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There are a couple more necessary requirements for surveillance not to be a problem: A guarantee that the government will stay good (and not for example turn on minorities) and com…

Ad A) It's merely a list of extinct languages, an incomplete at that since we cannot possibly know all languages that were spoken 3000 years ago. So it does not even give you a rat…

What evidence do you have to support your claim? I think it is much more likely that we will have a small number of lingua francas (right now English, Spanish and Mandarin are the …

It almost certainly is the most habitable planet for life as we know it today because we and our environment co-evolved to match the conditions. Just because 2/3 of the planet (not…

Thanks for the correction.

> The "complete unknown" is not actually unknown. [...] The exact details of a relationship post-Brexit are impossible to know. I'm confused. Do you agree or disagree with zb that …

Are you asking how I would do the referendum? Certainly not with a 16 page manifesto and basically asking "Wanna leave the EU?" It should have included considerations what would ha…

Labeling the referendum as dumb is IMHO accurate, not because of the outcome, but because of the way it was done. It takes an extremely complex matter and puts it into an simple ye…

You claim many reasons, but offer only one: Innovating without interference from the EU. This is however far from reality. The UK even once it leaves for real, will still be affect…

React does not require you to use JSX. Writing views with React.DOM is actually a quite nice alternative. This article gives an explanation: https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/…

It looks like a nice project, but I wonder about the use case. It is limited to HTML output and usage from Rust. Hence, limiting the projects where it can be used. HTML syntax has …

Are you referring to Sivak's report[1]? The problem there is that it compares average trips and not trips where car vs plane is actually an option, according to the ThinkProgress a…

Completely dominant in finance? Do you have a source for that claim?

Prof. Tao himself links to the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_%28logic%29 which uses this as an example for Common Logic.

These are not simulating a Turing Machine, they are computationally equivalent to a Turing Machine (for practical purposes). I am adding the practical purposes disclaimer because a…

How is that clear? Where is the data that backs up your claim? The studies cited in http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/having-a... certainly point the other direct…

No, it did not just look at one side of the equation. "We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Phila…

Yes, it is unreasonable to want a gun for this situation because you only escalate the situation with a gun present. Carrying a gun increases your risk to get shot: http://www.news…