james-watson

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by james-watson 10y ago
I enjoy that you had the courage to bring "factually incorrect" into this conversation. If someone, anyone, goes looking for the facts, there is only one destination in which they will end up. The facts aren't hard to find. T
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by james-watson 10y ago
> Who exactly has proposed starting a war with Russia or anything remotely resembling that? The entire left establishment, from Hillary to Obama. Hillary wanted a no-fly zone in Syria. Obama just imposed a new round of sanctions on Russi
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by james-watson 10y ago
Tell me, friend, how does a group of people enforce their rights within a country against those who wish to deny those rights? ISIS wants a global Islamic caliphate, along with a Caliph at its head and Sharia law. They want this in the US,
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by james-watson 10y ago
Ah yes, because average Americans control US geopolitical strategy.
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by james-watson 10y ago
Sounds like a pretty accurate implementation of a Randian Utopia. Pure self interest isn't a difficult vector to map. The results are predictable and repeatable. "Taxation is theft!"
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by james-watson 10y ago
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
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by james-watson 10y ago
Don't be sorry. We need scientists to be skeptics when it comes to absurd assertions which violate the most fundamental principles of physics. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by james-watson 10y ago
What gets forgotten here, and something that I keep bringing up, is the lack of a Martian magnetosphere. This means long term human settlements have to be artificially shielded. This means living underground, which defeats the point of goin
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by james-watson 10y ago
Understood. My post was a retaliation to a blatant ad hominem. I do not enjoy getting into the mud, but sometimes it is necessary. As you can see from my parent post, I was engaging in discussion whereas EdHominem lived up his name almost i
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by james-watson 10y ago
> Had the Germans fought a civil war in the 1930s instead of accepting their populist leader they and the rest of the world would have been better off. Oh, was there another populist leader the Germans should have rejected in the 1930s?
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by james-watson 10y ago
Ah, the "literally Hitler" argument! What you energetic Godwinians forget, is that Hitler was a socialist and abused the executive powers of a massively oversized state to obtain his dictatorial powers. Powers that the outgoing Pr
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by james-watson 10y ago
In what meta-logical wonderland is requiring ID equivalent to a poll tax?
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by james-watson 10y ago
I can't go to a bar or buy alcohol/tobacco without showing ID. Why should I be able to vote for the country's future without ID?
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by james-watson 10y ago
> I stated we could have mass violence in this country if the election were overturned this late after the election. "Could"? There will be a civil war if Trump's presidency is revoked. Count on it. By the way, how many De
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by james-watson 10y ago
Sounds complicated. Musk has said that Lithium batteries are improving at a rapid enough pace that they expect impressive increases in capacity and duty cycles by the third iteration of the Model 3.
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by james-watson 10y ago
The BlackBerry was also the first widely adopted smartphone. Many experts laughed at Apple's attempt to enter the phone industry.
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by james-watson 10y ago
And with this thread, we have conclusively proven the assertion upthread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309120 ). Good day.
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by james-watson 10y ago
There's a lot of disparate claims you are making here without a central argument. No, I did not use sockpuppet accounts. Unlike fulltime moderators, I have things to do other than spend every hour of the day on HN to score political po
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by james-watson 10y ago
The only way this is going to work, is if some company with a lot invested in the gaming ecosystem (e.g. Valve) spends some of those billions of dollars to make a ground up OS from the Linux kernel, similar to Android. The ONLY usable Linux
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by james-watson 10y ago
This isn't a morality issue. Soros is a very clever, rational, and self serving individual. This is currently the model citizen, as we are all supposed to rationally optimize our own individual utility within the free market. Soros is
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by james-watson 10y ago
So riddle me this, if there are no borders demarcating countries, what exactly is the definition of a country? The open borders zealots like Soros never seem to have a clear answer to this.
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by james-watson 10y ago
Furthermore, I think it's an insult to the past Democrats like FDR if you compare them with the likes of Hillary/Obama. The left leaning presidents of old did not openly participate in corruption of the US Constitution nor did the
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by james-watson 10y ago
The year of the Linux desktop better be getting closer, because Windows and OSX are both doubling down on their closed source codes and shady snooping practices.
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by james-watson 10y ago
> Too many identical days and weeks which get compressed into nothing. Few new memories will be made. Your life will feel much shorter and uneventful. It is profound that I'm not the only one who quit a day job because of this exact
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by james-watson 10y ago
As usual, memristor based computing architecture is left out. Intel's 3DXPoint has already brought memristor memory units to market. The beauty of memristor architectures is that they can be used for logic and storage, so you can creat
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by james-watson 10y ago
From Wikipedia: "Bloomberg Businessweek has called private equity a rebranding of leveraged-buyout firms after the 1980s. Common investment strategies in private equity include: leveraged buyouts, venture capital, growth capital, distr
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by james-watson 10y ago
It's illogical from a rational, maximum-utility-for-all perspective. However, looking at it from the point of view of a primate status hierarchy competition, it makes perfect sense. The apex individuals derive pleasure from subjugating
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by james-watson 10y ago
>If you are a female engineer living in the Bay Area, we’d love to meet you. Totally not sexism folks. Equality at its best!
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by james-watson 10y ago
Where you see weakness, I see strength. American companies are obsessed with political correctness, affirmative action, marketing and copyright law. Chinese firms are only concerned with winning. They'll steal, lie and cheat, as long a
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by james-watson 10y ago
It ain't innovation, it's cleverness. I can sit here and try to re-discover the fundamentals of physics from the ground up, or I can go to a library and read a textbook. Discovering from first principles is the honorable path, but

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