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Yeah, that New Zealand imperialism has been getting out of hand lately.

No, he's not.

> while I don't think it's automatic that Kaspersky would do the Russ gov 'favors' What's with this amazing inability of us Westerners to learn from past mistakes and endless optim…

There is a brilliant new book (albeit somewhat advanced) that I don't see in this list: Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Data Analysis (2014) by Kevin Sheppa…

you may not want the enemy to know you're sending a fleet of fighter jets in their direction.

Nobody pointed this out yet. It would be very interesting to keep finding such perturbations that mess up learning and repeatedly add the new-found examples to the training set, re…

Related and a very good BBC documentary on the role (and tragedy) of engineering and planning in the USSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI

Amazing, thank you for this link.

You don't understand my point. If you look at human psychology, things connected to power are often fascinating, but not always in the "I'm going to get the other guy and beat the …

Being of strategic value, space was political from day one. Nothing ever done in space was entirely apolitical. AAMOF, there would be no exploration at all without politics. So get…

Umm, have you been living under a rock during the past two months?

Rogozin's twitter timeline is pretty much designed to provoke US administration (he has Russian and English feeds, both equally ridiculous). It isn't just for "internal consumption…

Not surprising, considering that, recently, Putin has implied, half-jokingly, that the Internet is a CIA plot (Yandex stock fell almost instantly as that happened).

Russian state TV is complete Volksempfänger at the moment.

I think you wouldn't be downvoted if you just wrote, "Non-optional bicycle lanes make this unavoidable".

Eich is far from the first. The mob's appetite for blood is greater than you think: * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar... * http://www.independent.co.uk…

You are not seeing the full picture. There is no "gay mafia". I have gay friends who are wonderful people, and I support their right to marry. Some of my biggest idols in tech are …

I didn't take it personally, was just having fun with words and certain populist stereotypes.

> What you have concluded in you comment can be summed up in one word - short-sightedness. No. My conclusion was predicated on a belief that it is better that we have our Plato, So…

Thank you for your response. You bring up some good points, but I would like to contest others. First, I agree that humans should probably not "devolve" into flowers (although "dev…

Philosophical question (don't take offense, please): Why should we be rewarding "unlucky" gametes? Please note that I don't consider the likely answer "because they have something …

Now Mark Jason Dominus is often wrong when it comes to his political opinions, but he's rarely wrong about programming, and your tone is just way too negative for seemingly no reas…

Because most people would rather support their allies and people who like them, rather than playing the hand of people who hate them. This is actually a tragic situation. I don't w…