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I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me. You told me that you can use my spectacularly stupid argument to justify a conclusion that you don't like, well that is your problem, n…

> No. The guy was an optometrist with a local business, your suggestion that he was some undercover cop-murderer waiting for the slightest provocation is absurd and insulting. He h…

Well I don't think that the police officers risk waiting. I can think of several reasons why you don't want to have this standoff. Mainly, it would give the suspects enough time to…

I'm not saying that SWAT-teams should have free-reign. I fully agree that they need to be held accountable for their actions. Edit: Fixed some terrible grammar.

> "Thinking he was about to be robbed again, he fired through the door" Yeah, that appears to be a pretty foolish thing to do. What if it were firefighters who noticed a fire throu…

> If the crime involved is not violent and the suspect has no history of assaulting police officers (or perhaps any history of violent acts), it should basically be a criminal act …

> This argument is spectacularly stupid because based on the rise of exactly these kinds of incidents, you could justify the production and distribution of automated turrets to neg…

To me it seems that there are a lot of issues at play that led to the death of this man, but temporarily ignoring the fact that it seems hypocritical for a state to both punish gam…

It's quite obvious that the maintainers are often being economical with the truth, for example, from their article on Monsanto (actually Seminis) receiving a patent of a specific s…

Finally! A good replacement for radioblogclub. I was so unhappy when they took that down since it was my main source for discovering good artists.

So what about cave paintings? They have color. Take a look at the paintings in the Acacus Mountains (southern Libya) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadrart_Acacus . and http://www…

Edit: I'm not sure if the one who posted this is the author of the post, but this is directed at the author. It seems to be a nice idea to connect philosophy to Lisp, but it is too…

that's not really the point because we are dealing with algebra and not the numberical values. The error is the assumption that (x-y)^2 equals (x^2-y^2), which is not the case.

This is common to so many things. When you treat strategy as a to do list, you are performing the acts without knowing their meanings and without understanding why they have to be …

disabling javascript allows you to read the article without the notification :)

A good example of wasted effort. P.Z. Myers, of Pharyngula-fame, dealt with the paper at his blog http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/09/strange_stuff_from_pha...

Consciousness is a big tricky problem and questions on the origins only add to that confusion if they don't state which definition of consciousness it uses. There are many differen…

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but The Last Question is what made me become an AI master student instead of a regular CS master student.

Poor Grigory might regret not making the publication anonymous now that he is being harassed by those parasites (e.g. those news reporters in the youtube video.)

Nice :) I actually worked there as a Lisp programmer. The best programmers I know work/have worked there.

People don't go for the pope for medical advice, they go for spiritual advice.

Some of the first few comments are from evolution-denialists and climate-gaters. However, I have to agree with the point that the article places the church in a bad daylight for th…

No it's not useless since it also includes yesterday's measurement for that same timeframe.

I'm actually guilty of using Yoda conditions in anything but Lisp. It is now hardwired in my brain since I learned it early. I'm using it for the same reason as all other Yoda cond…