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by tossaway322 9y ago
Just looked up RICO on Wikipedia and it has indeed been used in some dioceses to prosecute the Roman Catholic Church for the pedophilia and coverup that has occurred within the Church's clergy! The relevant excerpt: "Catholic sex
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by tossaway322 9y ago
Jeez, why not live w/o JavaScript? We keep trying to accomodate a defunct language with insoluble problems. Isn't that an error in our thinking processes? https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javasc
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by tossaway322 9y ago
How about trying to live without it? The important parts of Amazon works w/o javascript enabled. Its quicker to boot.
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by tossaway322 9y ago
Yet another reason to buy a M1911 instead of a Glock: Range Instructor: "Mr. Johnson, where's your sidearm? Mr. Johnson: "I'm sorry sir, the caterpillars ate it!" But seriously folks, this may turn out to be a probl
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by tossaway322 9y ago
gjm11 says: "Is there some special bad thing that happens once 410ppm is reached, that's qualitatively different from 400ppm?" Yes. Climate change proponents post articles such as the OP here and then cry "The sky is fal
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by tossaway322 9y ago
A pension plan is a contract between the municipality and its employees. Like most contracts, you either hold to it or you can be sued, at the least. Expecting to be able to weasel out of paying years later, after employees have retired is
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by tossaway322 9y ago
Speaking for the municipal aspect: the municipal voters voted for these measures and certainly voted for the mayors and city councilmen who brought these measures into place. Then the cities, under the same politicians, failed to fully fund
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by tossaway322 9y ago
This is a shame. Next the FBI will be bringing charges based upon the use of crystal balls, hair samples, spirit photography, and talking goats. All scientifically validated by the NBS and DOD undoubtedly.
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by tossaway322 9y ago
The article unfortunately does not address the question of whether current mathematical analysis is an appropriate framework for a description of space/time. We are, in the end, dealing with elements "smaller than" (if that&
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by tossaway322 9y ago
Confirmation of insanity, I would say.
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by tossaway322 10y ago
heshex says:>"I don't think that's a problem that is solvable with technology." Why not, for example, a drug that suppresses appetite? We have many already. Technology has an endless supply of solutions.
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by tossaway322 10y ago
gph says:>"... the problem of China not respecting copyright or any type of intellectual property. " And, after thirty years' trying, mainland Chinese still make very low-quality hand tools and have severely damaged Wester
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by tossaway322 10y ago
Ma notwithstanding, history shows that trade does not prevent war (and that the idea that it does springs from unbridled optimism about the nature of man). This has been much discussed: "Can Free Trade Really Prevent War?": https
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by tossaway322 10y ago
"Terror filter."
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by tossaway322 10y ago
This. Why the broadspread interest in a technology so unpredictable, whose payoff is so little and that requires so much investment in hardware/developer time? Wouldn't you be better off learning tools you can understand and tha
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by tossaway322 10y ago
The cheat sheet has at least one error. Using set notation, A="long hair", and B="woman", then the phrase "not long hair and not woman" does not correspond to the expression P(complement(A intersect B)) shown o
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by tossaway322 10y ago
Why limit yourself to a "kill box" when there are so many useful and charming patterns available: the "kill banana" ("Oops! Slipped!"), the "kill cross"(reserved for non-Christians) and my favorite, t
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by tossaway322 10y ago
+10 on the dental floss. I've been trying to find a way to buy (the remainder of) a lifetime's supply in case of thermonuclear war. Once out of floss, I can either pull my teeth out (Well, OK, every _other_ tooth) or kill myself.
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by tossaway322 10y ago
Some places like men's stall 3 in the 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport Gym in the Village, Houston, Texas!8-((
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Ask HN: Simulation vs Generative Models - Any Difference?
2 points by tossaway322 10y ago|0 comments
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by tossaway322 10y ago
aryehof asks>"Has AI advanced from the 1990s?" No. But lots of progress in pattern recognition & classification. So whatever AI exists can see better, hear better, speak better. Unfortunately nothing remotely approaching th