Prrometheus

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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The download button appears to be broken for 32 bit Ubuntu 8.1 systems running Firefox 3.0 with Flash 9.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
What change? We have a trillion dollar pork bill getting bludgeoned through congress right now. Essentially the President said to congress "Just make it big, and make sure we have some token expenditures on energy subsidies. Otherwise, here
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
When was the government ever run with an eye on efficiency?
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
He's just a journalist, dude, doing what journalists do.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The Ad Council is my least favorite government agency. It takes billions of dollars from the public. In exchange it produces such necessary propaganda as "if you smoke pot, you'll kill babies on accident". Meanwhile, no Ad Council advertise
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
It sometimes affects what I write, but not in a bad way. If I see a comment that I wrote has poor karma, or a critical response to a comment I wrote has high karma, I will often go back and flesh out my argument better. At least on Hacker N
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The most strict libertarians I can think of are the anarcho-capitalists. Even they do not desire a society with the absence of laws, but rather they desire a market it law and law enforcement to replace the public monopoly. You can argue ab
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Having the Right Politics Doesn't Make You a Better Person(distributedrepublic.net)
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
The funds have the $billions. If you want a piece of it, you go to them. Or perhaps financial firms should hire hackers to talk to investment funds and tell them how irrational they are being by refusing to do things remotely.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
From what I remember, there was nothing in the article about gay marriage, or the pledge of allegiance. The author wasn't even particularly religious, though he hinted at deist tendencies. He certainly wasn't advocating religion, rather he
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I'm fascinated by how impossible it is for geeks to have an intelligent conversation about religion. This was a good article that many people chose to misread. Yes, there is no invisible man in the sky, and gays are normal people. Evolution
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Do you throw out your jets after one year? My little firm did billion dollar deals, and we used private jets to flit our management teams from one investment fund to the next. Citigroup is much, much bigger. 400 hours (per year!) could easi
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
There were surely some bits worth celebrating in the thousands of years of prologue to manned spaceflight.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
As far as I know, it is mostly restricted to certain strains of American Protestantism.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
To throw away Christianity is to throw away Western Civilization and much of our heritage. I enjoyed this bit from TFA: "Arguably, the highest achievements of the human species have been motivated by that instinctive spirituality just menti
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Ha! Another UR reader. One day we will all be rounded up in some sort of camp. That's impressive for a blog comment. UR's comments will never decline in quality, because the masses will never have the patience for Moldbug's meanderings.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
This is a reddit article. And not one of the better ones. It's even from the NY Post . Ick.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Say an executive saves 400 hours a year by flying private. If that makes him a few percent more effective in a company the size of Citigroup, it's worth it.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Trips on commercial airlines takes hours longer, mostly due to security precautions.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Your wife has a linux expert at home. Sadly, none of my friends that knew linux were close enough/evangelical enough to help me with my driver issues.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
>"Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times." One loses track of all the moral obligations of corporations these days. While trying to meet them all, i
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Let's see, official recessions are 1907, 1918, 1929, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1973, 1980, 1990, 2001, and 2007. The evidence looks pretty weak, although it's hard to eyeball. It would be nice to throw up a simple regression and get objective. It's
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
What I'd really like, though, is deaths per mile with and without a helmet.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
Yep, and the site didn't provide those stats, so all its data is essentially useless for ascertaining the safety effects of wearing a helmet.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
That's not the answer to the question. That's "government statistics". It's meaningless to refer to a safety statistic like "45 to 88 percent of brain injury can be prevented by a helmet" without understanding how frequent brain injury is i
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
And more than $5,000!
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
In style, anyway. We'll see what happens when people want to look into his affairs, or when they want a detailed accounting of the proposed $1 trillion Obama bailout. edit: okay, those changes have some (mostly symbolic) substance to them.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
So, could I embed it on my Facebook feed or in a blog like sharing a video? That sounds pretty cool. Edit: Messes with my browser back button function. Not cool.
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
My sister can tell you how little a democratic voice matters from 18 years of getting outvoted by my brother and I. The Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Sunnis in Iraq might also disagree with you about the legitimacy o
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by Prrometheus 18y ago
I still don't get what "nation" vs. "freedom" tells me.

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