akytt

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by akytt 9y ago
Now that's a culture thing. I've always been taught never to pull a gun unless you are ready to shoot someone. That's why I don't have one.
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by akytt 9y ago
The issue that the police in UK fire their guns a few orders of magnitude less might have something to do with it. It makes no sense to dive into statistics as to encounters and guilt and race and what not. Police in US is seen as adversial
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by akytt 9y ago
Where did you read that? How many were in the sample, how long was the diet, was it a double-blind test, what was the significance of the find? That's exactly his point: people write a lot of stuff on the internet that they believe or
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by akytt 9y ago
Science has gaps because scientist do not know things. Non-scientist going "based on what happened to my cousin, this must have been what happened" is not going to fill the gaps in knowledge.
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by akytt 9y ago
That's exactly his point. There is no scientific evidence that this happens systemically, i.e. "Keto will lead to weight loss". That does not mean it does not or that you can't lose weight. There's just no evidence.
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by akytt 9y ago
Hands up if you have actually ever thrown away a guitar? It's rather big it's bulky and there's few things that can go badly wrong. You sell it or hand it down. I've just rescued a kickass guitar from a pawn shop and it&
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by akytt 9y ago
Aadhaar per se is quite harmless. It is pretty much what Estonia has been doing for the past 25 years with no ill effects. Quite in contrary. The question is privacy: we have a strong personal privacy law and are moving to make things more
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by akytt 9y ago
It is perfectly possible to tell the press that a leak happened without divulging the nature of the leak.
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by akytt 9y ago
Simple. You endanger yourself - be my guest. You endanger others, you suffer. The key role of government is to represent community interest and not vaccinating your kids is very clearly endangering others.
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by akytt 10y ago
Basic economics. Your most profitable product line disappears to the tune of a few billion usd. Your next move is to push up the volume of your next profitable product line and increase the margins.
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by akytt 10y ago
Based on what scientific fact do you state "there is no safe level of aluminum for a baby?" We all, including babies, contain aluminum. That's the problem: i can't agree to "there's stuff in there that should n
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by akytt 10y ago
Teleport.org, mate. Designed so you can base your decisions on data.
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by akytt 10y ago
There is no such thing as good or bad company culture. The culture either supports the strategy or does not. Warm, fluffy and nice is an option, but there are others. A real pity the huge body of literature on this has been ignored.
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by akytt 10y ago
There will never be any sure facts about any spy stuff. But his role as a figurehead of "look what happens in us, democracy is broken, don't blame us" message from Russia is just too golden. Stuff like that simply does not ha
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by akytt 10y ago
Fellow public servant and former Skyper here. I can fully see where you are coming from. Keep up the good work, a lots of folks are looking up to what the USDS is doing!
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by akytt 10y ago
There. Exactly there. We have something they don't have, thus it won't work. Do you have any evidence that there is a link to poverty in any of this? Did you not read about results in Bucharest? Have you _been_ to Bucharest? No,yo
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by akytt 10y ago
Imagine CIA and FBI each becoming slightly more powerful than they are now and then joining forces. Now imagine there is a strong, relatively unified organised crime world that the new organisation routinely works with. And now imagine that
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by akytt 10y ago
That's curiously right to an extent, you know. Bread had been a symbolic thing for communists from very early days. It's price was heavily subsidised and it was one of the very few food items I actually never remember there being
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by akytt 10y ago
Having lived in that country, no, it was not fine. Queues for basic foodstuff, severely limited access to services, blatant lack of any manfucatured goods, horrendous public infrastructure etc. are not the signs of a "fine" econom
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by akytt 10y ago
There's a difference between balancing close to the boundaries of permissible and systematically exceeding those limits while pushing athletes to danger their health for political benefit.
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by akytt 10y ago
It's the key problem indeed. It is not the party leadership who wants to alter your way of life. It's the life that is changing. Automation, solar, energy storage and an increasing tension between finite resources and exponential
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by akytt 10y ago
This would be all good, if the goal was to have computers talk to other computers. In real life, typically organisations start talking to other organisations and _maybe_ there will be computers involved eventually. Most of the integration c
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by akytt 10y ago
It's not that bad. Toyota Production System is taught as part of an MBA curriculum in better schools. Like it says in "Skunk Works", 2/3MBA=BS. The trouble is deciding which part that is. The best schools, in my experien
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by akytt 10y ago
There is a bit of a difference, don't you think? Where are the mass graves and people desperately seeking to escape?
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by akytt 10y ago
Why do you have your HSM where Heartbleed matters?
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by akytt 10y ago
The statement that "all HSMs and smartcards are the same" shows limited understanding. High-end HSMs can take 1000s of hits per second, a smartcard only a few.
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by akytt 10y ago
That's not how capitalism works, you know. The prices will go down. Look at the car you get today and compare it to a car 10 years ago. Bang per buck has increased while brands like Dacia are coming in from below.
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by akytt 10y ago
Have you ever tried to inpelement a modified d'hont method manually? There are always computers involved. Counting hundreds thousands of votes manually will always yield an error that can be exploited. Voting as a concept has changed b
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by akytt 10y ago
The facts do not seem to support that. Domestic output has steadily increased, ergo offshoring is not causing job loss.
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by akytt 10y ago
You do need years of practice to get half decent. All of that stuff - posture, note names, etc. - is stuff you'll be missing down the road.

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