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by patdennis 11y ago
Here's a good demonstration of the kind of tech we're talking about here from Greg LeMond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgJ_Uhwfno
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by patdennis 11y ago
1) If you put all of your money in exactly 17 years ago, then, yes. You would be at the same place. 2) It still would've been paying you dividends that entire time 3) If you, rather than investing an imaginary lump sum at the top of th
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by patdennis 11y ago
Ehhh gonna have to nitpick again > there's no resource to allow the citizen to drill down into the actual argument as deeply as they'd like, so they can try to understand it to the depth that a close adviser would. There are to
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by patdennis 11y ago
>most politicians have private meetings where they talk about what they actually think is going on, and then translate it into brain-deadening messaging for the public Yes, sort of, but the reality of these things are so well understood
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by patdennis 12y ago
This has been national news all day. It's been the top news story in Ohio all day. National news has moved on.
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by patdennis 12y ago
As a professional liberal, it pains me to have to do this. But since nobody else is, here's the conservative take. Because, seriously, there are real debates about this stuff. Imaginary Cato institute position: "Leaving higher edu
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by patdennis 12y ago
For those of you who, like me, didn't know that autonomous mining trucks existed, here's a video of them in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHtMNFZLMWE
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by patdennis 12y ago
It's an interesting philosophical question, but intent is something that judges are much better at deciding than computer programs. And laws are generally written to be executed by judges (or, by extension, the threat of litigation). F
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by patdennis 13y ago
That's where the Kiss Trust's attorney is located, according to the posted letter.
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by patdennis 13y ago
I always base my opinions on complicated policies and legal proceedings based on one second hand anecdote about "this guy I know"
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by patdennis 13y ago
I use duck duck go as my default in my search bar, but I rarely actually use it to search the web directly. Instead, I use the !bang features to get where I need to go faster without taking my hands off the keyboard. Some examples: ctrl-t !
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by patdennis 13y ago
You're suggesting there are groups where I don't support targeting such a culture? Edit: Yes, I support targeting a culture of violence, period. Areas of disproportionate violence, like vulnerable minorities, need disproportionate
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by patdennis 13y ago
Of course violence has to be targeted and stopped, regardless of the reason. But cultural change is important. Lynchings were bad because of the violence, but just as bad was the culture that lead to such violence being sanctioned. Gay bash
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by patdennis 13y ago
> Stop treating everything like its holy ground, and learn to laugh at a joke, whether or not it targets your minority or majority class. The main reason people get upset about transphobic jokes isn't that they don't have a sen
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by patdennis 13y ago
I used to work around the Hamptons, and dealt with Dan's Papers a bit. This is definitely a joke. EDIT: Yeah, I checked in. This is a hoax to draw attention to the government bringing in people to shoot the deer. The paper opposes this
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by patdennis 13y ago
I'm only getting the problem on https... http://www.bing.com/ works for me.
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by patdennis 13y ago
From his HN bio: >I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
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by patdennis 13y ago
If you're putting it on a toddler, why not simply have it activate when it detects water?
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by patdennis 13y ago
No helmet can stop concussions. If they could, the NFL would redesign football helmets and save themselves a lot of trouble. G-forces are G-forces, whether you're in a helmet or not. EDIT: There are a lot of very smart people working o
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by patdennis 13y ago
Here's a document outlining safety standards for bicycle helmets sold in the United States: http://www.cpsc.gov//PageFiles/86318/10mr98r.pdf As you can see, it's fairly rigorous. The main criticism
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by patdennis 13y ago
I generally consider myself a part of the more libertarian wing of the Democratic Party. But as a thought experiment, lets say that one airline was given clearance by the FAA to exempt its passengers from TSA screenings. Or, alternately, si
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Stop Being Wrong About China Buying Our Bonds(slate.com)
90 points by patdennis 13y ago|132 comments
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by patdennis 13y ago
Yes. The signers will be Republicans whose districts also went for Obama in 2012. Pete King in NY-2 would be an example. Boehner has already defied the Hastert rule to pass the Violence Against Women Act and to pass emergency aid for hurric
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by patdennis 13y ago
Speaking as someone who writes campaign slogans: no. On the shutdown: The house can and will pass a clean CR (clean as in it won't defund the ACA) with Democratic votes. This will either happen when Boehner abandons the Hastert rule or
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by patdennis 13y ago
Sorry, but the idea that a failure to raise the debt ceiling "is most certainly going to happen" is laughable. It might happen. It's highly unlikely, but not impossible. If you're so certain, you should be shorting the w
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by patdennis 13y ago
Yeah! The g'ubment can't build anything right! Uses GPS system to get home
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by patdennis 13y ago
This is extremely useful, I'm very impressed.
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by patdennis 13y ago
We know about the laws that allowed this.
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by patdennis 13y ago
If they solved P vs NP... well. Yeah. That would be interesting.
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by patdennis 13y ago
I'm trying to identify the guy to the far left on this picture of Grace Hopper. Does anyone have any idea? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Grace_Ho...

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