Sports are democratic and egalitarian? Tell that to Messi or Lebron James ;) Anyway, that sports and education are so tangled is purely a national oddity of the US, maybe stemming from its tradition of great, and…
First, women are just 20% of all AIDS victims. Mind not blown, Mr. Un-PC Dude. Second, that shows a fair degree of missing the point of fiction. Sure, in real life, where everything happens according to cold statistics,…
Instead of a timid "disclosures and claims", I think you should have gone for the throat and said "conspiracy theories that are unsupported by any evidence". I mean, 9/11 as a false flag operation is somewhat passé now,…
I'm somewhat amused that many here mention the amateurishness of Sivers' behaviour, yet there's no mention of Jobs' passive-aggressive bullshit. "But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit! Did you…
Where you are wrong: bonds do not create purchasing power out of the air. They are effectively debt, no different than going to the bank and asking for a loan; that debt, by the way, has been more than repaid by every…
> I don't have nothing to hide from the government. Imagine some crazy, hard-line politicians get elected and make a law that retroactively throws to jail women who get abortions. Or homosexuals. Or maybe it's a party…
The CIA doesn't ask for judicial warrants, and doesn't have to. Extrajudicial murder is legal. Al-Awlaki was murdered on suspicion that there was an imminent threat to US persons. No warrant obtained. Al-Awlaki's son…
Not really. It's just goofy old Kant. Not the goofiest thing he wrote -- that would be his three principles of morality, or his rampant misogyny -- but still, pretty silly. If a human life is an end in itself, then…
Well, to be fair, there's a fair amount of goofy Biblical quoting at the beginning. Really, that article is hilarious, you should read it. Complete with pseudo-information theory bullshit -- it's INCREDIBLY COMPLEX,…
> A central banker could easily achieve a perfectly accurate prediction of the amount of currency available Not really. Banks and corporations hold reserves, lend "money" that's actually debt between banks not…
> When you think of this system at scale, running unchecked, you can see how 9/11 style acts of terrorism happen. 9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to…
First, Scott Aaronson never said D-Wave sucked, to my knowledge. I downvoted you for that exhibition of rhetoric, it was pretty immature even for my standards. Second, compare quantum computing with fussion, which is of…
So this is the reasoning behind Ted Nelson's claim that Mochizuki is Nakamoto: 1. Both are Japanese. Or say they are. 2. Well, that's got to count for something, right? 3. Also, they're both smart. What more do you…
I guess the GP understood special relativity, but not general ;) Well, to be really pedant, if you were spinning around yourself, you'd feel an acceleration.
> Peaceable assembly's overrated anyway. (RNC '04) You mean the assembly whose Wikipedia page has... ? "Expected security expenditures reached $70 million, $50 million of which was funded by the federal government."…
Whomever wrote that headline missed a much more significant, and painfully biting, point: "Jiang, a former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, had recently been let go by his employer…
Frankly, it's clear you have very much a microeconomics-based of the macroeconomy, all accounting identities and no feedback. To begin with, there has been made the case that progressive taxation does, mostly, not mean…
A great part of the success of Skunk Works, or at least what I took it to be from Rich's book, was how coupled manufacture and design was done in the division. About a cardboard wall as separation, with design ideas and…
Eh, not really. Economists would call a currency deflationary if it causes deflation, that is, if it inflates slower than demand does. Bitcoin is massively deflationary, and only inflating in a very pedantic sense. I…
Those do not include the most ridiculous thing they've done. The absolutely most bizarre thing is that, being "Chechnyan separatists", they attacked the US, precisely the one country they shouldn't have. An attack of…
Indeed, let's look at some remarks from some leading "thinkers" on deflation: > Deflation rewards the prudent saver and punishes the profligate borrower. The way a society, like an individual, becomes wealthy is by…
The submission is great, but "Professor tells 1700 students to fill Wikipedia with plagiarism" is a bad title. The professor didn't tell those students to plagiarize. A better title would be something like "Professor…
The best time measured is the time of execution with least switching to other processes. So, it's actually the closest to the real time.
