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by hugh3 15y ago
Entropy always wins. Mountains erode, eggs rot, and social news sites get filled with rubbish. My new year's resolution: no more commenting on things on the internet. Bye bye, everybody!
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by hugh3 15y ago
The protesters should adopt this tactic widely: sit on the ground, link arms, and force the hand of the police: "pepper spray me, I dare you". The police are entitled, indeed obligated to arrest them, after all. First off, "obligated" isn
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by hugh3 15y ago
I though cops //theoretically// weren't allowed on campus? lolwut? UC Davis has its own police force.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The main thing you got out of this long article about quantum mechanics was a parenthetical aside in the first paragraph?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Lubos Motl is a smart guy, but he's known for having his own somewhat strongly-held opinions on quantum mechanics. I don't believe his assertion that it's a "crackpot paper", but am sympathetic to his argument that Nature is over-hyping the
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't mind the bit which calls people cunts (and I apologize for the fact that I deleted that particular bit in favour of a pithier bit while you were writing your own comment), it's everything else.
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by hugh3 15y ago
In theory, college students are adults. These kids, though, don't seem to be acting like it. They think they're playing a game.
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by hugh3 15y ago
And comments like these are the reason that this story should never have been submitted, and hopefully will be removed asap.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's an interesting example. But if an opportunity exists in the market for somebody to come in undercutting me and selling cotton balls for a mere 500% markup, then I think it's still okay.
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's not a question of whether it's interesting, it's a question of whether it's on-topic. Certain things are off-topic, because they have a tendency to invite bad comments which drive out good discussion. I'm interested in pictures of cute
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by hugh3 15y ago
If you're in a situation where a police officer is entitled to arrest you, but he physically can't arrest you because you're sitting on the ground with your arms linked with somebody else, then the police officer is entitled to use reasonab
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed it is. That's a tech story, of direct relevance to the core topic here, since it's an important milestone in the internet and entertainment industry. Netflix has never before exclusively acquired a show, particularly not a popular on
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by hugh3 15y ago
Very very very very very very very flagged. Seriously, this got 76 upvotes? What do you think this is?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually I've never seen one of these. Maybe my friends are less annoying than this woman's?
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by hugh3 15y ago
This might be an interesting subject worthy of a proper treatment. I was somewhat put off by the fact that there were giant tangentially-related pictures between every paragraph, though. The answer is: "Depends". Though if your business m
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by hugh3 15y ago
It's a possibility, but probably a lot smaller than your chance of being killed by, say, lightning. Or a bee. I don't know why some people vastly overweight certain low probabilities.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Seriously, this kind of conspiracy theory "fuck the pigs man" stuff doesn't belong here. Reddit is that-a-way.
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by hugh3 15y ago
That doesn't actually solve anything. Except, perhaps, the fact that it's dinnertime.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Right. But if they're innocent, then the evidence won't incriminate them.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Aw geez folks, are we getting so offended nowadays over a flippant piece of exaggeration? No, not all poor people are pumping out a dozen crack babies. But they do seem to find it possible to have children in rather inauspicious circumstanc
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by hugh3 15y ago
Or because as civic-minded folks they're happy to help the police to do what they can in order to catch criminals and protect the innocent?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't know. Apparently a lot of the people here are master criminals, because they seem to be awfully paranoid about the idea that police detectives can, if sufficiently motivated, deduce some information about their activities. (These so
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by hugh3 15y ago
Further, I believe that this strategy would be employed as an argument to not ever giving up the passphrase. You would tell the judge, or whomever, that the phrase is a literal confession of a crime, and thus, by doing so, invoke 5th amend
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by hugh3 15y ago
I am totally cool with the FBI lying, coercing and otherwise trying to convince criminals to give up the evidence against themselves, as long as they don't actually break out the wrench. The idea that you can't be compelled to testify a
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by hugh3 15y ago
Boucher ended up having to unlock the hard drive, because he had previously unlocked the drive for border agents. Had he refused, the court likely would have held that he could not be compelled to produce the password or the hard drive con
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by hugh3 15y ago
Full marks for lateral thinking, but I don't think that works. It's the use-mention distinction. Uttering a set of words is not the same thing as asserting that they're true. If you say "My password is 'I killed and ate a young girl in Tu
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by hugh3 15y ago
Both of you, stop it. Take it to reddit/r/particularlyinaptandodiouspolitics
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by hugh3 15y ago
Parental income and child intelligence are correlated, but the direct causal relationship is (I suspect) extremely weak except at the low-end extreme. The real relationship between these two variables is dominated by parental intelligence:
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by hugh3 15y ago
The trouble with these articles is that they actually affect some folks' lives. No doubt, for years to come, there will be couples sitting there and planning out how they want to space their families based on a half-remembered article that
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually if I'm reading his post correctly, his $2 million net worth is imaginary, and is based on an estimate of how much money it would take in order to passively generate the $60K per annum-ish which he currently works for. Kindof an odd

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