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And I'm sure it would be an interesting read. However, I feel I should also point out that what makes this article interesting isn't that this technology is out of date, it is that…

You missed the point. You're comfortable enough with your equal status to openly deflate their status, _because_ you both know it doesn't mean anything. Fair trade/permission givin…

The fact that _he_ believes it is important which shoulder he touches produces enough an effect that one can be fooled into thinking the touches have the power instead of the belie…

The problem is that sort of video doesn't show the failures, so we have no idea how real the success rate is.

It's that "as if" that is a little bit hand-wavy. Fitting/overfitting is insidious in that it corrupts both the procedure and the data. I'm not saying that's exactly what happened …

On the other hand, it's a little flaky that they set a parameter to try to get human-like response times. Statistical fitting. We built it to hit this number, we're surprised when …

I don't know why my instinct is to anthropomorphize them, but somehow they're goddamned _cute_. Look! Robots playing ping pong! A robot dog might be in my future :/

You just 'sucked the life' out of this thread and proved forensic's point about 'chronically negative people.' :( Also, in a topic like this where we're examining differences betwe…

No offense, thinking about it is fun, but we're not exactly accountants; and we're definitely not accountants with access to Groupon's numbers. It "seems crazy" isn't exactly a cri…

"Techcrunch speculates on revenue numbers, gets caught." Am I reading this right?

There is no sense in my mind that a cook is not an engineer of the kitchen. Engineering is just using quantities, directions, and properties to effect a result.

Yes, but (so the argument goes) they were a legal violation, sanctioned by the U.N. or whatever prototype of the U.N. existed at the time.

>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God. Cognitive dissonance. I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a viewpoint with that pop-…

If a country's honor as a concept is ludicrous, why should a country bother to be moral? Surely you can see that honor and morality are closely tied concepts, such that a country's…

My point is that you must treat intrusions as an inevitability when trying to counteract intrusion. And anyone who builds a sandcastle should be aware of the ocean. The kid's break…

You're right, we're not using the same definition. That doesn't mean I don't have a point.

You're judging a point by the way it was made rather than its ultimate goal? I mean, I'm all for praising gymnastics, but if we're trying for truth here shouldn't endgame be valued…

From the perspective of security protection, intrusions are an act of nature. You should be no more surprised at an especially strong wave than you are at an exceptionally immature…

Those social mechanisms are a part of culture. I find it hard to conceive a definition of culture that does not include the systems of negative consequences that a society enforces…

I am curious about your opinion of this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351266 It seems to me that both jokes are in the same vein: referencing a satirical husband-wi…

>"Why don't Japanese loot? Because it's not in their culture. How is that culture defined? An absence of looting." immediately followed by: >A better explanation may be structural …

alternatively, a way to accurately measure their accounting week by week?

>I agree absolutely, but did this hugely complex system really perform admirably in the case of the tsunami? Yes. I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but once again, your termi…

This post as a whole is not a comprehensive discussion of the quake. It is explicitly about the media distortion of the event. If your point is valid it remains off-topic. Addition…

More can always be done. Confining your reaction to the emotional is uninformative and exactly the sort of panic that our media creates and is creating about this event. If you can…