A bolder move than the Wii U would have been to completely flip the tables and infiltrate the cellphone gaming market. So, mindlessly following the fad du jour is what passes for bold nowadays? Bullshit. Let's think it…
This is something of a pet peeve, so I'll reply. Let's say that the only stack trace entries TCO will eliminate are not only useless, but actually impede debugging. Let's say 'rf' is a recursive function. If it dumped…
Sports are democratic and egalitarian? Tell that to Messi or Lebron James ;) Anyway, that sports and education are so tangled is purely a national oddity of the US, maybe stemming from its tradition of great, and…
First, women are just 20% of all AIDS victims. Mind not blown, Mr. Un-PC Dude. Second, that shows a fair degree of missing the point of fiction. Sure, in real life, where everything happens according to cold statistics,…
Instead of a timid "disclosures and claims", I think you should have gone for the throat and said "conspiracy theories that are unsupported by any evidence". I mean, 9/11 as a false flag operation is somewhat passé now,…
I'm somewhat amused that many here mention the amateurishness of Sivers' behaviour, yet there's no mention of Jobs' passive-aggressive bullshit. "But we realize record companies do a great service. They edit! Did you…
Where you are wrong: bonds do not create purchasing power out of the air. They are effectively debt, no different than going to the bank and asking for a loan; that debt, by the way, has been more than repaid by every…
> I don't have nothing to hide from the government. Imagine some crazy, hard-line politicians get elected and make a law that retroactively throws to jail women who get abortions. Or homosexuals. Or maybe it's a party…
The CIA doesn't ask for judicial warrants, and doesn't have to. Extrajudicial murder is legal. Al-Awlaki was murdered on suspicion that there was an imminent threat to US persons. No warrant obtained. Al-Awlaki's son…
Not really. It's just goofy old Kant. Not the goofiest thing he wrote -- that would be his three principles of morality, or his rampant misogyny -- but still, pretty silly. If a human life is an end in itself, then…
Well, to be fair, there's a fair amount of goofy Biblical quoting at the beginning. Really, that article is hilarious, you should read it. Complete with pseudo-information theory bullshit -- it's INCREDIBLY COMPLEX,…
> A central banker could easily achieve a perfectly accurate prediction of the amount of currency available Not really. Banks and corporations hold reserves, lend "money" that's actually debt between banks not…
> When you think of this system at scale, running unchecked, you can see how 9/11 style acts of terrorism happen. 9/11 hijackers were mostly well educated, middle-class Saudi Arabians. Not Taliban, as you seem to…
First, Scott Aaronson never said D-Wave sucked, to my knowledge. I downvoted you for that exhibition of rhetoric, it was pretty immature even for my standards. Second, compare quantum computing with fussion, which is of…
So this is the reasoning behind Ted Nelson's claim that Mochizuki is Nakamoto: 1. Both are Japanese. Or say they are. 2. Well, that's got to count for something, right? 3. Also, they're both smart. What more do you…
I guess the GP understood special relativity, but not general ;) Well, to be really pedant, if you were spinning around yourself, you'd feel an acceleration.
> Peaceable assembly's overrated anyway. (RNC '04) You mean the assembly whose Wikipedia page has... ? "Expected security expenditures reached $70 million, $50 million of which was funded by the federal government."…
Whomever wrote that headline missed a much more significant, and painfully biting, point: "Jiang, a former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, had recently been let go by his employer…
Frankly, it's clear you have very much a microeconomics-based of the macroeconomy, all accounting identities and no feedback. To begin with, there has been made the case that progressive taxation does, mostly, not mean…
A great part of the success of Skunk Works, or at least what I took it to be from Rich's book, was how coupled manufacture and design was done in the division. About a cardboard wall as separation, with design ideas and…
Eh, not really. Economists would call a currency deflationary if it causes deflation, that is, if it inflates slower than demand does. Bitcoin is massively deflationary, and only inflating in a very pedantic sense. I…
Those do not include the most ridiculous thing they've done. The absolutely most bizarre thing is that, being "Chechnyan separatists", they attacked the US, precisely the one country they shouldn't have. An attack of…
Indeed, let's look at some remarks from some leading "thinkers" on deflation: > Deflation rewards the prudent saver and punishes the profligate borrower. The way a society, like an individual, becomes wealthy is by…
The submission is great, but "Professor tells 1700 students to fill Wikipedia with plagiarism" is a bad title. The professor didn't tell those students to plagiarize. A better title would be something like "Professor…
The best time measured is the time of execution with least switching to other processes. So, it's actually the closest to the real time.
A bolder move than the Wii U would have been to completely flip the tables and infiltrate the cellphone gaming market. So, mindlessly following the fad du jour is what passes for bold nowadays? Bullshit. Let's think it…
This is something of a pet peeve, so I'll reply. Let's say that the only stack trace entries TCO will eliminate are not only useless, but actually impede debugging. Let's say 'rf' is a recursive function. If it dumped…