thegp

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by thegp 9y ago
Trust me, they won't for a while and you don't want them to. Do some research into bio-compatibility. After that, do some research into electrolysis. You can do a fun experiment by connecting a battery to your tongue for a while.
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by thegp 9y ago
True. Plus Clifford is an awesome guy:)
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by thegp 10y ago
this is also called the fallacy fallacy There is ample historic precedent for regimes and loud minorities implementing agendas by first going after the easiest targets (jews, kurds,hooligans,illegal immigrants) then slightly generalising (d
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by thegp 10y ago
Yes it is kinda."innocent until proven guilty". At least if you believe in rule of law.
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by thegp 10y ago
No, thankfully not. And yes, I understand that, the "immediately" was a bit knee jerk. But at least part of what you described is what I meant in another comment here: it should be part of both education and procedures to make imm
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by thegp 10y ago
Ok, I see your points there. I just really dislike this situation where it boils down to "(s)he said/(s)he said" and the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" flies out the window Another thing I don't get is
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by thegp 10y ago
So why not say something immediately at least? Also, and this is where I probably sound like an as: If you are an anarchist and don't believe in law enforcement OR in the ability of your community to replace them then tough shit if s
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by thegp 10y ago
So what should you do? Not apply scrutiny? Remember, in dubio pro reo
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by thegp 10y ago
Contrast as in "here is a different opinion by people who also know him better than most of us". Truth will be found (hopefully) by a criminal investigation, not by by the court of public opinion. You are right, victim blaming is
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by thegp 10y ago
Might not want to cite ghomeshi as an example of an unfair justice system: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/christie-blatchford... http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/a-good-day-
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by thegp 10y ago
As a contrast see https://mobile.twitter.com/cfarivar/status/74163457267311001... . If the allegations true, they should prosecute, and should have prosecuted immediately. As well as all the other people who knew o
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by thegp 10y ago
So who do you trust enough to be distrusting parties? This to me seems to be the same problem as making it proof of work: if the incentives are big enough, the scheme collapses. Look at the creativity that lead to caging and other forms of
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by thegp 10y ago
To be done sufficiently, you need to not only prove that your system is fair, reliable, scalable, tamperproof, anonymous etc., but also that you system actually runs. That combination is nigh impossible. That is the fundamental reason, boot
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by thegp 10y ago
As opposed to the helpful, precise and empirically corroborated statement that NOT everybody has a talent, no matter how hard they look?
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by thegp 10y ago
Well, not quite. Spinnaker is OPTIMIZED for spiking neurons, but in theory you could run standard computations on it. It is just really messy (speaking form experience). The main idea behind Spinnaker as far as I understood it is "chea
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by thegp 10y ago
Wonder how similar to http://www.artificialbrains.com/spinnaker this is
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by thegp 10y ago
Which things do you mean? And excited as in happy or as in rage?
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by thegp 10y ago
Then if you believe in the rule of law (in germany we say "Rechtstaat") and the presumption of innocence, it is kind of a civic duty to follow these steps. If only to oppose this line of thinking. Or even better, bait those who wo
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by thegp 10y ago
You are possibly misunderstanding his point. This is partially about nuances and partially about the fact that maybe everybody successful worked hard to get there, but exactly as many people did the same effort and sacrifice, just with a di
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by thegp 10y ago
I wonder if it is possible to get a full dump of that db
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by thegp 10y ago
What specifically makes you perceive that? And for your last question: 1. What is your working definition of liberal(positive vs. Negative freedoms)? 2. Income tax taxes... Income. Not labour. Ideally not discriminating between capital and
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by thegp 11y ago
I wonder why this didn't get more traction, for me this means Signal is finally approaching a full fledged WhatsApp alternative (with matrix and ring hot on its heels)
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by thegp 11y ago
Piggybacking your comment: In Germany, the legislative has created a way to handle this: If you are a recognised nonprofit ("gemeinnützige Organisation ") you can give your donors donation receipts which count for tax purposes. It
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by thegp 11y ago
German here, what is this "speed limit" you talk about?:) But yeah, kei style cars are redundant in Europe because bikes, scooters , minis, nowadays car sharing, public transport and more space exist.
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by thegp 11y ago
Erm, aren't you contradicting yourself? With minimum wage , it either has to be high enough that local workers are interested, people come and bring their own goods, so money gets removed.But that also happens with the higher minimum w
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by thegp 11y ago
Doesn't the qoute state that income inequality is supposed to enact accumulation and growth("give something to aspire to") but instead leads to concentration of political power among the wealthy, who then use that power to fu
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by thegp 11y ago
I would argue that we as a society have become much more civil and the assholes stick out more as a consequence of that. 30 years ago nobody complained about stuff like this because a)no woman at these events and b)it was absolutely accepta
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by thegp 12y ago
not a physicist, but an electrical engineer. At least 2 principles that I know allow a laser to push things: 1) photons do have impulse, given by its energy divides by the speed of light. This causes Radiation pressure (see https:/&#