ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
So you are saying that if you are uncomfortable with your experience of discrimination then you should change your appearance to appease your persecutor? Do you make this crap up yourself, or does it get sent to you through the mail as part
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by ktizo 14y ago
Just because a utility function can be defined for a given perspective doesn't mean that it automatically makes sense from within that perspective, given that defining a utility function is choosing to view things from an economic perspecti
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by ktizo 14y ago
If you have walked a mile in someone else's shoes, you can then say whatever you like. For one thing, you are now a mile away, and for another, you also have their shoes. (Not meaning to make light of what was an excellent post. Is just tha
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by ktizo 14y ago
Only from a very narrow set of perspectives. There are many perspectives on life and for many of them a 'utility function' would seem nonsensical at best. Economics is not as all-encompassing a discipline as some people would like to make o
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by ktizo 14y ago
Perhaps there is a bit more to life than a 'utility function'.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that saying. There would seem to be overwhelming evidence against it for one thing.
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by ktizo 14y ago
The complexion doesn't matter, they are religions, not ethnicities. Also you are likely to get an even bigger reaction as you would probably then be viewed by some people as some kind of traitor.
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by ktizo 14y ago
If I were a muslim girl getting discriminated against for wearing a hijab, I'd stop wearing the hijab. So you would, I guess, also suggest that Sikhs should stop wearing turbans, Jews should stop wearing a kippah, nuns should stop wearing
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by ktizo 14y ago
No, just arguing against your suggestion that they are not crimes if they are not detected by straightforward means. If someone detects a murder by extremely technological means, say while using muons from cosmic rays to image though a stru
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by ktizo 14y ago
If you can reliably recognise a given drone's rf, you could probably make one that homes in automatically.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Murders are detectable outside of homes. Is someone missing? Yes? Then start an investigation. They could be missing already, or be unregistered kids, or recently arrived unregistered migrants. Not everyone who is murdered is noticed miss
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by ktizo 14y ago
I really hope you aren't being sarcastic, as that would be funnier. Here's how to make an x-ray machine strong enough to work with standard film that you can plug in the wall and uses old tv parts. Be careful in doing this as dosimeters app
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by ktizo 14y ago
"FWIW, we have a friend who sells mw equipment, and he refuses to go through them for safety reasons." He should probably stop selling them then.
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by ktizo 14y ago
" The studies I've read from the Motor Accident Commission and the Victorian police here in Australia show a clear correlation between speed cameras and reduced incidences of accidents and fatalities " You also have to be careful with some
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by ktizo 14y ago
The record companies real problem with filesharing is that they feel that not paying musicians is their own special prerogative and it annoys them for everybody else to be getting in on the act, especially in a manner so unprofessional that
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by ktizo 14y ago
One of the most egregious examples of this is David Prowse not getting any residuals for Return of The Jedi, as it also apparently hasn't made any profits yet. - http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...
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by ktizo 14y ago
If you did that some people would regard the dagger as the perfect place to attach their mobile phone on long journeys.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Whatever the legal framework, if you don't tell anyone an idea, then you can keep it. If you tell people, then you have to negotiate if you don't want them to run off and do it too. If your idea needs lots of capital and labour to get it of
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by ktizo 14y ago
How would giving equal weight to all votes in elections, compared to giving diferent weights according to geographic location, be any more or less 'mob-rule'?
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by ktizo 14y ago
I was very disappointed to find no advice on hats, badgers or zombies.
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by ktizo 14y ago
That reminds me of when I was first learning to program. I wondered for an embarrasingly long time what the hell 'foo' meant. I knew it must be something really important as it was absolutely everywhere.
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by ktizo 14y ago
It is hard, only in the sense that programming anything is hard, if you don't know how to program. If you can program at all, you can solve it. It definitely wouldn't qualify as 'famously hard'. Things that achieve fame for being hard are u
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by ktizo 14y ago
"I'm pretty sure that the RIAA has never stated that file-sharers are bad for the music industry" I'm pretty sure it has. It also sues them as individuals for large sums of money, so if it didn't state exactly that then it would have a ve
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by ktizo 14y ago
"FizzBuzz is famously hard" Are we talking about the thing of writing "fizz" for multiples of 3 and "buzz" for multiples of 5 and "fizzbuzz" for both, for the numbers 1 - 100? If that is famously hard, then the definition of hard must hav
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by ktizo 14y ago
As far as I am aware, meritocracy in the original definition is one which is ruled by people on the basis of their paper qualifications, which leads them to fundamentally believe that they are justified in holding power over others, despite
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by ktizo 14y ago
I had this argument with my mum about the word 'meritocracy' a few years ago. She was convinced that it couldn't have originated in a satire, as otherwise politicians wouldn't have adopted it because that would just make them look silly.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of "Dancing on the Timeline", a slitscan version of a classic scene from "Singing in the Rain" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWljCI_4Ok
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by ktizo 14y ago
Well, the guy you are referencing has taken no position that we know of here, as far as what we were currently referencing, so I call shenanigans.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I bet she must be really dissapointed that you have failed to show concern for her in this. Your personal sympathy was probably the one thing she was really counting on. "Where's askimito?", she'll be asking. "I was planning on asking him/h
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by ktizo 14y ago
Ok, she's been consistently publishing in academia since 1993 and was asked back to her job at Stanford after leaving to become Marie Curie Chair of Mathematics Education. If her research didn't cover a lot more bases than was suggested, th

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