kdeberk

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by kdeberk 13y ago
I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me. You told me that you can use my spectacularly stupid argument to justify a conclusion that you don't like, well that is your problem, not mine. I only attempt argue that, 1) given the f
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by kdeberk 13y ago
> No. The guy was an optometrist with a local business, your suggestion that he was some undercover cop-murderer waiting for the slightest provocation is absurd and insulting. He had every incentive to maintain civility in his neighborho
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by kdeberk 13y ago
Well I don't think that the police officers risk waiting. I can think of several reasons why you don't want to have this standoff. Mainly, it would give the suspects enough time to destroy any evidence that could incriminate the s
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by kdeberk 13y ago
I'm not saying that SWAT-teams should have free-reign. I fully agree that they need to be held accountable for their actions. Edit: Fixed some terrible grammar.
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by kdeberk 13y ago
> "Thinking he was about to be robbed again, he fired through the door" Yeah, that appears to be a pretty foolish thing to do. What if it were firefighters who noticed a fire through his upstairs window? I don't think that
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by kdeberk 13y ago
> If the crime involved is not violent and the suspect has no history of assaulting police officers (or perhaps any history of violent acts), it should basically be a criminal act for the police to initiate the use of force during the ap
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by kdeberk 13y ago
> This argument is spectacularly stupid because based on the rise of exactly these kinds of incidents, you could justify the production and distribution of automated turrets to negate the use of current SWAT tactics. Then it's a goo
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by kdeberk 13y ago
To me it seems that there are a lot of issues at play that led to the death of this man, but temporarily ignoring the fact that it seems hypocritical for a state to both punish gamblers while promoting a state lottery, it appears necessary
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by kdeberk 13y ago
It's quite obvious that the maintainers are often being economical with the truth, for example, from their article on Monsanto (actually Seminis) receiving a patent of a specific subsort of brocolli: ( http://www.no-patents-o
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by kdeberk 15y ago
Finally! A good replacement for radioblogclub. I was so unhappy when they took that down since it was my main source for discovering good artists.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
So what about cave paintings? They have color. Take a look at the paintings in the Acacus Mountains (southern Libya) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadrart_Acacus . and http://www.ewpnet.com/libya/acacus/index.htm
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Edit: I'm not sure if the one who posted this is the author of the post, but this is directed at the author. It seems to be a nice idea to connect philosophy to Lisp, but it is too short, it lacks coherent arguments and it jumps from one pr
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by kdeberk 16y ago
that's not really the point because we are dealing with algebra and not the numberical values. The error is the assumption that (x-y)^2 equals (x^2-y^2), which is not the case.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
This is common to so many things. When you treat strategy as a to do list, you are performing the acts without knowing their meanings and without understanding why they have to be performed. It is performing rituals without understanding th
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by kdeberk 16y ago
disabling javascript allows you to read the article without the notification :)
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by kdeberk 16y ago
A good example of wasted effort. P.Z. Myers, of Pharyngula-fame, dealt with the paper at his blog http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/09/strange_stuff_from_pha...
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Consciousness is a big tricky problem and questions on the origins only add to that confusion if they don't state which definition of consciousness it uses. There are many different definitions, the most important ones I've seen so far are
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by kdeberk 16y ago
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but The Last Question is what made me become an AI master student instead of a regular CS master student.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Poor Grigory might regret not making the publication anonymous now that he is being harassed by those parasites (e.g. those news reporters in the youtube video.)
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Nice :) I actually worked there as a Lisp programmer. The best programmers I know work/have worked there.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
People don't go for the pope for medical advice, they go for spiritual advice.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Some of the first few comments are from evolution-denialists and climate-gaters. However, I have to agree with the point that the article places the church in a bad daylight for the first item. Galileo wasn't refused because what he said wa
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by kdeberk 16y ago
No it's not useless since it also includes yesterday's measurement for that same timeframe.
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by kdeberk 16y ago
I'm actually guilty of using Yoda conditions in anything but Lisp. It is now hardwired in my brain since I learned it early. I'm using it for the same reason as all other Yoda conditioners are, -Wall wasn't really an option then since the s
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by kdeberk 16y ago
he's from Denmark and it could be Dutch if "plani" was an adjective that made sense in relation to ghosts. ;)
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by kdeberk 16y ago
Because one doesn't spread diseases by swearing.
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by kdeberk 17y ago
This is also a good link about the Maya doomsday prophecy, it's more thorough I think, but less authoritative (it not coming from NASA): http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/2012-th...