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sweetjesus

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    Comment #13339921

    What they should do is turn off the spectrum a bit each year ranging from the top frequency down. That way people can adjust, stations can move on the dial, and there is no cold tu…

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    Comment #13324860

    if their goal was to reveal what they were doing to the world, this is a fine way to go about it and build some anticipation and get a PR splash. if their goal was to train the bes…

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    Comment #13247898

    Unless you're talking about the Nuremberg Rallies, you've got your history screwed up: "just following orders" is NOT a defense against war crime accusations, and punishing those w…

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    Comment #13195524

    > is insulting much as if Premier Xi in China started having friendly chats with the governor of Hawai'i or Alaska while publicly pouring scorn on DC speaking somewhat loosely, act…

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    Comment #13169496

    when I read it it wasn't clear to me either, so I looked at what was written and saw that the fractions on the right side were clearly getting smaller and smaller fast because each…

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    Comment #13162705

    > With Trump elected, Europe is turning to itself for its defence... wait, what?... Europe wasn't paying for its own defense before Trump, because why, they just liked the US presi…

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    Comment #13081439

    imho his TL;DR is better than yours, but your improvements could be made to his. In my education we was taught that in science and business, the abstracts should tell the whole poi…

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    Comment #13081288

    an anxiety disorder can increase the difficulty of making decisions, appearing as a trait like "perfectionism"

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    Comment #13010425

    from 2008... as the market has been up and to the right almost the entire time Was there a time that the market did not go to the right since 2008?! Where's Dr. Strange?! something…

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    Comment #13009392

    well, not only is it true that--(if a sentient AI is possible with nothing more than software...), but also if you assume that we don't lose our enthusiasm for building simulations…

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    Comment #13009224

    this calculator nicely illustrates an insight that I feel gets lost the way most people learn and reteach some simple CS concepts: "two's complement" is not a different system for …

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    Comment #12984399

    more memorably (ha ha you'll see what I did there) for the majority of people here, Jay Forrester invented core memory which revolutionized computers of that generation. Prior to c…

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    Comment #12975084

    next week: looks like mk4p hasn't showed up... time for somebody to break in and feed his puppy?

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    Comment #12964337

    my point was not about where emotions or thoughts or logic comes from, nor do I think that's particularly relevant to the "My subconscious is a better developer" idea. My point was…

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    Comment #12964319

    fwiw, I was describing in layperson's terms what is going on in the brain, in response to which, you are being too reductive. It's like you're telling a chemist to stop talking abo…

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    Comment #12960646

    I'm too late to edit my own comment, so I reply: Haidt's video "keynote at American Psychology Assn" is a very good succinct presentation too. synopsis: how left wing people need t…

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    Comment #12956152

    look up Jonathon Haidt videos on youtube, I think it's one of the TED talks. He talks about moral psychology, and conservatives do not rank significantly lower on empathy. Conserva…

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    Comment #12946024

    You seem to have nothing to say on the topic of emotion, except that the 1000's of people who study it in universities, clinics and hospitals around the world have nothing correct …