grifpete

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by grifpete 12y ago
A good point. I would just quibble with your affirmative statement that '... the oldest instance of the practice is almost certainly far older than the oldest preserved instance of the practice.' It seems to me that whilst it is h
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by grifpete 12y ago
It seems that the article has a simple thesis. a) climate is hard b) human activity is affecting it but because it's hard it's tough to know how much c) hence it's difficult to know what the correct policies should be. As an
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by grifpete 12y ago
Maybe. But he's right.
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by grifpete 12y ago
You're entitled to your opinion on his crusades against religion. But let's bear in mind that there are those of us who consider religious irrationalism a key challenge of our age, nationally and internationally, and hence that su
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by grifpete 12y ago
Yo.
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by grifpete 12y ago
Terrific.
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by grifpete 12y ago
I'm disappointed in Andreessen. It appears that a major part of his concern is the damage done to US firms trying to do business abroad. This damage, apparently, completely outweighs and potential damage to our liberties occasioned by
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by grifpete 12y ago
If it is your dream to be truly exceptionally good at something then - if at first you don't succeed, give up.
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by grifpete 12y ago
I totally disagree. Many of today's games are terrifyingly sharp.
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by grifpete 12y ago
The virus isn't used to fight the disease, is it? Isn't it just used as a vector to introduce the treatment?
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by grifpete 12y ago
Are you sure you are right about this form of treatment being a non-starter for solid tumors? It seems that researchers are making progress in this area. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breaking-down-cancers-de
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by grifpete 12y ago
Without wanting to get into parsing the word 'cure' imho this is a cancer cure. The reason the treatment kills the B-cells as well is because that is how it identifies the cancer cells. It is the marker that enables the T cells to
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by grifpete 12y ago
And Cambridge University researchers recently reported progress in penetrating solid tumors.
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by grifpete 12y ago
Learning to program in Javascript is like programming in assembler. That may be unavoidable when there are no high level languages, or when those languages and toolsets are immature. But there are serious experts (and people with a lot of e
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by grifpete 12y ago
I agree. This is getting your panties in a twist because a writer hasn't spelt out his putative conflict of interest in a way that conforms to your norms, when it is certainly plain enough for many readers (I had no problem at all figu
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by grifpete 12y ago
I don't get your point. If a guy is going to advocate for anything presumably it is better if the guy has some practical experience and what is wrong with him sharing that experience? Do you honestly imagine that anyone reading this p
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by grifpete 12y ago
Why would the compiled nature of Dart make it hard to debug? Presumably you mean debug by someone other than the original developer?
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by grifpete 12y ago
The bizarre states uncovered by quantum mechanics resulted in a million popular works trying to distill quantum reality into a world in which multiple states could coincide even at the macro level. We know that this is true at quantum scal
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by grifpete 12y ago
I LOVE the fact that you can download to read later!
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by grifpete 12y ago
Exactly. (just posted same point.) Even those 'dialectical contradictions' are perhaps better described as opposing forces that set in train a dialectical resolution.
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by grifpete 12y ago
For all the talk of Marx as having a philosophy that embraced contradictions I am a little sceptical of the way that this is frequently represented. Hegel certainly did have a philosophy that embraced contradiction and Marx certainly drew f
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by grifpete 12y ago
I believe in law it is perfectly possible to settle with no admission of guilt. Are you then innocent or guilty?
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by grifpete 12y ago
I don't believe that what most would consider to be 'Western philosophy' would properly include religious thought, including 'traditional Christian theology.' This is not to deny that early philosophy was coincident
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by grifpete 12y ago
Q.What do you call the guy who passes out last in his class on his med finals? A. Doctor
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by grifpete 12y ago
Smart guy. And I love this quote "I like to think that because I had the courage to take my shot, good fortune came my way, but it could have just as easily gone terribly wrong." Isn't that the truth and he has the humility
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by grifpete 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you had something like this in mind but wanted to be sure. So when you say "In some of the environments I've worked in, women who have "alpha" traits are not looked upon favorably
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by grifpete 12y ago
It does sound harsh. There is a lot of material online about the case in question.
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by grifpete 12y ago
The instinct of an organization to cover its ass is indeed much more general than in matters of sexist behavior. I don't however agree that this instinct constitutes a duty to its shareholders. Bear in mind that shareholders are only o
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by grifpete 12y ago
I think this is a very unfair characterization of her statements. The substance of her concerns was not a rug or people watching hula hoopers. I think your remark about being afraid of working with her is both understandable and disturbing.
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by grifpete 12y ago
No. Of course not.

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