable as such: (2004 retelling) http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/brer_rabbit_mee... (1886 version) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus:_His_Songs_and_His...

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