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So you believe him now? It is in his interest to have his opponents underestimate him.

Grammar Nazis

I didn't quite understand this bit, where she discovers all these papers and laptops full of important documents and then just leaves to take a walk!

Possibly unrelated, but is the Udacity ML Nanodegree any useful?

>Let citizens have the "Society" app on their phones and let them up/down vote serious things too

r/writing prompts had a scenario like that. Where a nuke is incoming and a majority of the citizenry has to approve a retaliatory strike, via an app of course.

Also, I'm hitting myself in the face right now.

Because it's long and the font is small.

A few years back body hair was considered attractive, and now it's not (or maybe it is, I haven't kept track). This change in preferences was within a span of 20 years. So I don't find it surprising that a strong neanderthal man or woman would have been attractive to our ancestors.

Nice motivational piece. Only thing missing is the "join my n-step program" pitch in the end.

I loved Kat and have used it countless times to get things I can't afford or just can't buy even if I could because of where I live. I wish the founder hadn't got caught.

That being said, the point of punishing criminals is to punish crime, not to end it. El Chapo is a violent criminal. It is extremely optimistic to think that putting him in jail ends drug trade. The point is to punish the crimes that he had committed.

Finally, I agree that torrents will exist for a long time to come. And thank God for that.

I wonder why Hardware Description Languages don't make the cut here?

But the article makes the case that just acquiring the skill set isn't enough. There are prohibitive costs involved if you want to legally use those skills professionally.

Obviously there is a case of the grass being greener on the other side here, though.

Consumers in India want the quality assurance and standardization of services, that American regulation ensures to a certain extent.

Bank account details would also have info on how you choose to spend your money though, and not just your account number.

Nations act in their self interest. Why would one need a citation to confirm that?

So ability to charge transaction fees is an incentive to keep the block size limit at 1MB?

I have to point out that I'm completely new to this issue and the underlying technology, so pardon me for ignorance.

My take is, that all the things that go wrong for the Pied Piper guys is based on real life. The parts where they come out on top are inaccurate.

Andresson basically tweeted colonialism is good for India. How can someone, especially someone from India, just agree to disagree on that. That is like saying one can make racist, sexist remarks and the people who were offended can just agree to disagree on that. At least the guy made his viewpoint public.

Besides isn't it the intolerant who shape the society around them. If one wants a community whose members aren't ignorant or bigoted, why would just a live and let live approach shape the community to one's desires?

Probably because while people may not decide to buy a vehicle because of low oil prices, they may however decide not to invest in a vehicle right now if petrol/diesel prices are tending upwards.

At least that is the case among middle classes in emerging economies.

In cases like this, there is clearly a time limit, a very short time limit, where any information thus retrieved would be useful, and life saving. It is the officers' duty to use whatever means, within limits, to get the information out of the suspect. Also the evidence on scene is very strong, the suspect is in fact the perpetrator of said crime.

In case of terror suspects, quite a few have emerged innocent which is quite embarrassing in the first place, but understandable. Also, one should question the relevance of any information retrieved after long sustained periods of torture when surely facts on the ground have probably changed significantly.

Moreover this person, in the stanford thing, is a petty thief who is quite likely to fold under pressure since the crime has manageable consequences for him, and he doesn't possess training and motivation to withhold info at all costs. This trait wouldn't be present in case of some death cult, military, or even a serious gang member.

The point is, it isn't correct to make blanket statements like torture wouldn't work, ever. But the prevalence of incidences where some force might work shouldn't be used to justify comic levels torture demonstrated in the recent cases.

And finally, One might however see value in the dampening effect torture has on enemy morale. However, you can't play both sides, pretend to be a great champion of human rights and values and continue to come up with hilariously OTT torture routines. That is the problem US & Allies face regarding this whole torture debate/narrative. You have to own up to the uh assholery.

In my case it was the Firefox browser. It's been much better since I made the switch to Google chrome.

If you go by the spirit of the argument, you should compare total civilian deaths caused by a side rather than reciprocal deaths. Japan killed way way more civilians in general than the USA, during world war 2.