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Internet connectivity is over rated. I bet my wall paper is swanker than yours.

One doesn't have to buy into the system you describe. I basically sleep on the beach on Maui and mostly eat for free. In many ways, it's a good life :)

If one starts with star-R to begin with, then why does one need the transference theorems?

If doing a better job means that you will be negatively evaluated by your employer then find a better job. Catering to mediocrity breeds mediocrity.

> It's a bit presumptuous to squarely pin something like that on evolution. Evolution is likely to favor many things, including individualism and rationality. To a certain extent w…

You'd have to ask its designer. Sloppy programmers do like globals and JS was targeted for them.

The defacto standard is to put nothing in an enclosing namespace unless it's needed there. The purpose of functions (especially in a language like JS) is to wrap up everything that…

But when writing code, how do you know that it's always going to be "single page bound"? YAGNI is frequently useful poison and nothing more. When it's so easy to do it right the fi…

"I mean, if you're making these decisions collectively how could you justify the division of effort?" For the sake of argument, it could be arrived at by deciding that Python was g…

Individual humans aren't subordinate by misfortune. Evolution "designed" them to accept cultural assumptions so as to avoid threatening cultural cohesion. I love Ayn Rand (as a wri…

Much of the psychological benefit of exercise comes from increased testosterone. This happens by stimulating muscles. Try to develop a regular routine for things likes squats and p…

I would recommend some kind of "zen" type of meditation as well. It doesn't have to be the religious type (i.e. the lowercase Z suffices) but learning to stop thinking and accept t…

plus if you think about it, you have to do tokenization before you do 'stemming'. I was really excited about finding this because computational linguistics is supposed to be the so…

I don't understand how you claim that your sense of objective morality is on the same footing as utility of the senses and the fundamental correctness of human reason in terms of a…

I don't think it even does that though. if the ability to absorb a system of ethics is an inherited trait, then atheists have presumably inherited the ability as well and would the…

"everything" might be more then is understandable by pure reason, i have to give you that.

He just messes up and shows his ignorance/stupidity when he tries to say that "man is more complex then an avatar of pure reason" implies "the processes by which man was created ar…

Am I missing something or does this have nothing to do with "new atheism"? "It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who hav…

that sounds like that show "the office" gone wrong. i'd hang myself