NotAtWork

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by NotAtWork 12y ago
If I used a locksmith to get in to your house without your permission, it would be "breaking in" in colloquial language. Your reply is overly pedantic, when taken in the best light.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
If I had a pet dragon, I could fly to Europe without paying the airlines. Clearly, it's reasonable for people not to expect to have to pay airlines for travel to Europe.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
The government currently kills people as part of exercising its policing powers, which most people agree are overly aggressively used. If this lowers that rate, it's possible that the difference in beatings, shootings, and home invasio
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
These same people seem awfully shy when I ask to go through their photos, just to see if they have any using drugs. But that's exactly it: if you leave a gaping hole for the feds to get through I (in the sense of a hypothetical attacke
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
That model oversimplifies the question to the point of not having anything to say about the real world. It doesn't, for instance, counter-balance the trade benefit with an assessment of the societal cost of our production moving overse
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I mean, there are other substantial factors that make this not an ideal free market: - The time to set up certain kinds of facilities, eg, good physics labs or mechanical engineering labs, can be on the order of several years to a decade. -
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> lists internet access as one of the boondoggles of the education system, to be slashed and feared, and veered away from as it detracts from our books! and our socialization! > says that we should use more internet in our solution, b
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I only find them more productive until about 300-500 LoC. It's about at that point, particularly if there's multiple files, that I find myself suddenly wishing for stronger type systems. That being said, most things I write (outsi
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> I find projections of viable sustained fusion nonsense given 62 years of failure to achieve it. Every last single other energy source tapped by humans, sustained nuclear fission included, had previous exemplars occurring on Earth, and
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Neither of those were examples I cited, and I cited two other, specific examples. I have the feeling you didn't read what I wrote.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Some of your problem predictions are 100+ years in the future. I generally regard these as nonsense. Looking at the relative rates of technical growth and computing power, it's incredibly unlikely that we'll be able to accurately
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> One possibility: global warming, war, and desperate overexpansion of agriculture causing complete terrestrial desertification. I'm considerably more worried that a giant space rock is going to come turn my continent in to a pool o
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I don't think your evaluation of human ability to cultivate environments realistic. The vast majority of the external effects of forests and wildernesses is the effect of a few major species. In nature, those species are supported and
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
My number is high partly to account for humans being more spread out. A lot of our bottle necks occurred at times before we really spread out all over the place.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> a world with just farms and cities and the animals that can survive within is not going to bode well for us or any other species In what way? The main threat is disease if we shift to being large aggregations of essentially the same an
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
What, specifically, do you think is going to collapse in the ecosystem that not just kills billions of humans, but actually poses an existential threat to humanity? To be an existential threat, there have to be less than 5 million humans le
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
We're watching a second family of mammals adapt and speciate a bunch of new winners in this domain of man, in in our own homes! Even the human mass extinction has given life time to adapt, by way of crops, farm animals, pets, etc. We&#
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I used to work in retail. I charged people with your opinions higher mark-up (effectively) by declining to give them discounts because I didn't like their entitled attitude. Sometimes I also threw them out because I just couldn't
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> Cost simply isn't how it works, the mutations are completely random. It has no direction other than chance as to if it becomes airborne. A random walk on a gradient tends to go downhill, and becoming airborne is a long uphill trek
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> The largest atrocities and cruelest of societies may happen due to the rule of law. I seem to recall these sorts of things being strongly correlated with secret police, etc, and not being in a society with stable laws that it adheres t
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
The problem is that his analysis is weak: the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice. Further, it's not the case that actions like those done by the NSA happened i
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> makes it very clear that the new constitutional system must be designed so as to insure that the government will, in his words "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority" and bar the way to anything like agrari
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
The simple truth is this: Anyone who supports the war on drugs as it is currently being run has abandoned what the US stood for at its founding regarding liberty, freedom, and the rule of law.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Disclaimer: my views on this are still being formed, and I don't necessarily have good, concise explanations for some of the ideas the way I'd want. > I think that the fact that there are uncountable sets which means there is n
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Let's take an extreme: What if MIT were logging who went to the bathroom? There's clearly no fundamental difference in securing a different part of the building. Does Mr Stallman (or perhaps an employee of the building if he'
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Why not just fully use computers, then? If the problem is that an incomplete switch to technology left us in a chimeric state where we have the worst of both worlds, why not remove one of the two? If we remove the cameras, old umpire error
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Given the way that many of my friends who are in to sports talk, I'm inclined to say it's statistics for the math phobic and fantasy sports is DnD for the geek phobic.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> Since computers don’t have bodies, let alone sensations, what are the implications of these findings for their becoming conscious—that is, achieving strong AI? Lakoff is uncompromising: "It kills it." This just makes me think
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Yes. Those are subjective criteria, to decide if a country not only "efficiently" settles a matter, but it also does so "quickly". Similarly, there's not a single country where we'd find there is literally &quo
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Your strategy is similar to mine, except that I only focus on the types. Which types are required to define the function, both as parameters and through any global/inherited scope/other state? Which types are directly related, eg,

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