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Comment · 9 years ago
As thee declared so, it must be...
Comment · 9 years ago
The 97% claim is bullshit: https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps...

I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.

Comment · 9 years ago
While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.
Comment · 9 years ago
I was thinking of another strategy could be a git plugin that had a config file of salted hashed secrets. If someone tried to commit something with a secret, it could then stop it before it was leaked.

Of course, you'd need to collect all the secrets beforehand, but if you are willing to do that, it would seem to be a better solution.

I was thinking this and later I fell asleep and had this dream, where my girlfriend kept saying, "Hey... Hey... Hey..." over and over again. I woke up and it turns out there was a bird chirping every few seconds at the same interval.

Time is strange, though. I saw a star trek episode recently where there was time dilation on this particular planet. They were trying to beam out the occupants. It got me thinking, if I could beam out to a spaceship where, say every second on the spaceship was a year on planet earth, would I do it? I have this vague feeling of regret, like I'm missing all those moments on between on Earth while I'm there. I suppose I'd experience the same number of moments, spread out as they were, though.

Comment · 9 years ago
There is no jury in family court, and as the article shows, child support wasn't waived. It's always justified by whatever is "in the best interest of the chilllldrrreeeenn"
Comment · 9 years ago
If most people ends up investing in strictly index funds, it would end up badly foe them but I don't see it by itself causing a destabilization. Just a lot of people making sub market profits. It would take a large amount of people doing fad based investing and switching all at once cause destabilization, such as what happened during the dot com bubble and the housing bubble.

If investing decisions get slower in general, then I think it would be a good thing. The number of company decisions made only for only the next quarter rather than long term profitability would be much less if it took time for people to switch the companies they invest in rather than doing so instantly, which would in turn make a more efficient and stable market.

Comment · 9 years ago
The people shorting Twitter got together to buy a new yacht? Cool!
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't follow.
Comment · 9 years ago
You've heard the song, "Dude looks like a lady", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.
Comment · 9 years ago
In other words, religion trumps modern medicine for mental illness. I agree, but I don't see this tribe's beliefs having a special status or better probability of success above any other religion.
Comment · 9 years ago
So? Human beings have the ability to make a huge impact on the environment, and therefore the value assigned by people to various outcomes and tradeoffs does matter.
Comment · 9 years ago
In both cases, the planet would carry on. It depends on your perspective as to which matters more, human intelligence and knowledge, or nature. I personally believe the former is more important than the latter, although that doesn't mean I don't value the latter as well.
Comment · 9 years ago
You shouldn't care about magic internet points. I wish I would have been able to read your comment.
Comment · 9 years ago
How about open a wormhole in space time to travel back in time and fix things in the past? Both have about the same probability of happening.
Comment · 9 years ago
This isn't a scam. The author admits they had an actual reason for denying him. It was a mistake in his record and they charged an exorbitant processing fee, but there is nothing that shows they acted in bad faith.

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