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ironically, he was the head lawyer on the legal team for napster (obviously a huge loss) but it accords well with your theory

No, from the abstract of the paper "The orbital period, 185.6 days, is longer than that of any known stellar mass black hole binary. [...] How the system formed is uncertain. Commo…

yttrium and indium are both suspected to be toxic, manganese can certainly be toxic. no idea about the relative doses, I suspect that the chemists certainly thought about this etc,…

I think you're agreeing with the article if I understand your point correctly?

Everybody says this all the time, to such an extent that an article was written to express the contrary view I'm also pretty sure that given a famous "highbrow" literature or art w…

I'm not sure why you switched to worldwide when it specifically said DRC. Most economic indicators there have been flat or declining for the last 50 years. Vague platitudes about t…

To be honest, I can't imagine a situation in which I would need a new law in order to have follow age of consent laws. Like, you are really complaining that if a user says they're …

what if i set a machine to fire a gun randomly and select it for the trait of hitting people? who is responsible?

"NASA did not invent the smoke detector. NASA's connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project. The device wa…

and Poland of course, got a piece of Czechoslovakia from the Munich pact...

I think it's weird that Kuhn never realized that things work. Could have saved himself a lot of work.

if you work as a software engineer pretty much by definition you are part of a tiny, tiny minority of workers in the world, so perhaps you should try thinking about the experience …

Hmm, I think this should link to: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/161 Which is described as a updated and more accurate version of the post linked here.

I think you are reading way too much hostility into this post. I think it's clear that David Samuels has a lot of respect for Coster-Mullen, all he's doing is establishing him as a…