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by bh23ha 16y ago
The headline saddened me, but then I red the article and it takes the locksmith only a moment! You can't really fault people for not comprehending how much training went into that and how much more expensive it could be if he broke the lock
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by bh23ha 16y ago
There should be as many scientists roughly in each party. Political parties are not static. They move and evolve and change, and grow and shrink and may become tiny and spend years in the political wilderness. When a party is reduced to a
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by bh23ha 16y ago
I hadn't thought of DOS attacks as an internet equivalent to a sit-in. But I think is an apt analogy, is a sit-in not equally disrupting to a brick and mortar business?
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. Let me first clarify that I'm not talking about education as a type of technical school that will teach you what ever skill is hot at the moment. Rather I think the original point of this discussion start
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by bh23ha 16y ago
No I'm implying we should favour basic scientific research over specific narrowly focused research.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
That may be true for small groups like clubs, gangs, and tribes, but I don't think you can generalize that to governments. Or in other words, the more actively engaged the electorate is, the stronger the "public" lobby is vs. other private
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Some times when I think about what it would be like to be stupefyingly rich, I think about all the money super rich people have given universities. And then I think the real way to make a HUGE difference would be to start a huge self-learni
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Really? I've always found the number one barrier in medtech to be fact that the feds won't let you unleash cutting edge new medtech on humanity without a crushing time and money penalty to prove it is safe and worth it. Just so people don't
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Ah yes, but with better management both could still be in business. Or in other words, Starbucks could also have been mismanaged. And http://www.peapod.com/ is still in businesses. As others in this thread have pointed out, the key distin
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Given that we have 50 states and that their politicians are a lot closer to the people and that the Federal government would still be enforce freedom of mobility between states, I'd say that would be a huge improvement. Ron Paul is by no me
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by bh23ha 16y ago
You must have had a truly great “liberal arts education”! I for one am extremely sceptical that a large set of deeply understood diverse experiences can be obtained in 4 or 5, actually anything less then 10 years, at college. In my experien
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by bh23ha 16y ago
News from the future: IQ found to be influenced by a whole mess of genes, and nutrition in parents, and grand parents, and hugely by the environment. And IQ tests found to be very bad at distinguishing between knowledge and intellect.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
What's funny about that is that it was based on a real case, and the real case was actually worse. The movie played things down a bit, to make them more believable.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
I would guess car rental companies would be a better first partner, they already put cameras in their car. A lot of the videos you see on youtube, with drivers crashing thanks to behaviour which could get them a Darwin award, are from renta
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Having been in 3 major car accidents, one for each decade I've been alive, where I was at the wheel only once and alcohol was not involved in any of them... I have to say I do not find these numbers at all surprising. I would have guessed h
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by bh23ha 16y ago
You can replace Russia with almost any developing country and that sentence would be equally true. For some it would be war more then corruption and for a very few it's not true at all, but they won't be developing for long.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Personal anecdote: I started running with an ancient pair of shoes. Flat, thin sole, absolutely no cushioning in it. After quite some time, I bought new running shoes, thick sole, lots of cushioning. On my first run with the brand new shoes
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by bh23ha 16y ago
What you don't get is that art is a social hack. A long long time ago art, craft, science and even what then passed for engineering and manufacturing, were all pretty much the same thing. Over time we started to separate things, first scien
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Well you could calculate the total damage of a spill and personally charge everybody from middle managed up for it. If that's not enough, go after the share holders, even grandma Millie. But we can't do that, the whole point of LLPs and Inc
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by bh23ha 16y ago
That's not the way I read it. It seems to me what he meant to say is that, no matter how good and smart you are - software can outsmart you. Or in other words, debugging code is twice as hard as writing code, so if you write the smartest co
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by bh23ha 16y ago
It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. I am tempted to tattoo this on... somebody.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
It doesn't justify anything. It just shows that we are already killing people in almost every way imaginable so another new one would not be anything all that new.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Unlike the A-bomb which is lovely. Or the decidedly low-tech genocide in Sudan. Or the genocides and crimes against humanity in all the other places. Bottom line is Homo homini lupus . It's not like the risk of US soldier casualties is tha
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Shouldn't lots of redundancy be a fundamental part of which ever db you are using. As to extreme do-normalization, colour me sceptical, why not parallelise and throw more hardware at the problem?
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by bh23ha 16y ago
So it's like a Newtonian fluid? Didn't the mythbusters shoot a corn starch solution to find out if it can stop bullets? It could not, but maybe this thing can?
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Maybe the shirt won't tear, but it will sure bend a lot, bend in towards the body. That will leave one hell of a bruise.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
I agree with the gist of your argument, but I think 1M is low, even in Russia. So low, that's worth not selling it and seeing what happens.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Reducing the content is a good way to raise prices without "raising prices". And the green spin as the reason to reduce content, well that's just brilliant.
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by bh23ha 16y ago
There are very small differences in terms of wealth, health care access, or even physical location between these two countries. Or cultural traditions like Mărţişor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83r%C5%A3i%C5%9For and Martenitsa:
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by bh23ha 16y ago
Oil for sure indeed. It's not like you're getting it from your backyard now. Pretty much the same goes for most of your food too. Water is the only thing that would get tricky. But large chunks of the northern hemisphere have A LOT of water

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