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by dk 13y ago
You mean Thomas Paine. See also The Declaration of Independence for a great example (which Paine very much inspired).
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Sickly mosquitoes stymie malaria’s spread(nature.com)
2 points by dk 13y ago|0 comments
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by dk 14y ago
It's a very small minority of hot sauces that use habaneros. The idea of ranking chiles on a scale of bad to good I find completely foreign. Like people, each one has its own character and something to appreciate. And that appreciation can
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by dk 14y ago
Actually Oracle only made two patent infringement claims against Google -- rangeCheck wasn't one of them -- and Google didn't argue prior art against either of them. ETA: They argued non-infringement.
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by dk 15y ago
I wonder. I run a website that has ranked on Google page 1 for the relevant search terms just behind Wikipedia for years now. But it's been on the backburner for some time; I've basically been ignoring it. A couple months ago a server migra
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by dk 15y ago
It varies. Tijuana is one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico with a murder rate of 107/100k from 2006-2010, but that's way behind Cd. Juarez with 485 over the same period. By comparison the national average was 30.8 and Mexico City was
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Receivd is now kicksend(kicksend.com)
14 points by dk 15y ago|2 comments
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by dk 15y ago
I've been using the free Instapaper iPhone app for some time, until it just completely stopped working. Trying to update, it would tell me that there was no network connection. Uh, wrong. Over and over. Eventually I logged out, wiped the
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by dk 16y ago
Let's not mince words. Gruber wasn't insisting that no human being would ever line up for an Android phone.
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by dk 16y ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash... Nintendo revived the industry in part by exerting quality control over every game released for the NES, and this has been standard practice for console manufacturers eve
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by dk 16y ago
What exactly is this flawed argument of Rand's that you're rebutting, and where? It sounds like you think that somewhere Rand said all hardworking, moral people would become rich and the rest are lazy or immoral. I'm pretty sure she did not
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by dk 16y ago
I don't recall how she treated the fundamental questions of ethics in Atlas Shrugged but you might find her 'The Objectivist Ethics' interesting ( http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ari_ayn_rand... ). Here she presents her ide
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by dk 16y ago
Your last statement is certainly true but it doesn't explain the vitriol. Most people don't have a positive bias towards, say, Plato. But you don't see at every single mention of his name this seeming compulsion to speak up and smear
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by dk 16y ago
Rand certainly regarded intelligence as important but I don't think she regarded it as volitional. Of course one can volitionally act unintelligently, but for instance Eddie Willers in Atlas did not have Dagny's intelligence and efficacy,
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by dk 16y ago
Rand actually said at one point (sorry I don't remember where) that striking was a legitimate way for workers to correct a situation where they're being paid below market rate -- as long as it was done voluntarily. What Rand opposed was pr
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by dk 16y ago
It never ceases to amaze me the certitude with which people demonstrate their ignorance of Rand. This is complete nonsense. Rand never said making money is the highest value nor that it should be the sole standard of any value, dropping
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by dk 16y ago
The article argues every step for a reality-based ethics. And the author has one in mind, not surprisingly. Advocacy is not a crime and arguments are not invalidated by conclusions. Responding in the form "I agree that..." or "I disagree
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by dk 16y ago
A person is not a conclusion. The article ends by advocating Ayn Rand's ideas and works, clearly. Whatever one's views might be of her doesn't invalidate everything that precedes.
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by dk 17y ago
If the variable is never used, why does it exist nonetheless? It's a valid question.
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by dk 17y ago
I hope it lives up to the potential. Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame went down that path and has barely been heard from since. OTOH he never got anywhere close to a $200m budget.
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by dk 17y ago
Pretty sure that would be the case regardless of language.
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by dk 17y ago
"because... they're lazy... they steal... they're incompetent" What about being trapped in a political system and/or culture that makes it impossible to live the life they imagine? Every one of her novels touches (EDIT: focuses ) on this.
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by dk 17y ago
Are you saying this is just an exalted critique of unitaskers (a la Alton Brown)? It seems to me there's more going on here: "Perhaps the majority of human activity can be reduced to a desire to make life more comfortable for ourselves, an
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by dk 17y ago
I can't say I've seen a link I disliked so much that I felt the need to hunt down something to help drive it off the front page. This incentive seems dubious, and if real, the benefits dubious.
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by dk 17y ago
The point is that recipes obscure the fundamental relationships of ingredients. I thought his explanation was clear that the essence of bread is 5:3 flour to water, and that with this simple ratio you can walk into a kitchen and make bread
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by dk 17y ago
You should try it. :-) Homemade mayonnaise is wonderful! You'll never get that flavor from a jar.
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by dk 17y ago
Ruhlman writes in today's post, "Cooks and bakers are distinctly different creatures. Cooks are the jazz musicians, bakers and pastry chefs are the classical pianists." But certainly the importance of getting the proper ratio isn't limited
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Q&A: Anthony Bourdain(losangeles.metromix.com)
3 points by dk 17y ago|0 comments
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by dk 18y ago
To be clear, I made no reference to religion. And I agree with her too.
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by dk 18y ago
Where do you (and others) get the idea that Rand is responding to the Bible? She's speaking to/of those who say that money is evil, love of money is evil, and related thoughts. This seems clear from the very first sentence of the speech:

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