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A good point. I would just quibble with your affirmative statement that '... the oldest instance of the practice is almost certainly far older than the oldest preserved instance of…

It seems that the article has a simple thesis. a) climate is hard b) human activity is affecting it but because it's hard it's tough to know how much c) hence it's difficult to kno…

Maybe. But he's right.

You're entitled to your opinion on his crusades against religion. But let's bear in mind that there are those of us who consider religious irrationalism a key challenge of our age,…

Yo.

Terrific.

I'm disappointed in Andreessen. It appears that a major part of his concern is the damage done to US firms trying to do business abroad. This damage, apparently, completely outweig…

If it is your dream to be truly exceptionally good at something then - if at first you don't succeed, give up.

I totally disagree. Many of today's games are terrifyingly sharp.

The virus isn't used to fight the disease, is it? Isn't it just used as a vector to introduce the treatment?

Are you sure you are right about this form of treatment being a non-starter for solid tumors? It seems that researchers are making progress in this area. http://www.cam.ac.uk/resea…

Without wanting to get into parsing the word 'cure' imho this is a cancer cure. The reason the treatment kills the B-cells as well is because that is how it identifies the cancer c…

And Cambridge University researchers recently reported progress in penetrating solid tumors.

Learning to program in Javascript is like programming in assembler. That may be unavoidable when there are no high level languages, or when those languages and toolsets are immatur…

I agree. This is getting your panties in a twist because a writer hasn't spelt out his putative conflict of interest in a way that conforms to your norms, when it is certainly plai…

I don't get your point. If a guy is going to advocate for anything presumably it is better if the guy has some practical experience and what is wrong with him sharing that experien…

Why would the compiled nature of Dart make it hard to debug? Presumably you mean debug by someone other than the original developer?

The bizarre states uncovered by quantum mechanics resulted in a million popular works trying to distill quantum reality into a world in which multiple states could coincide even at…

I LOVE the fact that you can download to read later!

Exactly. (just posted same point.) Even those 'dialectical contradictions' are perhaps better described as opposing forces that set in train a dialectical resolution.

For all the talk of Marx as having a philosophy that embraced contradictions I am a little sceptical of the way that this is frequently represented. Hegel certainly did have a phil…

I believe in law it is perfectly possible to settle with no admission of guilt. Are you then innocent or guilty?

I don't believe that what most would consider to be 'Western philosophy' would properly include religious thought, including 'traditional Christian theology.' This is not to deny t…

Q.What do you call the guy who passes out last in his class on his med finals? A. Doctor

Smart guy. And I love this quote "I like to think that because I had the courage to take my shot, good fortune came my way, but it could have just as easily gone terribly wrong." I…