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by wissler 13y ago
Why no microSD?
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by wissler 13y ago
The writing has been on the wall about the true nature of "the cloud" for at least 15 years. I tried to tell people, they preferred to put their faith and trust in the major magazines, which were all propagandizing about it consta
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by wissler 13y ago
The main problem for me is the artificial bias the government has induced in our diet through subsidy and taxation. He's fighting against this government interference with our diet, that's a good thing.
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by wissler 13y ago
Call my cynical, but I don't think they are going to allow the peons to move in on their action. If I'm wrong, fantastic!
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by wissler 13y ago
It's not clear that you actually watched the video. He's not saying you should never eat fructose. E.g. he points out that fructose is metabolized in a similar way to alcohol with similar bad effects, but he never said "no al
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by wissler 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM "Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber
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by wissler 13y ago
Switching? I use all three major OS's. Linux is best for software development, Windows is best for games, OSX is best for laptops. It sucks but that's the state of things.
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by wissler 13y ago
It's part of the current human condition, where people want instant gratification and don't want to take the time to figure out or learn a properly designed editor.
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by wissler 13y ago
I agree with the sentiment but as a publicly owned company it may be considered in breach of duty to stockholders to commit to such a thing. These companies are about only one thing: how much money can we get? If they make good stuff along
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by wissler 13y ago
To the extent that it may permanently inhibit natural melatonin production it is not a good thing. There are tradeoffs.
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by wissler 13y ago
The reason why youth is preferentially valued is that wisdom is not: the youth work within existing systems and frameworks with agility and without questioning them, they don't yet have the experience to deeply challenge those framewor
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by wissler 13y ago
Why should lavabit be on the hook? Their operations were destroyed by a rogue government agency, ergo that agency should be on the hook.
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by wissler 13y ago
Nothing new? What about the Internet, which enables radical new ways of communicating?
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by wissler 13y ago
It has hard problems and doesn't need PhD's. You don't need a PhD to solve hard problems, even hard theoretical ones.
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by wissler 13y ago
I think CS as a field has theoretical problems at its foundations that chemical engineering doesn't have. This makes a PhD in CS worth less to business than it otherwise would be. Obviously I don't expect this to be a wildly popul
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by wissler 13y ago
Property is a concept, different people can have different conceptions. I'll take your word for it that your conception is a delusion. You can't speak for everyone else though.
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by wissler 13y ago
Google can't extend human life but maybe it can pick the right people who can. This is similar to iPhone. Steve Jobs didn't make the iPhone possible. What he did was recognize something that many engineers had recognized for a lon
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by wissler 13y ago
You're confusing property with what they told you it was.
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by wissler 13y ago
It is not your property. If it were your property you could build whatever you wanted so long as you don't bring harm to others. The word you're looking for is not property owner but "tenant."
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by wissler 13y ago
Actually, no you can't build anything you want, and no, it's not really your property.
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by wissler 13y ago
This isn't really about "fake it 'til you make it", it's about committing to what you're actually doing.
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by wissler 13y ago
Yeah, the same board that let him keep practicing. I'll need evidence to believe that the "Doctor" wasn't incompetent the whole way through. Is it possible that something went wrong with his brain? Might he have a tumor
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by wissler 13y ago
The real question is: why was he able to get a medical license in the first place? Why was he able to get good enough grades to get through medical school? Why was a man this incompetent so impossible to spot much earlier? Our institutions
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by wissler 13y ago
As we age it appears that it's harder to filter out distractions: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125181035.ht...
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by wissler 13y ago
It's possible my criticism isn't aimed at you, but at those who get angry and start screaming "be polite" or "be tolerant of others" when their views are morally evaluated. In any case, based on my experience t
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by wissler 13y ago
I think you are using the word "polite" to refer to the Christian ethic "don't judge others". As widespread as it is, that ethic should not get to rule discourse without justifying itself. And in practice it is almo
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by wissler 13y ago
Productive conversation is rational and does not mince words. "Politeness" is nice to have, but sometimes, to be polite is to be uncivil. Just imagine being polite to someone advocating racism. We don't abolish poor behavior
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by wissler 13y ago
I understand the libertarian view: that governmental power is illegitimate because it is derived from force. This is incorrect. Certainly some strains of libertarianism wrongly think that, but certainly not all. The word "libertarian
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by wissler 13y ago
It's funny how you think that getting to the heart of the matter is "distraction." But from your answer I can see why you don't want to have this discussion, it's just sheer nonsense. The word "right" does
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by wissler 13y ago
Yes, I believe that government has a right to make laws regarding the use of drugs. This is the critical issue. By what right? Where does an institution of mere men get the prerogative to interfere with other men deciding to consume certa

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