The conspiracy theories generally hold that 9/11 wasn't perpetrated by "terrorists", regardless of their benefactors. E.g. WTC towers were brought down by explosives, not planes crashing into them, Pentagon was hit by a…
There is a certain chance that this is not, in fact, an example of bad password management. This service ("MilFlip") could be an internal service on an internal, secure network (the kind of networks that, if someone was…
You can never avoid this, but take an approach like ZipCar: http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/how-are-cars-cleaned In almost two years of being a ZipCar client, I've never had any issues. Yes, the occasional coke can or…
I don't agree with your comments about arrogance. You can be right and strongly opinionated without being arrogant. Junior or senior -- making anyone, boss or not, look bad anywhere, but especially in front of a client…
It bears mentioning that you obviously have a shitty boss and that you should leave at the earliest possibility.
> Hate speech and anti-discrimination laws have drastically improved the lives of millions of people in the UK. Cause and effect, dude. This happened in the same time frame in virtually every single developed…
No, nobody is an atheist when they're born. Atheism is the conscious rejection of the existence of god. Agnostic, more likely. Yes, religion is by definition irrational. Humans generally aren't very rational beings.…
I meant that sentence to make good atheists distinct from bad ones (such as various brands of communists). In general, I agree with you. It's incredibly hard to separate out religion from history - almost everything…
It's a meaningless question. How would a world without religion come about? By flipping a switch, and everybody becomes well educated, peace loving, hyper-rational atheists? In that case, probably yeah, it'd be better.…
Yes, if you can get other people to pay for it.
Not on it's own, no. At most, is shows that fraud wasn't widespread enough (or equally widespread on both sides) to skew the election away from the will of the people. Also, fraud is much more effective in smaller races…
I don't agree that having only bad candidates is "an edge case which only happens in thought experiments". It's easy to get blinded by the all-to-common sports team approach to party politics (My team good! Other team…
Wow, you've really really drunk the kool-aid.
That makes sense only if one of the outcomes is worth $6 trillion more than the other and you live in a swing state.
"Duty" can refer to a moral obligation which I'm pretty sure is the sense DBM referred to.
BBs suck hard at everything but emails, call, texts and BBM. It's browser and map apps are appalling - and both are completely reasonable to count as "needs" in 2012. > And it was made in Canada, not in a…
The goal of the diversity visa is explicitly diversity and nothing is more diverse than randomness. This is not the path you're expected to take if you have a pressing reason to come to the US.
That's an extremely bad example - why would cat ever fall through to dog? At least come up with a situation where fall through makes sense. Generally, IMO, it's a much better idea to use meaningful constants and method…
I suspect any recycling efforts will be eclipsed by the move to screw tops.
The problem isn't The Guardian or The Daily Mail, it's that people read them and use them to prop up their very narrow worldviews. Either group could trivially shift their paper of choice to the other (or one of the…
Compare reddit to a webhost, and this debate is actually similar to the one we had 10-15 years ago. Someone makes a website dedicated to hosting creepy but legal photos. Is the webhost, even though it makes (shudder)…
> the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME What about the Apollo missions?
You say that like it's a bad thing?
As I understand the system, there are usually two mechanisms in place to offset this: First: The loser pays costs as determined by the court , usually on a preset schedule. It's not like the winner gets to send the…
Let me guess, this costs quite a bit more than flying and renting a car for a week? This is not a cheap stab at US rail, I looked into this on the similar service that the German railways offer - and it did not make…
The conspiracy theories generally hold that 9/11 wasn't perpetrated by "terrorists", regardless of their benefactors. E.g. WTC towers were brought down by explosives, not planes crashing into them, Pentagon was hit by a…
There is a certain chance that this is not, in fact, an example of bad password management. This service ("MilFlip") could be an internal service on an internal, secure network (the kind of networks that, if someone was…
You can never avoid this, but take an approach like ZipCar: http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/how-are-cars-cleaned In almost two years of being a ZipCar client, I've never had any issues. Yes, the occasional coke can or…
I don't agree with your comments about arrogance. You can be right and strongly opinionated without being arrogant. Junior or senior -- making anyone, boss or not, look bad anywhere, but especially in front of a client…
It bears mentioning that you obviously have a shitty boss and that you should leave at the earliest possibility.
> Hate speech and anti-discrimination laws have drastically improved the lives of millions of people in the UK. Cause and effect, dude. This happened in the same time frame in virtually every single developed…
No, nobody is an atheist when they're born. Atheism is the conscious rejection of the existence of god. Agnostic, more likely. Yes, religion is by definition irrational. Humans generally aren't very rational beings.…
I meant that sentence to make good atheists distinct from bad ones (such as various brands of communists). In general, I agree with you. It's incredibly hard to separate out religion from history - almost everything…
It's a meaningless question. How would a world without religion come about? By flipping a switch, and everybody becomes well educated, peace loving, hyper-rational atheists? In that case, probably yeah, it'd be better.…
Yes, if you can get other people to pay for it.
Not on it's own, no. At most, is shows that fraud wasn't widespread enough (or equally widespread on both sides) to skew the election away from the will of the people. Also, fraud is much more effective in smaller races…
I don't agree that having only bad candidates is "an edge case which only happens in thought experiments". It's easy to get blinded by the all-to-common sports team approach to party politics (My team good! Other team…
Wow, you've really really drunk the kool-aid.
That makes sense only if one of the outcomes is worth $6 trillion more than the other and you live in a swing state.
"Duty" can refer to a moral obligation which I'm pretty sure is the sense DBM referred to.
BBs suck hard at everything but emails, call, texts and BBM. It's browser and map apps are appalling - and both are completely reasonable to count as "needs" in 2012. > And it was made in Canada, not in a…
The goal of the diversity visa is explicitly diversity and nothing is more diverse than randomness. This is not the path you're expected to take if you have a pressing reason to come to the US.
That's an extremely bad example - why would cat ever fall through to dog? At least come up with a situation where fall through makes sense. Generally, IMO, it's a much better idea to use meaningful constants and method…
I suspect any recycling efforts will be eclipsed by the move to screw tops.
The problem isn't The Guardian or The Daily Mail, it's that people read them and use them to prop up their very narrow worldviews. Either group could trivially shift their paper of choice to the other (or one of the…
Compare reddit to a webhost, and this debate is actually similar to the one we had 10-15 years ago. Someone makes a website dedicated to hosting creepy but legal photos. Is the webhost, even though it makes (shudder)…
> the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME What about the Apollo missions?
You say that like it's a bad thing?
As I understand the system, there are usually two mechanisms in place to offset this: First: The loser pays costs as determined by the court , usually on a preset schedule. It's not like the winner gets to send the…
Let me guess, this costs quite a bit more than flying and renting a car for a week? This is not a cheap stab at US rail, I looked into this on the similar service that the German railways offer - and it did not make…